The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-05
Massacre of Foreigners in PeEzing, 1t Is Report
ed on Good Authority, Has Been
Fully Confirmed
Held Out Until Their Ammunition Was Ex-
hausted, When the British Legation
Was Burned and All Perished.

ed that Prince Tuar and Kang VI are
the supreme chiefs of the Ihochund, the
Chinese name for the Boxers
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Che
Foo, dated July l, says that Wei Hal Wei
has been placed under martial law and
that no passengers are allowed to land
there.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily
Telegraph. dated July 4, says the Tao
Tai has received news from Peking to
Wednesday last. Peking was then en-
tirely In the hands Of the Boxers, and
the situation of the foreigners was hope
less. The Manchu princes, ministers and
soldiers, the dispatch says, all belong to
the Boxers.
The allies captured the native city Of
Tien Tsin on June 30.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
Dispatches received at Brussels report
that the secretary of the Belgian lega-
tion had been killed by the Boxers.
Eugene Slesse, an engineer on the Pc
king -Hankow railway, telegraphs that he
arrived at Shanghai after sixteen days
perilous travelling through the disturbed
area,
EMPRESS GUARDED BY BOXERS.
LONDON, July 5.-The Times shang-
hai correspondent, telegraphirg under
date of July 3, 10 p. NJ, says:
The following information has been
communicated to me from a trustworthy
quarter. 1t was brought by special
courier, who left Peking June 27. He
states that $1,000 Boxers and Chinese
troops attacked the legations on that
day. They were repulsed with loss.
One gate of the inner palace only is open
daily for a few hours. The emperor and
empress dowager are there, surrounded
by their personal attendants, all Boxers.
The imperial princes have erected an al
tar in the palace, where Boxer rites are
performed.
The attack of the allied forces upon
the native city of Tien Tsin began at 3
a m. June 80, and the city was taken
struction of the city fort, from which
the foreign settlements is shelled.
BRISK FIGHTING IN CHINA:
LONDON, July 4, 1925 a. M, via Taku,
June 20, and Shanghai, July 3.-A recon-
noitering party under Lieut. Commander
Keys, of the torpedo boat Fame, cap
tCred and destroyed the port twelve miles
from Taku on June 28 There was little
or no opposition. Two blue jackets were
injured by an explosion and many Chi
nese were killed. The river is practi-
cally clear from Taku to Tien Tsin, with
the exception OF few sunken rowboats
ana lighters.
In the second attack on the East arsen-
al on June q. the Russians were re-
quired to retire for reinforcements. A
force of British, one company of Ger
mans and thirty Americans then engaged
the enemy who, with four guns, made a
determined resistance, until the whole al
lied force supported the artillery. The
allies advanced and stormed the west end
of the arsenal. Fifty Chinese We're kill
! ed and the remainder retired. Lack Of
cavalry prevented the capture of the
whole force.
AS soon as the allies had occupied the
arsenal 1,500 imperial troops made a
flank attack from the city. The British
and Russians soon drove them back
The British casualties number killed
and q wounded. The Americans had
only wounded, the Germans killed and
5 wounded, while the Russians lost II
killed and wounded.
RECEIVED WITH DESPAIR.
LONDON, July A special dispatch
from st. Petersburg says:
"Vice Admiral Alexiffs' official an
nouncement of impossibility of advanc-