The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-22
THE FORTS At TAKU TAKEN.
Opened Fire and We're Speedily
SiIenced.
OCCUPIED BY FOREIGNERS.
United States Ninth Regiment Is Delayed
by Observation-Disclosures of Native
Christians and Servants of Foreigners
Being Killed.

engagement surrendered. The British
glnboat Algerine was badly damaged
and two of her officers and four of her
men wounded. A magazine was eX
ploded in one of the forts by the fire
from the war vessels. 1t is not known
what the casualties among the Chi
nese defenders were. 1t is reported
that Japan and Russia are landing
large forces of troops.
The war department has received
the following cablegram from General
Macarthur at Manila, dated yesterday:
Ninth Infantry, Colonel Liscum, Or
dered to Taku on Logan; transporta-
ton Port Albert; probably start oath;
typhoon delays movement"
New York, June 19.-The CONNER
clal Cable Company's central cable Of
flee of the Western Union Telegraph
Company this morning issued the fol-
lowing notice:
Photographic communication with
Taku and Tien-tsin has been re-estab-
lished via the Siberian and Helampo
route"
The Great Northern Telegraph Com
pany has also issued a notice to the
Commercial Cable company to the eff
feet the lines to the far east are in
order again.
Simla, June 19.-In consequence of
the gravity of the Chinese situation
the Seventh Bengal infantry has been
ordered to proceed to Hongkong, and
fYAn - hn y, .triI
be sent If necessity requires.
London, June 19.-Shanghai advices
state that the relieving column under
Admiral Seymour was at Lang-Fang
Friday awaiting re-enforcements.
Smoke and the reflection of the fires
burning in Pekin are visible from
Lang-Fang.
The column cannot proceed until the
Russians. who are now being landed,
arrive with food and ammunition.
There is not a cabinet in Europe,
apparently, that knows what has been
Transporting in Pekin for five days, or
in TienTsin for three days. Nor is
there any that knows with what diff
culties the small and inadequately
equipped international column is con-
tending between those cities.
The German foreign office, upon
learning the report of the murder of
Baron Won Ketteler, the German min
lister at Pekin, sent a Geographic in
quiry to st. Petersburg, to the Russian
government, because of it's wires to
Manchooria being supposedly in a bet
ter position than the other govern
ments' to obtain direct news. In re-
ply the German foreign Office was in
formed that nothing whatever was
known on the subject, as communica-
ton with PeBin was interrupted.
The report, spread worldwide from
Shanghai, that the legations had been
attacked, and that one minister. prob
ably the German, had been murdered,
has been traced to the Tao-Tai-Sheng,
who for a few days, as the empress
dowager's agent, has been censoring
kilograms from Shanghai. The Shang
hal correspondent of the Daily Express
says: "Sheng, as head Of the tele-
the line connecting Shanghai with
Pekin had been down since June 9, and
that the wires to Tien-Tsin were cut
on June 10. Nevertheless, it Is no
torious that constant communications
have been passing from Shanghai to
Pekin over the northern and western
routes, although Sheng has refused
both ministers and consuls the privi-
lege of using the lines. 1t is known
that last Friday Sheng received a mes
sage from either Pekin or TienTsin.
This dispatch said that Gen. Tung Fuh
Siang's troops aided the Boxers in an
organized attack on the foreign lega-
tlons, and that in the course of the at
tack some of the legation buildings
were reduced to ruins, and one foreign
minister sliced to pieces"
Why in the cables it should have
been added that the murdered minister
was Baron Won Ketteler is not ex-
planned
According to another telegram from
Shanghai. dated June II, at 1875 p. m,
Sheng has fed, fearing that the for
eign authorities were about to arrest
him because of his stoppage of tele-
grams.
A third telegram asserts that the re-
ports of the murder of the German
minister emanating from London are
quite unconfrmed, and are discredited
at Shanghai.
Manila, June 1S.-The Ninth infan-
try regiment has been ordered TO Ma
Mia and will proceed at once to China.
The gunboat Concord. with marines
on board, has sailed under sealed or
ders, supposedly for China.
The British cruiser Buena Ventura
has sailed for Hong Kong with troops
and stores for Hong-Kong and Tisn-
Tsin.
The Shanghai correspondent OF the
Daily Telegraph, in dispatch dated
June 10, says that the Boxers were
then killing hundreds of native Chris
tians and the servants of foreigners"
The same correspondent. in a dis.
patch dated yesterday, says: