Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
CHINESE HORDES
400 1000 MoNGoLIANs TO OPPOSE
INTERNATIONAL FORCES.
THEIR LIVES Threatened.
Members of Legations Are Practically
demonstrating Mobs De-
mand Their Death.

London, June 16.-This is the situation
in China as it appears to the Shanghai
correspondent of the Daily Express,
cabling last evening:
1T Is really a state of yelled war.
The members of the foreign legations in
Pekin are virtually prisoners and the
Chinese troops are only restrained from
attacking them by fear Of the legation
guards
Meanwhile the ministers are alto
gether unable to communicate with the
commanders OF the relief column, which
is making al enforced and isolated halt
between Tien Tsin and Pekin. The walls
Of the capital are guarded by 100000 i'm
perial troops. The gates are heavily de-
Tended with modern guns. General Tung,
acting under orders from the empress
dowager, says that no more foreign
= troops shall enter the sacred city.
0 Monday the ministers sent a de-
mand to the tsung Ii yaman that the
gates be opened, declaring that other-
wise the foreign troops would enter
forcibly. To this no reply was given.
A second message was unanswered or
had not been answered when the latest
news left Pekin.
"Sir Claude Macdonald's latest mes
sage says that the legations-are capa-
BILE Of sustaining a effective defense
unless attacked in force.'
Russia, the correspondent asserts,
Notwithstanding assurances to the con-
trary, sides with China. Some of the
foreign troops are already reported to
be in the environs Of Pekin and the at
tftude of the Chinese troops is increas-
ingly menacing.
correspondent of the Daily Express,
"are reported to be seething with anti
foreign mobs, clamoring for the destruc-
ton of the legations and the death of
of the foreign ministers. Even were the
tsung Ii yamen disposed to restrain the
violence Of the reactionaries, it is con-
sidered highly improbable that they
would be able to hold them in check.
For the foreign ministers the crisis will
arrive when the relief column comes IN
sight of Pekin. 1t is still felt here that
the foreign force is wholly inadequate
to battle with the hordes of Chinese
troops massed outside the gates, which
now include the imperial troops from
Shan Hal kwan."
A disquieting element in the situation
IS the fact that although the Russo
Chinese telegraph line from Pekin via
the transmission of messages is riAidly
refused.
From Tien Tsin it is reported that the
foreign forces in the harbor will attack
Taku forts and if necessary lombard
them.
The international column appears to
be still at Lang Fan, engaged in slowly
repairing the railway, which, according
to a dispatch from Tien Tsin to the
Mail, dated June IA, cannot be effected
for weeks. The force is short of pro-
visions and as it is without field trans
port it must stick to the railway. The
report that the mixed forces will seize
the Taku forts Is taken to mean that
the foreign commanders expect no aid
from the Chinese government in re-
rnCci n Tho 1Sr~rl1-1 1911 $40 49,
ed to make Taku secure as a base from
which to operate.
Washington, June 15.-Oficial dis
patches received in diplomatic quarters
today are far from reassuring as regards
the progress of the expeditionary force
toward Pekin. One of the official dis
patches said that great difficulty was ex-
perienced in securing sufficient water for
the pressing needs of the International
party. There are no running streams
near the present locality of the troops,
and it is supposed that the native wells
cannot be relied uponin existing drought
n in the present intensity of anti-for-
eign sentiment.
Owing to their natural reluctance to
employ troops save as a last resort, and
the Discrimination of the wal department
to supply uch troops except under pres
sure, the officials this afternoon were con-
sidering an alternative proposition. This
contemplated the putting out of commits
sion of several of the big ships attach
ed to Admiral Remey's fleet, notably the
Oregon, and the addition of the sailors
and marines so released to Admiral
Kempff's landing forces. The big ships
carry on an average more thar 800 men
each.
There is a growing belief that it will
be necessary to organize another expe-
dictionary force at Tien Tsin to maintain
two communications of Admiral Sey-
Elnour's column. which,, with limited sup
plies, will be in severe need shortly UNI
less it can force it's way through to Pc
kin. The Monocacy arrived this after
noon at Taku n If there We're any
emergency, by pushing on up the river
she could have reached Tien Tsin before
dark. The Monocacy on such a short
"trip could easily carry fully 500 men in
addition to her own crew, so that the
safety of the foreigners at Tien Tsin is
assured.
Should it be decided to send troops
from Manila to china there are now
available at Manila the big transports
Logan and Warren, with a capacity of
abouta,3,0Q0 troops, and the Sherman is
due at Manila July |, n the rennsyl-
wanna n Indiana and several other
smaller craft are available.
Among the foreign representatives In
Washington the information that the
United States would augment its mill
ftary force in China was received with
satisfaction, especially in English and
Jaranese circles. Mr.. Nabishima, the
japanese charge. pointed out that the
forwarding of a large military force by
any one of the European powers would
excite suspicion and opposition, where
as such a course by the United States
was absolutely above suspicion. While
no joint request had been made on this
government to act, vet, he said, the
other powers would speedily acquiesce in
the action and applaud its disinterested-
ness.
A FINE DAYS OUTING.