BOXERS ALONE, The "Tribune " prints to-day, by permission, a letter written by Walter Ewen Townsend, one of the young student injterpreters in the British Legation in Peking, who passed through all the terrors of the siege of the foreign legations in that city and was severely wounded while fighting against the Boxers. The letter was written for the perusal of Mr. Townsend's family. It gives a vivid description of the horrors of war, including the death by slow starvation of many of the Chinese converts within the besieged area and the discomforts of the wretched diet, chiefly horseflesh, upon which the pent-up foreigners had to subsist. A pathetic feature of the narrative is the fact that the writer died from typhoid fever in Yokohama soon after the siege was raised. The hardships and wounds jhe suffered had undermined his constitution.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.