The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-23

HONG KONG, June 23-Li Hung Chang,
who was interviewed In Canton yester-
DAY, said he would leave for Pekin June
u in obedience to an order from the en-
press to suppress the Boxers and to make
peace with the powers. He indorsed the
opinion that he was the only man in
China capable of coping with the situa-
ton. He said he regarded the Boxers to
be 'rabble, led away by fanatacism and
anti-Christian feeling" but he also declar-
ed that the native Christian leaders were
much to blame as they engendered liti-
cation in the native courts. He said he
did not regard the Boxers as a political
society, and that, in his opinion, the en-
press had been misled and misinformed.
Prince Ii said he had been officially in
formed that the Taku forts fired upon the
allied fleet because the admirals sent an
ultimatum calling for the removal of the
soldiers. He does not interpret that act
as declaration of war and he has not
received any instructions to the effect that
war had been declared. His remedy for
the situation is to decapitate the leaders
of the Boxers, to send their ignorant fol-
lowers home, and to make peace With the
powers.
SILENCE AT PEKIN.
LONDON, June IS, a. m.-The silence
OF Pekin continues unbroken. Four
thousand men of the allied forces were
having sharp defensive fighting at Tien
Tsin Tuesday and Wednesday, with a
prospect of being reinforced Thursday
This Is the situation in China as set forth
In the British government dispatches
Eight hundred Americans are taking
part in the fighting at Tien Tsin," saws
the Shanghai correspondent Of the Daily
Express, cabling last evening and thev
apparently form a part Of a supnlc-
mentary force, arriving with Germans
and British after the conflict started. It
is impossible to estimate the number of
the Chinese there, but they had a sur
pr1sing number of guns
This information appears to have been
brought by the United States gunboat
Nashville, to Che Foo, and telegraphed
thence to Shanghai. The Chinese are de-
serting Shanghai in large numbers and
going into the interior
Reports from native sources continue to
reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin.
According to the latest reports the streets
are filled, day and night, with the Box
ers' who are wholly beyond the control
Of the Chinese troops, and who are work.
ing themselves up to a frenzy and clam
Oring for the death of all foreigners.
TRAGEDY IN THE PALACE.
Z The English consulate at Shanghai is
said to have received from influential
natives reports OF q tragedy in the palace
at Pekin, though precisely what is not
defined.
The consulate thinks that Admiral Sev-
mour, commander of the international
relief column, was misled hy information
from PeEin and consequently underes,i-
mated the difficulties in his way and The
Chinese power of resistance, with Maxim
guns and Mausers
The consuls at Shanghai still believe the
foreign ministers at Pekin are safe. al
though tIg japanese reports received at
Shanghai allege that up to June Is lou
Foreigners had been killed in Pekin. The
Daily Express says:
We understand that Mr. Reginald
Thomas Tower, secretary Of the British
embassy in Washington, is to succeed Sir
Claude Macdonald at Pekin and that the
reason of Sir Claudes recall is the break
ARE APPRENTICESHIP
SHANGHAI June 22-Owing to the
absence of warships at Kiau Kiang Flu
some apprehension is felt there of an up
rising. The merchant steamship com
panies have arranged to always keep one
steamer in readiness.
The British twin screw cruiser Daphne
arrived here with ammunition.
TO RUSH REINFORCEMENTs
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The admins
tratlon is endeavoring to stimulate the
dispatch OF troops and naval reinforce
ments to China to meet the emergency
q Tien Tsin. Reports that have been re
ceiVed over night at the navy DEPART
ment but which are temporarily with
held from publication, are, it is believed
contirmatory of the reports from Europe
OF the need of reinforcements for the in
ternauOnal forces at Tien Tsin.
1t is understood that low water in the
Pei Ho river is preventing the naval YES
sels at Taku from going to the assistance
of the small force in Tien Tsin, and it is
probable that no boat drawing more
water than torpedo boat can get that
Tar up the river. In that case the pur-
pose OF the navy department in Fastening
Inc gunboat Nashville and the old Mon
ocacy to Taku has been in part defeated
improbable that they could ascend the
Pei I1o as far as Tien Tsin during ex-
treme low water. In this case the onI,,
recourse is-in the use of troops and naval
battalions afoot. The distance from Taku
to lien Tsin is about thirty miles. biu
the travelling is bad, and If there Is much
opposition, the journey might occupy
several days.
The emergency described In Admiral
Kemph's dispatches has led the war de-
partment to make an extra effort n
hurry forward the Ninth regiment from
Luzon TO Taku.
A recent census of Tien Tsin shows tba
foreign population to be about LOCO per.
sons, including 110 Americans. Thus tha
report from Japanese sources that 500
foreigners at Tien Tsin had been mas
sacred would seem to be untrue or cross
ly exaggerated in point of numbers
Livery foreigner within the city's bound
aries would have to be killed to bring the
total up to anywhere near that number
Frs AMERICAS POSITION.
The state department still holds 70 a
negative view, and II has received re-
Gently powerful support in It's position
by the attitude assumed by the Euro
pean chancelleries. Without exception
the European advices to the department
Indicate that the governments do yet re-