Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — BOXER AIDS ARE SHOT. [ARTICLE]

BOXER AIDS ARE SHOT.

Allies Execute Over a Score of Chinese Uiuh Officials, The treasurer of the province of Pechili, one Chinese general and a Chinese colonel, who had been found by a court-martial to he responsible for the slaughter of seventeen American and English missionaries at Paoting-Fu and the torture of four others who were rescued alive, were shot Sunday, together with twenty prominent Boxers, with the approval of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee. Tien Yung is the name of the provincial treasurer executed. Ilis high official comrades who suffered a like fate were Gen. Fei Sluing Kong and Col. Kiu. After death the condemned men’s heads were cut off and exposed on poles as a warning to the populace. All the allied soldiers who participated in the punitive expedition to Paoting-Fu have returned to Pekin, excepting the Germans and French, who remain as a permanent garrison. Punishment was inflicted by the returning troops on other notorious Boxer strongholds on the route. In this punishment for the frightful atrocities on American missionaries and native Christians the United States took no part.