Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-07-11
The Foreign Part Of the City Is
Bombarded-Fire Broke Out
But Causes Slight
Damage.
BLAMES THE ALLIED FORCES
Queen Ann Will Try to Put the
Blame of Rebellion on Allied
Powers for Attacking
Taku.
ENGLAND WILL SEND TROOPS

Washington, July 1.-THE following
cablegram was received at the navy
department from Admiral Remey:-
"Che Foo, July 10. Arrived yesterday
with two battalions of the Ninth infan
try, and one battalion of marines un
der Col Meade. Landed today to pro
coed to Tien Tsin. The allied forces
at Tien Tsin are engaged in maintain
ing their defenses. Ordered Solace
here to take the sick and wounded to
a Yokohama hospital. The Oregon
will proceed soon to dock at Kure, tow
ed by chartered steamer, conveyed by
the Nashville Just learned from Ad-
miral Seymour, at Tien Tsin, that the
foreigners there are hard pressed"
Shanghai, July 11.-An edict of the
dowager empress, promulgated June
Both, has just been published at Shang-
hal. She expresses sorrow for the
death of Baron Won Ketteler, the Ger
man minister, who, she says, went to
Tsung Ii Yamen on the day of his
death against her wishes. She express
ses regret that the capture of the Taku
forts should have complicated matters
but orders the boxers to be suppressed
and the foreign legations at Pekin pro
tected. The whole tone of the edict
is to hold foreigners blamable for the
gravity of the crisis.
London, July 11.-Although the tele
grams from Shanghai today repeat the
statements that both emperor and dow
ager empress are alive, and kilograms
from Chinese official sources again tes-
tify to the safety of the legations, the
assertions no longer stimulate hope
here and pessimism will prevail
as long as the authorities, who, on their
own showing, are able to get messages
to the coast, fail to send confirmation
of the safety of foreigners from some
member of the legation at Pekin. Lon
don sees in the disappearance and re-
appearance of prominent people at Pc
kin, and the efforts apparently being
made to shift the blame from one to
another, and in the attempts to repre-
cant thnnco1voc oc +ha uiotiY,,c ;voA 90 Il
of the principals in the recent occur
rences, only preparations for alabis and
defenses in view of the approach of
the powers and the tragedy they may
discover on reaching the Chinese capi-
tai. According to a dispatch from
Shanghai, fighting at Tien Tsin, July
6, was the heaviest which has yet oc-
Cured. the Russians alone burying two
hundred men. The allies are becom-
ing exhausted A dispatch from Can
ton says Ii Hung Chang is keeping ex
cellent order there. Robbers and pir-
ates are executed frequently and peo
pie are cowed and afraid to disturb the
peace.
Washington, July 11.-Wug Ting
Fang, Chinese minister, delivered to
Secretary Hay this morning copy OF
the cablegram received by him pur
porting to be from the Chinese imper
ial government, believed to have origi
mated in the Chinese war department
disclaiming responsibility on the part
of the imperial government for the
Boxer" troubles, asserting that the en-
gagement at Tien Tsin was the direct
result of the bombardment of the TAXI
forts by the foreigners
Berlin, July 1.-THE German consu
at Chez Foo telegraphs that the govern
or of Shan Tung announces that, ac
cording to reports of July 4, the foreign
ministers at Pekin weret out of danger
and the revolt was decreasing.
Berlin. July 1.-THE German consu
at Tien Tsin cables that foreign set
Elements were continually bombardeC
by the Chinese from July to July 6
Two thousand boxers attacked tn,
French settlement but were routed BY
Russians. British and Japanese for
ces, July 7th bombarded the Chimes,
batteries. Towards evening Chimes,
shells penetrated the roof of the. Ger
man consul and an outbreak of fir,
which was extinguished after sligh
damage River communication be
twee Tien Tsin and Taku has been saf,
since the Chinese fort midway betweel
the two towns was captured. The rail
road from Tong Ku has been repaire,
to within three miles of Tien Tsin
Nearly all the families of foreigner
left Tien Tsin for TaHu, July 4th.
London, July lit was strongly ri
mored in service and parliamentar.
clubs that the government was prepal
ing to send 100000 Indian troops t
China in autumn. A foreign officia
said to a representative of the associs
ted press no such number of men coul
possibly be spared from India, nor wa
It possible for Great Britain to add t
her present responsibilities by sendin
out such a force Wherever. secured
however. he added, il may safely be al
serted that strong British resinforc'