Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-04
CHINESE F|ENDS
REVOLVING STORIES OF OUT
RACES ON MISSIONARIES.
CLAIM VICTORY OVER ALLIES,
Lenient Course Will Pave Way for
Endless Future Trouble-Must
Act Now.

Shanghai, Sept. 4.-(Copyrighted, 1900.
by the Associated Press .)-Dispatches
announcing that the American govern
ment refuses to agree to the withdrawal
of the troops from Pekin before salts
faction for the outrages upon and the
losses of it's subjects is give Ell, have been
received here and applauded by the en-
tire foreign colony in Shanghai. Any
other policy, according to the business
men and missionaries with whom the
Associated Press representative has
talked would be a vital blow to the
prestige of the foreigners and would
weaken their status in China. The local
English papers fiercely the pro-
posals to evacuate Pekin, and say hat
the Chinese would interpret vacuatio
as defeat. The masses of Cinnamon now
believe that the Chinese arms are vic
toriouS.
The Chinese papers printed in shang-
hal contain long, circumstantial ac-
counts of alleged Chinese victories at
Pekin, Tien Tsin and Tung Chao, and the
shops in the native quarter display for
sale lurid pictures of the Celestial army
driving the European 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 viceroys. Vice Adj
miral Seymour is represented with his
arms pinioned, bowling before the
throne. The people accept these reports
and pictures as correctly representing
the situation, and consider the reports of
the English press as merely foreign
lies
The European community continues to
demand the destruction of Pekin and the
exemplary punishment OF the officials,
deeming indemnity and paper promises
of new treaties inadequate. Undoubt-
edly the in detail of mas
sacres of foreigners daily received influ-
ence this sentiment.
The dowagera empress is living in the
Yamen at, Tai Yuan Flu. in Shan ST prov
ince. Fifty missionaries have been
slaughtered in that Yamen under ORDERS,
practically in the presence of the vice.
roy. Three We're beheaded in the inner
court and the others We're killed bar
barousiy in the outer courtyard. Their
bodies We're thrown to the dogs.
The empress has ordered a commits
sioner to investigate the conduct of the
southern viceroys who made a %mpact
with the foreign consuls. and their deg
radiation is expected. No investigation
been ordered.
The Associated Press representative
learned from official sources the facts
of the killing of several American wo-
men missionaries. At the request of the
mission board the details were withheld,
out of regard for the feelings of the
relatives of the murdered women. The
names of the victims are withheld by
request. Two of these women were cap
tured while attempting to leave the sta
tons where they We're located, were led
about the country naked, We're repeat
edly outraged, and finally killed by 6
method too revolving to be described
W other American women were com.
ing to the coast with a party which q
number of Chinamen followed and
stoned. The women fell exhausted and
We're taken by the Cinnamon into the
presence of the local officials. They We're
Frustrated upon the execution block and
a feint was made of ~beheading them
One of them became hysterical and
laughed, and, thinking her insane, the
Chinese escorted her to the coast be.
cause of their superstition regarding the
insane. On the journey, however, the
woman was repeatedly exhibited naket
TOR some days. and, suffering assault b,
several men. was tortured - death by
the same shameful methods as were
practiced in the other cases.
Two Swedish missionary women ar
lived at Shanghai after similar expe
FENCES, except that their lives wert
spared. The foregoing are matters O,
The IA English missionaries, includ.
ng six women and four children, wht
were murdered at Chu Chau, i'm the
province of Che Kiang, according to thu
story of a Spanish priest, Who escaped
were killed with hay forks and ancien'
spears by the magistrates body guard
and their naked bodies were hanged from
trees.
The incidents make a lenient polio,
unpopular in Shanghai, where all thu
victims had friends.
Placards appeared today in all publ,
places exhorting foreigners to oppose
compromise with the government, ant
attacking Ii Hung Chang, quoting tn,
remark to Consul General Goodnow
credited to Earl Lii. that the foreigner.
In Pekin, except the ministers, were O.
no