The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-12
BAD NEWS FROM CHINA. The Situation Again Bears a Most 0minous Aspect
 Fate of Legations.
DOUBT AS TO THEIR SAFETY
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT PEKI1
 MAY YET BE REVEALED.

IERRLBLE TRAGEDY AT PEKIl
 MAY YET BE REVEALED.
 Allies Reported De feated ut Tien Tsin-
 Their Position Pcrilous-F Fo. ware
 ness iM DIspntohing Troops-Princ'
 Tuan Issues m Edict-Boxrrs Activ'
 in NIanchuria.
 London, July 12-3:30 a. m.--The Chi
 nese situation again bears a most omi-
 nous aspect. Eighteen days ago Sir
 Robert Hart dispatched his last mes
 sage, declaring that the situation was desperate, and since then no word has come from the Europeans in Pekin. Ac-
 cording to the Daily Mails Shanghai correspondent, u Hung Chang has re- ceived an imperial decree ordering his immediate departure for Pel1in, pre- sumably to break the news of the Pe- kin tragedy to the European powers. and, in his usual role of negotiator with Europe in difficult matters, to endeavor to act as mediator and to avert the vengeance of the powers.
 To add to the grimness of this sug- gestion, all advices from Tien Tsin tend to confirm the reports of the perilous condition of the allied forces and belle the optimistic Chinese rumors. Unless endorsements speedily reach Tien Tsin another disaster may be expected
 The Express this morning publishes dispatch from Tien Tsin, dated Fri day last, via Che Foo, saying: Gen eral Ma has defeated the allied troops and reoccupied the Chinese eastern ar- senal after inflicting great loss upon it's defenders. The engagement lasted six hours and was fought with great de- termination by both sides. The Chi nese were eventually able to utilize the effective guns of the fort abutting on the city walls near the Tao Tais Ya- men, the allied troops suffering severe ly from lack of heavy guns and caval- ny. The Japanese commander sent an urgent appeal to hurry endorsements. as the allies were in imminent danger of a general defeat''
 The Daily Mails Tien Tsin corre- epondent teegraphing July 5 says: "The situation is about as bad as it N'Ne1AA not soon want relieving ourselves forward movement is impossible. From 30, 900 to 10000 troops are wanted and there are only 10000 here. The foreign troops are working well to- gether, but it is inconvenient that there is no supreme commander. In some quarters the feeling is let us rescue Pe- kin and then clear out in favor of Rus e.a''
 Other Tien Tsin correspondents say that no advance is possible until Sep- tember 1 and explanations are being asked by the papers here of the tardy action of Japan in sending troops since it is known that she was ready and willing to send them and that Russia raised no objection to her doing so. It is hinted that a difficulty arose as to the manner in which Japan was to be recouped for her heavy outlay. Rumors are current that Japan demanded the cession of Chinese port.
 The Russian papers report that the Boxers are ravaging Manchuria and have damaged sixty miles of the rail- way, threatening Telin and Kirin, while | Port Arthur and New ChWang are said | to be endangered Russia therefore has notified the powers of her inten- | tion to dispatch large military force | to Manchuria.
 It appears that the Russian censor ship suppressing all references to this 1 matter and it transpires that 6000 regu lar troops have already arrived from Port Arthur and Amur to protect the Manchurian railway and that other troops are now on their way to Man. churia.
 All kinds of stories come from Shang- hai which it is impossible to verify It | is stated that the Boxers have murder ed the chancellor of the Pekin universi- ty and sixty members of his family and 
 A confidential officer of General Yung Lu. disgu sed as a Boxer is reported to have ept into Prince Tuan's tent while the prince was sleeping, with the inten- tion of stabbing him. He was caught by the sentres, so the story goes and decapitated on the spot. His head was sent with Prince Tuan's compliments to Yung Lu as a warning to him to be- ware.
 The French consul at Shanghai has news that the Chinese prefect at Mouk- Ell I1IHSbll IIlulueIbu l1lG 1dlUOIlC DlSIlOD Guillon in his Yamen Besides Bishop Guillon, Fathers Crunoet, Corbel, Bor- gueos, and Veivillemot and two sisters 1f the French missicn ard numerous na- tive Christians were massacred.
 From Canton comes a report of large assertions from German-C Chinese regi- ment at Kiao Chou and of sanguinary riot between German troops and Box CTS many of the latter being killed Both at Shanghai and Canton apprc- hension exists that these evidences of a widespread native rebellion indicate the necessity for immediate measures on the part of the powers. It is stated that Germany intends to send to China 10, GOO to 15,000 men well equipped with guns.
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