Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-05-11

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give close and strict protection. and
you should temporarily reside In the
tsung-li-yamen pending future ar
engagements for your return home in
order to preserve friendly relations in
tact from beginning to end. But at the
lime of leaving the legations there
u on no account whatever be a sin
gle armed foreign soldier, In order to
prevent doubt and fear on the part OF
the troops and people, leading to un-
toward incidents.
IF your excellency is willing to show
this confidence we beg you to
lcate with all the foreign ministers In
Peking, tomorrow at noon being the
limit of time. and TO let the original
messenger deliver % reply, In order
that We may settle in advance the day
for leaving the legations. This Is the
single way of preserving relations that
we have been able to devise in the face
Of innumerable difficulties. IL no reply
Is received by the hour fixed, even our
Prince Ching and Others.
Sixth moon 18th day July 13,
i9oO).'
"A reply has beer sent today, de-
Ginning on the part of the foreign rep
resentatives the invitation to proceed
to the tsung-li-yamen, and pointing
out that no attacks have been made by
car troops, who are only defending the
lives and property of foreigners
against the attacks of Chinese govern
ment troops. The reply concludes with
4 statement that II the Chinese gov
wishes to negotiate they
should send a responsible official with
q white flag.
Claude NJ. Macdonald"
This message is thought by everyone
to be a rank fraud. 1t is supposed to
come, not from Prince Ching, III from
the 1aadar pf tho LSonci trnonc aud 10
probably intended to lure some of the
foreigners outside the legation n
hen to shoot them.
p. m. Twenty Russians and four
Americans made an attack on a house
to the west of the Russian legation.
where there were about sixty Chinese
snipers. On arriving at the wall they
found there was no way to get into the
yard. S each man took a brick and
at a given signal heaved them all to-
Eether into the yard, shouting and re-
Wiling at the Cinnamon. Alarmed by
his they fled and the men took the
'Nuilding without a shot being fired on
lther side. At this time the Chinese
at other points started up a brisk fire,
lasting about ten minutes.
July l6. Z a. m. While on a tour Of
inspection In the Su Wang Flu, In COM
pan. with DR.. Morrison and Colonel
Shiba, Captain b.. NJ. Strouts, r. NJ.
H. l., "dS SIiOl anu HlOIldlly WOulueu
Wy a sniper. DR.. Morrison was shot
In the leg. though not seriously. Cap
tain Strouts died at IL a. m. and was
buried at 6 p. m. One Of the United
States marines, Private Fisher, was
killed the same day. 1t Is indeed a
pitlable plight that we are In now.
Neither the Americans nor the British
have any leader. Captain Meyers Is
disabled by the spear wound he re-
ceived In the sortie Of July 8. Captain
Strouts is dead; Captain Halliday, the
only other able British captain, Is
crippled by a wound received three
weeks ago. Sir Claude Macdonald,
though he assumes charge. Is no man
for the situation, and the French and
Germans deny his authority.
p. m. The messenger sent yester-
day returned with -four others, who
waited for him at the bridge. He
brought a letter from Jung Lu to Sir
Claude Macdonald, and a telegram
from Washington to Major Conge-.
The letter to Sir Claude contained
nothing of any Importance. The tele-
gram Mr.. Conger recognized as being
In the state department cipher, but
could not determine it's meaning, as
1t had evidently been tempered with In
that the full original telegram be sent
July IL. The messenger returned
again, bringing a telegram from WI
AH6 eAA6 NAS llN lIllIiINltI IL
Washington, inclosing one from the
eecretary Of state. This read: Com
municate tidings to bearer" To this
the minister sent in reply: "One
month In the British legation under
shot and shell. Will be massacred un-
less help comes SOON" n of Jung
LUIS soldiers in the morning came and
gave himself up at the German lega-
ton and asked for some medicine for
a wound in the ear He said that Jung
Lu had ordered the soldiers to stop
firing, but to hold their positions, and
mat he was very deslrous that the
foreigners should be protected. Not a
shot has been fired since early morn
ing. This Is probably due to a fear
hat the foreign troops are near and the
government wishes to protect itself by
saying they were unable to control the
EoXerS and the Kansu soldiers. Sew
eral other Chinese soldiers gave them
selves up as prisoners at the different
legations, though with what purpose
no one can say.
July 49,. rs Jung Lu had expressed
a willingness to assist the foreigners a
messenger was sent to him requesting
that supplies Of fresh vegetables, eggs,
meat, etc., might be sent to the Legal
lion for the ladies and children. This
vas promised and watermelon and
peaches have already been sent to the
JdpdHeSt III TIC ou wang fu ana 10
the Americans on the wall. The SOL
:. diers on the wall go on to each others
barriers and chat in the most friendly
manner. There are Great numbers Of
Boxers in the city, especially in the
south city, but h troops are no long
-er in league with these.
A messenger sent out by the Japan
csc minister on the Both ult. returned
today from Tien Tsin, bringing word
that a mixed force of 33, 300 would start
from there for the relief of Picking on
or about the 10th inst. The force is to
consist Of 1900 japanese, 1000 Rus
slams, 1000 British, 1900 Americans,
1900 French and 300 Germans. He re-
ports that he left by the Chi Hua Men
least gate) on June so, proceeding to
Tien Tsin by boat. He arrived at Tien
Tsin on July 8, but was unable to en-
ter the city, as 1t was surrounded by
Chinese troops. He walked around the
city gates and found a force of Chi
nese, under General Chang, posted
north of the railway station, cannon
aiding a force of Japanese holding the
ground south of the station. On July
8 General Chang was defeated and he
1.-THE messenger) managed to get
through the Japanese line on July IL
and delivered the Japanese minister's
letter to the Japanese consul. While
in Tien Tsin he CLEANED the following
news: That General Mich was dead,
that all the Missionaries In Tien Tsin
and outlying stations had left for home
and that the Taku forts were taken
without difficulty by the foreigners on
June II. On July Ia the foreign troops
took the native city of Tien Tsin, after
O. two days attack. On July Is the
messenger left Tien Tsin for Picking,
being escorted by the Japanese to the
second bridge" He returned, to Pc
king by road. Among other things he
mentioned that the Tungchow tao-tai
had been lodged in the board of pun
ishments and that prior to his own ar
rival in Tien Tsin. No news of Picking
had reached that place since O the
end of June.
We look for the troops about the 30th