Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-18

| iIHC0 l. uaH las OEucIeu . SIcd
military movement owing to tn
appearance of $4,000 Japanese il
China. Foreigners are fleeing t
Shanghai. The position is alarmin,
at Nang Poo. The houses OF foreig ner
were burned and the missionarie
horribly maltreated. A rebellion ha
taken hold in southern China. For
eigners are being attacked and ar,
fleeing panic stricken.
| Japanese Troops DIsembarkiag.
London. July ia Shanghai dis
patch says the disem barkation @
49, 900 japanese troops is proceeding
at Taku.
May still Be Alive
Washington, July 49, Unless the
Chinese director of telegraphsa lies
there had been no massacre OF Eu-
ropeans at Peking up TO and includ-
a dispatch from the Chinese minister
at London, coming originally from
the Chinese inspector of posts and tele-
graphs at Shanghai. of which the fol-
lowing is the translation laid before
secretary Ray Dy Nu.
The utmost efforts have been made
TO protect foreign ministers. who were
well on the 18th Chinese calendar cor
responding TO our July 81. If Tien-
Tsin city should be destroyed 1t would
be difficult TO restore the same IN lUU
years. Request the powers to preserve
II. as the consequences would affect
Chinese and foreign commerce. Earl
Ii Hung Chang is transferred to north
China as viceroy TO Chilli. Please
transmit this dispatch to the ministers
at other capitals"
History of the Dispatch.
This dispatch, which is dated July
1G, was signed by Viceroys Lin Hun
Vi and Chang Chih-Tung, of Nanking
and Wu-Chang, respectively, and also
by Sheng, director of posts and tele
graphs at Shanghai. 1t was addressed
To the Chinese minister in London, and
by him transmitted to Minister Wu un-
der yesterdays date.
Good News Comes from Tien-TsIn.
But good news was the rule yester-
day and Minister Wu's telegram was
only the beginning. 4 London cable
brought the news that the Chinese at
Tien-Tsin had been defeated by the
allies after the repulse of the allied
troops chrOnicled yesterday. The Lon
don Daily Mails Shanghai correspon-
dent. telegraphing under date of yes
terday, said: The allied troops re-
sumed the attack upon the Chinese
walled city Of Tien-Tsin on the morn
ing of July II and succeeded in breach
ing the walls and capturing all the
forts. The Chinese were completely
routed and the allies took possession
of the native city and it's defenseS. The
total losses of the allies in the engage
ments of Thursday. Friday and Satur-
day were about 500 killed or wounded.
Great Damage I'm the Old CITY.
"The guns of the allies did immense
damage to the native city. causing
many large confiagrations, and finally
the majority of the enemy's
guns simultaneously. Then the 1.5OO
assisted by small parties of
Germans and French, assaulted and
captured eight guns that We're in po-
sition on the railway embankment and
the fort, the magazine of which the
French subsequently blew up. 4 body |
Of American, British. Japanese and |
Austrian troops then made Il sOrtie and |
the west arsenal. which the |
Chinese had reoccupied. After three
hours OF the hardest fighting yet eX-
perienced the Chinese fed" The cas-
ualties sustained by the allies were eX-
ceedingly heavy. especially those to the |
French and Japanese.