Show BESiEGED INPEKNG Riots in Chinese Capital Began Be-gan on June 13th AMERICAN CHURCH BURNED Russian Missionary Station Destroyed De-stroyed on that DateDirector of i the HussoChinese Bank in Peking Who is Supposed to Have Lost His Life in Massacre Wrote June 15th Describing tho Situation Then Crisis was Near at Hand Legations = I Lega-tions Were in Peril I Moscow July 2SNewa reaching Vladlvostock shows that Gen Germ grosss Manchurian railway guards arc In dally increasing danger At bay in their position between Jvelin and Har bin the little band is still awaiting Gen Tschitschagofts relief force Chinese are overflowing from Mongolia Into northern Manchuria in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Margin and Burdo Tsun In Mongolia a force of 15000 natives surrounded the Russian railway corps but a Cossack column attacked the tribesmen and after a fierce battle routed them killing 167 Dally skirmishes skir-mishes are reported between the restless rest-less tribesmen In Manchuria and the Russian railway guards M De Witte Russian Minister Finance has received from M Poka tllloff director of the RussoChlneso bank who Is supposed to have lost his life In the Peking massacre a message dated Peking June 15th The riots says M Pokatilloff egan e-gan June 13th when the mob first burned the American church and then I the Russian missionary station Our I situation perilous and a disastrous crisis Is near at hand We are besieged be-sieged and cut off from news from I home M De Giers has been requested by I the Chinese authorities countermand his appeal for Russian guards in Pe I king United States Minister Conger also has cabled for additional guards Mr Conger is active and brave doing his utmost in protection of foreigners LI Chan and Su Yuan of tho Tsung llYamen have called at the American legation and begged Mr Conger to pro vent International detachments from entering Peking but the Minister re fused to lend his influence to such a move and the other Ministers Joined him In this refusal The antiChristian societies are committing arson robbery and murder and all manner of atrocities Incendiaries Incen-diaries among them have destroyed 3000 European houses In tho Chinese quarter quar-ter besides twenty financial houses and numerous shops and warehouses The houses of friendly Chinese were pillaged pil-laged and burned and many Chinese servants of Europeans and native Christians were killed I I |