Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-09
TEN TS|N IS
HARD PRESSED
Is SURROUNDED BY A HUNDRED
THOUSAND FANATICAL
BOXERS.
DISORDERS IN PROVINCES
SAID TO BE INCREASING.
Boxers Emissaries Penetrating the
South-Minister Wu Still Hope
ful-Advises Punishment.

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London, July 9. PAS a. NJ The foreign
consuls at Shanghai met on July Z and
officially announced that the legations at
Pein were safe On July 4. The foregoing
statement, read with Consul Warren's
dispatch to the foreign office on Sunday.
macs it possible to believe that the lega-
tions will hold out for a number of days
yet. Having fought to a staldstil, the
first outbursts of fanatical fury, it is be-
lieved that something may intervene to
save them. The news, after the sinister
rumors of the last ten days, is enough
upon which to build up hopes.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Express, t~elegraphing on Sunday at o:1e
p. M, throws doubt upon Consul War;
ren's information. He says:
Too al Sheng now admits that there
was an error in the communication to
General Warren. The date of the cou--
.1er's arrival at Chinen Flu was July 8.
The journey from Pekin to Chinen Flu
takes five days. The courier, therefore.
could not haye left Pekin later than June
%. The date Of the massacre there, as
given by Chinese reports, was June so or
July l."
Tien Tsin is still hard pressed. A
Chinese force numbering from 80, 900 to
100000 men, as estimated by inconclusive
recOnnOlsances, floods the country
around about Tien Tsin, communication
between which place and Taku is appar-
emily possible by river only.
- Ghefoo dispatch to the Express says
the Russians have Landed 5000 men at
Iaku and the Japanese have discharged
several transports. The japanese pushed
on to Tien Tsin, leading in the subsequent
assault upon the native city, in which
their commander was killed. Ten more
transports are engaged at Japanese
ports. With the $1,000 British India
troops aftoat and fresh japanese contin-
gents, it is quite probable that the allies
will soon have $1,000 men ashore
The disorders in the provinces appear
TO be increasing in violence. A Chinese
army is within 40 miles of New Chwang
and the foreigners are preparing to
abandon their homes. The southern
part of the province is swept by raiders,
destroying all works Of the white man,
except in spots garrisoned by Russians.
Proclamatinns have been posted in all
villages near Chefoo calling upon the 10y
al Chinese to rise and expel the foreign
ers for introducing among the pious
Chinese an immoral religion. Every
good Buddhist is expected to kneel three
hours daily, knock his head Upon the floor
thrice and pray earnestly that sudden,
cruel death may overtake all aliens.
The foreign settlement at Chefoo is at
49, ~ W III u alpp
with krupp guns. which two
sides of the city. Six warships, including
the United States gnunbcat Nashville,
are constantly cleared for action
The provisional government at Pekin
appears to have designs upon the south
ern provinces. Besides having ordered
kWan shikai to advance upon Nankin,
which Kwan Shika says he will not do,
Prince Tuan has sent an army along the
route of the Grand canal. Nankin is on
the south bank of a river nearly a mile
wide. The British cruisers He"moine and
Pique T., will assist in repelling attempts
to cross. Six Chinese cruisers are there
and II, 900 Chinese troops are att he dis
rnsal of Viceroy Liu Kun vi. The forts
mount "a high power modern guns. The
foreigners in Shanghai are becoming un-
easy. Everything depends, they feel, on
Viceroy Liu Kun VI.
Refugees from Tien Tsin arriving at
Shanghai say that only five CIVILIAN for
eigners were killed during the long Chi
nese bombardment. The foreign women
became SO frightened that they walked
through the streets not needing the
shells. Most of the civilians We're de-
ported to Taku, thence to be conveyed
to Shanghai.
The courier mentioned in Consul War
r2n's dispatch gives a strange picture,
say the Daily Nails Shanghai CORE
spondent. of how life iostles death in
Pekin. Business apparently goes on as
usual. The shops and theaters are open
and the streets are full of people. No
imperial troops except those of aenehal
Tung Fuh Slang took pant in the fight
Ing. The courier even asserts positively
that provisions are being supplied to tina
legations. but by whom he does not say.
The Boxers and Genera ! Tung Fuali
Slang do not get along well. The Boxers
assert that they do all the fighting and
the latter all tie looting and nothing
else.
Co-,r >,u-- CT
Shan Tung, says the correspondent of the
Daily Mail, predicts that bp July II the
Boxers will disband and negotiations will
be begun for peace. nevertheless the
cdriumstantial rumors of dark things to
come are in circulation.
The correspondents at Shanghai, which
rs still the clearing house of all China
news, says that a combined force of Rus
SLAMS and Japanese are following the
railroad as far as Lang Chan and have
been swept to the west and attacked the
Chinese is miles north of Tien Tsin and
killed 1000 of them.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Standard says reports from Tien Tsin
from Chinese sources says that a great
battle has taken place in which the Chi
nese lost heavily. The allies at Tien Tsin
are short of provisions and suffer con-
ssderably from ~"snipping."
The Daily Mails Tien Tsin correspond
ent in a dispatch datel July 2, via Che
Foo, July A, says:
No forward movement is possible with
less than 10000 men. A document has
been found signed by a British resident
on behalf of British manufacturers, of
fering Vieeroy Chi Ching Chung com
plete arma ments and officers and ar
army corps for e450, 900. The messages
OF British correspondents at Tien Tsir
are censored by the British authorities
but there is no censorship exercised oyel
the other correspondents.
The Daily Telegraph's Canton CORE
pendent, wiring Friday, via Hong Kone