Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-25
TO WHIP BOXERS
AN ARMY OF ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND MEN NEEDED.
PERIL OF TROOPS INCREASE.
Report of Defeat Of Allied Forces at
Tien Tsin Confirmed-Chinese
Had Modern Arms.

London, June rs, a. m.-The position
nj the international forces in the section
Of Northern China, where 1000 men are
striving to keep a footing and to succor
the legations in Pekin, appears to i'm
crease in peril with every fresh dis
patch. Pekin has not been heard from
direct for IA days. The last dispatch
was one imploring aid. Admiral Sey-
anours column of 1000 was last heard
from II days s At that time it was
surrounded midway between Pekin and
Tien Tsin. Possibly now it has reached
Pekin. The 5000 internationals at Tien
Tsin were hard pressed and fighting for
their lives on Thursday and a reliev-
1ng force of less than 1000 had been
beaten back to Taku Friday. Observers
on the spot think that 100. 900 men would
not be too many to grasp China firmly.
The admiralty has received the fol-
Rowing from the British rear admiral at
Taku:
''Che Foo. June 2s.-Only one runner
mas got through from Tien Tsin for five
days. No information could be obtained
except that tie foreign settlement had
been almost entirely destroyed and that
our people We're fighting hard. News is
received as this telegram is dispatched
that an attempt to relieve Tien Ism on
June % was repulsed with some loss
The telegram also said:
"The allied admirals are working in
perfect accord, with the Russian vice
admiral as senior officer"
"A press message from Shanghai, dated
yesterday at 4 p. m, embodies some lat
er information. It says:
Official Japanese kilograms confirm
the reports of a defeat of the allied
forces at Tien Tsin. The foreigners
Eare are now placed in a most desperate
situation. The Russian admiral, Hille-
IRA ri VhStar1aN sent a njvnH fnrah nf
1900 from Taku to attempt the relief
of Tien Tsin. Nearly half of the force
consisted of japanese. The remainder
were made up of contingents represent
ing the other nations.
1.-The guns of the Chinese around Tien
Tsin are superior to anything the de-
Tending European force has or is likely
to have for some time. The lombard
ment of Tien Tsin continued Friday.
Bomb shelters were hastily erected by
the foreign troops. The food supply is in
sufficient and the continued shelling IS re-
ported to be telling terribly. Among
those killed of the relief force Friday
was the commander of H. NJ. s. Burf1eur.
The foreign. casualties were 800.
Japan is making every effort. Her
troops are now arriving at Taku in
large numbers. The Chinese troops in
the province of Chi Lii include $4,000
auxiliaries who have been drilled by
Russian n German officers
Captain Beatty and Lieutenant
Wright, British, have been severely
wounded at Tien Tsin, according to a
Shanghai dispatch to the Daily Express
dated Saturday. The information was
brought there by the British cruiser Or
lando from Che Foo. The losses Of the
Russians have been heavy.
It was reported from Shanghai last
evening that the allied forces had
blown up the Taku forts and that every
ayailab Bile nan had been sent to the re-
lief of Tien Tsin. Two thousand and
three hundred Chinese bodies are alleg-
ed to have been at Taku n
more than 1900 Chinese are said to have
been killed at Tien Tsin. Chinese run
asers who have arrived at Taku report
that a foreign force was engaged sew
eral DAYS ago with an overwhelming
body of Chinese 40 miles west OF Tien
Tsin. At Shanghai it is assumed that
this force was Admiral s~eymour's
The Shanghai correspondent OF the
Daily Express says: .
81 learn from a mandarin, who stealth
ily left Pekin on I'LL is and who sue
cecded at great hazard in getting clear,
that the Boxers are massed around Pc
kin and that more than haf Of the
northern and western portions OF the
CITY, including the foreign settlement.
were ahame when the mandarin left.
He could tell nothing as to the state OF
the general situation, but he had heard
that the empress dowager was preparing
TO go to the province of han ST."
A Che Foo dispatch to the Dally Mail
dated yesterday says:
The attack on the Tien Tsln relet
force was made by 20, 200 Chinese using
machine guns and modern field pieces.
The allies were wise in retreatlng. For
warding detachments in this manne Is
difficult. Practically the whole of north
ern China is ablaze. Hostilities are now
80 1vtnn1o3 con1n dino RI
direct orders from Pekin.. General Yang
Shi Kai, governor of shan Tung, COM
mands II, 600 foreign drilled troops, or
ganiZed to a high pitch of excellence
and equipped with Mausers. 1t was In
the plans that these troops should go to
Taku, but the seizure of the forts was eff
fected before they could get there"
Some special dispatches from Shanghai
describe the great southern provinces of
China as still quiet, but others asert that
the news from the north is exciting the
feeling and that millions may rise any
day.
United States Ambassador Choate. in
his long conference with Lord Salisbury
Saturday, is understood to have said
that the governments of the United
States and Great Britain are generally
in agreement as to their views regarding
the Chinese situation. and the two gov
ernments will probably be found follow
ing the same broad lines of policy in the
far east. Mr.. Choate communicated
with Washington after the interview.
Washington, June 24.-The navy de-
partment this afternoon gives out this
bulletin:
''This telegram from Admiral Kempff
dated Che Foo, June "a, says: In am
buscade near Tien Tsin on the first
four of Walters. command killed and
seven wounded. Names will be furnish
ed as soon as rec4vad. Force of two
thousand going to relieve Tien Tsin to-
day.
(SignedO 'KEMPFF, -
me secretary of the navy has ordered
dmirai Ramov with tho prooa-lu. =