Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
CHINA TROUBLE
BOXERS DECLARE WAR ON CATH
OLICs AND ALL FOREIGN.
MOVEMENT IS FANATICAl.
Three Million Men Under the Boxer
Flag-foreign soldiers Have
Fired Upon the Boxers.

going on thursday DetWeeu 1NA AShA
and Pekin had not been received at
Tien Tsin when the latest kilograms to
reach london We're filed. The Chinese
troops, however, had killed nan Box
ers, according to some reports, While
another account had the government
soldiers sorely defeated in an engage
ment near Pao Tin Flu. Apparently
the legation guards have not yet taken
a hand in the fighting, but they are
ready to do so at a moments notice.
The Boxer movement affects some
hundreds of square miles. .Of1clal dis
patches to Vienna from Pekin avow
that the sect is more powerful than any
some three millions, manipulated by the
previous party in China. embracing
some three millions, by
Jealous and adroit men.
The representatives of the powers are
still acting in perfect concord, which
appears at the present to give the Chin
csc government ample chance to put
down the disturbances alone. The Tien
Tsin correspondent of the Daily Mail,
~telegraphing June Z, says:
For the last three days the whole
community of Tien Tsin has been pre-
pairing to defend itself against an ex-
pected attack by the Boxers. There is a
continual influx of refugees from the
country. who are now crowding the
city. This increases the excitement.
Nearly all the Villages SuIIouIluiHS
Tien Tsin are joining the Boxers move
ment. which is taking more and more of
a fanatical character.
Parties of foreigners when approach
ing the villages are driven back by arm
ed bands. Yesterday the Chinese troops
We're ordered to Machang, on the grand
canal, within 20 miles of which a large
body OF body of Boxers are reported to be
collecting. Attempts to ~re-establish the
regular workings of the Pekin-Tien Tsin
railway have hitherto proved futile.
Every night the Boxers set fire to the
sleepers and the woodwork Of the
bridges.
General Mich seems bent upon acting
and dealing out heavy blows to the reb-
els, recognizing the necessity of Destroy
ing the prestige of the Boxers, which has
begun to demoralize his army
Secret order. from Pekin for the pro-
lection of the rebels have paralyzed mill
tary action and raised the status of the
Boxers in the eyes Of the ignorant
masses. Although the Boxers declare
their first object to be humiliation of
Catholics converts, the wire pullers wish
to propagate hatred among the coutry
people against foreigners and things
foreign in general. The movement on
the surface has a patriotic character, but
it may turn ultimately against the dy-
nasty. This seems to be the reason why
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tie hand. The legations at Pekin have
wired for reinfocements.
"A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Yo-
kohama dated Friday, describing the eff
feet upon Japan of the refusal of the
Korean emperor to give an audience to
the japanese minister regarding the tor
ture and execution of political suspects,
says:
"The feeling here is exceedingly excit-
ed. 1t may not be possible for the gov
eminent to keep in check, as the officials
were able to do at the end of March,
when Russia made her demands, partic-
ularly on the question of Masampo. 1t is
thought mere that Russian influence is
behind the affront given by Korea to
Japan. The tone of the Japanese press
is very bitter and grave developments
are possible"
London, june S.-The Pekin corre-
spondent of the Times, in a dispatch
dated Tune I, says:
"Particulars received here show that
Messrs. Norman and Robinson, the mis-
sionaries, We're hacked to pieces in cir
cumstances of revolving b%arbarity. The
Chlnese government cannot be exOner-
ated from the charge of completely in
these murders. From the beginning it's
action will bear only one Interpretation,
namely, that of approval of the anti
foreign movement which has had these
results.
1.-THE government has delegated as a
commissioner the Chez Kaou and Pao
Tung Flu. the chief centers of the Box
ers, to investigate and report a notorious
anti-foreign official, who is known to be
In sympathy with the Boxers and who
was the director Of a mining and railway
bureau that was founded to thwart all
railway and mining developments"
The Pekin correspondent of the
lines. telegraphing June 8, says:
The news that the foreign-drilled
soldiers had fired Upon the Boxers who
We're destroying the railway near Tien
Tsin was favorably received as giving
some ground for hope that the govern
ment should change it's policy. Now ar
rives the intelligence that Neigh's
forces have been ordered to return to
camp at Lu Tai and that their action
has been condemned. The tsung Ii
yamen. however, denies the truth of the
latter statement. But the details of the
tsung II yamen are never convincing.
If it be true, the news must be regarded
as serious.
1.-THE American missionary conference
to-day sent a dispatch to President NJ
Kinley appealing for protection and as
sorting that the missionaries at Pao Ting
Flu and other places are in etreme danger
that the Tung Chu mission has been
abandoned. that the chapels have every
where been burned and that hundreds
of native Christians have been MASSACRE
ed.
"The serious condition Of affairs in
Pekin is reacting upon the provinces.
The French minister here has received
a telegram saving that the French con-
sui at Mong TaZo and the French agent
at Yum Tan Flu have both been compelled
to retire from their posts. as the viceroy
nounc that he was unable to guar
antee their safety.
"LaterThe Boxers yesterday burned