The age-herald., 1900-07-04
Supplies Are Exhausted and
 Help Badly Needed.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS HOT SPEECH
While Addressing Departing Marines He Says His Country Will Have
 Revenge for the Murder of
 Baron Won Ketteler.

London, July 4.-2:4O a m-Courers whof are arriving at the seats of government oft the southern Viceroys from their agents in [ , Pekin give vivid, but fragmentary pictures of what is being enacted in the Orienb These couriers seemingly left Pekin daN or two later than the messenger of SH Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Cusj toms, who started the night of June 2f. They report that the heads of some of ' the captured Legation guards were being borne through the streets the top of N spears, followed by zealots chanting 'Tapl Wang Kuei Tse Tapi Tapi." (I<in the for@ eign devils; kill, kilD.
 Millions have been reused to patriotic fervor, breaking out into the widest ex, cesses. while over half the city could be heard fighting around the Legations Sir Robert Harris runner, who was ins terviewed by the correspondent of the Exz press at Shanghai, supplemented the tragic sentences of the dispatch he bore by a nars rative of something he saw.
 He says the foreigners were making a last stand in the extensive building and enclosures of the British Legation. TheNf had many dead and wounded Among them were some women and children, and all were short of food, even of the commonest1 necessaries. The women were starving aSz they gave small part of their alowancS> to the children
 The foreigners, nevertheless, were holding out under terrible fire, upheld by the 2 hourly expectation of relief. They knew( they would not be abandoned and that tha armies of their government were advanco ing. ,I Sometimes they thought they could hearf artillery in action beyond the wall. They were unable to return the fire of the Chi- nese except at moments when an assault seemed imminent. Then the machine guns and repeating rifles tore the storming par4 ties to pieces <
 Can't Hold Out Much Longer
 The messenger expressed the belief that it would be impossible for the foreigners to resist much longer, as the Chinese wer9 > preparing to batter down the walls of tile court yard and their ammunition was run- ming low. Orders were given by Prince Yuan, the messenger says, that since some had been killed. not one other foreigner should be left alive. Y
 The Chinese soldiers were exhorted toHl sacrifice their lives without hesitation if by2| doing they could help exterminate the Wang Kuei Tse." Extreme precautions had been taken to prevent the foreigners from communicating with anyone outside the city, and number of runners who had been sent out were killed by the Chinese. This messenger succeeded In getting through by smearing his face and clothes with blood and joining in the outcries against the Devils
 He passed the remains of foreigners of Admiral Seymours force who had been killed between Lang Fang and Lo Flu, Their bodies had been cut to pieces and their heads were carried at the ends of bamboos. large army of Chinese im- perial troops with twenty guns is reported to be advancing in the direction of Tien Tsy. Reliance is placed in Shanghai on J most of the statements made by the mes- senger, as he is known to be faithful to the foreigners.
 Food is Exhausted
 The consular body at Shanghai is of the opinion that the food and ammunition of besieged legation forces at Pekin having become exhausted they must be dead or imprisoned, and that it would be futile to make desperate effort for their relief with an inadequate force.
 It is regarded at Shanghai as appalling that nothing is being done for the relief of the beseged foreigners, and it seems hor- rble that they should be abandoned to their fate
 The inability of 1,6O0 men, the latest es-
 
 is explained by the statement that the ChiS/ nese army between Tien Tsin and Pekin. have been heavily reinforced, and that it has abundant artillery and numerous caVE airy, giving it large adv sntage over the allies reconnoterng parties, who run a great hazard of being surrounded cap. tured and probably executed by torture A long delay seems certain before an effectNeA advance can be made. Severe fighting &C., cording to vague reports, continues Ukound Tien Tsin.
 Murder of German Minister
 Various accounts of the murder of Baron Won Ketteler reach Shanghai. l. The correspondent of the Express says that Prince Yuan, who Is the dictator at the capitol tried by means of trap to n1 duce the ministers to leave the legations so that they might be massacred by fanat1 ics, thus evading governmental responsi- bility for their death The American, Britt ish, French and Russian ministers suspect> ed plot and refused to leave the legal tions Baron Won Ketteler, however-ac cepted the invitation, and left the Ge legation with a small escort of G marines Opposite the foreign office r assassinated by the Chinese soldiers
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