The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-08-10
The Chinese situation.

The reported advance from Tientsin
on Pekin proves to be only the sending
out of reconnoisances to feel the Chinese
positions. The British commander was
recommending on Monday in the direc-
| ton of Pei tsang some seven miles be-
yond Tientsin on the railway. 1t is at
this point that we may look for the first
fighting. as the Chinese force must be
dislodged from there before the advance
on Yang -tsun, where their main position
is said to be, can be made. At Pei tsang
their artillery would command the navi
cation of the Peiho and prevent the pas
sage of the water transports; there may
however,be way by which the position
there can be turned, which would save
both time and fighting.
The road along the west bank is also
probably held in force to protect the
right flank of the position at Yang -tsun
in the event of the force holding Pei
tsang on the east bank being dispersed
or outflanked. The appearance of
Boxer force at a point twenty miles
south east of Tientsin is an indication of
the necessity that will arise when the
advance on Pekin definitely takes place,
to guard against attacks on the COM
munications from the south from be-
tween the Grand Canal and the coast,
the base of which would be at Tsi-nan,
the capital of the province of Shantung
on the right bank of the Hoang- no, less
than 200 miles from Tientsin.
At Newchwang the Russians are re-
ported to have occupied the suburbs of
the town and demanded the surrender of
the native quarter. The complete pos
| session of this place is necessary to the
Russians on account of it's being the
junction of the railways from Port Ar
thur and from Pekin via Tientsin Tong
ku and Shan haikwan, the control of the
latter line having been coded to them by
a majority vote of the commanders of
the allied forces. 1t is also on the line
of railway communication with Charbn
via Mukden, which, as soon as it is re-
opened and restored, will enable the re-
endorsements coming by the way of the
Amur and the Sungari to be directed
Immediately on Pekin. The capture of
the Chinese position at Hun Chun on
July 30, reported by the Russian Gener-
al Grodekoff, is connected with the Sc
curity of the northeast frontier between
Corea and Manchuria. Hun -chun lies
about thirty miles northwest from Possiet
Bay, which is about ninety miles south
west of Vladivostok, and by it's situation
commands the roads from that part of
the Russian boundary close to the Core
an frontier which lead to Kirin on the
Sungari and other important centres.
By the capture of Hunt hun the Rus
SLAMS have begun the clearance of this
important line of communication, which
is much shorter than the road from
Nikolskoi, above Vladivostok, to Kirin,
along which Russian troops are already
advancing in order to protect the work
on the railway line between those two
points by which through communication
between Vladivosnok and Pekin will be
established when the line between Muk-
den and Kirin is cleared of the hostile
Chinese.
The mission of the British Admiral
Seymour up the Yangste to Nankin
seems to greatly peturb the Viceroy
there, who appears to regard the Admi
rails visit as a forerunner of trouble The
precautions he has taken to prevent the
possibility of a ruptune of peaceful re-
lations by some act that would give the
British the opportunity to begin hostili-
ties is proof of the anxiety of the Chi
nese established authorities to ward
them off to the last moment; for there is
no doubt they expect their outbreak
sooner or later.-New York Sun.
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