TRUTH COMING OUT
Emperor Ordered Chinese Troops to Unite With Boxers.
A Russian report alleging that the Chinese emperor secretly ordered his troops to join the Boxers, and that Russian railway engineers in Manchuria were forced out despite pleading for military help.
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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readSt. Petersburg, July 13.
St. Petersburg, July 13.—The latest advices received here regarding the spread of the revolutionary movement in Manchuria add but little material information.
On June 24 an edict of the emperor of China was issued ordering Chinese troops to unite with the Boxers. Subsequently the governor of Moukden informed the chief engineers that the railroad line must be handed over to the Chinese and that all Russians must permanently leave Manchuria.
The engineers protested and urged that the governor ask for the assistance of Russians at Port Arthur to annihilate the Boxers. [...] The Chinese troops continued to mass until the rising culminated in the murders and attacks on the railroad and towns already reported.
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