Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-08-31
GREAT JAPANESE VICTORY.
Over the Boxers Reported from
Teh Chou.
1900 CHINESE ARE KILLED.
FRINGE Tuan Among the Slain--All the
Chinese Driven Back Into Chi Lii
Hung Chang Tries to Get Message to
Dowager Empress--Keyolting Crimes.

Dowager Empress-Reyolting Crimes.
Shanghai, Aug. Silt is rumored
here that the Japanese gained a great
victory over the Boxers and Chinese
troops last Thursday at Teh Chou (D.
The story says that 1900 Chinese were
killed, including Prince Tuan, and that
all the Chinese were driven back into
Chi Lii.
1t is reported that Ii Hung Chang,
finding the allies obdurate, has sent to
the Dowager Empress memorial, to
be delivered wherever she is found,
asking her to appoint Prince Ching
Lung Yu, Prince Chang Chi Tung, and
Viceroy Nukwang joint peacemakers to
treat with the powers.
Twenty-Five Reformers ,Beheaded.
1t is reported from Hankow that
twenty-five reformers have been ex-
ecuted, their heads being exposed.
Belated dispatches and the stories of
refugees arriving at Chefoo continue to
describe the terrible conditions in
Pekin. One of the worst incidents is
the shocking dissertation of the foreign
cemetery outside the west wall The
details are too revolving to be de-
scribed. Hundreds of bodies of Chinese
are found in the streets Of Pekin, sup
posed to be those of traitors to the
cause of the Boxers.
The native population of the New
Chwang district is being treated with
the utmost severity. Eyewitnesses re-
port an indiscriminate slaughter of
non-combatants and the reduction OF
the country in the vicinity of Port Ar
thur to a state of utter desolation.
America Agrees to Cars Plans.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 31.-Russia
and the United States will Illustrate
the plans of the powers determined
to make war upon China. and the ne
gotiations now pending will in all
probability preserve the integrity of
the Chinese empire. Russia has sent
a joint note to all the nations inter-
ested in China, urging them to with
draw their troops from Pekin, and
that Ii Hung Chang be accepted as
the representative of China to conduct
peace negotiations.
The United States has accepted the
proposition, but the acceptance is
coupled with some Of the conditions
laid down in the presidents note to
the Chinese emperor-namely: That
the imperial government restore order
in Pekin and guarantee the protection
of treaty and international rights.
THE HORRORS OF TIENTsIN.
stone Walls Surrounded Inferno on Days
of Entrance.
San Francisco, Aug. 29.-The latest
papers by mail from the Orient give
accounts of the looting of Tientsin by
the allied soldiers. A telegram from
Tientsin to the Japan Mail dated July
II says:
Tientsin, July 1.-THE ancient stone
walls of the Chinese city of Tientsin
surrounded, on the days of its occupa-
ton by the allied troops, a square mile
of such filth, ruin and death, such tur-
MOL and pillage as history could hard
fy duplicate. Under normal conditions
the place was no better than a huge
cesspool, fostering with the accumulat-
ed rubbish and Stops from population
of nearly million, packed into lab
yrinth of novels, around the palaces
of viceroys and petty taotais, who alb
sorbed their wealth and gave them not
even sewers in return. Now it is the
incarnation of all the suffering, horrors
and waste of war.
The European soldiers, when they
fought their way up to the walls, saw
floating in the canals and bitches out
side dozens of Chinese slain by their
own people because they refused to
fight. The bodies were headless, and
their hands were tied behind their
backs. The heads were discovered aft
erward. Rows Of them decorated the
outer walls, hung by their pigtails.
Before the shooting in the streets
was finished thousands of Chinese had
emerged from their burrows, carrying
white flags or the flags Of foreign ma
tons, principally the Japanese.
The palaces, the mint the pawnshops,
the stores OF silk, furs and jewelry,
were the first objects of attack Near
the middle of the city was the most
prosperous pawnshop, an institution
that had probably existed for centu-
ries. Wealthy Chinese were accustom-
ed to store their winter clothing there
tor safekeeping. When the doors were
battered down the mob flowed in like
q tidal wave. There were British Of
fcers, naval and military, soldiers and
sailors, with good sprinkling of Sikhs,
but principally Chinese. In a twin
king all was pandemonium.
The looting fiourished for three days.
On the first day it was entirely unre-
strained Many white people accumu-
lated stacks of goods by simply stand
ing at the city gates and holding up the
best laden Chinese from the endless
procession that flowed out. Pack
horses, carts, rickshaws, coolies, loaded
with trunks and sacks and piled with