Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-04
APPLAUD OUR POLICY
Foreigners at Shanghai Learn With
Pleasure Of Stand Taken at
Washington.
Withdrawal Of Troops Now Would
Be a Serious Menace to
Foreigners.
narrowing Stories of Torture and
Murder Of American Mission
aries Told.
Copyright, 1900, by Associated PressD


Copyright, 1900 by Associated Press) |
Shanghai, Sept. 4.-Dispatches an-
that the American govern
ment refuses to agree to withdrawal of
the troops from Pekin before salisfac-5
tion for the outrages upon and losses of
its subjects is given is applauded by the
entire foreign colony in Shanghai. Any
other policy, according to business men
and missionaries, would be vital blow
to the prestige of foreigners and would
weaken their status in China. The
masses of Cinnamon now believe the
Chinese arms were victorious. The
Chinese papers printed in Shanghai
contain long, circumstantial accounts
of alleged Chinese victories at Pekin,
Tien Tsin and Lung Chao.
The dowager empress is living in the
Yamen at Tai Yuan Flu, in Shan ST
province. Fifty missionaries We're
slaughtered in the yamen under the
orders and practically in the presence
of the viceroy. Three We're beheaded in
1.-THE inner court and the others killed.
barbarously in the outer courtyard.
Their bodies We're thrown to the dogs.
| The empress has ordered commission
| TO investigate the conduct of the
southern viceroys, who made COM
| pact with the foreign consuls and their
| degradation is expected.
The Associated Press representative
llearns from official sources of the facts
of the killing of several American wo-
\ men missionaries. All the request of the
! mission board details We're Withheld out
OF regard for the feelings OF the rela-
4 tives of the murdered women. But
4 other prominent Americans think it
i important that the facts should be
Il known. The names of the victims are
withheld by request Two of these wo-
men. captured while attempting e
remove from the stations where they
were located, We're led about the coun-
4 try naked, repeatedly outraged ant
finally killed by a method too reNoltine
, women were coming to the coast With {
4 party, which number of Chinamer
A followed and stoned The women fel
exhausted and We're taken by tn
l5Ghinamen into the presence of local of
lficials. They We're prostrated upon az
: execution block and a feint made of be
I heading them. One of them becam
j, hysterical and laughed, and thinkin'
: her insane. the Chinese escorted her I
t the coast because of their superstitio
!, regarding the insane. On the journe,
however. the woman was repeatedl
crirninally assaulted by ner escort. Th
|, other woman. after being eXfiibite
e nakedly for some days and sufferin
"a assault by several men. MAS torture
to death by the same shameful method
z as practiced in the other cases. Tw
!, Swedish missionary women arrived ]
! Shanghai after similar experiences, eS
eept that their lives were spared.
The foregoing are matters of otiici;
record. Fourteen English missionarie
= Including six women and four childrel
!, murdered, at Chu Chau. province
MI Che lliang. according to the story of
.e Spanish priest who escaped. We're kills
iwith hay forks and ancient spears /
the magistrates bodyguard and the
:. .Inaked bodies hung from the trees.
% These incidents make a lenient polio
~ unpopular in Shanghai, where all Il
le victims had friends.