Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-09-21 | Page 2 | Used Silver Bullets

USED SILVER BULLETS Peking Legations Utilized Every Scrap of Metal During Siege Yokohama Sept 7th via Victoria B C Sept 20An account has Just reached here of the straits to which the Peking garrison was reduced from the lack of ammunition during the last days of tho siege l Every crap of metal no matter how valuable In Itself or In the form Into which It had been worked was utilized and It li said that the enemy was greatly situated when silver i bullets were rained upon them this I being an intimation of the failure off of-f r the garrison supply of ammunition Allies Suffer Severely Berlin Sept 20Tlw Lokal An elgers Shanghai correspondent cables I that the allies today captured the Pel Tang and Lu Tal forts with 1 great loase8 The surrender of the forts was do I manded at 2 oclock on Tuesday with the threat of Immediate attack by the Germans and Russians In the event of refusal I Forces Engaged in AttackS Attack-S Tien Tain Sept 19th via Shanghai Sept Copyright 1JOO by the Associated Asso-ciated Prcs8Two thousand six hundred hun-dred Germans left Tien Tsln today to Join a force forming In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Taku already coinpostU of 1000 Russians 1500 Germans and other foreign for-eign troops the Intention being to attack at-tack the Pel Tang forts tomorrow at daybreak I