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Show More Murders by "Boxers." Pekin, Tuesday, May 29. From all parts of the surrounding country news is constantly arriving of fresh atrocities atroci-ties committed by the "Boxers." Three Christian families were massacred at Shan Lai Ying, sixty miles from Pekin, Friday, May 25. Only two escaped. A representative of the Associated Press visited Fang Tai this morning, and found the place occupied by a battalion bat-talion of troops. The whole, railroad station, workshops and locomotive sheds were gutted, and much rolling stock was destroyed, including the imperial, im-perial, palace car company. The Go-downs Go-downs (Chinese warehouses), full of valuable merchandise, -were burned, after having been looted by the rioters. The damage is estimated as half a million mil-lion taels. The neighboring villagers seem to have joined in the attack, showing that the movement is not confined to the "Boxers." Eight rioters who were captured cap-tured will be decapitated. Riding through the south gate of Pekin, the correspondent found the road inside the walls lined with trooDS, who greeted the traveler and his party with a fusillade fusil-lade of stones. The whole country is much excited. |