Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-06
AL In PEKN killed By MOB jS|XIY ARE HURLED l0GAIA
Massacre Of Every European Is
g. Reported. NV
EMPRESS REPORTED POISONED
Allies Gain at Observation-Disclosures Sey-
mour Wounded by Chinese Sharpsllooters
While sitting In His House at Tien-
Tsin-G seat Army Needed.

London, July 6.-Ihe latest ChlneSe
eports received here from Shanghai
tay that mot single foreigner is
low alive in Pekin." 1t is said that
he rooms of the British legation were
filed with sick and wounded, the
killed lying unburied in heaps.
The commanders Of the allies In
rien-Tsin inform the correspondents
chat it would be suicide to attempt to
each Pekin with the troops now avail
sble in the face of the colossal force
If imperial troops and boxers" occu'
pying the country between Tien-Tsin
md Pekin.
So far from taking the offensive the
1000 international troops at Tien'
Csin and the 5000 others at Taku and
intermediate points barely can keep
up communications, fighting inces-
;antly with overwhelming numbers.
Allies Gain at Tien-Tsin.
This telegram has been received
dated Shanghai, July 4, ITO a. M, via
Che-Foo: "Tien-Tsin city fell be-.
tween and 8 o'clock on the morning
" June 3d."
1t is understood that this undoubt-
eddy referred to the native city OF
Tien-Tsin, from which the Chinese
have been bombarding the foreign
quarter, and the dispatch Is taken tc
mean that the allies are more than
holding their own.
Other advices, received by way OF
Shanghai, aver that the Chinese losses
around Tien-Tsin are between 1000
md 5000, according to official esti-
mates.
Tells of Attack on Legation.
The Times Shanghai correspondent
telegraphing under date of July 3, 1C
,. M, says: "The following informa.
ton has been communicated to me
from a trustworthy quarter. 1t was
brought by a special courier. who left
Pekin June o. He states that 5000
boxers and Chr~~e troops attacked
the legations on that day. They were
:epulsed with loss One gate of thu
inner palace only is open daily for {
few hours. The emperor and empires:
iowager are there. surrounded BY
their personal attendants, all boxers.
The imperial princes have erected al
altar in the palace, where boxer rite
are performed. The attack of the al
lied forces upon the native city 0
Tien-Tsin began at a. M, June 90
and the city was taken at 2 p. m
The main object is the destruction Q
the city fort, from which the foreigl
settlement is shelled. I am informe,
that the total of the Japanese troop
embarked is $4,000, and that furthe
force of 10000 has been modified an
IS ready for embarkation.
Authority of Massacre Report.
Shanghai, July 6.-Three Chimes
servants of foreigners, it is rumoret
rom good source, have escaped from
Pekin. They report that all the for
eigners, 1000 in number, including 4O'
folders, 100 members of the Chimes
customs staff and a number of womel
and children, held out till their ammu
milton was exhausted in the British lie
cation. The legation finally wa
burned and all the foreigners wer'
killed. 1t is reported that Kwan-Hs'
and the dowager empress have beer
poisoned.
| Admiral Hovvn0ur WOnnded.
The correspondent of the Express a
Che-Foo, telegraphing Wednesday
Jays Admiral Seymour was wounded
~ Chinese sharpshooters while sitting
In his house at Tien-Tsin. Officia
news received at Che-Foo shows tina
The Chinese have been guilty of hor
'ible cruelty toward the wounded AM
captured, subjecting them to what il
Known as ling Che" or the slicini
process. Under this hideous rite tn
bodies of the fallen have been multi
ated. The Russians are retaliating b,
The wholesale shooting of natives. Tn
situation according to the EXPIRES
correspondent, shows no signs o
drifting into barbarism and savagery
Revolving stories are told of barbar
flies practiced upon Japanese and Eu