The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-15
Foreigners in Peking Said to Have Been Put
to Death by Methods Most Revolt
ing to Civilization
Reports Lack Official Confirmation, but Hope
in Their Falsity Has Been Gen
orally Abandoned.

LONDON, July 15.-The only news from
China last night was the following issued
1T midnight:
The foreign Office has received in
formation from the consul general at
Shanghai that the whole foreign COM
munity from Wen Chow has been safely
landed at Shanghai
AS no mention is made Of the alleged
statement of Sheng. the director general
Of railways and telegraphs of China, to
the consuls at Shanghai, announcing the
murder Of the foreigners in Peking, it is
presumed that this story crediting Sheng
with these assertions, and announcing
that he blamed Prince Tuan for the at
tack on the legations, is one of the
many inventions emanating from Shang-
hal
According to a dispatch from Berlin
the mobilization of Germany's expedi-
tiOnary force is being carried out in
splendid fashion. Some ten thousand
volunteers and PIG officers have already
been accepted. 1t is announced that the
government contemplates chartering
thirty of the largest vessels belonging
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the Bremen and Hamburg lines, as trans
ports.
MASSACRE ADMITTED.
NEW YORK. July 14.-A Shanghai dis
patch published here today says:
prince Sheng, the director general
Of telegraphs. has communicated a mes
sage to the consuls here, announcing the
laying the blame on the anti-foreign gen
eral, Tung Fuh Slang.
THE message says that Tung, enraged
by the defense made by the British lega-
ton, ordered the heavy guns to fire, de-
molishing the legation and setting the
ruins ahame. The result was the an
nihiation Of the foreigners
LITTLE DOUBT OF IT.
LONDON, July 14-The British consul
general at Shanghai, in transmitting to
the foreign office messages from the gov
ernor of Shan Tung, already published
says ne fears there can be little doubt
in regard to the fate Of the foreigners
at Peking.
THE HORRIBLE STORY.
CHICAGO July 14-A dispatch to the
Record from st. Petersburg, July II (via
Paris, July 14), says:
The car has received with great emo
ton the dreadful details of the catastro-
phe at PelNng. Tears coursed down his
maJesty's cheeks as he read the cable
gram from Admiral Alexyeff, at Port Ar
thur, confirming the horrible details OF
assassination of NJ De Giers, which
merely in the form of rumors had al
clares that the Russian envoy was
dragged through the streets by the Box
ers' nsulted, beaten and tortured, and
even thrown into a great kettle and
boiled to death. Then the remains were
thrown to the dogs. While NJ. De Giers
was being disposed of, the fanatic mob
danced around the caldron.
Nine. De Giers, Admiral AleXyeff's ad-
vices declare, suffered fate worse than
death, and was beaten and tortured with
short sticks until life was extinct The
legation officials are said to have been
tortured iendishly until death ended their
Hufferings. NJ. De Giers and his legation
officials resisted desperately and his
brave body guard killed many Of the
attacking mob In the midst of his tor
tures' the envoy is said to have he
roically proclaimed his faith In Chris
uanity, encouraged by the wife who so
soon shared his martyrdom.
HEARTRENDING SCENES
The announcement of this intelligence
to the relatives of the Russian martyrs in
China was accompanied by heartrending
scenes. Count Lamsdorf received the
friends of the murdered ones at the. for
ei6n office and unfolden to them the tragic
story. The scenes of frenzied terror and
grief that followed were unspeakabie
The building Of the foreign office was
Desleseo by an excited throng, and the
whole OF st. Petersburg Is run of lamen-
tation. -''
Immediately upon the receipt of Ad-
mlral Alexyeff's dispatch the czar order
ed the cabinet and council of state to go
INTO session at once.
Inc Russo Korean relations at the pres
ent moment are all that could be desired
The audience of the Korean envov last
week when he presented his credentials
10 the czar, was most cordial The Ko
rean emperor and his cabinet are incIjn-
ed to be favorably impressed by Russia's