Boxer leaders Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu were publicly beheaded in Beijing in front of a crowd of about 10,000.
Japanese Col. Goro Shiba, the Japanese legation's military attaché, treated the two condemned men to champagne before turning them over to the Chinese Board of Punishments. Chi-hsui told him "I do not know what I have done to make me deserving of death, but if beheading me will make the foreign troops evacuate Peking and my Emperor return, I am satisfied to die. I will die a patriot."
Reports from Bombay held that 400 people had died from the plague in two days.
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