New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-25
PERIL CIR OWING GREATER.
TROOPS ARE HARD
PRESSED AT TWO POINTS.
IBy The Associated Press. J

IBy The Associated PresSl
London, June 25.-The position of the inter-
national forces in the section of Northern
China where ten thousand men striving TO
keep a footing and TO succor the legations in
Peking appears to increase in peril with every
fresh dispatch. Peking has not been heard
from direct for fourteen days. The last dis
patch was one imploring aid. Admiral Sey-
mour's column Of two thousand was last heard
from twelve days ago. At that time it was
surrounded midway between Picking and Ticn-
Tsin.
The 5000 international troops at Tien-Tsin
were hard pressed and fighting for their lives on
Thursday. and 4 relieving force OF less than
thousand had been beaten back TO Taku Fri
day Observers on the spot think that 100000
men would not be too many TO seize China
firmly.
The Admiralty has received the following dis
patch from the British Rear Admiral at Taku:
Che-Foo. June 23-Only one runner has got
through from Ten-Tsin for 1iYe days No in
formation could be obtained, except that the
foreign settlement had been almost entirely
destroyed, and that our people were lighting
hard.
News is received as this telegram is dispatched
that attempt To relieve Tien~Tsin on June -
was repulsed, with some loss.
The allied admrals working in perfect
cord, with the Russian Vice-Admiral as senior
officer.
DISPATCH OF SECOND FORCE.
a press message from Shanghai, dated yester-
day, at 4 p. m. embodes some later informa-
ton. 1t says:
Official japanese kilograms confirm the
ports Of defeat OF the allied forces Tien-
Tsin. The foreigners there are now placed in
most desperate situation. The Russian Admiral
Hiebrandt yesterday sent mixed force or
1000 from Taku 70 attempt the relief OF Tien-
Tsn. Nearly half Of the force consisted OF
japanese The remainder was made up OF con-
tingents representing the other nations.
The guns of the Chinese around Tien-Tsin
superior anything the defending European
! force has or is likely to have for sCmc time
The bombardment OF Tien-Tsin continued
/ Friday. Bomb shelters were hastily erected 10y
the foreign troops largely constructed Of wettcd
piece goods. The food supplies insufficient,
and the continued shelng is reported TO be tell
/ ing terribly.
! day was the commander Of II. NJ. S. Bartieur.
/ The foreign casualties were three hundred
! Japan is making every effort Her troops are
now arriving at Taku in large numbers the
! Chinese troops in the Province Of Chilli in
/ clude sixty thousand auXiliarles' who nave been
! drilled by Russian and German ofhcers.
/ Captain Beatty and Lieutenant Wright. Brit
! ish have been severely wounded at Ten-Tsin,
! according to a Shanghai dispatch to The Daily
Express" dated Saturday. The information
brought there by the British cruiser Orlando
from Che-Foo. The losses OF the Russians have
! been heavy.
HEAVY LOSSES OF CHINESE.
It was reported from Shanghai last evening
that the allied forces had blown up the Taku
forts and that every available man had been
sent to the relief of Tien-Tsin Two thousand
! three hundred Chinese bodies are alleged TO have
! been cremated at Taku. and upward OF four
! thousand Chinese are said to have been killed
! at Ticn-Tsin
Chinese runners who have arrived at Taku
! port that a foreign force engaged several
| days ago with an overwhelming body of Chinese
| forty miles west of Tien-Tsin. At Shanghai it
| is assumed that this force Admiral Sey-
! lnour's
! The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily
| Express" says
! learn from a mandarin who stealthily left
| Picking on June 1G, and who succeeded great
/ hazard in getting clear. that the Boxers are
! massed around Peking. and that more than half
! of the northern and western portions OF the city
! including the foreign settlement, were afiame
/ when the mandarin left. He could tell me Moth
as TO the general situation, but he had heard
! that the Empress Dowager was preparing to go
! TO the Province of Shan-Si
ALL THE NORTH IN REVOLT
A Che-Foo dispatch to THE Daily Mail" dated
yesterday says:
The attack the Ten-Tsn relief force was
| made by twenty thousand Chinese, using
chine guns and modern field pieces. The allies