The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-18
London Morning Post
Has Received Dispatch
From Pckin Which
Makes the Announce
nent.
Seven Thousand Russians
With Twelve Machine
Guns Reported to Be
Marching From Ten
Tsin to Pekin.

wiIdering bunch OF reports and conjec-
lures, most OF them picturesque and
threatening. Here is one;
Miscellaneous armed crowds have
been I'm progress north for some weeks.
and the hordes around Pekin are being
constantly swelled by these arrivals.
Well-informed Chinese here. who are
not unfriendy toward foreigners. de-
clare that there must now be up
ward of 10000 men outside the city
gates. all OF them armed. although
some IN more or less crude fashion
The probability is that there is not
more than 10000 Chinese troops among
them. all told.
PEKIN IN A STATE OF PANIC.
Information from Pekin, brought
hlther by refugees says that the city
is I'm a state OF panic. Incendiary fires
are OF nightly occurrence, and scores
OF outrages are reported.
Women and children from Tien-Tsin
are pouring into Shanghai. The chief
danger here Is in the fact that the ma
tive town behind the European settle
ment Is full OF bad characters whose
attitude is becoming every day more in
solent and menacing.
RUSSIANS MARCHING.
"The latest news 10 hand Is that 1000
Russians, with ~ machine guns and II
field guns, are marching from Tien-Tsin
To Pekin. Last week the foreign min
ister warned the Tsung-li- Yamen that.
in the event of an attack upon the lega-
tions, or OF injury TO any. of the min
listers or members of the STATS OF the
legations. the powers in combination
would declare war upon China. To this
ultmatum the Tsung-li-Yamen, as
usual returned no direct reply.The an
swer OF the Empress Dowager is. no
doubt the attack on the legations by
the Boxers and troops under Gen. Tung
Fuh-Siang.
INSTRUCTIONS TO VICEROYS.
"It has transpired that few days
ago the Viceroys OF the southern prov
inces received orders from Pekin 10 CO.
operate with Gen. Tung in the defence
of Pekip against a threatened invasion
by the foreign devils They were in
structed to detail to Pekin without an
instant's delay, all the troops they had
available within their respective juris-
dictions, the time having now come TO
rid our empire forever of the evil ele-
ments which have so long threatened
it,"
KILL NATIVE CHRISTIANS.
Il ne SHANGHAI correspondence OI tue
Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch dated
June 16 says:
News from Pekin dated June 13.
says that the Boxers were then killing
hundreds of native Christians. and the
servants Of the foreigners"
The same correspondent in a dispatch
dated yesterday. says:
"A Chinese report stated that Ad-
miral Seymour is fighting with the Chi
nese regulars. and that the foreign
forces have seized the Taku forts"
Another dispatch says: From the
Chinese movements and from reports to
hand IL is certain that the Chinese have
foreign advisers"
The foreign consuls at Shanghai. the
members OF the municipal council and
the officers of the volunteer forces met
yesterday Sunday and adopted a plan
in the event of It's being necessary To
defend themselves against the local
Chinese.
TAkU FORTS OCCUPIED.
London, June 1S.-Shanghai is to the
front again with the statement that
the Taku forts have been occupied by
the international troops. According TO
"A Cheefoo special. seventeen forts
opened fire upon the warships, where
upon the feet replied I'm kind and si-
lenced the Chinese guns and the In
ternational forces subsequently landed
and seized the forts. The news OF this
engagement Is stated To have been
brought 10 Cheefoo by Japanese war
ship, but date OF occupancy is not Civ
en-. According To a dispatch the Chinese
bombardment followed an ultimatum
sent by the commanders of the feet
An official dispatch from the German
consul In ChefoO. received I'm Berlin,
confirms the arrival OF Japanese tor
pedo boat with the following message:
'Thc japanese torpedo boat reports
that the legations at Pekin have been
taken"
whether taken by Boxers or the Chi
nese troops or the mob Is apparently
not stated nor Is mention made in the
message Of the Japanese torpedo boat
or the capture OF the Taku forts.
CIVILIZED NATIONS MUST RULE.
Chicago, June ls.-A special from
Denver. says: Bishop Earl Cfanston.
who recently returned from China, de-
clared from his pulpit yesterday that
civilized nations must rule China.
1T is worth any cost I'm money" he
said 1T is worth any cost IN blood
shed N we can make the millions OF
Chinese true and intelligent Christians
~ would cut all the red tape in the
world and break all the treaties ever
made 10 place the armies Of the United
States in the fore next Great Britain.
THE ODfn door must be maintained
FOR chrisnanity az well as for COM
merce."
A BATTLE ~ PROGRESS.
Berlin. Jine IS l.3O D. m.--The Ger
man consul AZ Cheflo cables that an
engagement ~ proceeding at Taku be-
tween the Chinese forts and the foreign
Warships.
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