The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-11
SHOCKING STORIES,
The Murderous--.tZaalots in pekin
Order Wholesale Slaughter.
KILL TIE FOREIGN DEVILS"

and Many More Wounded.
Women and Children
Starving.
Dispatches from China says couriers
who are arriving at the seats Of gov
eminent of the southern viceroys from
their agents in Pekin give vivid but
fragmentary pictures Of what is being
enacted in the capital. These couriers
seemingly left Pekin day or two later
han the messenger Of Sir Robert
Hart, the inspector general Of customs,
who started on the night Of June oath.
They report that the heads Of some Of
the captured legation guards were be-
ing borne through the streets at the
top Of spears, followed by aealots chant
ing ''Tapi yang kuei tse; tspi, tspi,"
(kill the foreign devils; kill, killD The
| city's millions have been reused to
patriotic fervor, breaking out into the
widest ezcesses, while over half the
city could be heard fighting around the
legations.
Sir Robert Harts runner, Who was
interviewed by the correspondent OF
The Express at Shanghai, supplements
the tragic sentences Of the dispatch be
bore By a narrative Of some things he
saw, BE says the foreigners were max
ing last stand in the extensive build
ings and enclosures Of the Britis., lega-
ton. They had many dead aud
wounded. Among them were soma wo.
men and children. All were short Of
food, even Of the commonest! neces-
ssries. The women were starving, as
they gave part Of their small allow
ance to the children. The foreigners,
nevertheless, were holding oat under a
terrible ERE, upheld by the expectation
Of relief. They knew they would not
be abandoned and that The armies Of
their governments were advancing.
Sometimes they thought they could
hear artillery in action beyond the wall.
They were unable to return the fire Of
the Chinese, except at moments when
an assault seemed imminent. Then the
machine guns and repeating rifles tore
the storning parties to pieces. The
messenger expressed the belief that it
would be impossible for the foreigners
to resist much longer, as the Chinese
were preparing to batter down the
walls Of tho court yard, and their am
nunition was running low.
Orders we're given by Prince Tuan,
the messenger says that, since some
had been killed, not one other foreigner
should DO left alive. The Chinese SOL
diers were exhorted to sacrifice their
lives without hesitation, if by so doing
they could help exterminate the "yang
kuei tse." Extreme precautions had
been taken to prevent the foreigners
from communicating with any one out
side the city, and number Of runners
who had been sent out were killed by
the Chinese. This messenger succeed
ed in getting through by snesring his
face and clothes with blood and joining
in the outcries against the devils"
RRseRifsf Re RRfs1frIs Iseymours force who had been
killed between Lang Fang and Lo Fu.
Their bodies had been cut to pieces
and their heads were carried at the
ends Of bamboos. A large army OF
Manchu Chinsse imperial troops, with
20 guns, is reported to be sdvaDcingin
the direction Of Tjen Tsin.
MORE BAD NEWS.
The fact that relief column has
been unable to leave Tien Tain in re-
sponse to the pathetic prayer Of the
beleaguered legations at Pekin is gen.
orally regarded in London as destroy
ing almost the last vestige of hope fos
the unfortunate foreigners pent up IL
the Chinese capital. The worst is feared:
Shanghai reports that the international
forces at Tien Tsin are suffering from
lack Of good drinking water, owing to
the Pei 10 river being choked with the
corpses Of Chinese and other victims OF
the bombsrdment.
According 10 the same dispatch the
international troops, so far from being
strong enough to advance towards Pe-
kin, are not sufficiently numerous 10
attack the Chinese still surrounding
Tien Tsin and keeping up desultory
fire on the place. Thousands OF Chi
nege are said to be arriving from Lu
Tai and to be desperately attempting TO
reoccupy the bridge leading to Taku.
Prince Tuan is said to be publicly be-
beheading all the legation guards cap
tured by the Chinese.
According to the latest Pekla news,
from Chinese sources the legations are
at such extremities from lack OF psoyl-
sions that the women who escaped the
bullets are perishing Of starvation. a
| special dispatch from Shanghai says
Chinese reports are current that two
other 70, eign ministers were murdered
the same az Baron Won Ketteler. From
the same source it is declared that the
mission hospital at Moukden has been
DESTROYED by FIRE and that the native
Christians have been massacred. 1t IS
further asserted that the foreigners ned
to New ChWang.