The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-18
as.peee Of Communication In
cresses the Anxiety.
,oxss MOVEMENT GROWS.
...ssA Marder of German Minis
=. Not Confirmed Nor Credited,
- ne situation Mt Peking IL
.~.yaed rs Growing More seri-
.e.-Lateat Dispatch ON Friday
-. Anarchy Reigns In the City.

,nvnxoy June is 3 a. m.-There fs not
,ssrst IN Europe apparently that knows
~. 80 been trRnspiring In Peking Tor
~ $50. or In Tlentsin for three days.
I. ,hers any that knows with what
=. 1890 the small and insdequateiy
s..ssssd International column are con-
SsSS.~ b<tween those cities. The Ger
- fopelsn office. upon learning the
-, 81 the murder OF Baron Won Ket-
80 the German minister at Pekinz.
- / geographic inquiry TO st. Peters,
- thinking the Russian government.
1900 Of It's wires 20 Manchuria, being
reortdly IN a better position than the
~ soysrnments TO obtain direct news.
4 fscly the German foreign office was
,,saruned that nothing whatever was
S,Sevn on the subject. as communication
IN PskIng was interrupted
M report spread worldwide from
nsngha that the legations had been at
uceed ard that one minister. probably
IA German. had been murdered. has been
Nod 10 Tao Tai Sheng. who. for few
az, as the empress dowager's agent. has
ven cfnsoring the kilograms from shang-
vi The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Mly Express says:
Asheng. as head OF the telegraph adj
nnIstTation. pretended that the line con-
setting Shanghai with Peking had been
swn since June Q. and that the wires
% Tientsin were GU. on June rs Never
lbefss, u II notorious that constant COM
nauicaiions have been passing from
nanghai 10 Picking over the northern and
western routes. although Shcng has re-
rstd both ministers and consuls the privi-
las OF using the lines. II IA known tina,
sss Friday Sheng received a message from
s!ihsr Pekinr or Tientsln The dIsnstch
MD that Gen. Tung Fuh sianr's troops
ss1td the Boxers In an organized attack
% the foreign legations and that in tho
sap'se ~ the attack some Of the lesa-
W nfiildinRH were reduced to ruins and
- Foreign minister sliced to pieces.
why. ~ the cables. II should bnvc
MN added that the murdered minister
"a Baron Won Ketteler IL not explain
according to another telegram from,
SHANGHAI. dated June II. rs D. m. shenu
- Ned, fearing that the foreign author.
W. were about 10 arrest him because of
" stoppage OF kilograms.
miro cahlegram asserts that the re-
pits OF the murder OF the German min.
Ntr emanated from London. are ,uite
nconnrmed and are discradited AZ
5Aanghai.
The German minister has been captur-
~ the announcement 20 the Morning
lsA from Picking. In n dispatch dated
Ishe u, y. m. via Tlentsin, June Is,
mn II the latest press message known
y have left Peking. II continues,
"A crowd OF Boxers occupied Legation
met. cutting OF communication ba-
seen the buildings. few Boxers ar,
sfading In the city Their supers,i,Icn
regard to foreign arms Is pitiabie.
Danger Of Further Massacre,
The Boxets hold the officials OF Tung-
Aau for redemption. Anarchy reisns at
Mt place. The Americans In tho inter.
v OF the two nelghboring provinces havs
ven advised to leave. but several hayo
Y means of doing 40. Unless n large
wee IA sent. there Is danger OF mas
acre Of native Christians. A large native
'fmy Is ready to oppose the relief column
y the way here. The Chinese govern
neat cannot decide whether to adopt the
'pacy OF risidly suppresslny the Boxers
Y That OF defying the world. The do
as'cn rests with the dowaGer empress. 4"