Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-25
JAPAN is RUSHING IN MORE TROOPS.
But Ii Is Said One Hundred Thousand Men
Will Be Necessary to Conn
mand the Situation.
THE ALLIED FORCES IN PERFECT ACCORD
But They Are Far Two Small to Deal With the tiordes of Chinese
Who Confront the Relief Columns.

LONDON, June 25-3 a. m-The position of the international forces in
the section of northern China, where 10000 men are striving to keep a foot
ing and to succor the legations at Pekin, appears to increase in peril with
every fresh dispatch. Pekin las not been heard from direct for fourteen
days. The last dispatch "a on tmploring aid. Admiral seymours column
a two thousand was last heard from twelve days ago. At that time it
vas surrounded midway between Pekin and Thn Tan- Possibly now it
has fesfFed Pekin.
The hree thousand internationaIs at Tien T.in were hare pressed
md hEhtinsf for their i've on Thursday an a elievi fore . le.s
than a thousand IA been eaten Jack to Taku o rida b
erse on h pot think that N hundred thousand mn n o
The admiralty has received the following from the British rea admiral
at Taku:
4CHE FOG. June 23-only one runner has got through from Tien Tsnn
for five days. No information could be obtained except that the foreign
settlement had been almost entirely destroyed and that the people were
fighting hard.
News is received as this telegram is dispatched that n attempt to
relieve Tfn Tdn 0 June 2d was repulsed with some loss"
The telegram also said:
The allied admirals are working in perfect accord with the Russian
vice admiral as senior officer"
A press message from Shanghai, dated yesterday at 4 l. M, embodies
some later information. 1t says:
"oniciaI japanese kilograms n h reports If a defeat of h
allied forces at Tin T-in- The foreigners here are now placed in
a nos ssperate situation n Russian admiral' Hi,ebrandt, res
rda sen. a m'1 Tn i'rSs o, our our In o tma ron "a x % a,aemp
ese h remainder a mad u p OF contingents representing he
THE guns of the Chinese around Tien TAn are superior to anything the
European force has or is likely to have 70. some time.
THE bombardment of Thn Tsn continued Friday, Bomb-sheners were
hastily erected by the foreign troops, largely constructed of weted piece
goods. The food supplies re insufficient and the continued Smelling is re.
ported to be telling terribly
Among those killed of the relief force Friday was the commander of H. N.
S Balheur. The foreign casualties were 300.
Japan is making every effort. Eertroops are now arriving at Taku inlarge
numbers. The Chinese troops in the province of Chilli Include so 900 aux
iiaries, who have been drilled by Russian and German officers"
Captain Beatty and Lieut.. Wright, British, have been severely wounded at
Taen Tshn, according to a Shanghai dispatch to the Daily News, dated satur-
day The information "a brought there by the British cruiser Orlando
from Che Foo. The losses of the Russians have been heavy.
1t was reported from Shanghai last evening that the allied forces had
blown UP the Taku forts and that every available man had been SEN to the
relief of Tfn Tsin. Two thousand, three hundred Chinese bodies are alleged
to have been cremated at Taku, and more than four thousand Chinese are
said to have been killed at Tien Tdn.
Chinese runners who have arrived at Taku report that a foreign force
vas engaged several days ago with IN overwhelming body of Chinese, forty
miles west of Tien Tsn. At Shanghai it is assumed that this force was
Admiral Seymours.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express says:
81 learn from a mandarin who stealthily left Pekin O. June 18th. and
who succeeded at great hazard in getting clear. that the Boxers are massed
around Pekn and that more than half of the northern and western portions
of the city, including the foreign settlement. were afame when the man
much as to the general situation; but he had heard that the Emnmss Dow
ager ws preparing to go to the province of Shan ST."
A Che Foo dispatch to the Daily Mai, dated yesterday say
"The attack on the Tien Tsn relief force was made by 10000 Chinese
using maxim guns and modern field pieces. The allies were wise in retreat-
ms. Forwarding detachments in this manner is suicidal and the defeats of
the foreigners, wen though in small force. greatly aid the movement of
the Boxers, which is gaining enormously through the inability of tn
foreigners to make head against it.
Practically the whole of northern China is abIaze Hosilisos .s
now conducted on a n extended scale. due TO orders from Pekin. Cen Yam
shi Kf, governor of shang Tung, commands 1000 foreign drilled rooms
organized to a high pitch of excellence and equipped with Mausers II vas
in the plans that these troops should go to Taku, but the seizure of tbe
forts effected before they could get there"
Shanghai is quiet, but there are fears of a rising The action q the
eonsuls in asking for the departure of the six Chinese cruisers waso Objected
to by the senior naval officer, who informed them that he had at his disnosaI
a force sufficient to compel them to leave if they objected to thu nxsenceo of
allies, among whose six vessels is the United States gunboat Casaine
The question here is, what are the powers going to do? Janan is nre-
pairing to tranship this week 10000 additional troops. Russia is sending
down from Vladivostock all her available forces. estimated att from mo a
5000 men, although recent events have shown that h nnnbe- 90 pmaa..
on the Pacific has been over-esumatea> The Indian council held sneci.,
meeting at simla yesterday and considered the feasibility Of sending more
troops.
Russia, according to a Che Foo correspondent has landed force ~
Cosacks at Pei Tai Ho and another at Shan Hal Kwan 10 ;r.a-oo.. -
Chinese troops marching from Manchuna- A correspondent At II Humg
Toa, o. Wei Hal Wei bay, says that the Russians ire sendinl 10 % troons
all told.
Continued > ThAra Pase.