Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-28
FOOD and WATER SCARCE.
In the Foreign Quarters of Bonn
barded Tientsin.
RIOTERS FLOOD THE MINES.
Eight Hundred Americans Taking Part
In Tientsin Battles-Germans and Brit
fsh Assisting Them Chinese Have
Many Guns-Tragedy in Palace.

London, June pa special dis
patch from Shanghai says: ''Intelli-
gence has been brought by the United
States gunboat Nashville that the for
eign quarter at Tientsin was lombard
ed by Gems. Mich, Tung Fun Slang,
Kang Su and Yuan Shu Kai The re-
suit of the fighting is not known.
The foreign residents are confined
to restricted district, and, as food
and water are scarce, they have suf-
fered greatly. The Ton Shan mines at
Pieh-Tai-Ho were abandoned by the
soldiers, and rioters flooded the mines
and ruined the machinery"
The consuls at Shanghai still believe
the foreign ministers at Pekin safe, al
though Japanese reports received at
Shanghai allege that up to June Is
100 foreigners had been killed in Pc
kin.
The Daily Express says: 1--WE I'M
derstand that Mr.. Reginald Thomas
Tower, secretary of the British embas
sy in Washington, is to succeed Sir
Claude Macdonald at Pekin, and that
the reason of Sir Claude's recall is the
breakdown to his health"
Sheng, director-general of tele-
graphs, wires from Shanghai to the
Chinese legations in Europe that the
foreign legations in Pekin are safe.
1t is reported that the British gov
eminent will Immediately send $500
marines to China, and possibly, accord
ing to some of the morning papers,
10000 of the regulars now with Lord
Roberts.
Eight hundred Americans are TAX
ing part in the fighting at Tientsin,'
says the Shanghai correspondent Of
the Daily Express, cabling Friday
evening, land they apparently form
part of a supplementary force, arriv-
ing with Germans and British after
the conflict started. 1t is impossible
to estimate the number of the Chinese
there, but they had surprising num-
Der of guns"
This information appears to have
been brought by the United States gum
boat Nashville to ChefoO and tele-
graphed thence to Shanghai The
Chinese are deserving Shanghai in
large numbers and going into the in
terror. Reports from native sources
continue to reach Shanghai of anarchy
in Pekin. According to these tales the
streets are filled day and night with
Boxers, who are wholly beyond the
control of the Chinese troops and who
are working themselves up to frenzy
and clamoring for the death of all
foreigners.
The English consulate at Shanghai
is said to have received from infiuen-
tial natives reports of tragedy in the
palace at Pekin, though precisely what
is not defined. The consulate thinks
that Admiral Seymour, commander of
the international relief column, was
misled by information from Pekin,
and, consequently underestimated the
difficulties in his way and the Chinese
power of resistance with Maxim guns
and Mausers.
Boxers Kill 1900 Foreigners.
London, June pa special from
Shanghai says that it is reported from
Japanese sources that $500 foreigners
have been massacred at Tientsin.
Chefoo, June 23.-It is officially re-
ported that the bombardment of Tien-
tsin with large guns continues inces-
sanity.
London, June 23-Sensational ru-
mors continue to pour into London
from China. The latest is that the Chi
nese are bombarding Tientsin, where
Admiral Seymour and the information
al forces are at the mercy of the Chi
nese troops.
Berlin, June 23.-According to dis
patch from Shanghai received here
Tientsin is being bombarded by Chi
nese regulars, and not by the Boxers.
London, June 23.-Lord Salisbury
presided at meeting of the cabinet
specially summoned to consider the
far eastern crisis. Prior to the meet
ing the French ambassador, M. Paul
Cambon, and the Chinese minister, Sir
Chin Chen Lo Feng Luh, paid a lengthy
visit to the officials of the foreign Of
flee, and it is expected that important
developments will be the outcome of
the cabinet conference, as Lord Sails
bury proceeded to Windsor after the
meeting. The apprehensions as to the
fate of the Europeans cut off at Tien-
tsin have been sharpened by Admiral
Kempff's message, which was the first
definite announcement of the bonn
bardment and destruction of the for
eign concession. But, in, spite of
Shanghai's grim statement that the
Chinese used forty-pounders, and that
1900 foreigners were massacred, there
is no reason to conclude that the for
eign colony has been unable to protect
itself
A Shanghai dispatch reports that
Tientsin was bombarded for two days,
that the casualties were 100, that 5000
international troops are there, and
that now that the allied commanders
at Taku are hastily pushing forward
relief column, it is hoped the worst
apprehensions will soon be dispelled.