Show r SAND BAGS OF SilK I Used by Legations in Erecting Erect-ing Defenses in Peking SIEGE AND FALL OF CITY Graphic Account of the Attack Made on the Foreigners in the Compound at the Chinese Capital Story Told by Ono Who Wont Through tho Long Siege Women Showed Themselves Them-selves asCourageous as Men Pnrt of Time People Live on Horseflesh Music of Relieving Guns Ne York Ol 5 The New York Times has received a communication from the Rov Dr William Alexander Parsons Martin tho aged president of the new Imperial unlversily of China rebiUng the tQry of the siege and fall of Poking af he saw It It ID dated In Peking August 23rd Dr Martin first went to China Us a Presbyterian missionary mis-sionary t lo ys Po half a century ago and Is widely I known as the author of many books dealing with China Tils communication In purl Is rxs follows The rescue was the work of Christendom Christen-dom aided by Japan which deserves TO he admitted Into that honored brotherhood The British troops were the first to enter coming in by the water gate under a portion of the wall held by our legation guard CHURCHES AND MISSIONS FfJTlN The first visible sign of our great danger was the burning of churches missions and legations In exposeJ places The enemy even set lire to Chinese shops filled with foreign goods jiart from hatred to foreign products but cliiefly In the hope that the flames driven by a south wind might reaoh the foreign quarter A tower of tho great front gate was consumed on that I occasion On the day ufter our flight I I they 5 = et fire to two Imperial buildings adjoining the British legation believing believ-ing that the names would overlap tho I wall and so they would have clone had not our people repelled them by tearing I I tear-ing down outlying structures and by pouring on floods of wafer How frightened we were to hear the lire alarm when It meant a bloodthirsty enemy at the door So imminent was Diir peril that even women and children chil-dren passed buckets from hand to hand 1IOUEN ACADEMY DlSSTltOTRt Ono of the imperial buildings thus destroyed was a grand coach stand for the palace And this Was the Houlen academy the focus of learning and aumml of the Whole literary system Its priceless Mbrary largely In manuscripts manu-scripts was reduced to ashes or tro > l l hen under foot Nothing shows the bitterness or the determination to destroy de-stroy like the sacrifice of such a monument monu-ment At short Intervals every night and often of-ten through the day we were subject to a fusillade from many thousand rides the soldiers taking no aim but I Iriug upward In expectation of some shots falling on our heads Needless to say few took effect The same Is I 1 true of the bombardment In which hundreds of shells burst In midair Still In sorties and In conflicts at critical criti-cal points our losses were very heavy WOMEN AH 13 BRAVF I X LcUlb1ci1vnutt tir I13 t i sirc < unger night and day but the women wo-men were equally on the alert and I equally brave They made sand bags In great numbers over I 10000 using curtains of sllk and satn as vell as other costly materials The sand bags I were used to strengthen our defenses many of them serving for parapets on housetops where guards were stationed The cheerfulness oC our lading did much to encourage the men All knew that the enemy Would give no quarUr ihd that women falling Into their hands would suffer a fate worse than death Yoilng women requested their frlendji to shoot them and a mother oC sixresolved I to shoot her children and then j to kill herself During an attack at-tack one womaii broke down and wnt Into hysterics and one mora went mad These wore solitary Instances of weakness weak-ness In general calmness and even hi la city prevailed LIVED ON HORSE MAr Our provisions were running low when our troops approached Horses and mules had been eaten rind dog meat was threatened Each nlwht the attack grow In fcroclt We feared the enemy would escalade our walls burst in some weak point or spring amine a-mine and blow us In the air On Mon day the IPlh of August a soldier J waked us up to listen to the nmch < no guns of our deliverers No music could he so charming Women fell on each others nucks and wept for Joy Yet our filentlsliad to Walt for daylight 16 force the gates This they did early In the forenoon almost without opposition opposi-tion The Chinese had been cowed by frequent defeats and now thought of nothing but flight The Emncss Dowager and court fled the same day Intending to set up a new capital at some Inaccessible spot in the far west On Sunday was held a thanksgiving service conducted by an English chap lain in the open air assisted by l Dr Arthur Smith CARED FOR BY CONGER S Through these trying days I Was kindly cared for by the United Stales Minister and his excellent wife To them next after God my thanks are due I also lake occasion to thank Mr Squltss the secretary of the legation le-gation and his worthy wife for their hospitality Mr Squires was promi nent as chief of ntalT devising plans and leading charges To him Is chiefly due the holding of he I city wall with out winch not one of the legations would have been tenable The Chinese Government Is Incap ablo of reconstruction and it Is I prob nblc that a partition will bo arrangid between the great powers AV > A p MARTIN 1 P SThe new Imperial university of which 1 have the honor to be presi dent Is occupied us a barracks by Kus filan troops It Is likely to share the fate Of the Manchu dynasty |