The sun., 1900-08-04
ANARCHY IN PEKING.
The Chinese Declared to BE Fight
ing Among Themselves.

ing Among themselves
Chefn. July %. via Shanghai, Aug, J.
-rrhe latest reports from Peking were
brought by disaffected officers of the Chl-
nese army. They are considered reliable
The officers left Peliing on July -. Ihey
say anarchy had rcigncd in Peklns Tor
months and the streets ran blood, the
, Cinnamon fighting among themselves
Yung-I.ll commander in chief OF the Uni
nese forces, and Prince Ching espouscd
the cause of the foreigners ana ehueaV-
ored. with the part Of the army loyal 70
them, to eXpel the Boxers. Later, Win
the majority Of the imperial troops under
antiforeign leaders. Prince Tuan ana
General Tung-fuh-siang were victorious
and Yung-Lu and Prince Ching, with
their followers, were prisoners III theif
vamens when the bearers OF these reports
left Picking.
Prince Tuan and General Tung-fuh-
slang appear to control the government,
according to the officers, and issued
cdicts. printed in The Gazette, cXhorting
| the Chinese to kill all foreigners and ma
tive Christians. One officer says that
there are 10000 troops in Peking, in
Guiding Tung's army, and 5000 more at
Yung-tsun. The soldiery hold all the
streets within mile of the legations.
The foreign troops when the officers left
Peking had burned and abandoned the
Chenmen gate. Their ammunition ap-
peared to be failing, and their quick hrlne
guns had been sileneed for some days be-
fore July Is, and they were using then
rifles only when hard pressed. The offi
GERS said that every foreign bullet kills 0
Chinaman. The reports state that the
American and English troops defeated
General Ma in night battle on July lo
, Cinnamon caught a messenger who wa!
/ trying to leave the legations on July IL
i with the following messages:
o ITO any foreign commanders: Make al
!. haste if you intend to save us. we cal
Q hold out but few days"
n Public opinion and the foreign press
/ the treaty ports are alarmed at the pos
. sibility that the Chinese would prevail
upon the powers to consent to the estah
lshment of peace without inflicting pun
ishment beftting the Chinese govern
/ ment's crime.
If Officials, persons engaged in CONNER
4 cial pursuits and missionaries of all III
N ti0nalities are remarkably united. The
u believe Peking should be destroyed as
lie object lesson and that if the dynasty
ID continued it should be forced to establis
a the capital at some accessible city, tn
s Americans suggesting Nankin.
This is considered important, as II
Chinese always believed that China d
feated the powers in 1860 because Il
al capital remained intact. 1t is ais
., thought that guarantees to prevent e
p cessive armament should be demandt
ho and that China should be compelled, pu
"a licly and definitely, to renounce the Il
as tion that the foreign ministers are re
,e- resentatives of tributary powers. Inc
is a strong demand for some unusual pu
ishment, like the destruction of the KING
tombs. The American and English M n,
a sionaries advocate programme SINH
re. to the foregoing. -
ire All foreigners believe that the Chine
in government engineered the outbreaks a
ith is trying to call off its troops since t
ng capture of Tien-tsin and the receipt
r. the reports that the powers are senoi
armies to China. A German legation t
egram saying that the bombardment
The the legations ceased on July IL suppo
of this theory. The foreigners think II
for tbe ministers who suffered should, II T
or cued, conduct the settlement with
es- government for the effect it would hf
on the populace.
An intensely bitter feeling prev'
lagninst Ii Hung Chang. The papers