Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-26
ALLIED FORCES
ENTER ITEM TSIN
They Push on to Pekln, to Relieve
Admiral Seymour
HE is REPORTED CAPTURED
Rut There IL No Certainty OF It-Chi'
nese Messages Unreliabie-Start-
ling situation Ia Far East.
[Early Dispatched

qgrd sustaining small loss. They start
ed on Sunday TO relieve the force which
left Tien Tsin on June 10th, and which
is believed to be surrounded near Pc
kin,
According to these japanese reports
Admiral Seymour has been captured
and the ministers have left Pekin
guarder by Chinese soldiers TheiI
whereabouts is unknown.
ALL Is UNCERTAIN.
New York. June PA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The dense fog has not lifted from Chi
ma The wires are downin every direc-
lion from both Pekin and Tien Tsin
and Chinese messages received at the
eeaboard from the interior towns are
NOT entitled to credence. An old time
official who resided in China for a long
pariod told me yesterday that he
had followed the details closely and
mat apart from the dispatches Of the
admirals at Taku there had been no
authentic information for a fortnight
from any source.
The most significant and ominous
fact In the situation, he added, was
Prince Tuan's presence as commander
Of the Chinese forces near Tien Tsin,
since this was a proof that the most
powerful leader Of the court was at the
head Of an anti-foreign movement, and
that wel-armed government troops
were massed on the side Of the Boxers.
This meant that China was at war with
Europe America and Japan.
NEVER REACHED PEKIN.
This well-informed official could not
find In Yesterdays dispatches any EVIL
dence that the relief column under Ad-
mlral Seymour had reached Pekin or
that the legations were safe
The Chinese assurances were Of no
value and the news from China was a
tissue OF rumors This informant de-
cllned 10 believe that the legations were
safe. since he remembered how easy
Il would have been for the Boxers and
the soldiers to command every legation
except the Austrian one from the wall
which lowered above them, a short dis
lance away.
Two facts stand out in this tangled
maze OF uncertainties. One is the
necessity for an army Of from $4,000 to
100000 men. ii China is TO be rescued
from anarchy, and the second Is the
fact that the Chinese troops are well
armed and in better condition for a
warfare under modern conditions than
they were IN the campaign with Japan.
MISSIONARIES SAVED.
N-,,,, VOID, Tuna 06-A dispatcb 10 the
Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo,
June 25th, says.
The arrivals today included 14S per-
sons in all, including servants and at
taches Of the mission.
The list Of missionaries Is as follows;
From Pekin. Rled, Davis, Hobart,
Walkers. Verltz, Gamewell Lowery,
Ament Wing, Weyell Gilman, Gloss
Martins.
These are OF the American board OF
Presbyterian ladies' missions.
From Tien Tsin Pyke, Hayner Pat
terson Lowery Roberts, Wilson, Bend,
Stevenson, Glover, Croucher, sheckley'
Galley
One hundred and forty-eight arrived
IN good condition
For Pao-Ting-Fu there is very little
hope
ALLIES GAINING GROUND.
London, June 26, 1885 a. m.--The Brit
fish cruiser Terrible has arrived at
Che Foo from Taku with the latest
news, which is as follows;
Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh
fusieers have affected a junction with
the American, German and Russian
forces. which had been cut of by the
Chinese about nine miles from Tien
Tsin. II was proposed to deliver an as
sault upon the Chinese forces at Tien
Tsin last night Sunday.
1T is not clear what forces united
i would seem that one relieving FORCE
cut off, had been relieved by another
AT any rate, II Is apparently certain
that the allies arrived In sufficient force
al Tlen Tsn Sunday TO attack the be-
siegng Chinese"
OUTLOOK is GLOOMY.
Foreign official opinions here" says
q dispatch from Shanghai TO the Daily
Express, dated yesterday. incline TO
the belief that the worst has happened
20 the legations at Pekin and TO Ad-
miral Seymour Even II the legations
were safe on June l4th, there is no
guarantee that they are safe now. The
situation In fact, grows more and more
gloomy The entire absence OF reliable
news from the capital seems 10 JUSTIFY
the worst construction which can be
put upon H.
Bad news comes from Yam Kung
where the unrest Is said to be growing
hourly. VicerOy IAu Kin Yih has tele-
graphed the british authorities that
he has ordered the five Chinese cruisers
which have been lying of the harDor
here TO proceed to Nankin,"
100000 CHINESE. 3ss GUNS.
Gen. Mas army" said a correspond
ent. al Shanghai. consisting Of 45VuV
men, left week ago for Pekin, and
Cen. Sung-Ching's tropos, numbering
100, left for the same place on June
"A careful estimate OF the number
and armament OF the Chinese troops
around Pekin puts the total at S6OVOO'
ana II is calculated that these troops
possess 220 seven-centimeter Creus0t
guns eighteen Krupps and 100 MaXims.
Their supply OF ammunition IS prac-
ucally inexhaustible. il has been
mainly supplied by a German firm AT
taNf tAAs IT ullN lliAhN~ANhA hhn ~
Chinese forces are badly drilled. wholly
undlsciplined and quite unfamiliar with
modern weapons"
WILL RESIST FOREIGNERS.
Another Shanghai dispatch says: Iii
flng Heng, former governor Of shan
Iuns who Is intensely anti-foreign'
has gone to the Kiang-Yin forts on the
iaug-Tse He has declared his inten-
tion Of resisting the landing Of British
forces In that region"
According TO a Hongkong dispatch
GATED yesterday. strong reinforcements
or Indian police. with three MaNlms,
nave been sent 70 Kow Loon, on the
mainland.
a Che Foo message OF Mondays date
says -Four cannon have been aaoeu
70 me west fort here. where there are
now 1000 SOLDIERS permanently en-
eamped, a further force having arrived