The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-07
LEGATIONS ARE GIVEN UP
NOT ONE is LEFT ALIVE.
Legations and Foreigners Mt Picking
Have Fallen Victims to the Boxers
All Hope of Rescue to BE Adam
doned-May Not he Able to Hold
Even Tientsin.

London, July 5.-''Not single foreigner
is alive in Peking' is the latest Chinese re-
port which has reached Shanghai. Earlier
reports from the same sources describe the
condition of the British legation as some
thing awful. 1t is said that the rooms of
the legation were filled with sick and
wounded, the killed lying unburied in
heaps. 1t is believed that many members
and officers of the tsung Ii yamen persisted
when the German guard, maddened by
the murder of Baron Won Ketteler the
German minister, set fire to the buildings.
That the foreigners at the Chinese capital
have been abandoned to their horrible fate
seems no longer open to doubt in the light
of the message received by the Associated
Press from Taku this morning, announcing
the decision of the admirals regarding the
hepelessness of further attempts to relieve
Picking under the circumstances. The same
message foreshadows the evacuation of
Tientsin by the international forces pend
ing the arrival of fully equipped army,
and while the arrival of comparatively
small garrison at Tentsin at point under
the protection of the naval guards would
relieve much of the anxiety, it is felt here
that retreat of the troops is liable to set
aflame the provinces at present quiescent.
Advices from Shanghai today say that
there is continued fighting at Tientsin,
while the German consul at Chefoo tele-
graphs to Berlin confirming the report of
the renewal of hostilities. He says the
foreign settlement at Tientsin is again sur
rounded and is being bombarded and that
the women and children are to be removed.
He adds that the Chinese troops have again
advanced against the road and that the
bridges have been destroyed, but that COM
munication by water has been maintained.
The telegram from Taku confirms the re-
port that the mission buildings at Monk
den have been burned and that many ma
tive Christians have been killed.
Shanghai, July 5.-Another message
from Sir Robert Hart, the inspector of
customs, dated Picking, Monday, June 25,
reiterates that the situation was then des-
perate and that the Chinese troops were
Smelling the British legation, where all
the members of the diplomatic body had
congregated.
But uneasiness is felt at Hang Chow
Capital of province of Chekiang). With
the view of emphasizing his agreement
with the Europeans, Viceroy Lin has
stopped mounting guns on the Yang Use
Kiang forts. He has also stopped other
anti-foreign war preparations and has re-
fused to assist Ii Ping Hing with troops
for the north. He accused the latter of
being the cause of the Germans taking
Shan Tung. Consequently Ii Ping Hing
has left Nankin with only 300 soldiers.
London, July 5.-A dispatch from Taku,
dated Saturday, June 80, and Chefoo,
Tuesday, July 3, says that the British and
Russian admirals at council of war, held
June 30, decided that it was impossible
to attempt to relieve Peking without great
ly increased forces. They also concluded
that it would be possible to hold Tientsin.
but in the event of this not proving FEAST
Bile, they will endeavor to retain possession
OF 1aku. One hundred and forty thousand
imperial troops are stationed between Pc
King and Iientsin, while the total of the
allied forces which can be concentrated at
the present barely numbers 10000. 1t is
reported that General Mich 81 Chang is adj
vancing for an attack on Tientsin with
10000 troops.
Won KetteIer's Body Rescued.
London, July ga report has been re-
ceved at Tallu to the effect that the Ger
man guards rescued the body of Baron Won
Kettler, the late German minister to China.
after he was murdered by the Chinese.
Not Confirmed Mt Paris.
Paris, July 5.-No news is reported at
the foreign office this morning of the ru-
mored assassination of the French minister
or the members of the legation at Picking.