Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-06-28
TEN TS|N HAS
BEEN RELIEVED.
international Force Breaks Through
Besieging Chinese With
Small toss.
MANY FOREIGNERS DEAD IN CITY
Streets Are Reported Strewn With
Bodies, Including Eleven
Americans.
GO TO sEYM0UR's RESCUE NOW
Tho Admiral's Force of $500 Men
Said to BE Surrounded by & hi
ncsc Ten Miles From
lien Ism.
GO TO sEYMouRs RESCUE NOW

Washington, June 26.--1hc navy ue-
partment has received the following
from Admiral Kempff:
"Rclicf force reached Tien Tsin on
the 23d. Loss very small. Picking re-
lief force, which left Ticn Tsin on the
10th, is reported ten miles from lien
Tstn surrounded. a force left lien
Tsin on the gath to render assistance"
Che Foo, june 26.-Rcar Admiral
Kempff reports by a japanese torpedo
boat that the combined forces entered
1ien Tsin on Saturday, June %, sus-
tanning small loss. They started on
Sunday to relieve the force which left
lien Tsin on June 10 and which is be-
lieved to be surrounded near Picking.
According to Japanese reports Adj
miral Seymour has been captured and
the ministers have left Picking, guard
cd by Chinese soldiers. Their where's
abouts is unknown.
Using Tau, June 24.-S p. m.-Eight
thousand allied troops have landed at
Tallu, including 1900 Germans A
French officer who has succeeded in
getting through from lien Tsin to
I'aliu says that the Russians alone
have lost $50 killed and 800 wounded.
The German gunboat Hits, up Pei
Ito or lien rsin river, reports that
masses of Chinese are nearing Tong
INu aud that an immediate attack is
expected.
Streets Strcwn With Dead.
London, June 26.-Dispatches have
been received here and at Berlin con-
tirming Admiral Kemptf's announce
ment of the relief of Tien Tsin on the
2st. According to the report of a
Chinese refugee who has arrived at
Shanghai the condition of Tien Tsin
is horrible Everywhere i'm the streets
are bodies OF massacred men and
women of all nationalities. The Hong
Kong and German banks We're de-
stroyea during the bombardment.
Eleven Americans Killed.
Shanghai also reports that the
American-Russian relief force was
Hmbuscaded and suffered so severely
that the forces We're obliged to aban-
don several field guns and much ann
munition. One hundred and eighty
Russians and eleven Americans were
killed and wounded.
A German gunboat and Il Russian
topcdo boat destroyer are patrolling
the Pei lilo river, raking with ma
chine guns the native villages on+hc
river banks, which are filled with con-
cealed ssnipers.''
A dispatch from Canton says that
city remains quiet, but female mis-
sionaries from outlying districts are
coming in, owing to warnings of ma
tive Christians. The missionary hos
pitfalls are being deserted by students
and servants. Although it is official
ly said al Canton that Lii Hung Chang
will not go to Picking, he continues
preparations for departure.
A telegram from the governor Of
Lao Chou, dated June %, which has
reached Berlin, announces that ac-
cording TO reports from Chinese
sources Seymour's force has reached
Picking. This probably is merely a
rciteration of previous reports On the
same subject.
Hitter Against Russians.
Chefoo, June 2G. -(Copyright by the
Associated Press.) Officers of the
British, cruiser Terrible assert that
discord exists between the Russians
and Anglo-Americans. and say they
believe the Russians are planning to
break the concert and take posses
sion of Picking Independently. They
assert that Admiral Seymour's com
mand lacked unison, the foreigners
sullling because they We're under Brit
ish leadership. They bitterly de-
nounce the Russians general conduct
as uncivilized and barbarous, and
charge that the slaughter of peace
full Cinnamon at Taku aroused the
otherwise passive natives against the
foreigners.