Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-26
MANILA ARMY TO AID.
NINTH REGIMENT Is ORDERED
TO CHINA.
Larger Force Is in Readiness to Move
Washington Convinced that the
American Legation and Other later
ests Are in Gravest Peril.

United States regulars have been sent
to China to protect American interests
menaced by the rebellious Boxers. The
Government at Washington, unable to
get word to or from Rear Admiral
Kempff, and convinced that the legation
and other American interests in the Chin
csc capital were in the gravest peril, ca
bled Gen. Macarthur to send regiment
from Manila TO China Immediately The
regiment selected for this service is the
Ninth, which has been on active duty in
I.uzon. seasoned by service and one OF
the finest fighting machines in the army.
For almost Il week no word either frons
American official sources at Tien-TsiD
and Pekin or from the governments rep
resented there appears to have COME out
of the disturbed district. Up until Mon
day nothing beyond mere rumors had
been received. The diplomatic corps was
at last accounts guarded by 800 marines
with three machine guns, ana an interna-
tional force of 1000 men had started
from Ten-Tsin to their support, This
single regiment had laboriously advanced
two-thirds of the distance along the rail
way and had been gradually increased to-
brigade 5000 strong. 1t was still thirty
miles from Pekin. making almost no pro-
gress and then its line Of communications
with the Tien-Tsin base was cut off.
The gunboat Concord, with marines
aboard, sailed under sealed orders from
Manila, supposedly for China. The Brit
ish cruiser Buena Ventura sailed for
i Hong Kong with troops and stores for
Hong Kong and Tien-Tsin. French
| troops with artillery have been sent from
| Tonquin TO Tien-Tsin. The French min
| lister of marine has ordered that diyiS-
| ion of cruisers be got ready for sea to re-
enforce the French squadron in Chinese
waters. 4 transport also is being pre-
pared to take military re-enforcements.
A Chinese report from Shanghai Sun
| day stated that Admiral Seymour was
| fighting with the Chinese regulars anc
| that the foreign forces had seized the
| Tallu forts. Japan is sending 1900 troops
| to China The Mikado's Government is
| inclined to confne its action in China to-
the protection of Japnese interests.
| A London dispatch says: There is not
cabinet in Europe, apparently. that
| knows what has been transpiring iE
| Pellin for FIVE days, or in Tien-Tsin for
! three days. Nor is there any that knows
with what difficulties the small and mad
equately equipped international column isa
contending between those cities.
The German foreign office, upon learn
ing the report of the murder of Baron
Won Ketteler, the German minister at
Pekin, sent Geographic inquiry to St
| Petersburg, to the Russian Government
because of its wires to Manchoorit be-
ing supposedly in better position than
] the other governments TO obtain direct
! news. In reply the German foreign Of
| fee was informed that nothing whatever
was known on the subject, as communi-
cation with Pekin wasanterrupted.
The report, spread worldwide from
Shanghai, that the legations had been at
tackled, and that one minister, probably
the German, had been murdered, has
been traced TO the Tao Tai Sheng, who
| as the empress dowager's agent, has been
censoring kilograms from Shanghai. )