Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-28
PROBABLY SAVED
COMPOSITE BRIGADE. SUPPOSED
TO HAVE REACHED SEYMOUR.
RUSSIAN LOSS IS HEAVIEST.
Americans and British Entered Tien
Tsin Neck and Neck-Japan's
Preparations.

help Adm1faI seymour mas prODapTy SaVeu
him, but the news has not yet reached Che
Foo, the nearest wire point. The last
steamer arriving at Che Foo from Taku
brought this message, dated Tien Tsin.
Monday, June Is:
.The Russian general in command Of the
relief force had decided. in view of Satur-
one days rest for the troops was essential.
and that the advance should not be re-
So sa sme Until until ]% Hnaay The relief started at
Saturdays fighting began at daybreak.
The allied forces opened with several of the
Terrible's At naval guns. six field guns and
numerous machine guns, the firing being
at long range. They continued to advance
steadily, the Chinese artillery replying.
handled, and put the guns of the Chinese
out of action one by one, the Chinese re-
treating about noon.
There was keen rivalry among the repre-
sentatives Of the various nations as to
which would enter Tien Tsin first, and the
Americans and British went in neck and
neck. The Russians Stormed the arsenal,
thereby sustaining the largest losses.
Several thousand japanese have left
japanese have landed. The International
troops now aggregate nearly 10000, and
Japan is preparing to send 10000 more.
With British. American and other troops
ordered to go, probably 60, 900 men will be
available in a month.
en The Ten At Shan Ghe Fsfog ssfim ana the the d fSfIeign
troops now in the field as 5000 drilled
troops at Lu Tai, %, 900 at Shan Hal Wan,
1890 driven off from Tien Tsin and $4,000
at Peikn.
The dispatch received by the foreign
office stating that the foreign legations
were required to leave Pekin within a
specified time is interpreted in some UNI
official quarters as tantamount to giving
the ministers their passports and to a dec
like other countries the official opinion is
that there is nothing to do but await the
course of events and see what the minis
tiers themselves say when they are rescued.
All the students at the foreign hospitals
IN Canton are leaving. Women missionaries
are returning from the West river ports.
on Tuesday while the women were en-
barking. The crowd shouted:
XIII the foreign devils!"
According to advices from Shanghai the
Chinese officials, by direction of the south
ern vieeroys, are asking the consuls to
nese say, the neutrality Of Shanghai and
other coast cities" They are also asking
that foreign warships shall not sail or
where there are no warships now; that
their crews shall not go ashore and that
TIE the protection Of foreigners be left to the
considered at Shanghai to be virtually an
ultimatum from Viceroys Liu Kung Yih
and Chang Chi Tung. The consuls desire
a sufficient naval and military force to
back up their refusal to comply with these
demands. The total international force
Tha pow now consists Of sss men, with g guns
in the forts and 10000 men outside Of Shang.
hal with modern rifles and machine guns.
The magnitude Of the arrangement
Japan is making suggests provision gains
contingencies other than the suppression
OF the present disturbances in China. She
now has 80 in all.
Washington, June 27.-The develop
ms1Nts of today respecting China were
important and interesting. The Chinese
minister's report of the departure of the
foreign ministers and their guards from
Fekins greatly relieved the officials here,
who took 1t as the first tangible evil
dence tina the imperial Chinese govern
ment had a full realization Of the encr-
nifty of permitting the ministers to
come TO PERSONAL harm, and were thus
undertaking as far as lay in their power
to observe the amenities of international
exchange.
The kee.usst interest is shown by the
officials to learn the conditions under
which the ministers left Pekin. Minis
ter Wu's dispatch was ominously silent
on that point, and though the minister
himself maintains almost o~bstinately
his confidence in the nOn-eXistence of a
state of war, 1t is generally admitted thai
it will be difficult to accept his conclu-
sion if it shall transpire hat the Pekin
government itself has sent the ministers
away with their passports, or what may
come to the same thing, with a guard as
safe conduct. At the state department
~ - NO-u VAC IL ~ oAAo We @
that the imperial government did this
not with a purpose of r%upturing diplo-
matte relations, but simply to insure the
safety of the ministers, which they were
unable to guarantee as long as they re.
manned in Pekin, then there is Still
ground for an understanding. :
It is, however, pointed out that ir
such cases the self-cenfessed inability
of the imperial government to maintain
peace and order at the capital would
- ~ to- A%o fo;1
ure as a government and would leav'
China in a state worse than that of act
ual war. In either event, it now ap
pears to the satisfaction of the oficiaL
that there was absolute Justification fo
such intervention as we have offered II
China
Notice has come to the governmen
that the cable companies LAY agai'
reopened communication telegraphicall
with Taku and Che Foo. This arrange
ment has been made by means of tn
Russian Geographic system connectin
with the Siberian railroad system.
European agent has managed to reope
the lines, though the means of COMM
nication between Che Foo and Taku an
Tien Tsin are tortuous and probabl
T.. ~precar.ous.
The war department officials still in
sist that orders have gone forth to sen
more troops to China than the 9th reg
ment, now on it's way from Manila, an
the 9th cavalry, which will sail .frol
a Francisco next Sunday for Maya
saki and perhaps Taku. 1t is said tina
with these two organizations and tn
marines now ON Chinese soil Genera
Chaffea will have the full brigade t
which his rank entities him.
Runners of Withdrawals Of troop
from Cuba are said to be the possibl
basis fer the persistent sta tements tina
more soldiers have been ordered {
China
1t is admitted that two regiments wi
soon be ordered to the United State
from Cuba, the particular organization
being designated by General Wood, bl
they simply will take the place in hon
garriscGs of regulars which will go oil