Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-07-27
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

| NohlIctl6g reports cause the
Powers to be undecided as to action.
Capt. Davis, the officer of Marines
who was killed at Tientsin, was 90
years OF age and an Atlanta, Ga, boy.
Thousands of Chinese are making
their way to Mexico with the hope
OF reaching the United States to
escape army service in China, should
that country become engaged in a
general war.
France has selected General Alfred
Dodds, mulatto negro and man
OF great fighting ability, to command
her troops in China, and as he is a
general division of many years stand
ing, he will probably rank the COM
manders of ali others of the allies
1t will be interesting to learn how
Americans and Englishmen will like
being led by negro.
The veil of anxiety and uncertainty
which has hung over the fate of
Minister Conger and the other foreign
representatives at Pekin was lifted
this week by receipt of direct infor-
nation from the American Minister.
transmitted through Chinese chan
nels, that he was safe July IS. but
In imminent peril and only prompt
relief could save him and his staff
from massacre.
Forced to Retreat
The London Erening News prints
a dispatch from Shanghai giving a
detailed account of the attack of
allied forces OH the native CITY of
Tien Tsin.
According to the Ecentaq Ne,cs'
dispatch the allied forces were re-
pulsed and compelled to retreat with
loss of more than one hundred
killed, the British losing forty and
the japanese sixty. The Americans
and Russians, it is added, also suf-
fered heavily. Among the Americans
killed were Colonel French, of the
Twenty-tifth Infantry, and Colonel
Liscum, of the Ninth Infantry. A
Russian colonel of artillery was also
killed.
Colonel LiScum was shot in the
abdomen aud died in half an hour.
His last words were:
keep mp the firing"
The Ninth Regiment and other
Americans, with the Japanese. ad-
vanced against thanking fire, but
were forced to lie in the mud ali day.
unable to help their wounded and
compelled to drink canal water.
They could not drive the foe, or
charge, or do anything except fire
few rounds. The Cinnamon fought
with great desperation and their
craftsmanship was accurate and
deadly.
Report OF PekIn Massacre.
A Chinese merchant who has lust |
arrived in Shanghai from Pekin gives
horri bic details of the massacre. He
says he saw European women hauled |
INTO the street by shrieklng Boxers,
who stripped and hacked them to
pieces. Their discovered limbs were
tossed to the crowd and carried off
with bowls of triumph. Some were
already dead, having been shot by
foreign civilians. He says he saw
Chinese soldiers carrying the bodies
If white children aloft on their
spears, while their companians shot
It the bodies. He gives other details
90 horrible to be particularize dhere.
c seems that the Boxer leaders had
plan including the offer
Dg of rewards and rich loot for the
humiliation of Europeans through
'ut China, and that Prince Tuan's
GENERALS have been emphasizing the
opportunity the soldiers have of
eiZlng the bodies of white women.
IN official telegram from Shanghai,
ated Wednesday, July Is, states
hat according to the governor of
'hautung, the foreign ministers and
heir families at Pekin are safe, but
hat the danger is still very great.
he Viceroy, according to this dis.
atch, Informed the consular corps
hat he had telegraphed to Pekin
rging the protection of the foreign ,
,gations.
Bloodtbirsty Proposition. Z
The Shanghai correspondent of {
ne DAILY Express asserts that he {
as ascertained from an unimpeach- !
BILE source that when the question {