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Show DRVILTriV OP CHINESE. IiatltClitlMlan Mom.n lslrae.l. Child. rsa llralurd, suil Itmnj Mtllun Itos.Ud I Heath. An ofllclal telegram recelted al Shanghai from the goecrnor of Bliss Tung lrarea no doubt that all for elgnera In I'eklnharo been annihilated, after making a mostdetperat fight. It Is said that maddened with hunger, after baring been without food fot many days, tbe members ot tha legation lega-tion and tho guards made a sortie on the night of June 30th and killed S04 Chinese In an unexpected attack. General Gen-eral Tung Fuh Hlang, enraged orer Hit lot of to many men, broughtuplieary gun, and l'rlncr Tuan gars the order that erery foreigner must beOrttroyed. Ill words were. "Destroy erery foreign for-eign restlge and make China a sealed book to all western powers" Prince Tuan had pretloiulr dlscor. ered that l'rlnce Chlng wn supplying the foreigners with ammunition, lie therefore ordered (lencral Tung Full Hlang to bear on l'rluce Chlng'a troopt, and It 1 reported that Chlng wss killed or aererely wounded. Ill tho Host attempt to cut their way through, the legatlonera formed a tqtiar, the women and children In tha HMPKIlOIl OP CHINA. center. When the lloxera realUed that they were being attackvd they became like wild beasts and shot each other with rerolrer. lleary gnu bombarded bom-barded all plght, until the building were demolished and In llnmea. Many foreigners were roasted In the flsmcu. The lloxer rushed upon them and hacked aud stabbed both dead and wounded, cutting off their heads and carrying them through the streets on their rifles. They then attacked tha nstlre christian quarters, massacred all who refused to Join them, outraged the women and brained the children. Hundreds of mission building were burned. The London Timet puhlltbe a letter from its I'ckln correspondent, dated Juno 10, which contains an assertion, msslo 09 seemingly good authority, that the Kniprrs Dowager haa decided de-cided that erery foreigner was to be massacred that night. It also publishes pub-lishes tbe last message from its cor- U 1IUN0 CHANG. respondent, dated June II, when the lloxera bud made two attempts to rush the foreign quarters I Canton dispatches aay that LI Hung Chang had bceu planning to start for the north on July 18, but ha Is much debilitated. ITo ordered the leader of the "Ulack I'lag" to march with 10,000 men orcrland to IVkln against the lloxera. It la reported from Shanghai that the allied fleet are concentrating of! Hhan Hal Kwan and hare been ordered to shell and capture the forts. The Toklo Telegram announce that 10,000 Japanese troopt are now em barking. |