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AMERICAN AND ENGLISH TROOPS
IN DESPERATE STRAITS IN CHINA
Admiral Seymour Reports That
Hold Out But Two Days Longer.
ALLIED FORCES COMPEL THE
Important Battle Fujbl il Che Fm, Which
Forcti-CklocM Fercti Make Dalermlae Stead, But the Foreljstrs Proved
to Bt Tm Excxrl, ead tbt Celestial Hordce Wert Farced to Retreat la
Cofulea-Imperial Treopt Much Weaker Thai
at First Believe.
LONDON. June 2$.-The Composite
brigade of 2,100 men, who raised the In
vetmet of Tien 'fain and pushed on
lo help Admiral Seymour, haa proba
bly saved, hint, but the nwa baa not
yet resthed Che Foo, th nearest rail
road (Hiliit. The last steamer arriving
at Che Foo from Taku brought this
message, dated Tl-n Tain, Monday.
June 25:
"The Itusslan general In command of
the relief force had decided. In view
of H-iturduy's heavy fighting and
marching, that one day's rest for the
troops wag essential and that the nd
vauce should not be resumed until to
day. Meanwhile came Admiral Sey
mour's lullograph that his position was
desperate and that he could only hold
out two days. The relief forces started
at dawn today (Monday). Saturday's
fighting began at daybreak.
The alllrd forces evened with several
of the Terrlhle's 4.7 naval runs, six
field funs and numerous machine guns,
the firing being at long range. They
continued to advance steadily, the Chi
e artillery replying. The guns of the
allies were more skilfully handled and
put the guna of the Chinese out of ac
tion, one by one, the Chinamen re
treating about noon.
The Russian stormed the arsenal,
thereby sustaining the largest losses.
Several thousand Japanese Dave left
Tftku for Tien Tsln and. altogether,
13,000 Japanese have landed.
The International troops now aggre
gate nearly 20.000 and Japan Is prepar
ing to send 20,000 more. With the
British, American and other troops or
dered to go, probably W.OuO men will be
available In a month.
The Ton Shan refugees and foreign
etglnetrs at Che Foo estimate the
Chinese troops now In the field at 23,-
0W drilled troops at Lu Tal. 25,000 at
Shan Hal Wan. 15,000 driven from Tien
Tsln. and 150,000 at Pekln.
WASHINGTON. June 27,-The devel
opments of today respecting China were
Important and Interesting. The Chi
nese minister's report of the departure
of the foreign ministers a'nd their
guard from Pekln greatly relieved the
ofUcluls hire, who took It as the first
tangible evidence that the Imperial
Chinese government had a full realisa
tion of the enormity of permitting the
ministers to come to personal harm and
were thus undertaking, as far as lay
In their power, to observe the amnes
ties of an International exchange.
The keenest Interest Is shown by of
ficial to learn the condition under
which the minister left Pekln, Min
ister Wu's dispatch was ominously si
lent on th'U point, and. though the
minister, himself, maintains almost ob
stinately his confidence In the non-ex
istence of a state of war. It Is gen
erally admitted that It will be difficult
to accept his conclusion If It shall
transpire that the Pekln government
Itself has sent the ministers away with
their passports, or what may come
to the same thing, with a guard as
a guarantee of safe conduct.
At the state department It Is said that
If it shall be explained that the Im
perial government did this, not with
the purpose of rupturing diplomatic
relations, but simply to ensure the
safety of the ministers, which they
were unable to guarantee as long as
they remained In Pekln, then there la
still ground for an understanding.
WASHINGTON. June 27,-The fol-
lowing cablegram was received at the
navy department late this afternoon:
'Ch:e Foo, June 27. Secretary of the
Navy, Washington: Pekln force and
Screens and Screen frames,
fire and Draught Screens....
A NEW CONSIGNMENT JUST RECEIVED
FOLDING BEDS
MANTEL, BEDS
CHINA CLOSETS ottd
LIBRARY CASES
CHARLES HEILB0RN & SON
He Is Besieged and That Me Can
CHINESE ARMY TO RETREAT
Rtsulti lo the Aovaataje t( the Fortlf i
ministers reported with the Pekln re
lief expedition, entrenched eight miles
from Tien Tain. KEMPFF."
