Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-07-19
WOUNDED LUEJACKETs BEGGED
THEIR COMMANDER TO PUT
THEM TO BEATH.
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF SEYMOUR
Hsrassed Fighters Could Not Carr
Their Stricken Brothers to SAT-
ety-Firing Squad. Told
OF by the Admiral
Cheated Mongol
MObis Prey.

TIEN-TsIE, July O., VIA SHANGHAI,
July live r fighting hordes Of
Chinese day and night, but are unable
to beat them on. They are approach
ing closer 70 the foreign settlement
after each battle.
No quarter is given or asked on
either side.
Intellectual attempts have been
made TO conceal the horrible fact that
Admiral Seymour was compelled to
shoot HE own wounded during the re-
cent disastrous retreat Of the Pekin
relief expedition.
All the wounded and prisoners who
fell into the hands Of the Chinese
were frightfully tortured.
The bodies Of two marines who
were captured by the Chinese were
recovered. The bodies had been cut
to pieces. First the eyes had been
hacked out; then the cheeks, arml
and legs cut OF, until death ended the
sufferings Of the poor fellows.
When Admiral Seymour, In his re-
treat, found himself 90 hard pressed
that be was unable longer to carry hil
wounded with him, he asked them:
(which do you prefer, to be left to
the mercies Of the Chinese or be shot
By your own commander7D
As Admiral Seymour pu. the ques-
ton, the tears were streaming down
bis cheeks
ave prefer death 10 tortured Shoot
rs now, that we may die like menlr
was the piteous response of the help
less men.
A firing squad was told on, and
while the allied force stopped and
beat on with gun fire the Chinese
horde that surrounded IL, inside OF
its Ines an set Of mercy was per-
formed as the firing squad carried out
lite orders.
A few merciful volleys from the
rifles in the hands Of friends and the
harassed expedition was relieved OF
its burden OF wounded, the fanatical
Chinese horde was cheated Of victims
for lie torture and the sufferings and
fears ofthe unfortunstes were brought
TO an end In an honorable death un-
der their own Gag.
FATEs THAT AWAITED THE WOUNDED.
The awful fate OF the foreigners in
Pekin, now no longer doubted, and
the frightfnl alternative which COM
PEELED Admiral Seymour to kin bis
wounded, as described In cable dis
patches from China, arouse deep In
terest In the unspeakable cruelty Of
the Mongol fanatic.
A franciscan missionary, describing
the death Of q cateohlst at Nan-Kuen-
sic, writes;
nHs a .aaiEad. stripped of hil
clothes, beaten and bound. He was
then questioned:
"'Are you q Christian
ayes, I am
cat this reply one ear was cut on.
"'Are you still q Christian2'
"'Yes; ! am a follower of Christ
1.-THE other ear was then severed,
The victims third declaration was bis
death sentence. A stroke of the
sword severed his head from his body,
and placed him in the ranks Of the
martyrs"
In other cases the executioners tear
out the victims' eyes and cut the
muscles OF the feet. he lives only Ia
suffer. The Boxers are tends Of cru.
city. They m~altreat, In these differ.
emit ways, helpless women and girl
and old men. Their most exquisite
method Of torture IL known a
the "slicing process" Under THU
hideous rite the bodies OF the faller
are cut into small pieces with power
ful blows from the cleaver-Hke kuivel
which are welded with arms guided
by an incomprehensIbIe and insatiats
thirst for blood. The pieces are fet
to the dogs.