New-York tribune., 1900-06-15
SLOW PROGRESS OF RELIEF COLUMN.
ADMIRAL SEYMOUR's INTERNATIONAL. 7.
FORCE HALF WAY TO PFKING

FORCE HALF WAY TO PFKING
TieD-Tsin, June 14-Cwing To the extensive
damage done TO the railroad line it is now
feared the International troops cannot reach
Peking before Sunday.
Railroad communication between this place
and Admiral Seymour's international force has
been cut three miles beyond Yang-Tsun Two
bridges have been destroyed
A dispatch from Shanghai, dated to-day says:
report has reached here that the British.
american and japanese Ministers in Peking
taVor the restoration Of Emperor Kwang Su.
put that the French and Russian Ministers in
slst upon the Powers taking charge Of China II
Is further reported that the respective divisions
OF the country have already been assigned. The
belief is that the withdrawal of the British ships
from the Yang-tse- -Kiang is an Indication of
Great Britains disclaimer of the sphere the
ory."
Fifteen hundred Russians with four guns.
have arrived outside of Picking. This makes four
thousand Russians who have landed
In consequence of disturbances at Che-Foo the
German flagship and H. NJ. S. Phoenix have re-
turned there. A Russian warship with six hun
dred troops has gone to Hankow.
Chinese desperadoes at Quin-San. forty miles
from Shanghai. have seized three steam launches
and treated the passengers practically
1t is rumored here that the Boxers are deter
mined TO burn Tien-Tsin station tonight
The international expedition is now ar Lang
Fang. half way to Peking The troops found
the station destroyed and two hundred yards of
the track torn up Upon approaching the sta
ton they found the Boxers still carrying on the
work OF destruction, but the latter bolted into
the village upon the approach of the advance
party shell from a six-p FOUNDER was dropped
into the village and the Boxers fed up the line
Above the station a small party was discovered
engaged in tearing UP the track but few long
a0U bOrs ham off,
ed that a mile and quarter Of the track had
been destroyed.
A courier who arrived yesterday morning from
Peking and Lang-Fang brought letter from the
American Legation stating that General Tung
F'uh Slang intends TO oppose the entrance Of the
foreign troops into Peking Ten thousand troops
are guarding the South Gate The courier re-
ports that IL is said that upward of two thou
sand Boxers are in the immediate neighborhood
Of Lang-Fang.
1t is expected that Admiral Seymour has
made Lang-Fang secondary base and that he
will advance the remaining forty miles as rap
idly as possible.
II is also reported that Prince Tuan the new
head of the Chinese Foreign Office, and General
Tung Fuh Slang have resigned
Three more Russian warshps have arrived at
Taku The Japanese cruiser Sunla has arrived
Taku.
London. June 14-It has been learned in Of
fetal quarters that, although It is expected the
Government al Peking will show no further
sistance as soon as it perceives the Powers
determined, the commander OF the international
forces has been instructed to inflict sharp les
son in the event of any resistance and not to
brook any delay in reopening the gates of
Picking if he finds them closed.
special dispatch from Shanghai says an un-
confirmed report has reached there from Tien-
Tsin to the eract that a foreign legation has
been burned and that a minister has been killed.
The names. it is added are withheld pending a
confirmation OF the report.
II is rurther rumored here that the interna-
ttonal relief parties experiencing great diff
culttes n regard to provisions and water. 1t is
believed that the delay has been caused by the
belief unat the force WAS insufficient TO overcome
the opposition that might be encountered, and
thus precipitate z massacre at the capital
II is added that the Japanese have sent two
mora cr24sers and have landed three hundred
additional troops.
telegram received from yrunan Flu says
that the English and French missions there have
been burned Snd that ths toreign residents
The trouble this dispatch says "a reported TO
be due TO French tntriguas.
special dispatch from Shanghai says the
positions OF the Legations at Peking is most
critical. According TO this dispatch thirty thou
sand Chinese troops are drawn up outside the
guns are trained on the American. British and
japanese Legations. The American, Russian
and Japanese Ministers have sent couriers to
Tien-Tsin asking for two thousand troops of
each nationality
The United States gunboats Yorktown and
Castine left Hong Kong yesterday for Tong-ku-
There is no foreign warship now there.
According 10 a dispatch from Ten-Tsn, June
u via Shanghai June IS, the iuterpa rional force
under Admiral Seymour includes the following
British. 9I5 German ESQ; Russian 800; French. 12S
American, 104; Japanese, 52; Italian. IS, and Aus
trtan 25 They left Tten-Tsin on June To-
AS cabIed The Associated Press Tuesday night,
The London Times" published dispatch from
Pekns dated June z. p. saying the Chancellor
OF the Japanese Legation was murdered by soldiers
belonging the bodyguard OF the Dowager EN-
press. II was also announced the same day that
the residence Of the British Minister
Peking, Sir Claude NJ. Macdonald. had been
burned II Is possible that these facts have given
rise 70 the sensational reports in circulation at
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