Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-04
EMPEROR WILLIAM
Swears He Will Avenge Min
lister ketteIer'S Death.
Reported and Feared That Other Min
listers Have Been Murdered,
Wome in The lie jail ms Said 10 Be Perish.
ing Of Starvation.

Berlin, July 3.-Addressing the de-
tachment Of German marines which
sailed from Wilhelms Haven for China
yesterday, the Emperor made re-
markable speech, during which he no
tihed the world of Gcrmany's intention
to avenge the murder of Baron Won
ketteler the late minister of Germany
in Pekin and the missionaries, and to
dictate terms to the Chinese from the
palace at Pekin. According to the Lo-
kal AnZieger, His Majesty spoke as fol-
lows:
The German flag has been insulted
and the German empire threatened
with contempt This demands exem-
plary punishment and vengeance
Events have moved with frightful ra-
pidity and have become profoundly
grave and still graver since / called
you to arms. What / hoped to effect
with the help of the marine infantry
has now become a difficult task which
can only be fulfilled with the help Of
the serried ranks of the civilized states.
I will not rest until the German flag,
Joined to those Of other powers. floats
triumphantly over Chinas flag, and
until ii has been planted on the walls
of Pekin to dictate peace to the Chin
csc, you will have to maintain good
comradeship with all the other troops
whom you will come in contact with
over yonder. Russians. British and
French, all alike. are fighting for one
common cause-for civilization. We
must bear in mind. too. something
higher-namely. our religion and the
defence and protection of our brothers
M pf OF
lives for the Saviour. The flags which
here float above you go under fire for
the first time That you bring them
back to me clean and stainless and
without spot my thanks. my prayers
and my solicitude go with you"
London. July 4.-i.30 A. M.--Courers
who are arriving at the seats of gov
eminent Of the southern viceroys from
their agents in Pekin. give vivid. but
fragmentary pictures Of what liz being
enacted in the capital. There couriers
seemingly left Pekin a day or two later
than the messenger of Sir Robert Hart,
the inspector general Of customs, who
started on the night of June "a. They
report that the heads Of some of the
captured legation guards We're being
borne through the streets at the top
Of spears, followed by zealots chanting
''Tapi yang kue TIE. tap, tapi." (The
foreign devils. kill. kid. The city's
millions have been reused to patriotic
fervor breaking out into the widest
eXcesscs. while over half the city could
be heard fighting around the legations.
Sir Robert Harris runner who was
the Express at Shanghai, supplements
the tragic sentences of the dispatch he
bore by narrative Of some things he
saw. He says the foreigners We're max
ing last stand in the extensive build
ings and enclosures of the British lega-
ton. They had many dead and wound
ed. Among them We're some women
and children.
All We're short Of food and even Of
the cOmmonest necessities. The women
were starving as they gave part OF
their small allowance to the children.
The foreigners, nevertheless. Were hold
ing out under a terrific fire. upheld by
the hourly expectation of relief. They
knew they would not be abandoned
and that the armies Of their govern
ments Were advancing. Some times
they thought they could hear artillery
in action beyond the wall. They were
unable to return the fire of the Chin
csc, except at moments when an as
sault seemed imminent. Then the ma
chine guns and repeating rifles tore
the storming parties to pieces. The
messenger expressed the belief that it
would be impossible for the foreigners
to resist much longer. as the Chinese
We're preparing to batter down the
walls of the courtyard and their am
munition was running low
Orders We're given by Prince Tuan.
the messenger says, that since some
had been killed, not one other foreigner
should he left alive. The Chinese sol
diers We're exhorted to sacrifice their
lives without hesitation If by so doing
they could help exterminate the Wang
Kuei Use wang Qui Tse). Extreme
precautions had been taken to prevent
the foreigners from communicating
with any one outside the city and a
number Of runners who had been sent
out We're killed by the Chinese. This
messenger succeeded in getting through
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