The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-08
THE SITUATION IN CHINA
Has NOT GROWN WORSE DURING
LlST TWENTY FOUR HOURS.
1t Continues, However, 10 be Very
PeriIous-.IdenticaI Instructions 20
Naval Commanders attempts TO r.
uair Railroad TO Pektn Frustrased-A
Severe Fight Reported-200 Dead Left
on the Field.
on the Field.

London, June THE situation il
China, as measured by abundant unotfi
cial kilograms, continues full of inter
esting possibilities, but apparently il
has not grown worse during the last
twenty four hours, although the favor
ite adjectives of London and continen'
tai commentators are 'perllous,
grave and &'dangerous.
The naval commanders in Chinese
waters have received identical instruc-
tions as to procedure, the question OF
an emergency being left to their dis
cretion No fear is entertained for the
safety of the legations at Pekin. Eu-
ropean residents, however, are escap-
ing from the capital to the coast. Pekln
is still under control according to a
dispatch to the Morning Post, dated
yesterday, but in very excited state.
A thousand foreign guards were gar
risoning the legations. Six hundred in
ternational troops are at Tien-Tsin with
six guns. A dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Shanghai, dated June 7, takes
gloomy view of things. which are pic
tured as going from bad to worse. The
correspondent says:
THE authorities are displaying PAL
pably guilty supineness In dealing with
the Boxers, and the powers are more
and more taking matters into their own
hands The Boxer revolt is spreading
and is rapidly changing it's character.
The Boxers are getting arms, prepar-
ing to meet force with force. There
has been no communication between
fJyt.. r.,x. 11x IL
though one miserable, haf-hearted at
tempt has been made by Chinese SOL
diery to reach the capital. The troops
were fired upon and the train had to
come back. Another station has been
burned on the line"
A news agency dispatch from Tien-
Tsin, dated yesterday, says: THE Box
ers are still raiding and pilaging over
a wide area. They have wrecked and
burned the stations at Long-Fong and
Langoo 1t has been definitely ascer-
tained that Nine. Astier and Messrs.
Oasent and Cades have been murdered.
General Mich claims to have defeated
the Boxers, killing 500.'
The Daily Express has the following
dispatch from Shanghai. dated June Z:
Attempts to repair the damage to the
railway between Tien-I'sin and Pekin
have been frustrated by the Boxers,
who, thousands strong, hold the line
against the engineers gangs, attacking
the trains arriving. The nearest un-
damaged point is forty-f1ve miles fror9
Tien-Tsin All the children and wo-
men, except Lady Macdonald (wife Of
the British minister), have left the le-
cations There are the gravest fears
for missionaries in outlying parts They
isolated. Concerted action is impossi-
BILE"
special dispatch from Shanghai
dated 7;30 p m. to-day. says the dow
ager empress has ordered General Neih-
Si-Chong with 5000 men to protect the
railroad at Pekin. A severe fight, it is
added, has occurred with the Boxers,
whose ranks include many soldiers
from the other generals commands.
When the battle ended two hundred dead
were left on the field. The dispatch goes
on to say: lone hundred and eighty
British marines. with a machine gun,
are about to force a passage from Tien
Tsin to Pekin. Altogether about 300
British have been landed from the fleet,
4 greater number than have landed
from the combined vessels of the other
powers This evidence of Great Brit
lin's intention to assert her position
strongly gives great satisfaction here"