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gineers barrieaded themselves IN the ma
chine shops and held the Chinese off for
some time. They had several women with
them, wives of some of them. These women
loaded the mems rifle belts and otherwise
assisted to repel the Boxers. Soon, though,
the foreigners found their position in the
shops u~ntenable, as some of the Chinese
had rushed them and set fre TO a part OF
the building. They ran for 1t. fighting their
way through the Boxers. When they had
got through the Boxers lines the Chinese
gave no more attention to them Dut IN
stead began to pillage and destroy the sta
ton and machine shops. Two of the Bel
gians then hurried to Peking. where they
reported the danger of the party and called
for volunteers to help them. A number OF
They set out IN June 2, encountered Il
large crowd of Boxers forty miles from
flemish and were obliged to return UNI
able to fight their way through the Boxers.
rhe Cossacks, who numbered thirty-three,
had two officers wounded.
In the meantime the engineers were be-
tween two forces of Boxers. There were
thirty of them. They had taken up a posi-
trenches in which they fought for an hour.
holding off the Boxers In their front. They
were all unconscious to the party in their
rear and after their hard fighting arranged
that eight should be left In the trenches to
hold back the Boxers, while the other
Twenty-Five. including the women and
children, went on towards Picking. They had
no carts and the men carried the weaker
ones when they became exhausted. The
march of the fugitives to Picking was an
awful one. When some few miles from
where they had been intrenched they found
another party of Boxers, not so
strong as the party before en-,
and the men formed a hallow square
with the women and children in the center.
and dragging along. lighting and repellins
the onslaughts of the Boxers, they made
their way 10 Picking, after two days re-
rlete with terror. The Boxers of this party
were without firearms, being armed only
spears. They we're kept at a distance By
the rifles and revolvers of the railway
men, who killed a number of them.
The eight heroes who were left behind to
guard their retreat were slain by the Box
ers. There were three Frenchmen and one
Italian among them. the others being Bel
sians and Swiss. The fugitives on their
arrival at Picking were in a terribly desti-
rute condition.
American marines led the way of the re-
lief party TO Picking. Despite the viceroy's
edict that no foreigners should be allowed
TO pass Taku forts. forty United States
marines LANDED and made their way up the
river by lighter.
Reading the Chinese papers one would
come to the conclusion that China herself
was making an effort to suppress the Box
ers' rising. Referring to the battle of June
z between troops under General Mich and
the Boxers one paper says that several
hundred Boxers were killed and five build
ings were burned down during the conflict
and the local railway station was de-
stroyed. This was at Lola, the third sta
ton from Tien-Tsin. Another paper says
the Boxers lost 500 men in this engagement.
General Mich. who commanded the imperial
troops. took a prominent part in the Chi
ne~Se-JaDaneSp war.