The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-04
GROW IMPATIENT.
Americans and Japanese Do Not Like
the Unnecessary Delay.
THERE is 100 MUCH RED TAPE.
Displayed by Others in Authority,
Who Take Things Easy, and Are
Prodigal of Time-Not Progressing
in Accordance With Anglo-saxon
Traditions.

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Copyright, 1900. The Associated Prcss.)
TEN TsIN. Wednesday, July Is. via
Shanghai, Thursday. Aug. IA major
ity OF the commanding officers here say
the relief expedition will start for Pc
kin about August is. In the meantime
the events at Pekin which might be ex-
pectea to cast shadow over the allied
forces are seemingly but slightly re-
garded. High officers are enter
tanning nightly at elaborate dinners,
with military bands playing operate
Mrs. Foreign residents aud friends Of
the beseiged in Pekln who came to Tlen
Tsin TO await news or TO accompany the
expedition, are intensely dissatisfied
with the progress appropriations. They
accuse the army OF indifference and Of
magnitylng the difficulties to be en-
countcred in reaching Pekin.
Not Progressing Properly.
President Tenny. OF the Tfen TsIn
University. who has volunteered to
guide the army TO Pekin, said tonight:
This business is! not progressing in
accordance with Anglo-Sax tradl-
tiDns. Twenty thousand soldiers are
staying here while women and children
Of their own race are starving and
awaiting massacre eighty miles away.
Military and naval officers meanwhile
wasting time in pickering over petty
politics are sorry spectacle. 1t will be
Il dark blot on the reputation OF every
commanding officer here II the white
people in Pekln are allowed to perish
without desperate effort to save
them
Sufficient Troops for the Campaign.
President Tenney and many others
who are acquainted with the conditions
think there were sufficient troops here
to push forward aud pursue the Chinese
after the fall of the native city OF Tlen
Tsin. That the position of the legations
demanded that the army take eXtraor-
binary risks by, securing the surround
ing country and communicating ami
mails and wagons and that boats suiIi-
Client for purposes of transportation
might be improvised, is the prevailing
opinion of civilians. and many officers,
notably Japanese and, Americans con-
firm this view: The comment Is made
that European officers are too attached
10 book theories to utilize the resources
OF the country, and that they would
rather stay in Tlen Tsin according To
rules than start for Pekln without a
perfect equipment.
Legations Will Manage to Hold Out.
General Dorward, of the British
forces, and other high officers take an
optimistic view OF conditions at Pekin,
saying they think the legations will
manage to hold out.
On the surface the best OF feeling pre-
walls among officers and soldiers OF the
several nations represented here. All
are fraternizing. but the lack of organi-
zatlon and supreme commander handi-
caps progress. While people at T!ea
Tsin are entirely ignorant Of diplomatic
negotiations. abroad concerning Chinese
affairs. the lack of harmony here
among the representatives OF the pow
ers binders vigorous action.
The Japanese are giving n splendid
exhibition of organization. Their whole
machine moves like clock work. There
have been forwarded from Japan small
boats or lighters for moving troops and
stores, and every regiment is landed
quickly and without confusion and
started for. TEN Tsin within a few
hours after the transport has anchored
in the harbor.
Japanese Revelation.
The management of the Japanese
army and the bravery spirit and intelii-
gence OF the Japanese troops are n
revelation that commands the. respect
and admiration of all foreign officers.
The heat is intense. The temperature
averaging 100 degrees during the week
and yesterday It was 1Qi degrees.
The disregard OF all sanitary reSt2a-
lions by certain troops is a serious
menace. The streets are full of refuse
and an lnsufferable stencil pervades the
town. The police and sanitary work
compares unfavoraby with the Amcri-
can regime In the Philippines.
Germans Were Beaten by Uncle Sam.
BERLIN. August 3.-Thc Deutsche