Show DEVASTATION DEV AST rION STILL GREAT Coolies es Are Wantonly Killed By Soldiers r respondents of the Associated AB ted Press Pr 8 Tung Chow clow Aug 30 It is eighty rr m by river from Tien Tsin Tate to this f r and now DOW two weeks after the thea 8 a i j forces marched through the then theof En n of f war and devastation are more B i arent than they were at first fir t Posts h IL tv been heen stationed at intervals of a ar r tv f v miles and the troops have com corn 1 l 1 Ted the work of or desolation de and ruin The Th he villages that were only partially bred ned are now destroyed es as thy were found to be hiding places 1 r snip rs who ho attacked single tray trav rs r and occasional small parties The i ne American and English troops axe are daily supplied with chickens and eggs ty ly the Chinese who sell the chickens at ata n a folar a dozen and eggs for 1 a hun bun Ti The fhe e Chinese avoid the Russian camps as In the are even now tolling killing them most brutal and cold blooded V irrespective There of age or sex relief is hardly a man in the Chinese tr w to t f tell teU eXpedition of who has baa not a story stor he has Russian barbarity of which the thA been an eye witness Some of or ofin in stories lefa are re so excruciatingly revolt lag f that it t Is difficult t to believe them thew It Is i PO ble to far go on 01 o the ri river r WIthout floating bodies passing your lour lourI I r boats not the bodies of Boxers killed in I n action atlon but those of coolies killed for no other purposes that to satiate the bloodthirstiness and cruelty of some soldiers At this place which is the river r port for Pekin two coolies who had been towing a Russian boat laid down to rest at the completion of their task They were seized by bj four Russian sol aol diers diem thrown into the water and while swimming were used as targets and shot to death The Japanese J anese feed and treat trent their coolies well but do not pay them The Americans and English pay their la Ia borers SO 30 cents a day Mexican and furnish rations of rice vegetables be ing obtainable free all along the river banks No complaints have been heard of the Germans treatment of their coolies but the French beat theirs unmercifully and kick them on the slightest provocation There are few Chinese in this part of China who will not agree with the late General Sheri Shera mans famous remark that war is hell China is today paying dearly for her h r sins and her folly The doss dogs do s and hogs along the river banks are a e living oft off human flesh Along the roads and rivers horrible sights are witnessed and the stench of putrid flesh is fearful None are burled buried and there are no vultures yul tur s such as are found in most Oriental countries The dogs I and hogs are the only scavengers sea |