The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-26
SITUATION
CONTINUES TO
GROW GLOOMY.
British Cruiser Terrible Arrives at
Che Foo From Talu With the Lat
est News From the Front.
FUSILIERS EFFECT A JUNCTION
With the American, German and
Russian Forces-chinese Cruisers
Ordered to Nan King.

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LONDON. June 20, $3.50 a. m.-The
British cruiser Terrible has arrived at
Che Foo from Taku with the latest
news which is as follows:
Eight hundred sikhs and 200 Welsh
fusllters have afrected a junction with
the American. German and Russian
forces. which had been cut of by the
Chinese about nine miles from Tien
Tsln. It was proposed to deliver an as
sault upon the Chinese forces at TIan
Tsin last night Sunday nIghO."
1t is not clear what forces united. 1t
would seem that one relieving force cut
off had been relieved by another AT
any rate, 1t is apparently certain that
the allies arrived in sufficient force at
Tien TsIn Sunday to attack the besleg-
ing CHINESE
Worst Has Happened to Legations.
"Foreign official opinions here" says
a dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily
Express dated yesterday, "inclines to
believe that the worst has happened to
the legations at Pekin and to Admiral
Seymour as we'll. Even II the legations
were safe on June 10, there is no guar
antee that they are safe now. The sit
uatlon. in fact, grows more and more
gloomy. The entire absence OF reliable
news from the capital seems to justify
the worst construction which can b. put
upon it.
bad news comes from Nan King,
where the unrest Is said to be growing
hourly. vlceroy Liu Kim Ylh has tele-
graphed the British authorities that he
has ordered the five Chinese cruisers
which have been lying on the harbor
here, to proceed to Nan King"
Chinese Thoroughly Equipped.
General Mas army" says cores
pondent at Shan Hal Nwan, consisting
of 1000 men, felt u week ago for Pekin
ana General Sung Ching's force, num-
barlng $500, left for the same place on
June 10.
"A careful estimate OF the numOer
ana armament OF the Chinese troops
around Pelsln puts the total AZ 100000
and it is calculated that these troops
possess Z2I centlmetres cfeuso' guns
eighteen krupps ana loV maNin's'
Their supply of ammunition Is prac-
tlcally lnexhaustible. 1t has been main
ly supplied by German hrm az CARO-
witS' Fully three-fourtns OF tne Ch'-
nese forces are oauiy drl'leu' ~no''S un- ,
disciplined ana quite untani'iaF VII"
modern weapons
Another Shanghai dispateh says
LII Ping Heng' former governor Oh
Shan Tung' who Is intensely ant'.for-
eign, has gone to the k'ang YIN torts
on the Yang Use. He has declared ms
intention OF resisting the landing Oh
British forces in that region.
AN uneasy feellns FreVailins'
-Four cannon have been added 70 tne
West forts, where there are now l'UOO
soldiers eneamped, a further foFce nav
ing arrived from NltS fiai C"ou' i"e' :
Is an uneasy ieeling preVal'lng mere anu
an attack Is generally ahae'pa'eu' Cn'-
nese merchants are CLOSING lhe'r oIlces =,
and preparing 10 leave the port al
business Is at a standstill'
Extensive preparations ny 'he ail'es
are going forward. me hrst regimen.
OF British INDIA lO,OOO men embarked
at Calcutta yesterday anu e'' iHoIe
marines reeeiVeu oroefs 10 30 OUT iro'i
English ports
The BRUSH war once IN an'lcipH'io.' 'i
OF prolonged campaign Is contFae'i"e
Tor winter clothIns ana iur caps
The Atnur army corps oruereu .rt OUT u
Russia numbers 6Z'luV men win eishty