Show SlAIN AT A fEAST 1 I I f I Two Thousand Boxers Massacred Mas-sacred at Tsang Chow i WERE GUESTS OFTHETAOTAI f I < 1 Invited by Chinese Ofllclal to Partake of Food Whllo tho Rebels Were Eatfng and Their Weapons Stacked EatnS cked Imperial Troops by Orders oC tho I Tao Tni Fell Upon the Banqueters and Slaughtered All of ThemFair Sample of the Treachery of tho Yellow Yel-low Hen I I 1 Taku tug 2S via Shanghai Aug CO Copyright 1900 by the Associated PresBAn Intercepted letter written by the Viceroy at Pao Ting Fu who commanded at Then Tsln during the fighting there complains that the Box r are overrunning the country south west of Tien Tain particularly the cities on the Grand canal despising the officials who at first countenanced them and looting and cling the enemies oC their organization and fighting the Imperial troops The gates I of Pao Ting Fu are kept closed and the people inside arc suffering time l I Boxers practically besieging tho place I The Viceroy reports that the Tao Tat of the city of Tsang Chow on the canal Invited 2000 Boxers t a feast and that while the Boxers were eating und their weapons were stacked the I Imperial soldiers by his orders teL upon them amid slaughtered all of them There Is much recrimination between tho foreigners besieged In Peking and the members of the icllevlng force Officers say that the besieged sent out alarmist reports and that the condition of the foreigners was never one of such extremities as the official dispatches represented Theforeigners they as sert cbuld have resisted indefinitely The besieged accuse the General of timidity und of exaggerating the Chinese opposition They think a j much smaller army might have made I the mark and relieved them months sooner lelooung at Peking proceeds in I dustriously und openly The officers of every nation except the Americans I Ignore the repressive order and all the allies ridicule the Americans for their I abstention I I 1 Missionary Green of tho China In land mission his sister wife and their I two children who were for some time I held as prisoners by the Boxers at II Using Han Slcn near Pao Ting Fu were well treated A company of I Chinese Catholics have held a town near Pao Ting Fu for three months against the Boxers and Imperial troops The officials have offered large sums I for their capture I |