The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-23
BATTLEATT TIEN-TSIN
Eight Hundred Americans
Among the Allied Forces.
NOTHING But RUMORS ABOUT PEKlNC
streets Said to BE Filled With Box.
crs Shouting Death to For
efEners-One Hundred
Already Killed

A<oN'c->y JUNE sol 1T silence OF
Peking continues unbroken. -Four thou
sand men Of the allied forces were hav.
ing sharp defensive fighting at Tien-tsin
Tuesday and Wednesday, with pros
pect Of being re-enforccd Thursday. This
is the situation in China as set forth in
the British government dispatches.
Eight hundred Americans are taking
part in the fighting at Tientsin," says
the Shanghai correspondent of The Daily
Express, cabling last evening, 'and they
apparently form II part of a supple
mcntary force, arriving with Germans
and British after the conflict started. 1t
is impossible to estimate the number OF
the Chinese there but they had sur.
prsng number of guns"
This information appears to have been
brought by the United States gunbaht
Nashville TO Chcfu and telegraphed
thence to Shanghai The Chinese are de-
serting Shanghai in large numbers and
going into the interior. Reports from
native sources continue to reach Shang.
hal of anarchy in Peking. According to
these tales the streets are filled day and
night with Boxers, who are wholly be.
yond the control of the Chinese troops
and who are working themselves up to a
frenzy and clamorng for the death of all
foreigners.
The English consulate at Shanghai is
said to have received from influential ma.
tives reports Of Il tragedy in the palace
at Pcking, though precisely what is not
defined. The consulate thinks that Ad.
miral Seymour, commander of the in.
ternationa relief column. was miscd by
information from Peking and conse.
quently underestimatcd the difficulties in
his way and the Chinese power of re.
sistance with Maxim guns and Mausers.
The cons'lls at Shanghai still believe
thc foregn ministers at Pekng safe, al.
though Japanese reports received at
Shanghai allege that up to June Is 100
foreigners had been killed in Peking.
The Daily Express says:
I'VE understand that Mr.. Reginald
Thomas Tower, secretary Of the British
embassy in Washington, is TO succeed Sil
Claude Macdonald at Pcking and that the
reason Of Sir Claude's recall is the break
down of his health
A special dispatch from Shanghai, dat.
cd yesterday, says:
"Intplligence has been brought by the
United States gunboat Nashville to Che
fu that the foreign quarter at Tien-tsin
was bombardcd Monday and Tuesday by
Generals Mich, Tung Fuh Slang, Kang
Su and Yuan Shu Kai. The result of the
fighting is not known.
"The foreign residents are confined to
a restricted district and as food and wa
ter are scarce they have suffered great.
ly."
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
The Daily Mail, teegraphing Thursday,
says:
'Ihe Russian minister of war, General
Kouropatkin, yesterday ordered the mob.
ilization of all the Siberian regiments of
the line"
A special dispatch from Shanghai, dat
ed Thursday, says:
"A prominent resident of Pcking re-
ceived at Tien-tsin on June Is reports
that the soldiers werestrolblesome in Pc
king. that night attack on the legations
was feared and that the advent of the re-
lief force would be the signal for IL gen
eral riot in Peking'
A special dispatch from Vienna says:
Iii Hung Chang has wired the vari.
Gus Chinese legations in Europe direct
ing them to inform the governments to
W lltH lIty uic utSltulttu TUT III Is
ed to Peking by the empress to act as
intermediary between China and the pow
ers to negotiate settlement of the points
at ISSUE and he instructs them to beg the
powers to facilitate his mission by ceas-
Ing to send troops to China
Si:Hly, director general of telegraphs,
wire. from Shanghai to the Chinese lc
gait ~, in Europe that the foreign lega
tions in Pckng are safe.
1t is reported that the British govern
ment will Immediately send l POO ma
rines to China and possibly, according To
some of the morning papers, 10000 OF |
the regulars now with Lord Roberts.