Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-06-16
BOXERS PUT TO FLIGHT.
Two Thousand Of Them Chased by
Sixteen British Marines. .s,S
JAPANESE OFFICIAL MURDERED.


JAPANESE OFFICIAL MURDERED.
Slain by the Chinese Empress' Body
Characterization Ministers summer
Home Destroyed-Cbina's Emperor
Issues an Appeal to tho Powers.
London, June 13.-Sixteen British
marines, accommodating in advance OF
the international column marching to
Pekin, fought and chased 1000 Box
ers Monday, killing 20 or 30. A corre-
spondent accompanying the column, In
a dispatch dated Tien Tsin, June IL,
via Shanghai, June 13, 6:15 a. m, says:
while the working parties, accom-
panied by a patrol of 10 British ma
rines, commanded by Major Johnson,
were repairing the line Monday af-
ternoon, eight miles beyond Tofa, they
encountered small parties of Boxers,
who were destroying the line. The
Boxers moved away from the advanc-
ing marines and apparently dispersed
into the country, leaving the rails NOV
ed and the sleepers burning.
The marines, when two miles IN
advance OF the first train, near Lang
Fang, suddenly perceived Boxers
streaming from village on their left.
1t was estimated that they numbered
1900. some Of them being mounted,
and they were trying to get between
the marines and the train. Most of
them were armed with spears and
swords. A few had firearms, which
they handled awkwardly. The marines
retreated, keeping up a running fight
for over mile and killing between 20
and 80 Boxers.
The Boxers pursued the British for
some distance. Then, seeing more
marines from the train coming to their
assistance, Major Johnson's 16 halted
and poured a heavy continuous fire
into the crowd, driving them across
the front of the reinforcing bluejack-
cts, who punished the Boxers severely
with Maxims.
The Boxers fed and the Europeans.
following up their success, cleared out
two villages. The total loss of the
Boxers is estimated at 40 killed and
wounded. Seven OF their wounded
were attended by British surgeons.
The British loss was nothing.
The expedition numbers 2.044, as
follows: British, 915; German, $50;
Russian, 900; French, 1873; Americans,
104; japanese, 81; Italian. 20; Aus
trian, 25."
The Times. in an extra edition, pub
fishes the following dispatch from
Pekin, dated June II, D. m:
THE chancellor OF the Japanese le-
cation, Sugiyama Akirai, while pro-
ceeding alone and unprotected on Of
fetal duty, was brutally murdered by
soldiers of Tung Fuh Slang, the ia
vorite body guard of the empress. at
Manigate railroad station yesterday"
The correspondents at Tien Tsin,
Shanghai and other treaty ports throw
side lights on the situation. According
TO one dispatch from Tien Tsin IL Is
understood there that the foreign min
lister VIII Insist, as soon as fresh bay-
onets arrive at Pekin, upon the remov-
al of the anti-foreign advisers of the
empress dowager and upon the substi-
tuition for them of counselors friendly
to western civilization.
A telegram from Yokohama, dated
Tuesday evening" says that the Japan
csc government has ordered four more
warships to proceed to Taku and 1000
men OF all arms are under orders to be
In immediate readiness for embarka-
ton. The dispatch says the Japanese
government trusts the powers will not
misconstrue this action"
The only bit of information which
the British war Office has made pub
lie regarding the situation since IL be-
came important was the admission
yesterday that the summer residence
OF the British minister in Pekin. Sir
Claude Macdonald, had been burned.
Weng Tung Ho, Emperor Kwang
Hsu's tutor and confidant, sends a
massage to the people OF the west,
with the sanction of the emperor and
his party. urging the powers to release
the emperor, now held as a prisoner,
and declare joint protectorate to
govern the country through his ma
1esty, with the capital removed from
Pekin. Weng Tung Ho, who predicts
peaceful acceptance OF such a re-
gime, declares further:
1.-The conquest and division of China
would be possible with loo, 900 troops.
but to retain the government would
require 100000 soldiers and CEN
turtles OF work. The task would end
with the most unhappy results for both
conquered and conquerors.
His majesty anu his admirers beg
America and Japan to pause before re-
sorting to dismembership, which can
be deferred at least until the emperor's
efforts to govern his people and to re-
store the happiness of this great divis-
ion of the human race have proved
Sbortive"