The Chlnee minister called this
morning on the secretary of state and
communicated to him the contents of
a dispatch which he had received from
the Titling LI Yamen, at Pekln, dated
on thj 19th Inst. The dispatch stated
that the foreign minister had before
this data asked permission for the le
gation guards to enter the city, which
permission hud been granted; that they
subsequently asked that these guards
be reinforced, which the Chine gov
ernment was not disposed to permit.
The dihpatch then goes on to state
that the consul-general at Tien Tsln
(supposed to be the French consul-general),
had demanded the surrender of
the Taku forts and that the foreign
minister were shortly to leave Pekln
for Tien Tsln with their guards.
General Chaffee, who has been order
ed to command the American troops In
China, left Washington at 10:45 o'clock
today for Pan Francisco, accompan
ied by Lieutenant Harper, his aid. He
I due at San Francisco at 6 o'clock,
Sunday morning, and sails for Nagas
aki on the transport Grant, with tbe
Sixth cavalry, the same day.
LONDON, June 27. The cable mes
sages from the Far East today are so
far conflicting In their tenor that al
most any desired view of the situation
is deducible therefrom. On the whole,
however, the new Is encouraging, and
It Is safe to assume that Ylce-Admlral
Seymour and the legations, whether to
gether or separately, will ultimately
reach a place of safety.
Various reports locate the legislation
era at il verse places, but it seems
agreed that they are safely away from
Pekln.
Latest Shanghai reports say Prince
Tuan (head of the Chinese foreign of
fice, and fother of the hcjr apparent)
has sent the legatloners to Slang Fu
under etscort. and adds that Slang Fu
will be the nev capital In the event
of Pekln being occupied by the Inter
national troops.
Admiral Seymour, it Is assorted, suc
ceeded In getting a message Into Tien
Tsln Monday, according to which he
was then eight miles west of there,
terribly harassed, could only hold out
enother two days, and had 63 killed and
over 200 wounded. He did not "mention
the minister or others from Pekln. ,
It Is thought at Shanghai that now
Tien Tsln Is relieved the combined In
ternational forces will have no diffi
culty In' reaching Pekln, though It Is
expected it will be found that all the
foreigners have already left. It Is
claimed that the reports as to dam
age done at Tien Tsln and the cas
ualties among the foreign forces have
been highly colored.
The exodus of Chinese from Shanghai
Is unabated. Every steamer Is throng
ed and the authorities have been
obliged to resort to the use of the Are
hose to prevent the fugitives from over
crowding the vessels. The commander
of the British first-class cruiser Un
daunted, however, has landed large
supplies of rltl.'s and ammunition, and
guns have been placed in position at
commanding points, with the result
that the foreigners are confident they
can overcome any attack on the set
tlement, Into which the foreigner from
the outstatlons are rapidly congre
gating. According to a dispatch from New
Chwang, the Russians there are barely
able to cope with the situation. The
Chinese, It appears, are burning all the
railroad material, killing Isolated Itus-
slan at every opp'Miunlty arid destroy
lt d the coul rr.'n'.'.
The fit, James' Cuf-.Ue exprcsw- the
opinion that China Is "teaching Amer
leu the Impossibility of a great trad
ing nation avoiding imperialism,"
adding:
"America's experience will teach her
It I not the desire to grab distant
Inndn' but unavoidable destiny that
drive Great' Britain ever forward.
Washington has no choice but to pro
tect the Imperiled American citizens,
and having once Intervened In China
to protect her Interests, she shall never
be able to shake from her shoe the
dust of the Celestial Empire."
NFW YORK. June 2Z-The ecreta
rle of the foreign mission board In
thi city anj the friend of the mis
slonarte now in China are getting more
and more bewildered a rumors multi
ply and cable message more depres
sing than cheering come to headquar
ter.
A letter from Dr. Edna O. Terry to
her mother, dated April 29, said she
would sail for home at the earliest pos
sible date. Mrs. Terry hope that her
daughter la already on her way to
the United State.
The report from Che Foo, giving a
list of mlaslonorl'.-s safe there, caused
the Presbyterians home worry. Mr.
