Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-06-28
CHINA is ABLAZE.
Fires of Anti Foreign Hatred Burn
with Deadly Force.
Reports as TO che Success of the Relief
Party that Started 10 Aid the
Foreigners I'm Pekin are Con-
Hicting-A Bomb rd meDt
of Tien Esin.


forts opened fire upon the interna-
tional fleet on Sunday. The accounts
of what took place are unsatisfac-
tory, the best semi-official informa-
tion being the dispatch received at
Berlin from Che Foo, as follows:
The Chinese laid torpedoes in the
Taku river and collected troops from
Shan Hi Kiwan. The commanders
assembled on the Russian flagship
and addressed an ultimatum to the
commanders of the Taku forts sum
moning them to withdraw their
troops before . O'Clock. At l o'clock
the forts opened fire, to which the
Russian, French, United States, Ger
man and British warships replied
The bombardment lasted seven
hours"
Chinese loss at Talu about 400.
At Yum Nan-Fu, where the rising
has been gathering force for several
days, $50 Christians have been at
tackled at the French mission settle
ment and many put to death. The
French consul and three missionaries
are still in prison.
The Russians guarding Tien Tsin,
according to another report, fired ar
tillery and rifles on June IL at
| range of so yards into dense crowds
of attacking Boxers and killed 300.
Washington, June 22.-Acting Sec
| retary of the Navy Hackett received
cablegram Thursday from Admiral
| Kempff, dated Che Foo, June q, say
ing that Tien Tsin is being lombard
| ed and that the American consulate
| as well as much of the foreign con-
cessions are being destroyed. relief
party is en- route to Tien Tsin, includ-
ing 13O American marines.
| London, June 22-The United States
| gunboat Monocacy was two miles up
| the Pei IIo river when the interna-
| tional fleet began the bombardment
| of the Tallu forts. According to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
| Express, she was shot through the
| bows. The correspondent says that
| Chinese riflemen on both banks of the
river attacked her. but unsuccessfully.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
| Times says: Great destruction was
caused by the Boxers in the native
quarter of Tien Tsin on June Is, but
the presence of foreign troops in the
foreign settlement protected that
| London, June 23.--The silence of
Pcltin continues unbrollen. Four
| thousand men of the allied forces
were having sharp defensive fighting
at Tien Tsin Tuesday and Wednes-
day, with a prospect of being rein
forced Thursday. This is the situa-
iton in China as set forth in the Brit
ish government dispatch.
Eight hundred Americans are taxi
ing part in the fighting at Tien Tsin,"
says the Shanghai correspondent of
the Daily Express, cabling last even
ing:. ''and they apparently form I
part OF the supplementary force ar
irving with Germans and British af-
ter the conflict started. 1t is impos-
sible to estimate the number of Chi
nese there; but they had surprising
number of guns"
This information appears to have
been brought by the United States
ounboat Nashville to Che Foo and
-elegraphed thence to Shanghai. The
| Chinese are deserving Shanghai in
large numbers and going into the in
terror. Reports from native sources
continue to reach Shanghai of an
archy in Peltin. According to these
tales the streets are filled day and
night with Boxers, who are beyond
the control of the Chinese troops and
who are working themselves up to a
| frenzy and clamoring for the death
of all foreigners.
The English consulate at Shanghai
is said to have received from intiuen-
tial natives reports o. a tragedy in
the palace Mt Pekin, though precisely
| what it us is not definite. The con-
! sulate thinks that Admiral Seymour,
| commander of the international re-
lief column, was misled by infCrma-
ton from Pekin and, consequently,
undcrestinated the difficulties in his
way and the Chinese power of resist
ancc with Maxim guns and Mansers.
The consuls at Shanghai still be-
lieve the foreign ministers at Pellin
safe, although Japanese reports re-
ceived at Shanghai allege that up to
June u 100 foreigners had been killed
in Pelin.
In the house of commons Friday
| Mr.. Frederick, the under secretary of
state for foreign affairs, said the for
eign office had no news from Pekin
or Admiral Seymour. He said the
news by runners arriving at Iallu
june 81 announced that several at
tacks had been made and repulsed.
Foreign settlement and the Chinese
military college was attacked by Il
mixed force of $50 Austrians, British,
Germans and Italians. They destroy
ed the guns and burned the college,
which contained considerable store
| Of nmmnnition, and killed its defend
ers.
Berlin June 23.-The commander
of the German squadron at Taku has
wired as follows to the government:
"A French officer who has arrived
here from Tien Tsin, which he left
June 20, reports that for three days
the city has been bombarded by the
| Chinese and that the troops of the
foreign detachment were out of am
| munition.
| Hahncmnnn Monument Dedicated.
| WASHINGTON, June 22.-A monument