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5, to the London Missionary Society says
the missionaries there were uninjured.
MORE GREwsoME STORIES.
Rumors of Slaughter and Holocaust in
the Legations mt Peking

the Legations at Peking.
LONDON, July Says a news agency
dispatch from Shanghai. dated July 6: THE
massacre of the ministers. the women. the
children and the foreign guards at Peking.
after eighteen days OF helpless resistance.
is confirmed. When the ammunition and
food were exhausted the Chinese troops
closed in on the legations and butchered
all those who remained alive. Afterward
they set fire to the legation buildings. in
which the remains OF the victims were con-
sumed in one horrible holocaust.
The dispatch does not state the source
from which the news of this confirmation
is received, but 1t is thought that this is
indicated by another Shanghai dispatch.
which states that the taoti. officer in
charge Of several departments at Shang-
hal and vicinity. now admits that no lega-
tion exists in Peking. They are said TO
have been exterminated. and IL is admitted
that no foreigners have been left alive.
Reports of the atrocities committed by
Prince Tuan on the Chinese are appalling.
He had 1900 leading Chinese butchered. II
is said. for merely daring to petition him
to control the orgie of blood or restrain
the announcement that ex-viceroy Chi Ii
Wang Wen Chao has been killed by the
Boxers.
Reports from natives who left Picking
June "a continue to arrive. but they are, TO
large extent. merely variations of the
stories already published.
A dispatch from Taku says that the last
message from Mr.. Edwin III. Conger, the
United States minister at Peking, brought
there by runners, reads as follows: 1--WE
are besieged. The provisions are becoming
exhausted, and the situation is desperate.
The relief force should advance and give
us notice by signal"
Runners also confirm the report of the
burning of the native city of Peking. Many
people in London think the worst has hap
pened. though the friends of those who
were besieged at Peking cling to the last
slender hope that Sir Robert Hart. the in
spector general of customs. who was thor
oughly trusted by the Chinese, managed,
by the promise of pribes. 10 induce the
Boxer leaders to protect the women and
children from the violence of the mobs.
A dispatch from Shanghai. dated July 6,
says: Prince Tuan has ordered General
Yuan Shi Kai to march on Nanking with
$1,000 German-drilled troops. 1t is doubtful
II he will obey. but, In any case, viceroy
Lui is believed to be able to safely hold
Nanking. He has fifteen warships on the
Yang-Tse Kiang. and Great Britain is
ready to assist this opponent of the rebel
government. The departure of the anti
foreign taoti. Sheng. for Nanking is caus-
ing anxiety.
A dispatch from Canton, dated July z,
says: "Quiet continues here. Ii Hung
Chang has stationed troops in the streets
to preserve order. A steamer, intended to
convey Ii Hung Chang northward, sailed
to-day, ostensibly bound for Kiu- -Kuang
She took $50 packages OF Ii Hung Chang's
goods"
The Japanese minister, Kato Takaaki re-
ceived cable dispatch from Toxic this
morning giving the governments reply to
Great Britain's question as to whether,
with the consent OF the other powers, ia
pan is willing to send large reinforcements
to China. japan replied that she was pre-
pared to carry out the suggestion, and that
one division would be dispatched immedi-
ately.
The war risks at Lloyds are double the
ordinary rates on vessels bound for China
Advices from French ConsuIs.
PARIS, July THE French consul at
Shanghai telegraphs. under date of July 3.
that the viceroys of Marking Foo-Chow
and Sze-Choun, and the governors of
Kiang-Si and Nan-Houi have Just issued
proclamation. couched I'm vigorous terms.
for the protection of foreigners. The gov
ernor of Che-Kiang alone. ii is added pub
lished Prince Tuan's edict against foreign
ers. The consuls have informed the adj
mirals Of the attitude of the latter func-
tionary.
A telegram from the French consul at
Tien-Tsin. dated June %, said he consid-
cred the situation somewhat improved.
A telegram from the French consul at
Hoi-Houi. dated July a. says: "The agita-
tion of the past few days has subsided
vigorous measures of the authorities"
The consul of France at Che-Foo, under
date of July 4, transmits a rumor that
Men Tung Flu Sian is master of the situa-
ton at Peking and is preparing an edict
against foreigners. Rebels. this consul also
says, also occupy the Yellow river.
Germans Mob Chinese PeddIer.
CHICAGO, July IA crowd of angry
German farmers living in and about Niles.
seven miles west OF Evanston. in order TO
avenge the death of the German ambassa-
dor in China attempted violence tonight
on a Chinese peddler. They chased the
man with pitchforks and other agricultural
implements. but he escaped into the woods
at Norwood Park. The place was sur
rounded by the pursuers, but after an
hours search the pursuit was given up.
Australians Will Go to China.
MELBOURNE, Victoria, July THE i'm
perial government has accepted victoria's