Show HEROIC DEFENSE OF PEKIN DEFENSES OF LEGATIONS WERE WONDERFUL I t every scrap of metal converted into aw ass dimani ion worth of fink lied la in making breastworks since the entrance into pekin r areat reat interest has been in ila the iero c defense made by the legations actions the relief force forces were surprised upon inspecting the detente defenses at their com eness the barricades are after ri the most wonderful tight fight in pekin ahe barriers hedging the british leg lega jon son are a marvel of stone and I 1 rick nails and earth earthwork works sandbags shield every foot of 0 trace race the tops t f the walls have niche niches for the rifle men and the buildings at their por tico and windo vs va have at mor boxe boxes lia all exulted with dirt and find pillows too back of the united states legation Is nork named fort mye myers rs which the marines held completely screening oth iid sides ol 01 the th walls 11 with tepa leading lt ling to it there Is I 1 a loophole in this I 1 ardler ai rifi across the trail walls which face faces A similar chinese walk a lew few yard yards away another vail wall bar bars legation street la in german legation legations bud confronting the enemy bitin i a barri barricade cad es within thus limit limits are yet more walls en enabling a blang the foreigners to loson contract tract the area of defense if pressed aba to top p a of the american and britis Ix buildings build ints vere badly torn by the chloese shells hell 1 I 1 ie le moat most of the foreign hells shells fell during ills birst week meeks of the bom bar dment nt 00 a day bucketsful of bullets were gathered g id to the ground grounds four hundred and fourteen person persons if tied ed it in ta tie 0 compound through the greater pat pait t a of I 1 the biege biego three hup hur dred and tour four marine marines MS ass sted by a aty five volunteers volunteer coni minded by the english captain boole defended the place eleven civilians civili ins we were ro k lied a and nd nineteen wounded fifty four marines and iverc were killed and ili wounded alb gilb rt E areld a bo ho was wounded inice foo loo wae the only ottly Ameti cau civilian civil Tan fan injured two foreign nomen wounded itie the imprisoned leat ioner lookeb obed 1 n to piny ot of invalids every part of the eu ei a stifled to their air experiences epe nence tl TI e e wa was a p w deaves taves headed with wooden crosses crosse Int including ludino the pi gi aces aves of five children at the second secie a house wa was the hospital tilled with invalid invalids at one time all but four man of the japanese contingent had been in the hosp tal wounded I 1 here wet e several cave rooted roofed with timbers h heaped over with ith earth which arved as bomb the bal bulletin letin board was covered with 8 6 no ices lees for instance ini tance As A there is likel likely to be a revere severe draping dr fire today women and children tire forbidden to walk about the grounds here is another owing to the small supply of vege tables and eggs egas the market will be open only frog from 9 to 10 hereafter all horse meat inspected by a physician fhe the bi bravery avery of the wo nen den was note worthy they bee became tine go to the fire that it la is difficult to restrain them from walking about the grounds at all t me meg A hen lien a proposal was made to ped tion the leung li it yamen for vegetables vege table tome some said they would rather starve than take help aiom that quarter the yamen a food SU supply aply was a farce e only tuff sull c ent eat for one day when meat was asked for the reply was that this could not be furnished because a date state of war existed in I 1 ekin ahe asung li it camen 1 amen posted a procla mation asking the people to kill all foreigners as the latter had bad made war on china in attacking the fort forts at taku the legations were fiercely attacked from july to july A at t the latter date a nominal truce wa waa agreed to and extended to august 3rd ard al ell though the chinese repeatedly violated 11 it there was considerable rifle fire are from august 3rd to august lith and then the chinese mounted smooth bore bores the mainstay of the foreigner foreigners was an old gun used by the british in 1860 which wa was found in a junk hop ahoy by mitchell Mi the american gunner thi this waa was mounted on a russian carriage found by an italian ammunition wax was fitted to it and it was w brIst ened the international qua gun |