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Show REIGN OF TERROR AT PEKIN. Father of tho llelr Apparent Is lit tho lleutl of Ihe ltoxcrg. The belief Is now general that tho American, British and other ministers to China, together with allthe foreigners foreign-ers under their protection at Pekin, have been captured or killed. The latest report, June 24th, left them half-starved, and making a last desperate resistance in the British concessions. The allied forces have been powerless power-less to go to their relief. Trince Tuan, father of the heir-apparent, heir-apparent, at the head of the Boxers and anti-foreign troops, is reported to be conducting a reign of terror. The heads of captured legation guards at last accounts were being carried on bamboo poles through the streets of Pekin, and the populace was being aroused into a frenzy. |