Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "义和团运动" in Chinese language version.
the Court decided finally to expel te entire diplomatic corps and had an ultimatum of its own handed to each foreign minister: All dipomats and their families were to leave Peking and proceed to Tientsin within twenty-four hours. The diplomats wer also misinformed. Unaware that Admiral Seymour's sailors and marines had run into stiff resistance and were running out of supplies, they believed the relief force from Tientsin was nearby. So they stalled for time and requested a meeting for the next day.
Although they had passed unmolested through the lines of imperial troops under General Nieh, whom they had found even friendly, Seymour's
Council issued a decree recruiting Boxers to the army, attacking the advance of Seymour, pacifying the Boxers and ordering local troops to march northward to protect the capital. The next day the Empress Dowager declared that, "Now they have started the aggression and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death."44 In the words of the imperial decree
Reverend William S. Ament, and an assistant, Reverend Elwood Gardner Tewksbury, escorted by an American cavalry troop, searched the countryside for Boxers, collecting indemnities for slain converts, burning peasant's houses, and even asking the soldiers to shoot 'suspected Boxers' on the spot.(英文)
Although they had passed unmolested through the lines of imperial troops under General Nieh, whom they had found even friendly, Seymour's
Council issued a decree recruiting Boxers to the army, attacking the advance of Seymour, pacifying the Boxers and ordering local troops to march northward to protect the capital. The next day the Empress Dowager declared that, "Now they have started the aggression and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death."44 In the words of the imperial decree
Reverend William S. Ament, and an assistant, Reverend Elwood Gardner Tewksbury, escorted by an American cavalry troop, searched the countryside for Boxers, collecting indemnities for slain converts, burning peasant's houses, and even asking the soldiers to shoot 'suspected Boxers' on the spot.(英文)