The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-11
IN CHINA.


war held on June 30, decided that it |
was impossible to attempt TO relieve
Pekin without greatly increased forces. |
A special dispatch from St. Peters
burg says: "Vice-Admiral Alexeiff's |
official announcement of the impossi- |
bility Of advancing on Pekin without |
reinforcement and the necessary pom |
toops and stores has caused despair as
it is regarded as tantamount to aban-
doning the Europeans.
The commanders of the allies at Tien
Tsin inform the correspondents that 1t
would be suicide to attempt TO reach
Pekin with the troops now available in
the face of the colossal force of impe-
rial troops and Boxers occupying the
county between Tien Tsin and Pekin.
So far from taking the offensive the
l2,OO0 international troops at Tien
Tsin and the 3C0 others at Taku and
intermediate points can hardly keep ~
communication, fighting inceasau "
with overwhelming numbers. using fs
more numerous artillery pieces than
the ellies.
"Not a single foreigner is now alive
in Pekin," is the latest Chinese report
which has reached Shanghai. Earlier
reports from the same sources describe
the condition of the British legation as
something awful. 1t is reported that
the rooms Of the legation were f ed
with sick and wounded, the killed lying
unburied in heaps. Three Chinese
servants of foreigners have escaped
from Pekin. They report thst Pll the
= foreigners, one thousand in number,
including 400 soldiers, 100 members of
J the Chinese customs ststf and a num-
= Der Of women and child~en held out
till their ammunition was exhausted in
= the British legation. The legation was
a finally burned and al! the officers were
j Killed. 1t is reported that Kwang Hsu
and the Dowsger Empress have been
poisoned.
LONE ON, July 5.-No encouraging
news comes from China, unless it be
n two dispatChes TO the effect that the
J; Brit'sh legations were besieged July
u and therefore apparently had not then
= fallen. On the other hand, report of
3. the humiliation of el( foreigners in
Pekin continues to arrive. The pros.
pect is remote Of a relief force starting
from Tien Tsin aud Che Foo. A dis
u patch today says that in view Of the
If imninence of the rainy season it is
be possible before the autumn. All the
London papers bemoan the impotence
of the powers in the present crisis. Re-
ports that the emperor of China has
IS committed suicide and the empress is
y insane were received simultaneously
~ with the account of the warlike edicIs
a. Issued by the latter.
y SHANGHAI, July 6.-Intense indig.
if nation is telthere against the supposed
1t action of the powers 10 restraining ia
SO pan from sending an army 10 Pekin
Il Immediately. The powers are accused
IL OF being : guilty Of murder ~ are
AZ Prince Tuau's fanatics, and Sir Robert
,e Hart is blamed for not baving inform
is ed the foreigners of the immense i'm.
ports Of arms, especially a few week
ago. The Chinese commanders are
prepering for long, severe compsiyn
and ere putting into operation plans
: drawn BY Germsns last year for resist
ing invasion from the seaboard of Rus
eia.
Two natives who have arrived here
certifv to the truth of the Statement
that rrnce Tuan visited the pelact
and offered the Emperor and the Dow
ager Empress the alternative of poison
or the sword. The Emperor, they say
tc ok poison and died within an hour
The Dowager Empress also chose pois
on, but crettily swallowed only a por
ton of what ives offered her and e. d
vived. On the same day the Chinese
customs bureau wes Destroyed, the in
spec'lr and staff escaping to The leg
tons.
The storu that all foreigners in Pekir
were mur0ered on June 80 or July ]
appears to be circulating simultaneously
at Che Foo, Shanghai and Ten Tam
Yet i. is not confirmed by official de-
spatcbes and is not traceabe to the
southern viceroys who are s"ll in GER
t0jn communication with Pekin there is
a basis for the hope it g untrue.
Newspaper correspondents here have
gathered news which pieced together
: relate that when the foreigners, ammu
milton YVES exhausted at Perm, the
Boxers and imperial troop rushed the
st British legation and poured into the
Re court yerd with fanatio'l fury. The
J foreign troops were so hopelessly out
=, numbered that their ia e was cert lin
The moment that the mob broke
o. through, the court yard was converted
y into shambles. Othe OF the invaders
SDT6du lulO luG iulClipL VI luC UulluluHi
g. One correspondent adds: I'll is only
left : } hope that in the final lash of the
murderoLs hordes the men of the lega
r. lions had time to STAY with their own
a hands their womenHind and children
n The Chinese are whispering the ten
AZ BILE story under their breath. Their
s. attitude towards foreigners in the
n streets has undergone strange change.
1t The demeanor of the better class of
q Chinese is one of pity rather than OF
< triumph.
:, SHANGHAI, July 6.-There is NO
y longer any doubt that disaster has over.
y taken the Russian army of three thou
e sand who ief' Tein Tsin for Pekiu I'M
n der Gen. Stillon June IL, with fol Geld
+ equipment and their own transports.
u Nothing has been heard of the column
in TWENTY-FIVE DAYS and il is assumed