Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1900-09-08
Copyright, 1900. The Associated Press.


the withdrawal of the troops
from Pekin before satisfaction
for the outrages upon and the
losses of its subjects is given.
have been received here and are
appleuded by the entire foreign
colony in Shanghai. Any other
policy, according TO the business
men and missionaries with whom
the Associated Press represn ia :
tive has talked, would be a vital
blow TO the prestige of the for
elgners and would weaken their
statue In China. The English pa
pers tiercely denounce the pro-
posals to evacuate Pekin and say
that the Chinese would interpret
evacuation as defeat. The mas
ses of Chinamen now believe
that the Chinese arms are VIC
torious.
The Chinese papers printed in
Shanghai contain long circum-
stantlal accounts of alleged Chi
.nese victories at Pekin, Tien
Tsin and Lung Chou, and the
shops In the native quarter dis
play for sale lurid pictures of the
celestial army driving the Euro
pean soldiers into the sea at
Taku and cutting them TO pieces
at Tien Tsin. They also show
pictures Of the foreign admirals
being tortured in the presence of
the yiceroys. The people accept
these reports as correctly repres-
entiHg the situation and consider
the reports of the English press
as "merely foreign lies"
The European community con-
tinues to demand the destruction
Of Pekin and the exemplary pun
ishment Of the officials, deeminS
indemnity and paper promises of
new treaties inadequate. I'm
don btedly the information in
detail Of masacres Of foreigners
daily received Infames this sen.
timent. The empress dowager is
living in the Yamen at Tai Yuan
Flu, in Shan ST province. Fifty
missionaries have been slaught.
cred In that Yamen under her
orders and practically in the
presence of the viceroy. Three
were beheaded in the inner court
and the others were killed bar
bariously in the outer court yard.
Their bodies were thrown TO the
dogs.
The empress has ordered a
commissioners to investigate the
conduct of the southern viceroys
who made a compact with the
foreign consuls and their degra-
dation is expected.
The Associated Press reples.
entative learns from Official
sources the facts Of the killing of
several American women mis-.
sionaries. AT the request of the
mission board the details were
withheld out of regard for the
feelings of the murdered women,
but other prominent Americans
who have long antagonlzed the
policy of sending women to iso.
lated island posts, think it i'm
portant that the facts should be
known. The names of the victims
are withheld by request. Two of
these women were captured
while attempting to leave the
stations where they were located, q,
were led about the country
naked, repeatedly outraged and
finally killed by method too re
voting to be described. Two
other American women were
coming to the coast with a party
which number of Cinnamon
followed and stoned. The women
fell exhausted and were tax en- by
the Ohinamen into the presence
of the local officials. They were
prostrated upon the execution
block and feint was made of
beheading them. One of them
became hysterical and laughed
and, thinking her insane, the
Chinese escorted her to the coast
because of their superstition re-
garding the insane. On the Jour
ney, however, the woman was
repeatedly crimlnaily ASA aulted
by her escort. The other women,
after being exhibited naked for
some days and suffering assault
by several men, was tortured to
death by the same sha meful
methods as we've practiced In the
other case. Two Swedish mission