The IMPERIAL PALACE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1900, Page 5

The IMPERIAL PALACE

CAPTURED.

FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF PEKIN.

ANOTHER APPEAL TO THE POWERS.

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BOMBARDMENT OF PEKIN

THE PALACE CAPTURED

FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE -.■■'• STREETS.

LARGE CHINESE REIN-

FORCEMENTS

HONGKONG, August 21

The walls of the inner city of Pekin were dynamited and the. palace captured on the 17th.

There were no signs of the

Dowager Empress

Stubborn street fighting continues. Four thousand armed Christian converts are assisting the Allies. Mr Conger, the American Minister, declares that the Boxers were used as a pretence for the attack on the Legations, which was wholly a Governmental movement directed by the Dowager's confidential adviser. He states that a desperate effort was made to annihilate the Legations on the night preceding the relief, but the attacks ceased when the ' Allies entered the city. Sir Claude Mac Donald states that the Chinese Government broke every engagement. They did not furnish the Legations with food, but once offered vegetables, which were refused. A letter ha? been discovered addressed by General Yung Lit (o General Tungfuhsiang, swearing to murder all foreigners with the aj'd of a million Boxers. Tungfuhsiang agreed to participate. > Large forces from the Houan province are massing in the rear of the Allies. It is "believed that the Pekin- . Tientsin telegraph line is interrupted.