The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-23
REPORTED MASSACRE.
SAID 1900 FOREIGNERS WE'RE
KILLED IN TEN TsIN.
STATEMENT NOT CREDITED.
AMERICANS TOOK PART IN FIGHT
ING AT TIESN TSIN.

still No News From Pekin, Hut the
Chinese Director of Telegraphs
Says the Legations Are safe-Li
Hung Chang VIII Try to Bring
About N Settlement-The Powers
Strengthening Their Forces ON
Chinese Soil.
LEAD WAR
London. June PA special from Shan
xhai says that it is reported from Japa-
nese sources. that 1900 foreigners have
been nassacred at Tien Tsn.
London, June ga special dispatch from
Shanghai dated yesterday says "the in
telligence has been brought by the United
States gunboat Nashville to Che Foo that
the foreign quarter at Tien Tsin was bonn
barded Monday and Tuesday by Gems.
Nieh, Tung Fuh Slang, Kang Su and
Yuan Shu Kali The result of the fight
ing is not known.
The foreign residents are confined to a
restricted district and as food and water
are scarce, they have suffered greatly.
The Tong Shan mines at Pei Tai Ho were
abandoned by soldiers and rioters flooded
the mines and ruined the machinery.
The silence of Pekin continues un-
broken.
Four thousand men of the allied forces
were having sharp defensive fighting at
Tlen Tsin Tuesday and Wednesday, with
q prospect OF being reinforced Thursday.
This is the situation in China. as set forth
In the British government dispatch.
Americans Took Part.
Eight hundred Americans are taking
part in the fighting at Tien Tsin." says
the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express, cabling last evening, land they
apparently form a part of a supplementary
force, arriving with Germans and British
after the conflict started. 1t is impossi-
bIe to estimate the number of Chinese
there, but they had a surprising number
of guns"
This information appears to have been
brought by the United States gunboat
Nashville to Che Foo and telegraphed to
Shanghai The Chinese are deserting
Shanghai in large numbers and 60
ing into the Interior.
Reports from native sources continue to
reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin. Ac-
cording to these tales the streets are fill
I'd day and night with Boxers, who are
wholly beyond the control of the Chinese
troops and who are working themselves
I'D to n frenzy and clamoring for the death
of all foreigners.
Tragedy in the Palace.
The English consulate at Shanghai is
eaid to have received from influential ma
tives reports of a tragedy in the palace
at Pekin, but precisely what is not de-
fined. The Consulate thinks that Admiral
Sevmour. commander of the international
relief column, was misled by information
from Pekin and consequently underestl-
mated the difficulties in his way and the
Chinese power of resistance with Maxim
guns and Mausers.
The consuls at Shanghai still believe the
foreigners at Pekin are safe, although
Japanese reports received at Shanghai al
lege that up TO June Is, one hundred for
eigners had been killed in Pekin.
The Daily Express says:
I'VE understand 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 Wants TO Settle 1t.
A special dispatch from Vienna says:
Lii Hung Chang has wired the various
Chinese legations in Europe directing
them to inform the governments ta which
they are accredited that he is called TO
Pekin by the Empress to act as inter
mediary 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 ceas-
ing to send troops 90 China
Cheung, director general of telegraphs,
wires from Shanghai to the Chinese lega-
tions In Europe that the foreign lega-
tions in Pekln are safe.
1t is reported that the British govern
ment will Immediately send 200 marines
go China, and, possibly, according to some
of the morning papers, 10000 of the regu-
lars now with Lord Roberts.
BOMBARDED BY THE CHINESE.