Chamot, the proprietor of the Peking Hotel who rendered such eminent services during the siege of the Leg tions, has Been confiding his impressions to a news-It Paper in his native -Switzerland. He with) thinks the Boxers were used stools by at. the reformers, and, more of these were left to be the Boxers turned their attention to the foreigners. M. Chamot apconsiders reformers. and_nativ one and the same. He me tions one detail of Box er fanaticism wh T imagine, has pith in Europe, though it no doubt, w known in China. The Boxers did not believe themselves invulnerable; the: knew they stood a good chance of bein killed, but they were com would return to life three days later and would thenceforward be numbered among the elect. M. necidote which will he read with interest. Having noticed certain alarming signs spent the 15th and 16th of June in getting in all the food he could obtain by hook or rook. M, Pichon told him his conduct most imprudent, and that his prepara tions would alarm the Chinese, Four days later, M. Picken had to beat a hasty treat from his Lewation, - M. Chamot modestly refrained from adding, as he might. very well have done, that all the Legation defenders owed their lives to his
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