Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-06-21


eign officials. stated that the legations
at Picking We're safe on June Is. Adj
miral Seymour with his relieving col.
umn is also reported to have reached
Picking.
London, June 81 1.-The Russian re-
lieving force arrived ont side of Picking
this morning." says the Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express, and
Immediately began to attack the city
on two sides, employing numerous an
tillery.
The force apparently arrived in the
nick of time, for the Chinese assert
that the attack upon the legations
had been successfully renewed. On The
night OF June III the Chinese troops
under Generals Tung Fab Slang and
lung Ching, attacked the legations
and set on fire five European build
lngs. Nothing definite is known as to
the result, except that the Chinese
were disappointed, although other re-
ports, utterly discreolited by foreign
ers here, are that the Chinese, infuri-
atcd by the destruction OF Tallll, have
since massacred all the foreigners i'm
Peking."
A modified version of these rumors
received at Berlin is that the French.
rs well as the German minister, had
been killed.
The English at Shanghai think that
the Chinese had foreign advice i'm or
ganizing the dcfcnses at Tallu. because
of the precision with whichc their Mt
tack was delivered.
The wires connecting with the har-
Dor mines We're cut by the boats of the
warships the night before the bonn
bardment. 1t is now reported at
Russian cruiser koritz, and not the
Manshur. that the explosion occurred,
killing and wounding more than fifty.
1t is reported that no fewer than 700
Chinese We're killed in the fort. The
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express says he is officially informed
that Japan is mobilizing $4,000 men
for transport
The British cruiser Undnnnted ar
rived at Shanghai yesterday, cleared
for action. and took up a position
commanding the Chinese forts. There
are three Chinese cruisers i'm the har-
Dor.
The New Chinese cruiser IIai-Yang,
built by the Armstrong;, has been
taken into custody at 'rall,l by the
British and Russians.
At Yum Nam Flu. where the uprising
has been gathering force for several
days, Christians have been attacked,
and at the French mission settlement
many have been put to death. The
French consul and three missionaries
are still in prison.
The disordcrly elements have Sc
cured the upper hand at Wu-llu and
Szechuan, where the native Christians
have been massacred.
A thousand Boxers have gathered on
the outskirts of Tien Tsin.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily News, telegraphing yesterday,
says:
"'rhe Chinese officials here assert
that they have news from PelSing up
to June II. The situation was then
very serious. Beyond that they claim
to have received nothing but they
deny that dispatches have been with
held.
although am not willing to adopt
the alarmist reports, my IMPRESSION
gathered from the consuls and the
Chinese authorities, is that the worst
is to be feared i'm Picking.
"Admiral Seymour's column is now
in the middle of an arid plain. with no
food and no good water, and sur.
lad I. L.
Washington, June 2l.-secrctary
Hay has been notified by the Russian
embassy here that 1000 troops have
been dispatched from Port Arthur to
Taku.
New York, June 21.-The Tribune's
Washington special says:
TO meet he exceedingly great
complications that have developed in
Chica the president has directed Mac
Arthur to send three regiments of
regulars to Tien Tsn, which. with
their support, commissary, field trans
portation, signal men and medical
staff, will make Il force of 5000 Nd
miral liemy has been directed to send
the Oregon to Taku as soon as he
can"
Paris, June 21.-At a cabinet coun-
Gil today Minister of Foreign Affairs
Delcasse announced that the telegraph
line between Peking and Tien 1sin
was still interrupted. y dispatch
from Shanghai says Ii Hung Chang
has been summoned to Peking from
Canton.
London, June 21.-.Judging from
German official dispatches. American
ships took no part in the lombard
ment of the Tallu forts Sunday. No
news has been received here of the re-
lief of the legations at Picking and
Europe's attention is conferred far less
on the Overwhelming display of the
naval force at Tuku than on the hand
full of international marines within
the legation compounds in the Chi
ncse capital. There has been no news
from there since the 14th.
The rumors that Japan will, as a
mandatory of the powers, restore or
der In China, were revived in 81 dis
patch today from Yokohama. Berlin
dispatches intimate that Germany will
not object to the sending of $4,000
troops, while Great Britain will in
dorse the plan with avidity. The Jap
Civilizc Foreign Population.