The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-20
RUSSIANS AT PEKING
Relief Force Has Attacked
City on Two Sides.
FIVE LEGATION BUILDINGS BURNED.
French nv Well as German Minister
Said 10 Have Been kilIed-Japan
MobiIixlng TrOops--Many Chris
tians Are Put TO Death.

said to Have Been kflled-Japan
MobiIixing TrOops-Many Chris
tians Are Put to Death.
LONDON, June 20.-"The Russian re.
lieving force arrived outside of Picking
this morning." says the Shanghai corre-
spondent of The Daily Express, "and
Immediately began TO attack the city on
two sides. employing numerous artillery.
The force apparently arrived in the
nick Of time for the Chinese assert that
the attack upon the legations had been
successfully renewed. On tho night of
June 16 the Chinese troops under Gcner-
ais Tung Fuh Slang and Tung Ching at
tucked the legations and set .aiire five
European buildings. Nothing definite is
known as to the result except that the
Chinese were disappointed, although 9th.
er reports, utterly diScreditcd by foreign
ers here, are that the Chinese. infuriat-
ed by the destruction of Taku. have since
mastered all the foreigners in Pekng."
A modified version of these rumOrs re-
ceived nj Berlin is that the French as
well as the German minister has been
killed. The English Al Shanghai think
that the Chinese had foreign advice in
organizing the dcfenscs at Taku because
of the precision with which their attack
was delivered.
The wires connecting with the harbor
mines We're cut by the bolts of the war
ships the night before the bpmbardment.
1t is now reported at Shanghai that it
was on board the Russian cruiser Koretz
and not the Mandschur that the explo-
sion occurred, killing and wonnding more
than 30. 1t is reported that 10 fewer
than 700 Chinese were killed in the forts.
The Shanghai correspondent of The
Daily Express says he is officially in
formed that Japan is mobilizing $4,000
men for immediate transport.
The British cruiser Tndauntcd arriv-
cd at Shanghai yesterday, cleared for
action and took up position command
ing the Chinese forts. There are three
Chinese cruisers in the harbor.
The new Chinese cruiser IIai-yang,
built by the Armstrong;. has been taken
into custody at Taku by the British and
Russians
At Yum Nan-t'r. where the rising has
been gathering force for several days.
$50 Christians have been attacked at the
French mission settlement. many being
put to death The French consul and
three missionaries" are still in prison.
The disorderly elements have secured
thr upper hand at Wuhu and Czcchuan,
where the native Christians have been
nlasSncrcd.
\ thousand Boxers have gathered on
til" outskirts of Ticn-tsin
Tn" Shanghai correspondent of The
Daily News. leegraphing yesterday, says
The Chinese officials here assert that
they have news from Picking mp 10 June
II. The situation was then very serious.
Beyond that they claim to have received
nothin". hui they deny that dispatches
hav" been withheld.
although | am not willing TO adopt
the alarnl"t reports, my impression, gath
cred from the conSul~ and the Chinese
authorities, is that the worst is to hr
feared in Picking.
admiral Seymour's column is now in
III" middl" of the arid plain, with no food
and no good water and surrounded by
hostile forces
4 dispatch from Shanghai announces
that the United States transport Thorn
rs with troops for Manila, vas diverted
at Nugusnhi aud has arrived at Ta"u
with 100 men.