Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-05
ALL ARE DOOMED
POWERS CANNOT SAVE THE FOR
EIGNERS IN PEKIN.
THE SITUATION AT SHANGHAI.
European and American Residents In
q Panic-Boxers Now Surround
the Throne.

. Lie AA4OACs
Shanghai, July 4, lilo a. m, via h
Eoo.-Tien Tsin city fell between Z and s
o'clock on the morning of June 3d."
1t is understood in Shanghai that this
undoubtedly refers to the native city Of
Iien Tsin, which the Chinese have been
b~ombarding, and the dispatch is taken to
mean that the allies are more than hold
ing their own. Other advices received by
way of Shanghai ave. that the Chinese
losses around Tien Tsin are between T.
900 and 5000, according to official esti-
mates. The correspondent of the Ex-
press at Che Foo. ~telegraphing Wednes-
day, says Admiral Seymour was wound
ed by Chinese sharpshooters while sit
ting in a house at Tien Tsin.
Official news received at Che Foo shows
the Chinese haye been guilty of horrible
cruelty towards the wounded and zap
tured, subjecting them to what is known
as ling che, or the slicing process. Under
this hideous rite the bodies of the fallen
have been mutilated. The Russians are
r~etaliating by the wholesale shooting of
natives. Tien Tsin. according to the Elk
press correspondent, shows no signs of
drifting into barbarism and
Revolving stories are told of barbarities
practiced upon japanese and Europeans
captured on the way to Pekin, though 1t
was not known before that Admiral Sey-
mour had lost any prisoners. The
Chinese rpops marching toward Tien
Tsin left behind them trains of rapine,
fire and blood. Native women were raw
ished and children We're cut in two.
Direct tidings from Pekin end with
the dispatch sentby Sir Robert Hart IN
June 25. According to roundabout sources
1t is asserted by the Chinese that Prince
Tuan is personally directing the assault
upon the legation. He conferred honors
n,,rl co wa 1n ,ro rx,~ - = of ,r,a I'D hnS
presents to the leaders of the Boxers and
the commanders of the troops who drove
back Admiral Seymour, and also gave
money to every soldier taking part in the
operation.
Ar edict of Prince Tuan's has reached
Shanghai. ordering the southern viceroys
to assemble the Chinese fleet and to
attack the warships st Shanghai.
Japan is reported to be landing an
army at Petaughs, to the northward
Of "a The japanese generals are be-
lisEed to be able to move toward Pekin,
following the plan previously formulated.
European and American residents in
Shanghai are quite in a panic over what
lis viewed as the inadequate military pre-
parations. A dispatch to the Express
from Shanghai says that according to the
best military estimates 500, 900 men will
be necessary to subjugate northern
China, and even then it will take two or
III &C SGdIS.r ! llr EOTCtS ol IL oull1eSS
empire nave gathered such motion that
even Japan's full strength, launched
now, will be unequal to the task of re-
storing order.
Tao I'll Sheng Of Shanghai issued a
proclamation on Wednesday which for
bids foreign warships approaching the
Yang Use Kiang saying that if they
do so the Chinese authorities will not
hold themselves responsible for the con-
sequences. Tt is considered the Chinese
officials are evading the responsibility
Of an outbreak. Even Ii Hung Chang
is suspected. The foreigners are simply
aghast at the extent of the Chinese
arrla ments which AVE been systemat-
icalIv accumulated.
The decision of the admira1s not to at
tempt the relief of the besieged forces
has filed the entire European commun-
aty. the Daily Mail correspondent says,
with bitterness and despair. Few, how
ever, affirm that any other course is pos
sible. The weakness of the cT1ied forces
left no other course Open. 1t is pointed
out that the Chinese opposing Admiral
Seymour were only a fraction of the huge
force now cutting off the capital from
Tien Tsin and which number 200, 900,
nearly all we'll armed The allies have no.
real means of transport, and there is no
food in the country, as 1t is being laid
waste. The question OF ammunition is
also serious. Only Japan and possibly
Russia are able to push up war NUM-
ions in the vast quantities made neces-
sary by the continuous fighting. The con-
sensus of opinion among military and
naval authorities is that it will require
$4,000 men to rescue the Europeans in
Pekin. An edict issued on June % an
nounced that Princes Tuan and Kang-
vi are the supreme chiefs of the Ihoch-
uDdL the Chinese name for the Boxers. A
dispatch to the Daily Mail from Che Foo,
dated July l, says that Wei-Hai-Wei has
been placed under martial law and that
no passengers are allowed to land there.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily
Telegraph, dated July 4, says the Tao
Tai has received news from Pekin to
Wednesday last. Pekin was then entirely
in the hands of the Boxers and the situa-
ton Of foreigners was homeless. The
m princes, ministers and soldiers,
the dispatch says, all belong to the Box
ers. The allies captured the native city
of Tien Tsin o N Tune 30.
Dispatches received at Brussels report
that the secretary of the Belgian legation
had been killed by the Boxers.
Eugene Sloss, en engineer ON the
pekin-Hankow railroad, t~elegrarhs that
he arrived at Shanghai after IS days
of neri'ous ira yelling through the disor-
dered area. The correspondent of the
Daily telegraph at Shine Hal. tere-
r nhing under date of July 8. saws that
Count Ito. in the course of an interview.
HfEu the emergency naQ Tor q moment
obscured the gigantic Question in the
BACKGROUND. Tt was desirable. he de-
clared. that there should be a settlement
now. Some of tht powers wished TO post
pone a settlement. because they were
not ready for it but it was said tina
Fnefand was not willing to POSTPONE a
decision.
The morning napers publish editorials
regarding the impotence of the ~reat
powers as shown by she inability to save
their ministers. The Daily Telegraph
saws:
"That any country should desert its
ADMINISTRATORS is recopnized q G a moSt siu-