These horrors have not been a matter of the past few days only. They have been in of the terrible anxiety which prevailed here as to the fate of the Legations.
If Sheng has been endeavouring to retrieve his position in this fashion, it is regarded here as merely an additional outrage upon Euro-
"The British consul general, Mr. Pelham Srders for the attack on the Legations, aid it} 5.—Dai progress ever since Prince Juan first gave pean feeling.
Warren, has to-day officially con- is clear now that the Chinese officials here! July 11, press, London, Wednesday, firmed " the statement. already exiled have been cognisant for some time of what) Telegram despatched from Suanghai on or to you that the British Legation at} has been happening. Isolated cases of out- about Tuesday July 10.
Peking was being bombarded by Gen. Tung; rage and mutilation took place as tar buck as In reply to your cable, I have nothing to guns, on June 30, Mr. Warren also author:- Pachstang's troops and Boxers, with Krupp June 14, when the Empress Dowager was add to my message regarding Sheng's commufirse shut up in the palace by Tuan's orders, nication to Mr. Warren, ses the statement, which is being cabled to; and the Emperor was given the choice of Sheng is speaking the truth when he the British Foreign Office, that despite the suicide or assassination. tes that the: left Chinanfa on July strenuous denials put forth' by Yuan Shi-ksi, According to trustworthy information, ie his news cannot relate to a later period governor of Shantung, and Sheng Taotai, was on the nigh' of the 16t!: ur the mornin: than the morning of June 29, and probably both these officials were fully cognisant on of the 17th that the Emperor committed ssu not Inter than June 2? or 28. The distance July 3 of what had taken place on the of Juze 30 and the morning of July 1. This Prirce' Tuan, shrinking from death by tha available route itis over 300 miles." night cide by opium yoiscning in th: presence 240 miles as the crow flies, and by the only 210 ie information conclusively demonstrates the sword, which was offered him as the only Imperial couriers on special service are absolute falsity of Sheng's statement to the effect that the telegraph line had broken down and stopped all communication with the capi-A Chinese merchant of standing who arrived here on Tuesday from Peking has given me many terrible details of the scenes he witnessed in Peking during the recent massacres. He states that he saw European women hauled out into the street by shrieking mobs of Boxers, and there stripped and hacked to pieces and their dissevered limbs tossed among the crowd and carried off with howls of triumph. Some of the women were already dead, having been shot by the foreign civi-lions. He saw Chinese soldiers carrying the bodies of white children borne aloft en spearheads and shot at by their comrades until their white skin was dyed red with their own blood. details which are too horrible for publica-{We suppress some of our correspondent's tion.—Ed., Express,"
He also' reports that around Peking were 300,000 Chinese troops and Boxers, armed with the best and most modern weapons. death against all foreigners. "The merchant They were everywhere declaring war to the
was informed that the Boxer leaders had organized plans for massacring foreigners in all the treaty ports as well as the interior. Every European is to be slain and a hea reward lis promised for each white he: brought in. Rich loot is promised to all and special stress is laid by Tuan's generals on the opportunity the troops will have of seizing the bodies of white women. My informant: receives the full credence of Europeans here, a man of position and repute and his story to whom he is well known.
The following are the further particulars delivered pursuant to the order of the Acting Chief Justice herein dated the 22nd day of telegrams hereinafter set out, contain the substance of telegram dispatched by the plaintiff on or about the dates to the said telegrams respectively attached, which telegrams were published in the issues of the on wily Kspress respectively as hereinafter set 6, i900. 7 1L—Daily Express, London, Friday, July
about Thursday night, and. in pst set out Telegram dispatched from Shanghai on or
2B, together with the following telegram ako in particulars already' furnished _paragra dated Shanghai Thursday
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