The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-06-12
IN CHINA
The Situation Is Still Serious.
AMERICAN
Missionaries Defend Themselves
Till Rescued.
SATURDAY
Fifteen Hundred Foreign Troops Left
Tie1 Tsin for Peking.
SATURDAY

The situation In CHINA Is stllI very
grave. The Boxers continue their war
on all foreigners, and have destroyed
part of the railroad between Tien Tsin
and Peking.
At Peking, the foreign residents have
all taken refuge in Legation Street,
and all grown males have been armed.
There is great excitement in that city.
The Empress, Dowager is doing nothing
to suppress the Boxers.
Two British officers reached Tien
Tsin from Peking, Friday, reporting
that the railroad track had been destroy
ed and two bridges injured, between
the two cities. Saturday, force of
1900 foreign troops left Tien Tsin for
Peking, expecting to repair the rail
road and reach Peking by Monday
night.
| This force was constituted as follows:
| First train:-Carried Vice Admiral
Sir Edward Seymore, Commander-in-
chef on the British China Station, his
staff, $50 British troops, 100 American,
40 Italians and Is Austrians. Hotch-
kiss and other guns were mounted on q
car in front of the engine, and other
guns were in position in the center o.
the train.
A second train started at IL o'clock
carrying about 900 British, Russians
French and Japanese troops.
kilograms from Peking state that thu
situation is hourly becoming worse
AS yet no Europeans have been harmed
. but they are unsafe. The British Lega
tion is full of missionaries.
The Americans at Tung Chau wer
rescued by American marines, who es
corted them to Peking. The mission
, was attacked and burned last Friday
( but the Americans defended themselve
until they were rescued.
t 1t is stated that there are 400 me-
on the British warships Barfeur ready
The Boxers are working toward
t Tien Tsin. They are tearing up tn
l railway tracks and burning bridges
: The people everywhere befriend them
: A guard has been formed at Tien Tsi
. to convoy the women and children t
a Gordon Hall in the event of an attac
q being made on the city.
s There are thirty-one foreign war ve'
|. vels at Taku. A message from Pekin
to the Admirals asserts that the stu,
tion is hourly becoming more dangerOr
for foreigners.
On Friday, according to despatc
:. to the London Daily Express frol
Shanghai, force of Cossacks reconnoi
h ering outside of Tien Tsin was attacke
4 by a rabble of thousands, armed wit
q spears, swords and some rifles. Th
i Cossacks fired upon their assailant!
J. killing several. A Russian Lieutenar
II was wounded in the stomach by bu
/. let.
q There is serious rising at Ma
q King.
n Tie mob is said to have attacked til
palace of the Viceroy.
e All dispatches out of Peking are Gel
h sored in the interest of the Empires
l. The determination of the foreign Mi
# listers to increase the garrison at P
king leads to belief in foreign circl'
in Tien Tsin and Shanghai that tt
: powers will never leave the Chimes
a capital, but will make China anotht
!. Egypt
: Ten thousand troops of q / natio
X alities, according 70 despatch to tt
!. Daily Mail from Shanghai, will be sci
,s to Peking to back up the demands
/ the Ministers upon the government, I
if necessary, suppress the Boxers then
n selves.
# England is preparing to send sever
J. hundred troops from Hong Kong.
r. Saturday, there were reports at Tie
= Tsin, that Peking had been set on fir
/