Early on the morning of the 4th inst. the Boxers and roughs began to gather down town, and at 7.15 2 Chinese servant of [Mr. Edgar rushed to the second (West) barricade exclaiming that the Boxers were coming in force over the barrier near Butterfield and Swire's office. Mr. Lister promptly gave the alarm to the sailors pleasure in many instances to disprove. j at the Russian Consulate, and was back on the Bund within 10 minutes, The barrier on the Bund near Mr. Edgar's former bowling alley hud been lof unguarded since the Russians relieved our volunteers, and towards this the Boxers hurried alan, the river bank, waving their fags and brandishing the swords with which alone they were armed. Most providentially some of eir volunteers were strolling on the Bund and standing on Mr. Decker's verandah, and without hesitation they seized their arms and like the three Romans in Macaulay's lays of ancient Rome "went forth to guard the narrow way."
ATTACK AND RETREAT, Messrs, Griffiths, Halberg, and Emerson were the first "dauntless three," promptly followed by Hunt and Wright. The Boxers stopped for a minute to perform their incantations, three shote were fired over their herds, and they charged. Their leader, springing on the barricade, seized Mr, Halberg's gun, and was promptly disarmed and captured. Shots were fired into the crowd, and as their leadera fil, the others after & glance at the corpses turned and fled just as volunteers and Russian sailors, rushing to the spot, fired after them, as did a Japanese officer in the bow of the nearest gunboat, who snatched a rifle from a sailor,
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