The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28
LARGE ARMY OF JAPANESE
THIRTEEN THOUSAND ALREADY
LANDED ON CHINESE SOIL,
And Twenty Thousand More to BE
Sent Soon Possib1e-Thfrty-
Five Transports Engaged.

LONDON, June y, 3:20 a. m.-The conf
posite brigade of 900 men. who raised the
!. investment of Tien-Tsin and pushed on to
help Admiral Seymour has probably saved
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.
June IS: THE Russian general. in COM
mand of the relief force, had decided, in
view OF Saturdays heavy fighting and
marching. that one days rest for the
troops was essential and that the advance
snould not be resumed until to-day. Mean
while. came Admiral Seymour's heliograph
that his position was desperate and that
he could only hold out two days. The re-
lief started. at dawn to-day (doneay.)" -
Saturdays lighting began at daybreak.
The allied forces opened with several of the
sTerribie's Al naval guns. six field guns and
numerous machine guns. the firing being at
steadily the Chinese artillery replying.
The guns of the allies were more skilIfully
handled and put the guns of the Chinese
out of action one by one. the Chinese re-
treating about noon. There was keen rival
~ among the representatives of the vari-
Gus nations as to which would enter Tien-
Tsin first, and the American and British
went in neck and neck. The Russians
stormed the arsenal. thereby sustaining
the largest losses.
Several thousand Japanese have left
Taku for Tien-Tsin and, altogether, 1900
Japanese have landed. The international
troops now aggregate nearly twenty thou
sand. and Japan is preparing TO send 10000
more. With British. American and other
troops ordered to so. probably sixty thou
sand men win be available in month. The
Tong-Shan refugees and the foreign engi-
neers at chs-Foo estimate the Chinese
troops now in the field as 5000 drilled
troops at Lutai. 5000 at Shang-Ha W an,
15.eoO driven of from Tien-Tsin, and 10000
at Picking.
1.-The dispatch received by the Foreign
Office stating that the foreign legations
were requested to leave Peking within a
specified time is interpreted in some un-
official quarters as tantamount to giving
ministers their passports and to declara-
tion of war. but as China does nothing
like other countries. the official opinion is
that there is nothing TO do but to await
the course OF events and to see what the
ministers 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.
There was slight disturbance at wo-
Chou on Tuesday. while the women were
embarking The crowd shouted: KIN the
foreign devils."
According to advices from Shanghai. the
Chinese officials. by direction of the south
ern viceroys. are asking the consuls to
agree TO conditions "insuring" as the Chi
nese say. 1.-The neutrality of Shanghai and
other coast cities" They are also asking
that foreign ships shall not sail or anchor
near the forts nor go TO ports where there
are no warships now. that their crews shall
not go ashore and that the protection OF
foreigners be left to the Chinese authori-
ties These conditions are considered at
Shanghai 10 be virtually an ultirnatum
\ from vieeroy Liu Kung Yih and Chang
chih Tung. The consuls desire a sufficient
naval and military force TO back up their
refusal 10 comply with these demands. The
xtotsl naval force there now consists of 96s
men with thirty-two guns. The Chinese
pave six thousand men, with six guns in
The forts and ten thousand outside Shang-
An, with modern rifles and machine guns
xhe magnitude of the arrangements
1sn2|n = nskinx suggests provision against
srr116t6n11>s other than the suppression OF