The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-29
Are Not With Admiral Seymour's Column,
Relieved in Trenches Few Miles
Out Of Tien Tsin.
International Forces Find That the Chinese
Fight With Fanatical Courage and
Have Support Of Army.

LONDON, June %, a. m.-The cas-
ualtlcs Of the international force at,
tacking Tien Tsin were: Americans
killed 3, wounded 2; British, killed 2
Toun6ed I; Germans, killed Is, wounded
q; Russians, killed 10, wounded 81.
The gun fire Of the Americans and Brit
ish is described as beautiful"
After the relieving force pushed on to
relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese regu-
lars. under Gen. Mich, says a dispatch
from Shanghai, again attacked Tien Tsin
flercely, and bombarded the foreign set
tlement with a terrible fire.
Col. Dorward, British, commanded the
column thst relieved Admiral Seymour
American marines participated in the
achievement The admiral was found
entrenched, and surrounded by immense
masses of Chinese, who were driven of
by the relieving column, after a brisk
fight. His men had made a brilliant re-
sistance, never failing in courage 70.
fifteen days of continuous fighting. Dur
ing ten days the men were on quarter
rations. They started with provisions
for ten days. and they could have held
out day or two longer
The column was a few miles beyond
10 Fa. Deeming it hopeless to attempt
to break through the hordes, Admiral
Seymour essayed a night retreat toward
Tien Tsin, but he came into collision
with a strong force of Chinese arriving
from the Northwest, and could neither
advance nor retreat. There was moth
ing to do but to intrench and to stand
siege. He vainly attempted photographic
communication.
Seymours men caught several Chi
nese, who said the legations had been
burned and the ministers killed. Others
said that the ministers had been impris-
oned
FANATICAL COURAGE.
The Chinese displayed fanatical cour-
age in the attack.
-Four thousand Russians left Tien Using
four days after Admiral Seymour, but
they never got in touch with him.
Railway communication from Taku to
Tien Tsin has been restored, and the
force is adgancing toward Peking Fight
ing was in progress Wednesday, in the
vicinity Of Use Chulin. Large prepa-
rations are being made to support and
reinforce the Peking relieving column.
Twenty thousand troops of all arms,
largely Japanese, have now been landed.
The fate of the members of the lega-
tons is still a mystery. If they are alive
and unharmed, at Peking, the Chinese
government deserves some credit, Shang-
hal correspondents think, for restraining
the fanatical mob.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Telegraph, wiring at 9:O5 p. m.
yesterday, says:
1T is reported on good Chinese author
ity that the government, alarmed by the
foreign military preparations, has issued
an edict ordering the peremptory sup
preston of the Boxers, and announcing
a decision to protect the legations at all
hazards"
CHINA UNDER SUSPICION.
However this may be, the British con-
sulate at Shanghai received information
yesterday, the Daily Express correspond
ent says, that, while solemnly promising
complete abstention from warli1e prepa-
rations, the Chinese are mounting several
new siX-inch guns at the Woo Sung forts.
Three British warships have sailed from
Hong Kong to reinforce the allied squad
ron at Shanghai.
The southern provinces are sending
troops toward Peking, and the exodus of
Chinese of all classes from Shanghai con-
tinues at the rate of from 10000 to 1000
a day.
Russian prestige has been injured during
the recent fighting, and an anti-Rusisan
rising in the Lao Tong peninsula Rus
Sian Manchuria, is predicted.
According to the Shanghai correspondent
of the Times, advices from Shan Tung
say that Gov. Yuan Shik Kai maintains
cordial relations with foreigners, and has
sent numerous couriers to Peking, but
none of them has returned.
GRAVE FEARS AROUSED.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Administra-
tion officials are quite concerned over Chi
nese advices to the effect that the mem
bers Of the foreign legations in Picking
are not at Tien Tsin with Admiral Sew
mour's relief column. The dispatches of
the last two days indicating that they
were with the admiral q few miles from
Tien Tsin had allayed in a measure the
tension existing here as to their safety.
but as no word has come from Minister
Conger the confidence temporarily felt is
giving away again to fear that all NAV
not be well with them. 1t is believed here
that Mr.. Conger would have taken the
very first opportunity to communicate
with his government, and the fact that
he had not done SO up to a late hour to-
night, the officials say, is strong ground
for believing that he may not be in Tfen
Tsin, although today's dispatches report
the relief column there. This fact is con-
sidered confirmatoTy of the latest intima-
ttons that the legation representatives are
still in Picking, and some fears are enter
tanned for them If still in the Chinese
capital.
SACRIFICE WILL BE APPALLING
VANCOUVER, B. c., June 2S.-Gen.
Stahl, Of the imperial German armv. who
has been investigating conditions in the
Orient under a special commission from
the German government, has arrived
here on his way home On being asker
If he thought that the Boxers Would ha
quickly suppressed he said that in his
opinion the powers had started in upon
long, bloody conflict. In the end tbe
Boxers will disband, he said, but +ha
sacrifice of life will be appalling for the
movement is spreading like wildfre. The
southern Boxers will join the north. and
vast mobs of fanatics will have to ha
contended with Enormous quantities
of arms We're being constantly smugeled
to them, and owing to the countless
hordes of fanatics and the vast terri
tory covered, they could for some time
defy the whole world.
Gen. Stahl added that the hostility be-