Editorial September 6, 1900 Issue

The Preservation of the Legationers

Editor

THE preservation and rescue of the foreign ministers in Pekin, their families and suites, is a matter of wonderment to people of all countries. We read, even in the daily dispatches, such expressions as these:—

"The survival and rescue of the foreigners in Pekin causes much wonder. Those acquainted with the city and with the Chinese are almost as much at loss to account for it as those who have no knowledge of either.

"A few hundred Americans and Europeans were huddled within the walls of the Legations, many of them women and children. Surrounding them were hordes of Boxers and Chinese imperial troops, all thirsting for the blood of the 'foreign devils.' They were well supplied with arms and ammunition, with an exhaustless commissariat to draw upon. Their prisoners had to count and husband every round in their limited supply of ammunition, while they were weakened by lack of food.

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