Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-23
FIGHTING IN CITY
ALLIES NOW BOM3ARDING
CHINESE IN CAPITAL.
EMPRESS DOWACE1 FLEES
Communication With Pekin Inter.
rupted and Little views Co.nes In
But Foreigners Now Forcing En-
trance Into Forbidden Inner City
Canton Getting FESTIVE

London, Aug, 21.-Owing probably
TO the Pekin wire being cut little news
OF the conditions in the Chinese capital
has come through. What has reached
London indicates that the allies are In
need OF reinforcemeuts. me COM
mander OF the Italian second class
cruiser Fieramosca telegraphs from
Taku, according to Rome CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, that very
urgent requests came from Pekin Sat
urday for the immediate dispatch Of
further troops and that in answer to
these 400 Italian marines were sent Oft
| post haste. The Japanese minister in
London is said To have received tele-
| gram last evening announcing that
| subsequent to the entry into Pellin the
| Japanese detachment went TO the i'm
| perial palace to afford whatever pro-
lection was necessary. Reports of the
presence of the empress dowager are
still contradictory.
The Chinese minister in London, on
being asked as to the Whereabouts Of
the emperor and empress dowager, re-
Piled They have gone westward to
the old capital, Hsian Flu, l think they
are quite safe there" Serious trouble
is now threatening in the neighbor-
hood of Canton. Americans at Swa-
tow, according to the Chronicles
| Shanghai correspondent, have applied
for a warship in consequence Of serious
dioting; and the Hong Kong cores
pendent of the Daily Mail says a war
ship is on its way there now. Queen
Victoria has sent congratulatory
message to the commandant of ma
rines at Pekin.
Inner City Bombarded.
London, Aug. 21.--Rear Admiral
Bunce cables the admiralty from Che
foo, Aug 49, as follows
II am informed on the authority Of
the Japanese that street fighting still
continues in Pekin, part Of which is on
fire. Yang Sa CD prevented the en-
press from leaving, and a last stand is
now being made in the inner city,
which is now being surrounded by the
allies and is being bombarded.
Emperor Nicholas has wired to Gen.
Linevltch, commander of the Russian
troops in the province OF Pc Chi ii,
congratulating him heartily upon the
rapid capture of Pekin and bestowlng
upon him the third class Order Of ST..
/ George,
Gen. Grodokoff, Russian comman-
der of the Amur government reports
to the Russian war office that Chingan
Pass was captured Aug 16 after a
bloody battle. in which the Chinese
suffered heavily, losing four or five
guns,
The principal Russian papers, no.
tably The Noyoe Vremya, commenting
upon the victory at Pelin declares
that Russia should go no further in
F! participating in common armed inter-
yontion. but should limit her military
action 10 the frontier and the Manehu-
rian railroad.
Shanghai in Danger,
Shanghai Aug. 2l.- The situation in
the Yang Use valley IS grave. The
SIX weayars are out Of work and are
1,auarding the towns An outbreak is
feared. Three thousand British-Indan
forces landed at Shanghai Saturday
Americans sent a telegram appealing
10 their government to send an equal
number French forces are now en-
Oute Fifteen thousand troops are
| considered necessary for defense here.
Kaiser Kisses Waldersee.
Cassel Prussia, Aug LIN The pal
ace throne room here Emperor VIII
liam presented Field Marshal Count
Won Waldersee with a field marshars
baton. ana made an appropriate speech
| to which Won Waldersee replied. A
dinner followed and his majesty toast
cd the Austrian emperor When Won
Waldersee started for Berlin the en-
peror embraced and kissed him as he
left.
Anarchy at pekin.
! Berlin Aug 21--Fhe foreign Office
has received a dispatch from the Ger
man consul at Chefoo under today
date, saying the dowageg empress vas
/ believed to be inside the palace Of Pc
Kin and that the allies we're still bonn
harding the Notifications
Ii is said at the var department that
the reports Of continued fighting In Pc
| kin indicate that the allied forces
/ found a state Of anarchy IN the city,
with many dlsorderly people and no
method Of controlling them This es-
pecially would be the case II the re-
ported fight Or the empress dowager
and emperor is true. Consequently, It
has been found necessary for the
troops to restore order IN the city and
carry out the inst .uctions under which
chr forces are acting.