The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
ALLIES ARE READY.
Entire American Force and British
Artillery Posted at the Wall

London, Aug. 27-The latest news from,
Pekin indicates that the situation there
Is unchanged. The imperial city is still
invested, but has not yet been occupied.
The allies, when the last message left
were still refraining from aggressive ac-
ton, pending instructions from their
government.
An attack from 80, 900 boxers was an
tic1pated, and, to meet this, the whole
American force and the British artillery
according to a dispatch to the Morning
Post from Pekin, dated August Is, was
moved to the outer city wall. The boxers
We're reported coming from the south.
General Dorward in his report of the
engagement outside Tien Tsin August
10, when the Americans, British and Jap
anese signally defeated a large force of
boxers, killing over 300, says, in a dis
patch dated August rs:
The lines of communication near Tien
Tsin are now free from danger. The en-
envy had been treating the villagers bad
". Several decapitated bodies were found
near their camp.
The villagers are now focking to Tien
Tsin at the rate of about a thousand a
day As there is not more than a month s
food supply there is every prospect of a
famine shortly"
This declaration that a famine is
imminent, in consequence of the in
adequacy Of provisions for the hordes
of refugees at Tien Tsin adds a new ele-
ment Of peril to the situation
Shanghai adVices say that the report
of the capture of Emperor Kwang Su
by the japanese was erroneous 1t was
a case of mistaken identity.
The Pekin correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph, wiring August 49, reasserts
that the empress dowager fled westward
and adds:
she has a bodyguard of 1, 500. and as
the mountainous character of the coun-
try would prevent artillery following it
IS believed that she will not be pur-
sued.'
This correspondent reports everything
a 0f n iC fcn 1,1ff q
telegram to the same paper from Tien
Isin, dated August "a asserts that a
thousand Russians, Germans and Jap
anese had pushed forward from Pekin
with the intention, it was assumed, of
pursuing the fleeing empress dowager.
At a conference of ministers and gen.
erals held at Taku Friday it was de-
cided, according to the Daily Telegraph,
to refer the fate Of the Forbidden City
to Europe
Tien Tsin dispatches to Berlin dated
August % say:
1.-The japanese troops are in possession
of the wall around the innermost part
of the Forbidden City, but have not yet
made their way to the imperial palace,
fions''
Lieutenant General Linevitch, COM
mander of the First Siberian army corps,
cabling to st. Petersburg under date of
There are no longer any boxers in
Pelxin- They were driven out today by
the French and Russians. whose flags
are hoisted over the imperial city. The
empress dowager, the emperor, the heir
apparent and the whole court have fed
to the province of Shen-Si-'
Ii Hung Chang, according to a Shang-
hal dispatch, dated yesterday, has once
more postponed his departure for the
north
The Japanese have landed more blue
Jackets at Annoy, where order is main
tanned in spite of the great excitement
Conspicuous gallantry was displayed
by Captain Gaussen, of the Bengal
cavalry says the Shanghai correspon-
dent of the Standard, while under heavy
fire in the recent fight at Tien Tsln-
Captain Gaussen stopped and picked up
an American trooper, lifted him into the
saddle and rode off in safety"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times, wiring August "A, says:
Iii Hung Chang has received a mes
sage from Pelxin that the Japanese alone
will occupy the imperial palace The
Japanese government has renewed its
assurance that it will protect the per
sons of the empress dowager and the
emperor.
':1kr. Morgan, of the China inland mis-