. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . leys in the vicinityof the legations were crowded with wild and savagetroops over whom the Tsung-li Yamen had not the leastcontrol, but the German Minister determined to visit theYamen, and was accordingly murdered en route bv theKansu troops and some of Yung Lus Manchu troops ofthe Wu-wei Corps. This occurred on the 20th of this, pandemonium broke loose and all Pekingseemed to be in confusion. Panic reigned everywhereamongst the most
. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . leys in the vicinityof the legations were crowded with wild and savagetroops over whom the Tsung-li Yamen had not the leastcontrol, but the German Minister determined to visit theYamen, and was accordingly murdered en route bv theKansu troops and some of Yung Lus Manchu troops ofthe Wu-wei Corps. This occurred on the 20th of this, pandemonium broke loose and all Pekingseemed to be in confusion. Panic reigned everywhereamongst the most law-abiding of the Chinese inhabitants. The murder of the German Minister opened the eyes ofthe Imperial Court. They saw that things were now indanger of being beyond recall and the more reckless MURDER OF THE GERMAN MINISTER. 77 joined Prince Tuan and Kang Yi in pressing the Em-press Dowager to declare war and bring inside Pekingall Yung Lus troops, who were armed with modern fire-arms, machine and field guns, as from what had been ex-perienced before by the Boxers and Kansu men in theirattacks on the legations, swords, spears and rifles were. BARON VON KETTELER. useless to destroy the foreign quarters. The most promi-nent and active of the JManchu party presented themselvesat the Palace, therefore, on the 20th of June, the day ofthe murder, and got the Empress Dowager to issue a de-cree to Yung Lu, as Generalissimo of the Grand Army ofthe North, commanding him to bring in his army into 78 CHINA AND THE BOXERS. Peking and formally attack the legations, destroy them,and then leave for Tientsin, to destroy the foreignersthere and so on until all were driven into the sea. The late German Minister, who was murdered by theChinese on the 20th of June, was comparatively a youngman. Baron Clemens August von Kettler was born atPotsdam on the 226. of November. He entered the Diplo-matic Service and passed a special examination for Chi-nese. In the eighties he was appointed interpreter t
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