received from the North is that just before leaving Peking, at the instigation of Prince Tuan, he ordered the execution of some dozen or thirteen members of the Imperial Clan, the reason given being that these Imperial clansmen having declined to leave with the Court were in secret communication with the Foreign troops and therefore traitors. It is also stated that when tke second attack upon the British Legation was made, just before the arrival of the Allied forces at Peking, the British troops in the Legation used silver bullets on the Boxers and Tung Fu-hsiang which greatly encouraged the latter, it being inferred from this that the Foreigners were out of ammunition.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.