The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
Butchery of Foreigners and
Native Christians Unceasing.
CONCERTS LAST WORD.
ssWe Are DISQUALIFICATION
Are Becoming Exhausted"
Armed Force of 5000 Russians
Drops Out of Sight.
Has Not Been Heard From Fol-
"a Days.

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the foreign ministers, the women, the
children and the European guard at
Pekin after eighteen days of hopeless
resistance is confirmed" says a dis
patch from Shanghai, dated July 6, and
received in London today.
when the ammunition and food were
| exhausted" continues the dispatch,
'the Chinese fiends closed in upon the
| legations and butchered all those who
remained alive. Afterwards they set
fire to the legation buildings in which
the remains of the victims were con-
sumed."
The dispatch does not state the
| source from which the news of this
| confirmation is received, but it is
| thought that this is indicated by an
other Shanghai dispatch, which states
| that the tao tao, or officer in charge of
| several departments. at Shanghai and
vicinity now admits that no legation
exists in Pel1in. They are said to have
been exter1ninated, and it is admitted
that no foreigners have been left alive.
Reports of the atrocities committed
by Prince Tuan upon the Chinese are
appalling. He had 1000 leading Chinese
butchered, it is said, for merely daring
to petition him to control the orgy of
blood and restrain his followers.
The dispatch concludes with the an
nouncement that Viceroy Chi Lii Wang
Wen Chao has been killed by the box
ers.
Reports from natives who left Pelxin
June "a continue to arrive. They are to
a large extent merely variations of the
stories already published. A dispatch
from Taku says that the last message
from Mr.. Edwin III. Conger, the United
States minister at Pekin, brought there
by runners, reads as follows:
I'VE are beSieged. The provisions are
becoming exhausted and the situation
is desperate The relief force should
advance and give us notice by signal"
Runners also confirm the report of the
burning of the native city of Pekin.
The Che Foo correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing on Thursday, says
there is no longer any doubt that dis
aSter has overtaken the Russian force
of 1900 that left Tien Tsin for Pekin
on June IL. The Russians had a full
field gun complement and carried their
own transports. AS nothing has been
heard from them for twenty-four days,
it is assumed that they have been over
whelmed. Trustworthy news is received
to the effect that all the country to
the northeast of Pekin is covered with
the corpses of men and horses of the
western garrisons. Fighting of des-
perate character took place in the i'm
mediate neighbOrhOOd of Tien TSin on
June go.
The Russian government announces
that it will give Japan free hand to
apply military force in China The
terms of this consent are summarized
in the subjoined dispatch from st.
Petersburg, under date of July 6, in re-
ply to an inquiry from the japanese
cabinet regarding the dispatch of Jap
anese troops to China to render aid to
the foreigners in Pekin. The Russian
government declared on May q that it
left the Japanese government full lib
erty of action in this connection, as the
Toxic cabinet expressed it's readiness
to act on full agreement with the other
powers.
1t is in consequence of this, no doubt,
that Japan is preparing to embark 90,
600 more troops. Political considera-
tions that were thought to be inf1uenc-
ing the action of the powers are thus
laid aside for moment, at least, by
the government supposed to have the
clearest purpose respecting China'S fu-
ture. Japan's sending of troops can
have little bearing on the fate of the
foreigners in Pekin.
Baron Hayashi, the new Japanese
minister, who arrived in London on Fri
day, said that ten days would probably
be required for the carrying of troops
to China His dictated statements con-
tanned these sentences:
If all the conditions Japan has asked
were conceded, 1 see no reason why
Japan should not undertake the task
of suppressing the trouble. The powers
are all agreed in wishing to put down
the rebels, but it does not seem that
they are agreed on the means"
BAD NEWS FROM TSUNG HUA.
New York. July IA dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo
says bad news has been received from
the Methodist mission at TSung Hua
The place was attacked by a band of
Chinese and the settlement broken up
The Methodist native girl converts were
carried away into captivity by the box
ers after their preacher had been slain.
Other converts who had incurred the
hatred of the boxers fed without offer
ing any resistance. This prevented a
wholesale butchery, as the settlement
of converts was greatly outnumbered.
Pei Ia Ho, it is reported, is burned. The
property of foreigners and native con-
verts to Christianity is destroyed Pao
Ting Foo is safe. A report comes from
apparently reliable sources that Chu
Wang is burned.
The American commander of the
Chinese merchant vessel Haechi had an
exciting experience while protecting a
party of missionaries near Teng-Cho
Flu. The Haechi had been hiding under
the shore ready to bring the mission
aries to safety. A Russian gunboat
doomed up on the horizon and seeing
the Chinese ship, prepared to attack and
capture it. The captain hoisted the
away.
Indian troops, 1ancers and infantry,
sent from Singapore, most of them fierce
pathans from the hill districts on the
border are pressing to the relief of the
besieged.
The most dreadful rumors continue to
come from within the city of Pelxin
There are so many stories af1oat that it
is hopeless to try to trace any of them