Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-23
FIGHTING IN CITY
ALLIES NOW BONBAnDING
CHINESE IN CAPITAL.
EMPRESS DCWACER FLEES
Communication With Plhin Inter
rupted and Little Jews Comes In
But Foreigners Now Forcing En-
trance Into Forbidden Inner City
Canton Getting FESTIVE.

London, Aug. 21.-Oging probably
to the Pekin wire being cut little news
of the conditions in the Chinese capital
has come through. What has reached
London indicates that the allies are ii
need of reinforcements. Inc com
mander of the Italian second class
cruiser FferamOsca telegraphs from
Taku, according to a Rome CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, that very
! urgent requests came from Pekin Sat
urd3y for the immediate dispatch Of
! further troops and that in answer to
these 400 Italian marines were sent Off
| post haste. The Japanese minister in
London is said to have received a teIe-
| gram last evening announcing that
| subsequent to the entry into PelIin the
| Japanese detachment went to the i'm
! perial palace to afford whatever pro-
| lection was necessary. Reports of the
presence of the empress dowager are
still contradictory.
The Chinese minister in London, on
being asked as to the whereabouts of
the emperor and empress dowager, re-
piled: "They have gone westward to
the old capital, Hsian Flu, I think they
are quite safe there" Serious trouble
is now threatening in the neighbor-
hood of Canton. Americans at Swa-
tow, according to the Chronicles
Shanghai correspondent, have applied
for warship in consequence of serious
dioting; and the Hong Kong CORES
pendent Of the Daily Mail says a war
ship is on its way there now. Queen
Victoria has sent a congratulatory
i message to the commandant of ma
rines at Pekin.
Inner City Bombarded.
London, Aug 21-Rear Admiral
Bunce cables the admiralty from Che
foo, Aug. 10, as follows:
81 am informed on the authority of
the Japanese that street fighting still
continues in Pekin, part of which is on
fire. Yang Sa CD prevented the en-
press from leaving, and a last stand is
now being made in the inner city,
which is now being surrounded by the
allies and is being bombarded"
Emperor Nicholas has wired to Gen.
Linevitch, commander of the Russian
troops in the province of Pc Chi Lii
congratulating him heartily upon the
rapid capture of Pekin and bestoWing
upon him the third class Order of st.
George.
Gen. Grodokoff, Russian comman-
der Of the Amur government, reports
to the Russian war office that Chingan
Pass was captured Aug. 16 after a
bloody battle. in which the Chinese
suffered heavily, losing four or five
guns.
The principal Russian papers, no
tably The Novoe Vremya, commenting
upon the victory at Pekin, declares
that Russia should go no further in
participating in common armed inter
vention, but should limit her military
action to the frontier and the Manchu-
rian railroad.
Shanghai in Danger.
Shanghai, Aug. 21-The situation in
the Yang Use valley is grave The
| silk Weavers are out of work and are
placarding the towns. An outbreak is
feared. Three thousand British-Indian
forces landed at Shanghai Saturday.
Americans sent a telegram appealing
| to their government to send an equal
nun Der. French forces are now en-
route. Fifteen thousand troops are
considered necessary for defense here
Kaiser Kisses Waldersee.
| Cassel Prussia Aug 21-In the pal
| ace throne room here Emperor Will
liam presented Field Marshal Count
Won Waldersee with a field marshal's
! baton, and made an appropriate speech
to which Won Waldersee replied. A
dinner followed and his majesty toast
ed the Austrian emperor. When Won
Waldersee started for Berlin the en-
peror embraced and kissed him as he
left
Anarchy at Pekin.
Berlin, Aug. 21-The foreign office
has received dispatch from the Ger
man consul at Chefoo under today's |
date, saying the dowager empress was !!
believed to be inside the palace of Pc !
kin and that the allies were still bonn
harding the Notifications
1t is said at the war department that |
the reports of continued fighting in Pc
kin indicate that the allied forces
found a state of anarchy in the city,
with many disorderly people and no
method of controlling them. This es-
pecially would be the case if the re-
ported flight Of the empress dowager
and emperor is true. Consequently, it
has been found necessary for the
troops to restore order in the city and
carry cut the instructions under which
cur forces are acting.