Garrison, of the secrtary's office, said:
"Not one of our .nisei xiaries la men
tioned In the Us?, jnless it Is Rev. Mr.
LowrU. Our Mr. Lowrle Is with Rev.
Walter, and he ha been at Pao Ting
Fu, shut off by the Boxers, we thought.
We do not see why our missionaries
from Pekln were not mentioned, a well
as those of othir denominations. Nor
I it easy to explain how the mission
art es ',n Pekln escaped all the way to
Che Foo. over 200 miles, without an es
cort of. troops, at a time when Seymour
and the allies are hard pressed In that
same regian. The only way they could
have done It was by tbe help of the
native ChrU'.laas. Perhaps these mis
sionaries who are mentioned were out
side of the city at the time they start
ed for Che Foo. Then, too, all our mis
siorarie in Shan Tung province were
ordered to port, which must be Che
Foo. From the fact that they were not
mentioned we conclude that they have
not yet reached that city."
Rev. Dr. C. C. Cregaa. of the Ameri
can Board of Foreign Missions, said of
the Con gr.'gati anal missionaries who
are reported to be safe In Che Foo:
"Dr. W. S. Ament 1b the superintend
ent of the mission at Pekln, and when
lart heard from he was In that city.
HI wife and family are in this country.
Miss Frances B. Patterson Is of the
Pekln mission, and the last we knew of
her she was there. Rev. Jameg H.
Robert was stationed at Kalagan, In
the far north of China, close to the
great wall. We have had great fears
for him and his associates. Rev. P.
Sprague and wife and Rev. Mark Wil
liams." Rev. Churles E. Ewing, of Pao Ting
Fu has sent a cable dispatch to his
father-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Porter, of
Danvers, Mass. It said '.Imply:
"Safe."
After giving this Information, Dr.
Cregan said:
"We are getting more and more con
fused as tru'sa dispatches come in.
But so far a we have any knowledge,
no American missionary has suffered
bodily injury, and there is nothing yet
to destroy our hope that the life of
every ons of them will be spared. Our
government seems to be doing all It can.
und we trust that the Lord will de
liver our brethr jn out of the fiery furn
ace In which they are placed. We as
sume that all our missionaries are
sufe."
At the office of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance in this city, it was
said that there v.-erj 32 missionaries
north of Pekln who could be reached
only through Pekln or Tien Tsln. None
of them could be In Che Foo, for upon
tholr arrival the Headquarters here
would be notified.
PHILADELPHIA, June 2T.-Mrs. Oli
ver Clifford, who with her husband is
connected with the Presbyterian mis-
hlon at Tien Tsln, writes under date of
May 29 to her brother In this city as
follows:
"We sleep now with our firearms close
at hand. Oliver and I each have a
brace of pistols under our heads. I
always have two valises packed, ready
to flee at any moment, and the entire
foreign population is anxiously watch
ing for the first sign of an uprising.
Last Monday morning when the peo
ple awoke In the city huge placards
were found posted on the walls and
fences, reading as follows: 'The hea
vens are displeased at the presence of
the foreign dogs in China. The gods
have decreed that there shall be no
more rain In the whole kingdom until
they are all expelled."
VICTORIA. B. C. June 27.-The
Shanghai Jtercury says that a member
of the Boxers society, who saw the
murder of Rev. Mr. Ellis, of the London
mission, and of a Chinese" missionary
at Kung Tsun. gave the following ao
count of the tragedy to a friend:
"On the 12th day of the fourth moon
the Boxers, numbering 67, crossed the
river Tsx Tsun and met the two mis
sionaries In a boat. They knew the
Chinese was a Christian, and at once
attacked him. wounding him with their
swords. Then they dragged him out
of the boat and tied Mm to a tree at
the river side. Then Mr. Ellis was
tied with him, and Mr. Chao, another
Chinese missionary, wa found. His
toes and thumbs were bound together
and he wa tarried to a tree near
wh-ro the other were hung up. The
arms t,t tUt missionaries were cut ofT,
their head hewn off, and, after the
bodies had bt-en disembowi-led. they
were cast lnt the river. The chapel
of ths mission wii demolished, and the
crowd went on their way."
