The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-06-29
ENTERED T|EN-TSlN
COMBINED FORCES SUSTAIN SMALL
LOSS.
They Start hmm eiliately to Relieve
Force Which IL Believed to Be
Surrounded Near PekinS-RepOrt
That Seymour Has Been Captured
Peking-Chinexe Minister Asks an
Armistice to Give Ii Hung Chang
a Chance to Stop the Disorder
Turned Down by Mckinley.

Chance to Stop the Disorder
Turned Down by Mckinley.
Chcfu, June p. - Rear Admiral
Kempff reports by Japanese torpedo
boat that the combined forces entered
Tien-tsin on Saturday, June %. sus-
| tanning small loss. They started on
! Sunday to relieve the force which left
TieE-tsin on June 10, and which. is be-
lieved to he surrounded near Peking.
| According to japanese reports Ad-
miral Seymour has been captured and
| the ministers have left Picking. guard
| ed by Chinese soldiers. There where
| abouts is unknown.
Chinese Minister Asks an ArnliStice.
Washington, June 27.-The chief de-
velopment yesterday in the Chinese
situation was the effort OF the Chinese
minister WI Ting Fang. to secure IN
armistice in the operation of American
troops until Ii Hung Chang could
reach Peking and bring about a ceSs:l-
| tion of the disorder The proposition
is rather novel one and is based upon
| the representations of the vceroys Of
| the important provinces of the Yang.
tse-kiang valley that they
Can Maintain Order
| without the aid of foreign troops. and
| that the presence of the foreigner
would act merely as an incentive 10
| disorder. Minister WI brought these
| representations to the attention Of
Secretary Hay who consulted the pres
| idcnt. The latter'S decision as sub
| seqEently conveyed to the minister
was that while the assurances of the
yiceroys for continued quiet was fully
| appreciated. the United States could
| not bind itself not to send its forces to
points where disorder actually existed
| and where the
Safety of Our Officials
| and citizens are endangered. Techni-
cally speaking. in the absence of a
| state of war, there was not Il PROPOSE
| tion of armistice but high government
| officials said it amounted practically TO
an offer Of armistice and refusal on
the part of the United States to make
the arrangement. Secretary Long
said at 4 p. M. when lie left the navy
department, for the day. that nothing
had come from Admiral Kempff on the
casualties of the first engagement of
the American marines with the Chi
nese or on the outcome OF the second
engagements which was to have oc-
CURED yesterday or Saturday.
To Assault Chinese Forces.
London, June 27.-The British war
ship Terrible has arrived at Chefu
from Taku with the latest news.
which as follows: Flight hundred
Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fusilers have
effected a junction with the American.
German and Russian force which had
been cut off by the Chinese about nine
miles east of Tien-tsip. 1t was pro-
posed to deliver an assault uoon the
Chinese forces at Ticn-tsin Saturday
night"
1t is not clear that the forces united.
1t would seem that one relieving force
cut off, had been relieved by another.
AT any rate il is apparently cer5ain
that the allies arrived in sufficient
force at 1ien-tsin Sunday to
Attack the Bexiexfns Chinese.
"Forcign official opinions hare"
says a dispatch from Shanghai tn The
Daily Express, dated yesterday. ''in
cline to believe that the worst has hap
pened to the legations at Prking and
to Admiral Seymour as well. Even if
the legations were safe on June 10.
their is no guarantee that they are
safe now. T'he situation. in fact,
grows worse and more and more
gloomy The entire alb 'ence of reliable
news from the capital seems to justify
the worst constructions which can he
put upon it. Bad Lews comes from
Nan-ting. where the unrest is said to
be growing hourly. Vicaroy Liu Kin
Yih has told the British authorizes
that he has ordered the five
Chinese Cruisers
which have been lying off the larbGr,
to return to Nankin.'
"Gen. Mau's army" says cores
pondent at Shan Hal Kwan. consist
ing of 1000 men. left a week ago for
Peking, and Gen. Sung Ching's forces,
$500. left for the same |
place on June Is. A careful estimate |
of the number and armament of the |
Chinese troops around Peking puts the |
total at $4,000, and it is calculated that !
these troops possess 227 Creusot guns; !
178 Krupps and $50 maXims"
Another Shanghai dispatch says:
eli Ping Heng. former governor of
who who is intensely anti
foreign, has gone to the Kiang Yin
forts, on the Yang-tse- -Kiang. He has
declared lis intention Of raising forces
in that region"
REHEARING FOR CARTER.