The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14
GENERAL MASSACRE PROBABLE
Unless Relief Comes, Declares Sir Claude N c.
Donald
(By the Associated Press. }

London, August 14.-(Tuesday, $3.50 a.
M 1.-The British Consul at Canton, says
the Daily Telegraph's correspondent
there, has received the following mes
sage, dated August 9Th from Sir Claude
Macdonald, British Minister in Pekin:
Our situation here is desperate. In
ten days our food supply will be at an
end. Unless we are relieved, a general
massacre is probable.
'The Chinese offer to escort us to Tien
Tsin, but remembering Cawnpore, we
refused The offer. There are over two
in this Legation"
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Express, wiring yesterday, says:
1.-The allies at neon Saturday were
within twenty miles of Pekin."
AS General Chaffee's report, when is
the only authentic news received here
regarding the advance, located the in
ternational forces about forty miles frcn
Pekin on Friday, it seems probable that
this Shanghai report is optimistic, 1t is
scarcely likely that the allies could ad-
vance twenty miles in as many hours.
A Yang Tsun disI atch. dated August
18th, giving details regarding the capture
OF that place, says:
''The Russians and French held the left,
the British the left center, the Americans
the right center. and the Japanese the
extreme right The British and Ameri-
cans advanced en- the village at a rapid
rate for five thousand yards, under a
severe shell and rifle fire. The Russians
opened and the British American advance
became a race for positions, eliminating
in q brilliant charge.
1.-THE heaviest loss of the day was sus-
tanned by the Americans, the Fourteenth
infantry having nine killed, sixty two
wounded and several missing. The Ben
gal Lancers unsuccessfully attempted to
cut off the Chinese retreat
Another Yang Tsun special says:
Owing to a mistake, British and Rus
sian guns shelled the Fourteenth United
States infantry during the night, wound
ing ten
Commenting upon this occurrence, the
Standard says:
ut is melancholy to learn that the
losses of the Americans, who seem to
have borne themselves with conspicuous
gallantry, were increased by a deplorable
error. in consequence of which one OF
1SNSSANeA
and British cannon. The incident en-
phasizes the necessity of that close CO.
operation which is not easily obtainable
without single commander and gen.
eral staff.
Official advices from Yokohama dated
Yesterday, say that the allies propose tc
advance on August 18th to Nan Isl Tsun
between Yang Tsun and WI Sing The
| Japanese suffered no casualties at Vans
| Tsun, but the official reports say the!
had three hundred at Pei Tsang.
| The Daily Nails St. Petersburg CORE
| spondent declares that the taking o
| Aigun has sealed the fate of the RISING
| in Northeastern Manchuria. He adds
mo prisoners were taken by the Rus
SLAMS. Wholesale massacre was the or
| der of the day; and, when the battle wai
| ever. the Cossacks rode over the field
killing all the wounded with the butt end:
| of their muskets."
| All the small ammunition used by thu
! allies will be in accordance with tn
recommendations of the Peace Confer
ence, none being explosive or expanding
! The drain of China and South Africa upol