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Show I HEROIC DEFENSE OF PEKIN defenses of leoationowenb Wonderful. Crrryl.rr.pof llri.l f.rrfl.,1 .i. Ar binianllloa-aj.o.noo Woitl, Nllk I'aadla Making llrraal worka. Since the entranee Into l'ekln grea, Inlereat ha. been maulfett In lha heroic defento made by the legation. Tlie relief force, were aurprlaed UKii In.pcctlng tho defente. at their coin, plelenfta. lha barricade are, after all. thvmott wonderful eight In l'ekln. The b.rrler. hedging the llrltlth iega. Hon are a marvel of .lone .nd brick walla and earthwork. Handbag thleld every foot.if ,p. ih. top of Hie wall have ulchet for the riflemen rifle-men aud the building, at their por-tleo. por-tleo. and window, have armor boiea. b.g. .luffed with dirt and pillow., loo. Hack of the United HI. lea legation I. a work named "Fort Myer.," which the marine held, completely acrrcnlog both .Idea of the wall., with .t,p, le.dlng to It, There I. a loophole In the barrier aerot th wall which face. a tlmltar Chine. e work a few yard, way. Another wall bar. Legation treel In froutof Ilia Herman legation., and confronting the enemy' barricade within thote limit, areyel moro wall, enabling th. foreigner, tocuutr.ct tin area of dofenta If preaird. The tope of the American and llrltlalt building, were badly torn by the Chluete shell. Tlie most of the forelim .hell fell due. Ingtho llrt three, week, of tlie bombardment, bom-bardment, loo a day HtichoLful of bullet, were gnlh.red In Iho grounda. Four hundred aud fourteen pcr.oni lived In the coiiiitiud through the greater part of the .lege 'Ihreo hul . dred and four marlnca, atklatcd by Ixtyllve volunteer, commauded by .the Hugllah Capt.n I'oole. defrtlded the place. Kloven.' civilian, were killed and nineteen wounded. Fifty, four marine and .allor. were killed and 113 wounded. Hubert II If.1,1 who wa. wounded In the fool, waa th ouiy American civilian Injured. Two foreign women were wounded. Tho Imprlaoncd legallourra looked like a company of luvnlld. Kvery part of the enclottire teulfled lo their experlciwe. There wa a plot uf new grave, headed with wooden croatei Including the grave of live children. At tho "i-ond iccretarr'a houe wa the ho.pll.1 UHed with Invalid. At one Hmo all but four meu of the Japaneed contingent had been Inlhe huatiltal, wounde.1. There wtjra avnrnlcavr roofed with timber. h.vl wrwltlt aarth.wl.loh. erved a. boiiibSproofg' "" ' '"'a1 laai The bulletin board we covered wllh .IgnlHcaut nullce. For lualancc: . ' "A there I likely to ba a aevfra, droplng flretoilay, woitVeu andchllJreu aro forbidden to walk about tho ground.'' Here J another! "Owlug to tho aiotll aupply of TeR0. table ami egg, the market will ba open only from 0 to 10 herc.ifter. All horaa meat Inapected by n phyalclan." The bravery of tin women waa Dole, worthy. They beiatno ai acctialomel to the lira that It l.dlfllcull to reetralu them from walklug about tho ground ' at all time. When a propoaal una made lo petl. Hon thoTauiig-ll-Vamcn for vegetable tome tald they woild rallied atarve than take help from that quarter. Tha Yamen'a food aupply wit a farce, only aufllclcnt for oneday. When meat waa a.ked for, the reply waa that thla could not bo furnlkhed, becau.e a atata of war cxlated lu l'ekln. Tha T.ung-ll- Yamen potted a proclamation procla-mation nalilng the people to kill all foreigner., a. tha Utter had made war on China In attuiltlng lha fort, at Taku. Tho legation, wete fiercely attacked from July 17th to July SJth. Al the latter data a nomintt truca waa agreed to an txtended to Augu.t 3rd, al though the Chlneni repeatedly violated It. Ihcro waa considerable rifle fire from Augu.t 3rd to Aitgutl 11th, and then tho Chlneto mounted .mouth, borra. Thu malu.t.y of the forclguera wa. an old gun n.ed by the Ilrltlah In 1600, which nn found In a Junk .hop by Mitchell, thu American gunner. ThI wa mounted on a llua.Un carriage car-riage found by an Italian. Ammunition Ammuni-tion wa. filled to it and It wa chrl.tcncd the "International duo," |
