Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-05-04

fcia1 papers himself. to prevent their
falling into the hands of the Chinese.
simultaneously with this attack came
a tremendous fusilade from all sides,
which lasted forty-five minutes, by far
the longest we had had yet. The Su
Wang Flu was the scene Of the hottest
firing, and for q time 1t was thought 1t
would have to be given up. At the
same time q body OF Chinese number
ing about 200 charged down the wall
street and got past tho German lega-
ton without being stopped. When they
got to the bridge one OF the United
States marines was just coming down
from the wall and saw them as they
were coming up over h bridge. He
gave the alarm to four men stationed
in .he barricade I'm the street. who fired
about half q dozen. volleys on them.
killing thirty of them The Chinese
then turned and fed; on the way back
the fired on them, driving
them into the club tennis courts, where
they killed eighteen more. The officer
In charge OF the Chinese was shot by
T.. Won Strauch. captain customs vol
unteers. In the fray two Germans
were seriously wounded and w
slightly 80. The Chinese kept up a des-
ultory firing all night.
July IA. A large supply OF wheat was
brought over to the British legation
from a grain store near the south
bridge and distributed In several store
rooms throughout the compound. This
was done as there had been some burn
ing near Their and II was feared II
would be destroyed. A messenger sent
out by Mr.. Tewksbury on the 10th In
slant returned, bringing a message
supposed TO have been written by
Prince Ching. 1t was o known to
be an invitation to leave the legations
and go to the sung-li-yamen for pro-
lection, though the full translation
was not put upon the bulletin board
III the next day.
July Is. Bulletin posted at 1 p. m.
"a messenger sent out on July 10 by
Mr.. Tewksbury with a letter for the
troops returned yesterday. He Is the
gatekeeper at the Nan Wang (south
catbedraD and a Roman Catholic. He
says he was arrested outside the Ha Ia
Man and taken to the Wofursu (tem-
ple?), his letter taken from him and
himself beaten with eighty blows. He
was then taken to Jung LUIS headquar-
ters In the imperial city. Here he
found a man named Yu who formerly
knew him as gatekeeper. He was there
| given a letter purporting to be written
by Prince Ching and others, addressed
10 the fOIlllSn lilIoNN III WIN ~"
men would wait at the water gate to
night for an answer. A translation OF
the letter Is annexed: For the last
ten days the soldiers and militia have
been fighting, and there has been no
communication between us, to our
great anxiety. Some time & we hung
up a board referring TO June 25), ex-
pressing our intentions, but no answer
| has been received, and contrary to ex-
pectations, the foreign soldiers made
renewed attacks, causing alarm and
suspicion among people and soldiers.
Yesterday the troops captured a con-
vert named Chin Su Hal, and learned
from him that the foreign ministers
were all well, which caused US great
satisfaction. But II Is the unexpected
that h~appens-the reinforcements OF
foreign troops were ever so long ago
stopped and turned back by the Box
ers. and II In accordance with the
previous agreement we were to guard
your excellencies out OF the city, there
are 30 many Boxers on the Tien-Tsin-
Taku road that we should be very ap-
prehensive OF misadventure.
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