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Show GERMAN EMBASSADOR KILLED. Ofllclully Announced That ho Was Hacked to l'ieces by Boxers. Ollicial dispatches received by the consular body at Shanghai, confirms in the fullest manner the report of the butchery of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, on June 18. The ambassador was riding in Legation street, when ho was attacked by Chinese Chi-nese troops and Boxers, dragged from his horse and killed. His body was hacked to pieces with swords. The German legation and six other buildings build-ings were burned, and a number of servants ser-vants of the legations killed and their bodies thrown into the flames. Official confirmation of this ghastly business has created the utmost consternation con-sternation among the consul generals of the powers, who expressed fears that war a l'outrancee will be declared against the Pekin government. The consuls entertain little hope that any foreigners are left alive in the capital. There were 100 foreigners connected with the legations, fifty in the custom house, English and American tourists and others to the number of 150, and nearly 500 legatiou guards. |