The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-07-06
TROOPS ENTER
TEN TSIN
Allied Forces Cul Through the
Chinese Army.
AMERICANS WERE IN FRONT
Important Dispatches Reach
Washington In a Rush and
Clears Up the Situation.
AMERICANS WERE IN FRONT

Secretary Of State Hey received o
dispatch Tuesday from United States
Consul John Fowler, at Che Foo, say
ing:
1.-THE allied forces entered Tien
Tsin Saturday, June 23d."
The navy department received the
following cablegram from Admiral
Kempff:
"TAKU, June %. Secretary
Navy, Washington: Relief force
which left Tien Tsin June 10 for 10
Pekin reported ten miles from
Tien Tsin surrounded; force left
Tien Tsin oath to render assist
ance. KEMPFF."
Further advices state that the Amer
leans and British entered the city
first, silencing the guns Of the arsenal
and breaking through the Chinese
lines. The foreigners were close be-
hind. The Russians lost four killed
and thirty wounded. The loss of the
other nationalities were small.
Admiral Seymour's force is about ten
miles from Tein Tsin. It is surround
ed by Chinese troops and boxers and
hampered by the presence of sick and
wounded. 1t is reported that all
foreigners were sent from Pekin with
weak Chinese guard, and it is as
sumed that they are with Admiral Sey-
mour.
THE SITUATION EXPLAINED.
After a day of uncertainty and sus-
pension, official information began to
reach Washington with rush early
Tuesday morning concerning the force
operating at Tien Tsin and those seek
ing to break through to Pekin. Ad-
miral Kempf's dispatch and that from
Consul Fowler, at Che Foo, both con.
frmed the reports that the combined
forces which have been operating near
Tien Tsin entered the city on the 23d.
The admiral added the welcome intel
ligence: "Loss very small"
This is the relief column, including
marines, which suffered a repulse on
their first movement. Beyond the
brief statement of four killed and seven
wounded, nothing has come as to the
casualties of this first attack but the
result of the second movement, which
has been awaited with deepest concern,
is now cleared up by the administra-
TONS reports. 1t remains yet to be
reported how the relief column found
affairs at Tien Tsin, where, according
to the unofficial reports of last week,
anarchy prevailed and the foreign
quarters were destroyed.
But the admiral's report turned
attention in a new direction by the
statement that the Pekin relief force
is reported ten miles from Tien Tsin,
surrounded. This is the first word Of
any kind that has located the party of
$500 under Vice Admiral Seymour,
and including Captain McCalla, with
100 United States marines. The last
heard of them was on June 18th, when
they were stalled at Lang Fang, about
two-thirds of the way from Tian Tsin
TO Pekin, short Of supplies and water,
the railroad torn up and with a men
acing army Of Chinese about them.
In Admiral Kempff's information il
discloses that Admiral Seymour's force
has not been able to get through to
Pekin, but has retraced q good part OF
J the distance previously covered, and
is now back within ten miles of Tien
3 Tsin. The whole distance from Tien
Tsin to Pekin is about 80 miles, and
the Seymour expedition, when at Lang
: Fang, had covered about 55 miles oil
3 that distance. 1t is to succor this Sey
I mour party that the latest expedition
left Tien Tsin on the oath instant, &C
cording to the closing words o.
Kempff's report. There have been 81
many expeditions that officials them
? selves are somewhat confused as to thu
several movements, and it ia well K
locate the different expeditions as they
stand by the latest dispatches.
> The first body of foreign troops
, about 450 in number, and including
3 Sc American marines, which went t,
Pekin to guard the legations, i
thought to have got through. TIL
: force of $500 under Seymour, afte
t making two-thirds of the distance,
Q now back ten miles from Tien Tsin
Q according to Admiral Kempf. TIL
first force which went against Tie
Tsin, including Major Walters me
> rines and 400 Russians, was repulse
Q with loss. This was reinforced t
t 1000 men, and the reinforced bod
4 entered Tien Tsin on the 23d. On tn
g oath a relief column started to th
assistance of the force ten miles frol
3 Tien Tsin. These several bodies ar
g widely separated and show the exter
Of the present field Of action.