ThU was but one of many such out
rages. SHANGHAI, June 27. A German
paper ha an uncredlted tatement to
the effect that Admiral Seymour Is
eight miles from Tien Tsln with 62
killed and 200 wounded.
PARIS, June 27, 10 A. M.-The French
consul-general at Shanghai, telegraph
ing under date of yesterday, announces
that the allied troop have entered
Tien Tsln. He states also "that the
foreign ministers have departed from
Pekln for the north, accompanied by a
Chinese escort. It Is supposed that
they are headed for Shanghai Kouan,
following the course of the great wail.
The telegram adds that the viceroy
of Kan Kin and the viceroy of Tlehenh
Gtchetong have requested the consul
to announce to the French government
that they are protecting the interests
of sonif of the mi.ielonaritm and some
of ths foreign merchants In that region.
A langtse telegram of the same date
state that the French consul at Che
Foo confirm the news of the deliver
ance from Tien Tsin. and the fact that
the foreign minister left Pekln under
escort.
LONDON. June 27. A disDath from
Tsln Tan, dated yesterday. ay that
me frotestant mislon at Wei Hsien
wa burned down by rebels Mondav
night last
LONDON, June 27. A 8iee!a from
Shanghai, dated last evening, says
that communication with Admiral Sey
mour was opened by the Tien Tsln re
lief force Sunday. Admiral Seymour
wa at thit time said to be 10 miles
from Tien Tsln. Three hundred of the
members of hi party are reported
sick and wounded; only a few had been
killed. They were short of provision
ana were returning without having
rescued the legations.
CHICAGO. June 27. Through a ca
blegram he received yesterday, James
W. Porter learned of the safe arrival
at Chi Nan Fu of the Rev. Henry D.
Porter and Mis Mary H. Porter, for
mer resident of this city, missionaries
of the American board, who were sta
tioned at Pang Chuang. The two were
unable to reach Tien T3in. 200 miles
north of their post of duty, and it had
been feared that harm would befall
them. The cablegram states that they
were given military escort to Chi
Nan Fu,
CHICAGO. June 27.-A fpecial to the
Tribune from Victoria, B. C, says:
Advices received by the Empress of
India give graphic details of the escape
from Pekln and Tien Tsin of foreigners.
Of all the fugitives to reach the coast
none had a harder fight for their lives
than the American. French and Bel
gian engineers, who were surrounded
by the Boxers at Pelng Tl. the terminus
of the railway that was to run to Han
Kow.
When the Boxers attacked the sta
tion and the machine shops, the engin
eers barricadjd themselves in the ma
chine shops and held the Chinese off
for some tlm. They had several wo
men with them, wives of some of them.
These women loaded the meu's riflebeits
and otherwise assisted to repel the Box
ers. Soon, though, the foreigners found
their position untenable, as some of the
Chinese had rushed them and set fire
to a part of the building. Then they
ran for it, fighting their way through
the Boxers. When they had got
through the Boxers' lines the Chinese
gave no moe attention to them, but
instead began to pillage and destroy
the station and machine shops. Two
of the Belgian then hurried to Pekin,
where they reported the Sanger of the
party and called for volunteers to help
them.
A number of Cossacks were dis
patched to the rescue. They set out
on June 2 and encountered a large
crowd of Boxers forty miles from Tien
Tsln, and were obliged to return, being
unable to fight their way through the
Boxers. The Cossacks, who numbered
33, had two' officers wounded.
In the meantime the engineers were
between two forces of Boxers. They
had taken up a position on a small hill,
and there they made trenches. In which
they fought for an hour, holding oft the
Boxers to their front. They were all
unconscious of the party to their rear,
and after their hard fighting arranged
that eight should be left in the trenches
to hold back the Boxers while the
other 22. including the women and chil
dren, went on towards Pekln.
They had no carts, and the men car
ried the weaker ones when Ihey became
exhausted. The march of the fugitives
to Pekln was an awful one. When
some miles from where they had been
Intrenched, they found another party
of Boxers, not so strong as the party
before encountered, however, to their
front, and the men formed a hollow
(Continued on Fourth Page.)
