The gold leaf., 1900-06-21
THE BOXER UPRISING.
THE DOwAGEg EHPRESs hCR'
PnIsES TIRE FOREIGN POWERS.
kh VIII Not Obj rct to tn Presence OF
Foreign Troops iu shha's Terri
tOry-Ker Change OF Front Kc-
moves n Thrcaiened Complication
The Situation Not Materially
ChanScd-A disturbance at Che Foo

London, June 14.-4:20 a. m.-The
Chinese are entrenching outside OF Pc
kin to oppose the advance Of the inter-
national column.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin, dated
Tuesday, June 12tli, says: Il learned
that the Chinese have guns trained on
the American mission and the British
legation. Two thousand Russian cav
airy and infantry, with artillery, have
landed at Taku."
The Shanghai correspondents report
that United States Minister Conger by
courier. asks for 2000 United States
troops.
. The question of provisioning the re-
lief force is already difficult, and it is
predicted at Shanghai that it will be-
come acute.
The leading members Of the reform
party, representing fifteen out of eigh-
tc = provinces. are in Shanghai. A dis
pa ,ch to the Daily Mail. dated yester
day, say. they are sending a petition
to the United States Great Britain and
japan, praying those powers to take
part Of other powers to partition the
empire, and they implore the powers
thus addressed to rescue the Emperor.
: dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
that the ships of the Russian Pacific
squad on are on the active list, as we'll
as those at Viadivostock, and have
bCcn ordered to proceed, with all haste,
TO Chinese waters.
The Foreign Office confirms the re-
port of an enga cement between troops
Of the international column and the
Boxers on Monday. 1t says that
about thirty-five Chinese were
killed."
Washington. June 13.-Definite off,
cial information was received here this
afternoon from the Foreign Office of
one Of the most important continental
pov ers stating that the Tsung Ii
Yam men had notified the Minister Of
that power al Pekin that the Dowager
Empress would object to the pres
cnce of foreign troops in China's terri
tory. This change of front came as
distinct surprise to officials and
diplomats, as all the reports up to this
time had pictured the Empress
Dowager as intensely hostile to the
foreigners and as the real spirit be-
hind the Boxers anti-foreign uprising
The supposed attitude of the Empress
save IlutIl COIiCtII " the
here and at other capitals, as it was
'eared it would eventuate in an open
declaration by the Government OF
-hna against the presence Of the for
ign troops. This would have raised
lew complication, placing the foreign
forces now advancing on Pekin in the
attitude of resisting the sovereign au-
thority Of China over her own terri
iory, instead of assisting China in
suppression of disorder. The Empress
Dowager's acquiescence in the plans OF
he powers is felt to remove q threat
ned complication. and at the same
me to give evidence that the Empress
jowager is no longer yielding to the
nti-foreign clamor.
1t appears that the movement Of the
yorktown from Shanghai to Che Foo
.as not directed from Washington, and
is assumed that the order was is
Ied by Admiral Kempff. the senior Of
';cer of the United States squadron in
chinese waters. At Che Foo, the York
own would be within a days sail Of
The Admirars flagship at Taku. She
should arrive at Che Foo Friday or
saturday of this week.
Washington, June 13.-Official dis
,atches received in diplomatic quarters
7 Washington show that the rioting
It Pekin has reached an acute stage.
it'll the rioters directing number OF
assaults against members of the DIFF.
'erent foreign lega atoms there. One OF
.hese dispatches states that the secre.
lary of the Belgian legation was at
lacked two successive times on Mon
lay and escaped after being maltreated
hy the mob. On the same day two
tlirials of the British legation, serving
as student Interpreters, were attacked
by a large crowd Of roughs. The young
Englishmen held the attacking party
back for a time, but when the mob
threatened to close in on them they
1rew revolvers, and by show of force
made their retreat without bodily in
ury. About the same time the British
summer quarters, fourteen miles from
pckin, were burned down. The quar-
ers were quite extensive and had just
been completed. They belonged to the
British Government, and not to Sir
'laude Macdonald, the British Minister
It Pekin, which gives added signifi
rance to the depreciation. The killing
| # the Chancellor of the japanese lega-
| lion at Pekin, Sugima Akira, is not re-
| terred to in the official dispatches re-
| ceived here, but full credit is given to
| his report by the Japanese officials.
| "ho are personally acquainted with Mr.
| Akira and with many of the circum-
stances detailed.
The killing of a member of the dip
| lOmatic body and the foregoing as
saults upon the officials of foreign
| countries are regarded as presenting
| the most serious phase of the situation
| that has thus far occurred