An officer who accompanied the Chinese Court in the flight from Peking to Hsian-fu has kindly turnisued the todowing mteresting details of that historic journey.
'THY ESCAPE FROM THE CAPITAL, Not until the foreign troops were actual ly within the walls of the capital was the Empress told of the peril of the situation and the hopelessness of the boxer cause. On the evening of the 4th August the chief Court otncials held a council and decided to advise immediate tight im accord with a prearranged plan. Accurdingly ear ly on the morining of the lot the Linpress Dowager was hustled into a cart provided by Prince tuan, In the same cart the press and the Chief Consort also sat. The Emperor and the Kmperor-elect (1a A-Ko) were bundled into another of the Prince's carts. There was difficulty in escaping through the N.W. gate of the city as the gateways were crammed with retugees fleeing in terror from tne city. A passage bad to be forced through the crowd and the carts were actually drawn over the bodies of the slain. it was impossible to stay anywhere near the capital, as the deserting soldiers were looting and riating al) around. Ch'angp'ingchou was in their hands. Even the Court was not safe in their vicinity, so a forced march was made by night to Chiatao—e small place some 46 miles N.W. of the Capital.
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