The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-06-27
Bad Mess in China.
Efforts Being Made to Rescue
Troops at Tlen Tsln.
All the Powers Rushing Warships
and Troops to China-.Fears that
Reinforcements Will Arrive
Too Late.

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10000 men are striving to keep a
footing and to succor the legation in
Pekin appears to increase with peril
in every fresh dispatch. Pekin has
not been heard from direct for "A
days. The last dispatch was i'm
plorlng aid Admiral Seymour's
coiuran of 1000 was last heard from
IL days ago. At that time it was
surrounded midway between Pekin
and Tien Tsin Possibly now it has
reached Pekin The 5000 interna
tionals at Tien Tsin were hard press
ed and fighting for their lives on
Thursday, and a relieving force of
less than 1000 had been beaten back
20 Taku Friday Observers on the
spot think tha. 10000 men would
not be too mary to grasp China
firmly
The admiralty has received the fol.
lowing from the British rear admiral
at Taku:
tsChefoo, June % 3-Oply one run
ner has got through from Tien Tsin
for FIVE days. No information could
be obtained except that the foreign
settlement had been almost entirely
destroyed and that our people were
Sighting hard.
News is received as this telegram
is dispatched that an attempt to re-
lieve Tier Tsin on June % was re-
pulsed, 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 a: p. M, eabodies
some later information. 1t says /:
"Oficial japanese kilograms con-
firm the reports of a defeat OF the
allied forces at Tien Tsin. The for
eigners there are now placed 10 a
most desperate situation The Rus.
sian admiral, Hillebrandt, yesterday
sent . mixed force of 1000 from
Taku TO attempt the relief of Tier
Tsin. Nearly half of the force con-
sisted of japanese. The remainder
was made up of coatingents repre-
senting the other nations.
'sThe guns of the Chinese around
Tien Tsin are superior to anything
the defending European force has or
is likely to have for some time
The bombardment of Tien Tsin
continued Friday. Bomb shelters
were hastily erected by the foreign
troops largely constructed of wetted
piece goods. The food supplies are
insufficient aud the continued she'll
ing is reported TO be telling terri
bly,.
Among taose killed of the relief
force Friday was the commander of
H NJ s. Barfeur The foreign
casualties were 800
4Japau is making every effort
Her troops are now arriving at Taku
IN large numbers The Chinese
troops in the province of Chi Ii in.
clude $4,000 auxiliaries who have
been drilled by Russiea and German
officers"
Capt Beatty and Lieut. Wright.
British, have been severely wounded
at Tien Tsio, according to Shang-
hal dispatch to the Daily Express,
dated Saturday Information was
brought there by the British cruiser
Orlando fron Chefoo. The losses of
the Russians have been heavy
1t was reported from Shanghai las,
evening that the allied forces bad
blown up the Taku forts aud that
every available man had been sent to
the relief of Tien Tsin 1t is alleged
that ?. 800 Chinese bodies have been
cremated al Taku and more than
1900 Chinese are eaid to have been
killed st Tien Tsin
Chinese runners who have arrived
at Taku report that foreign force
was engaged several days ago With
an overwhelming body of Chinese
40 miles east of Tien Tsin At
Shanghai it is assumed that this force
was Admiral Seymour's
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Express says: 81 learn from a
mandarin who stealthily left Pekin
on June Is and who succeeded at
great hazard in getting clear, that
the Boxers are massed around Pekin
and that more than half of the north
ern and western portions of the city
including the foreign settlement,
were afame when the mandarin left
He could tell me nothing as to the
fate of the foreigners, nor much as
to the general situation but he had
heard that the empress dowager was
preparing to go to the province OF
Shan 81