The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-13
BRITISH SHOT DOWN BOXERS.
SIXTEEN MARINES DROVE AWAY A
CROWD OF 1000.

Punished Them Severely with
Maxims-May Be More Trouble Be
fore the Troops Get to Pekin as
Progress Is SIow-Japanese Official
Murdered by Chinese.
London, June 13. 4;42 a. m.-SiXteen Brit
ish marines reconnoitesing in advance of
the international column marching to
Pekin. fought and chased 1000 Boxers
Monday killing twenty or thirty. A CORE
spondent accompanying the column, in a
dispatch dated Tien Tsin, June y, via
Shanghai. June 13, 6:15 a. m, says
While the working parties accompanied |
by a patrol of sixteen British marines |
commanded by Maj. Johnson, were repair
ing the line Monday afternoon. eight miles
beyond Lola, they encountered small par
ties of Boxers who were destroying the |
line. The Boxers moved away from the |
advanced marines and apparently dispers- |
cd into the country. leaving the rails NOV
ed and the sleepers burning.
THE marines when two miles in ad- |
vance of the first train, near Lang Fans !
suddenly perceived Boxers streaming from
a village on their left. Il was estimated
that they numbered two thousand. some
OF them being mounted, aud they were
trying to get between the marines and the
train. Most of them were armed with
spears and swords \ few had firearms |
Vhi4h they handled awkwardly.
Many Boxers Killed.
The marines retreated, keeping up
running fight for over a nile and killing
between twenty and thirty Boxers.
h. JrStS FN~
some distance. Then seeing moro ma |
rines from the train coming to their as
sistance, Major Johnson's sixteen men |
halted and poured q heavy continuous |
fire into the crowd. driving them across |
the front of the reinforcing blue jackets, |
who punished the Boxers severely with |
maxims.
THE Boxers fled and the Europeans, |
following up their success. cleared out |
two Villages The total loss of the Box |
ers is estimated AZ forty killed and |
wounded. Seven of their wounded were
attended by British surgeons. The Brit
ish loss was nothing.
Unless their loss causes the Boxers to |
lose heart, the International column will |
have much trouble before it reaches Pc |
kin. The railway is so much damaged |
that the column covered only thirty-four |
miles Sunday and Monday, and there is
reason 20 fear that the road beyond is |
more badly damaged
Evidences of Gen. Niehs operations |
were found in headless bodies. The |
whole country presents a desolate aspect, |
entire villages having been deserted
The expedition numbers, 2,0H, as fol- |
lows: British, 915; German, go; Russian, |
900; French. 12S; Americans, 1C4; japanese, |
50; Italian, 40 and Austrian, 25.'
Murdered by the Chinese.
The Times. in ain extra edition. pub
fishes the following dispatch from Pekln, |
de ted June L, p. M.
The chancellor of the japanese lega- |
ton. SuSiyama Akira. while proceeding |
alone. and unprotected on official duty, |
was brutally murdered by soldiers OF Tung |
Fun Slang, the fayoriJe bodysuard OF |
the Empress ct M0nigate 60 Railroad /
station yesterday.
The foreign reinforcements are daily |
expected. The present isolated position |
of Pekin, the destruction of foreign prop /
erty in the country, and the insecurity |
Of life, are directly attributable TO the |
treachery OF the Chinese government.
The correspondents al Ten Tsn, Shang- |
hal and other treaty ports throw side |
light on the situation. According TO one |
dispatch from Tion Tsin it is understood |
that the foreign ministers will insist, as
soon as fresh bayonets arrive al Peklh |
upon the removal of the anti-toreign ad- |
visers of The Empress Dowager and upon |
the substitution for them of lounselors |
friendly to Western civilization.
Has England Been Deceived:
The English at Shanghai are afraid that
Great Britain has been deceived and that |
the whole business will have to be gone
through again. Russias aims, they argue,
are not understood ana Russia ana France
are apparently not working in the same
spirit as the other Powers. Five thousand |
Russians are ready to land at Taku.
4 telegram from Yokohama, dated Tues
day evening. says that the japanese gov
erDmant has ordered more MarSllDe |