The evening times., 1900-10-22


Morrison, that newspapers correspondent
at the Chinese capital.
With the knowledge that general mas
sacre of foreigners was planned, Pekin
became more excited day by day, missions
consigned their buildings ta the custody
Of the Chinese authorities and military
men OF the legations held council OF
war. A report was received on June 10
that re-enforcements were coming. and
on the following morning most OF tbs Eu-
ropeans rode to Machiapu TO await the ar
rival OF the foreign troops.
They waited says the Times cor
respondent, but no troops came, and then
rode back past the jeering faces of hordes
CT Chinese soldiers.
Soldiers sent TO guard the summer
residences of the British Legation III the
Western Hills left their posts during the
night. The buildings had been officially
placed under the protection OF the lmpe-
rial Government In the prearranged alb
sence of the soldiers the buildings were
attacked by Boxers and entirely burned TO
the ground; the soldiers witnessed If they
did not assist in the burning.
japanese Secretary 1Iassucred.
But worse events We're TO happen that
day. In the afternoon news passed
through Pekin that Mr.. sugiyama, the
Chancellor of the Japanese Legation, had
been murdered by soldiers. He had been
sent by his minister a second time TO
Machiapu to await the arrival OF the
troops Passing Uaarmed and alone n his
cart beyond the YUngting Men, the outer
gate on the way TO the station, he was
seized by the soldiers OF Tung-fuh-siang,
dragged from his cart, and done to death
in the presence of q crowd OF Chinese who
wifi
terest and uncoQcsaled satisfaction.
The heart was cut out and, there is
every reason TO believe was sent as
trophy to the savage General Tung -tua-
slang himself. No attempt was ever
made to recover the body, and the fol-
lowing morning my servant, sent by me
TO enquire, found his mu,ilated body
roughly covered with earth at the place
where it had been murdered. One / 8
was exposed, and children, to the amuse
ment of their leaders, were poking at 1t
with sticks.
"A decree published after the murder
attributed the crime to the action OF
desperados outside the city whereas it
was notorious that the murder vas com
mitted by the soldiers of Tung- -fuh- Slang,
the favorite bodyguard Of the Empress
Dowager.
''On the 18th a deputation, consisting
of Chi Hsiu, a member Of the Grand
Council and newly appointed TO the
Yamen; Hsu Ching Cheng, the ex-Min-
lister; the Boxer leader Chao Cnuchiao,
and another MaRchu, called upon the
British Minister. Chi Hsiu made a long
address, his theme being the enduring
nature Of the friendship between China
and England and the duty which Ch ma
has always recognized as sacred OBJ
legation to protect the members Of the
legations who were her guests and the
strangers within her walls. Chi Hs:u
assured the minister that the movement
was at an end; that all was now tran
quill. and that there was no reason to
fear"
The very next day the Boxers made
an attack On the legations in force Thu
correspondent says:
Massacre of Christians.
"As darkness came on the most awful
cries were heard in the city, most de-
moniacaI and unforgettable, the cries OF
the Boxers, 'ShakweitzeI" (Kill the dew
ilsl- mingled with the shrieks of the vic
tins and the gToans Of the dying. For
Boxers were sweeping through the city
massacring the native Christians and
buring them alive in their homes.
Late in the night a large party of Box
ers bearing torches were seen moving
down Customs Street toward the Austrian
Legation The machine gun mounted was
in waiting for them They were allowed to
cone within $50 yards in the open street
near the great crossrOad, and then the or
der was given and the gun rained forth
death. II was a grateful sound The
torches disappeared
Eagerly We went forth TO count the
dead, expecting to find them in heaps But
there was not one dead. The gun had been
aimed very wide OF the mark. Two hun
ired yards north of the Boxers there is q
place thirty feet above the level road
hA oil NH Tr-ipa
station. Next morning they were found to
have been cut by the Austrian fire The
only persons who suffered injury were pos
sible wayfarers two miles up the street.
There can be little doubt that this fasco
helped to confirm the Boxers il a belief in
their invulneTability
ION the 18th rescue parties were sent
out by the American and Russian Lega-
tions in the morning, and by the British
and German Legations in the afternoon
TO save. if possible, native Christians
from the burning ruins around the Nan
tang. Awful sights We're witnessed Wo-
men and children hacked to pieces. men
trussed like fowls, with noses and ears
cut off and eyes gouged out. Chinese
Christians accompanied the re1iefs and
ran about in the labyrinth of streets that
formed the quarter, calling upon the
Christians to come out from their hiding
places.
All IAIOuSu the liSnt In6 massacre naQ
continued, and Boxers were even now shot
redhanded at their bloody work. But their
work was still incomplete, and many
hundreds of women and children had es-
capped They came out of their hiding
places crossing themselves and pleading
for mercy. 1t was most pitiful sight"
Concerning the attack of June Is the
Times correspondent writes:
During the attack the Americans fear
Ing attack from the ar he hae IL
of their legation, kept the street clear till
daybreak. During one of the volleys four
OF the Tsung-li- i-Yamen Ministers called
upon the American Minister They were
blandly assuring him that all was now
quiet, that there was no need for further
alarm. that great was the tenderness of
the throne for men from afar, when rat
tie of musketry was heard which rendered
them speechless with fear. They hurried
~ went away.
Assurances of the thrones tenderness
did not deceive us. Our bafricades were
everywhere strengthened and defences sys-
tematically planned. for rumor was quick
10 reach US that the relief forces had been
driven back to Tientsin, and this did not
add TO the security Of our position.
UItimatum to Ministers.
THE crisis was approaching On the
morning of June 10 Mr. C,rdes. the Chi
nese Secretary of the German Legation.
was at the Yamen, when the secretaries
told him that the allied fleets had taken
the Taku forts on June II. This was re-
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