The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-26
MISSION BUILDINGS
Fired by the Chinese Bombardment
Of Tien Tsin.
MODERN ARTILLERY SUPPLIED
To the Attacking Force = Column
VIII Have to Fight Through the
Big Chinese Army-British Hope
falof Early Peace Conditions,

NEW YORK, June PA dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Che
Foo says:
The Chinese bomhardment OF Tien
TsIn set FIRE to the mission buildings Of
dee. The fire spread to the native city
and destroyed everything. The attack
Ing force, well supplied with modern
artillery, has been, pressing the small
allied force very hard.
Already the dead number 16O. Relief
is being rushed from Taku, but the col
umn will have to fight its way through
the big Chinese army. "
The. British storeship Humber arrived
at che Foo. bringing thirty refugees
from Tong Shan, including Messrs. KIM
der and Parsons and Mrs. Parsons.
Pei Tai Ho (the great watering place
OF Northern China, where two hundred
prominent foreigners had their summer
homesl, has been abandoned
Decided Not to Join the Rebels.
The, governor of Shan Tung province,
in which Che Foo Is situated, after con-
ferrIng with his subordinate mandarins,
at his capital, Tslnanfu, decided not to
join the rebels and issued a prociama-
ton. decreelug that all Europeans and
Americans SHOULD be protected.
Admiral KempH held conference
Sunday, at the American consulate with
Consul Fowler. and the captains of the
Nashville and the Yorktown. The local
governor of Che Foo was present and
promised there should be no uprising
here against the foreigners and gave
other assurances which seemed all right
on the surface,
The governor expressed confidence in
the good will OF the professions of the
various vlceroys who have given notice
of their Willingness to cooperate with
the united forces. Without commit
ting himself to definite view of the
future. he appears aversc to any
scheme Of territorial indemnity which
when order Is restored, might be sug-
gested by the powers who have suffered
during the uprising.
Friendly Professions Of viceroys.
The interview of the United States
ambassador. Mr.. Joseph H. choate,
with Lord Salisbury, Saturday, was due
to instructions received from Secretary
Hay, in which the ambassador was no.
tilted of the friendly professions of the
various viceroys and.was instructed to
secure Lord Sallsbury's views beyond
casual conversation. Mr.. ehoate had
not mentioned the crisis in the far east
until he received Secretary Hays cable
message. The ambassador discovered
the British premier's views were exact
~ as frequently represented in these
dispatches. He maintnined the belief
that the diplomats at Pekln had not
been massacred and did not beiieve
they were likely to be. He is eminent
ly satisfied with the action already ta-
ken by the United States and expressed
the same views as the cable dispatches
attribute to Secretary Hay.
Satisfactory to Lord Salisbury
In short the conference may be said
not to have elected = single point on
which Lord Salisbury differed from the
American attitude. and while he ex-
pressed his determination to use every
endeavor to restore order in the Pei-Ho
valley and extricate the diplomats. his
estimate Of the situation was tinged
with a. spirit OF hopefulness that con-
trasted greatly with the general tone of
the British press