The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-23
CHINESE REGULARS
ATTACKING TEN TSIN
Shanghai Dispatch Declares That the BOmbardment
of the Foreign Quarter is Not by the Boxers.
One Report Says 1900 Are Slain by OrentalS
Engaged in the Fighting.

London, June %, a. ma special
dispatch from Shanghai, dated yester-
day, says:
Intelligence has been brought by the
United States gunboat Nashville that
the foreign quarter at Tien Tsin was
bombarded Tuesday by Generals Mich,
Tung Fuh Slang, Kand Su and Yuan
shu Kai.
''The result of the fighting is not
known.
''The foreign residents are confined
to restricted district; and as food
and water are scarce, they have suffer
ed greatly.
The Ton Shan mines at Pieh-T ai-Ho
were abandoned by the soldiers and
rioters flooded the mines and ruined the
machinery"
Another special from Shanghai says
that it is reported from japanese
sources that / 800 foreigners have been
massacred at Tien Tsin.
A message from Che Foo dated June
p. says: 1T is officially reported that
the bombardment of Tien Tsin with
large guns continues necessarily.
THE foreign concessions have nearly
all been burned and the American con-
sulate has been RACED to the ground.
The Russians are occupying the
railroad station, but are hard pressed.
Reinforcements are urgently needed.
1.-THE casualties are heavy.
THE railroad is open from Tong Tu
to Ching Long Chun, half way TO Taku.
The Petit Bleu in Brussels states that
q fpIoo-T.o m Vvoc roqaixrod vast ay.floxy nv
an important Brussels firm from China
saying that Admiral 'Seymour's Teliev-
ing force and the Russian column en-
tered Pekin simultaneously.
The legations were reported intact
and all the Belgian residents are said
TO be safe.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
dated Thursday says:
"A prominent resident of Pekin re-
ceived at Tien Tsin on June Is, reports
that the soldiers were troublesome in
Pekin, that a night attack on the le-
cation was feared, and that the advent
of the relief force would be the signal
for a general riot in Pekin."
Four thousand men of the allied
forces were having sharp defensive
fighting at Tien Tsin Tuesday and We'd
nesday with prospect Of being rein
forced Thursday. This is the situation
in China, as set forth in the British
government dispatch.
Americans in, the Fighting.
Eight hundred Americans are TAX
ing part in the fighting at Tien Tsin, /"
says the Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Express, cabling last evening"
and they apparently form a part of a
supplementary force, arriving with
Germans and British after the conflict
started. It is impossible to estimate
the number of the Chinese there, but
they had a surprising number of guns"
This information appears to have
been brought by the United States gun
boat Nashville to Che Foo and tele-
graphed thence to Shanghai. The Chi
nese are deserving Shanghai in large
numbers and going into the interior
Reports from native sources continue
10 reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pc
kin. According to these tales the streets
are filed day and night with Boxers,
who are wholly beyond the control of
the Chinese troops and are working
themselves up to a frenzy and clamOr-
ing for the death of all foreigners.
The English consulate at Shanghai
is said to have received from influential
natives reports of a tragedy in the pal
ace at Pekin, though precisely what is
not defined. The consulate thinks that
Admiral Seymour, commander of the
international relief column, was misled
by information from Pekih, and, conse-
quently, underestimate the difficulties
in his way, and the Chinese power Of
resistance with Maxim guns and Maus-
a~s
The consuls at Shanghai still believe
the foreign ministers at Pekin safe. al
though Japanese reports received at
Shanghai aIlege that up to June Is. one
hundred foreigners had been killed in
Pekin.
Sheng, director general of telegraphs,
wires from Shanghai to the Chinese le-
cations in Europe that the foreign le-
cations in Pekin are safe.
1t is reported that the British gov
eminent will Immediately send troops
to China. and possibly 10, 600 of the reg
ulars with Lord Roberts.
The Daily Press says: I'VE under
stand that Reginald Thomas Tower,
secretary of the British embassy in
Washington, is to succeed Sir Claude
Macdonald at Pekin, and that the
reason of Sir Claude's recall is the
breakdown to his health"
Ii Hung Chang Asks Respite.
A sepcial dispatch from Vienna, says:
Lii Hung Chang has wired the var
ious Chinese legations in Europe, di-
recting them to inform the govern
ments to which they are accredited that
he is called to Pekin by the Empress to
act as intermediary between China and
the powers 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"
Ii Hung Chang, who was interviewed
in Canton yesterday said he would
leave for Pekin on June q, in obediance
to an order from the Empress, to SUI
press the Boxers and to make peace
with the powers.
He endorsed the opinion that he was
the only man in China capable of cop
ing with the situation. He said he be-
lieved the Boxers to be a ''rabble led
away by fanaticism and anti-ChTistian
feeling" but he also declared that the