BOERS STILL ACTIVE
NORTH OF PRETOSIA
Commandants DeWet and BoJha
Agree Not to Surrender.
ROBERTS MUCH TOO SLOW
Been Take Advantate at as la sisal Silas
Mob Hospital Expeiarci Create a Ortal
Stssilloi la Eojliud-Jlfllfu-usee
Is Cbsrjed.
LONDON, June 2S.-General Bundle
bad a sharp rifle skirmish near Sene
kal Friday with a large force of en
trenched Boers. He declined to attack
them. Thla is the only fresh fighting
reported.
The Boer ou'posts northeast of Pre
toria are busy. The telegraph wires
between 8tand;rton and Newcastle
wer cut Sunday and Sir Itedvers liul
ler had to report by heliograph. Com
mandant De Wet with 3.000 men and
three guns is moving northeast in the
Orange River Colony. It 1 understood
that he and Commandant-General Bo
th have entered into a compact that
neither would surrender, so long as the
other was In the field.
Twelve thousand rifles, all told, have
been surrendered to the British.
. President Kruger is sjtlll at Macha
dadorp. Tbe exposure regarding the hospitals
lr South Africa have made a great
sensation in England. A new agency
dispatch from Cape Town says:
"Certain revelations point to malfeas
ance in connection with the supptirs
of comfort for '.he sick and wounded."
LONDON. June 27. Telegrams from
South Africa indicate that the renew
ed Boer activity Is in proportion with
Lord Roberts' quiescence, so the com
pletion of the commander-in-chief en
veloping movement, supposed to be in
progress. Is anxiously awaited. The
news this morning supports the belief
that the Eocr succeeded In piercing
General P.undle's lines and proceeded
southward. '
It appears that the failure of the' Brit
ish to properly guard their line of com
munications north of Kroonstadt in
volved disaster to a body of Basutos
working on the railroad, of whom 20
were killed and 200 were made prison
ers. This has had a decidedly bad effect
on the native mind and a recrudescence
of unrest Is reported in Basutoland.
SULZER IS HOPEFUL.
Wants to Be on the Ticket With Bry
an, and Will Confer With
Him Tomorrow.
KANSAS CITY, June 27.-Congress-man
Wm. Sulzer, who is being boomed
for vice-president on the Democratic
ticket, and Richard Croker and ex-Sen-etor
E. C. Murphy, of New York, will
have a ronference at Lincoln, Neb.,
with William J. Bryan, before they
come to Kansas City to attend the na
tional convention.
Sterling Price, of Texas, w ho opened
headquarters here for Sulzer today, re
ceived a telegram from that gentle
man sayinghe had left New York for
Lincoln at noon. Another telegram
says Messis. Croker and Murphy will
be in Nebraska's capital Frkiay nlglit.
Sulzer hopes to be on the ticket with
Bryan and it is said the latter ex
pressed a desire to confer with him.
HAD A PARDON FROM TAYLOR.
For Second Time It Acted as an "Open
Sesame" to Prison Doors.
HARLAN COURTHOUSE. Ky.. June
27. Captain John Powers, of Barbour
ville, Ky., who was arrested here yes
terday on the charge of complicity In
the murder of Governor Goebel, was
today released. His attorneys insti
tuted habeas corpus proceedings, and,,
alter a bearing before County Judge
Cornett, Powers produced a pardon,
signed by Governor Taylor, on March 6,
1900, offering It as a bar to prosecu
tion and arrest. Judge Cornett hon
ored the pardon, and Powers will be
released.
This is the second time Powers has
been arrested on the same charge and
released on Governor Taylor's par
don. PILAR FINALLY SUBMITS.
Filipino Leader Agrees to Submit to
Terms of American Agreement.
MANILA, June 28. Nine Insurgent
leaders, Including Generals Pio del
Pilar, Concepclon, Garcia and Alvarez,
were released today upon taking the
oath of allegiance to the United State
government and renouncing all the
forms of revolution in the Philippines,
together with making a formal ac
knowledgement of American sover
eignty. Tnis csth is much stronger ai,J iooic
binding than the oath which General
Otis administered, and was consequent
ly distasteful to the Filipinos, who ac
cepted it with bad grace, fully realizing
the results of any violation