Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-23
THE ALLIED FORCES ARE FIGHT
ING AT TEN TSIN.
ARE SHORT OF AMMUNITION.
The Internationals Are IN the Defen-
sive-Eight Hundred Amert-
cans Among Them.

.uos,ac+ of being reinforced Thursday.
This is the situation in China as set
forth in the British government dis
patch: ..ui
Eight hundred Americans are taking
mart in the fighting at Tien Tsin, says
the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express, cabling last evening, ana thev
apparently form a part of a supplement-
airy force. arriving with ana
British after the conflict started. 1t Is
impossible to estimate the number OF tine
Chinese there, but they mad a surprising
number of guns"
This information appears to have been
trough by the United States gunboat
Nashville to Che Foo and t~elegrapheu
thence to Shanghai. The Chinese are de-
sorting Shanghai in large numbers ana
going into the interior.
Reports from native sources continue
to reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin.
According to these tales the streets are
filed day and night will boxers, who are
wholly beyond the control of the Chinese
troops and who are working themselves
up to a frenzy and clamorlng for the
death of all foreigners.
The English consulate at Shangnal Is
said to nave received from influential ma
tives reports of a tragedy in the palace
at Pekin, though it's precise nature is not
defined. The consulate thinks that Ad-
miral Seymour, commander of the inter-
national felleI cOluIllIl, wa HllSltu Wy Va
formation from Pekin and consequently
underestimated the difficulties in his way
and the Chinese poWer of resistance
with Maxim guns and Mausers.
TIL consuls at Shanghai still believe
the foreign ministers at Pekin safe, al
though Japanese reports received at
Shanghai allege that up to June Is 100
foreigners had been killed in Pekin.
The Daily Express says:
w understand that Reginald Thomas
Tower, secretary of the British embassy
in Washington, is to succeed Sir Claude
Macdonald at Pekin and hat the reason
of SIR Claude's recall is the to
his health"
A special dispatch from Vienna says:
Iii Hung Chang has wired the vari-
Gus Chinese legations in Europe direct
ing them to inform the governments to
which they are accredited that he is
called to Pekin by the empress to act as
intermediary between China and the
power to negotiate a settlement of the
points at issue; and he instructs them to
beg the powers to facilitate his mission
by ceasing to send troops to China"
Sheng', director general of telegraph,
wires from Shanghai to the Chinese lega-
tions in Europe that the foreign legations
in Pekin are safe.
1t is reported that the British govern
ment will Immediately send troops to
China. and possibly $1,000 of the regulars
with Lord Roberts.
Ferlin, June 22.-The commander Of
the German squadron at ,Taku wired as
follows ITO THE government:
"A French officer who arrived here
from Tien Tsin, which he left June y.
reports that for three lays the city had
been bombarded by the Chinese and
that the troops of the foreign detach-
rnent were short of ammunition. The
German cruiser Irene has arrived here
with 24O marines, who, with 4SO English
and 1,5OO Russians, proceeded to the re-
lief of Tien Tsin. The railway is work
ing from Taku to within Is kilometers
of Tien Tsin."
Whether the powers interested in
China will ultimately reach an agree
ment regarding concerted action, it
seems to be certain. judging from the
results of Investigations made d by
the correspondent of the Associated
Press, that no such agreement has been
received. The same series of questions
were put successfully to the German for
eign office and to the Russian and
French embassies. The German for
iegn officer said:
1.-THE powers just now are agreed as
to three points only-the relief of Tien
Tsin n Pekin, adequate satisfaction
for the severe injuries European inter-
ests have sustained and the establish
ment of guarantees against a repetition
Of such outrages. Beyond this the at
titude of the powers will largely depend
upon what happened in Pekin, which is
still unknown to Europe.
The reply of the Russian ambassador,
Count Osten-Sacken, was substantially
the same as that of the German foreign
officer, except on two points. The am
bassador adds with much emphasis:
1.-THE Intervention of the powers in
China must under no condition mean
a settlement by war of old scores with
the Chinese government and must not
embrace governmental reorganization,
Especially it must not include a change
in the head of the government. Even
If the Chinese and the international
forces come into collision these consid-
erations must never be lost sight of"
The French ambassador, Marquis de
!. Noailles. expressed a different view
While substantially coinciding with the
programme of the German foreign of
flee, he insisted that the removal of the
empress dowager and her clique would
be necessary to secure the permanent
: results which the powers desire.
The Washington government severa
: days ago inquired through United
States Ambassador White regarding the
whereabouts and safety of a number OF
American missionaries located within
the German sphere of influence in .Shar
Tung. Thus far the German govern
{ ment has been unable to furnish a sat
isfactory reply.
+ The semi-oficia Berliner Post has
special dispatch from Rome asserting
that the vatican has applied to tn,
French government urgently entreatine
that larger reinforcements be sent fol
the protection of Christians in China
The reply of the Paris cabinet, accord
ing to this correspondent. is thai tn,
matter will be treated in harmony ant
SOLIDARITY with the other powers.
The Chinese embassy having received
several anonymous letters Threatening
vengeance hou the news of the muir
der Of the German minister In Pekiu