The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-20
THE RUSSIANS ATTACK PEKIN|
City Assaulted on Two Sides, the Assailants
Using Heavy Artillery.
AND STILL No WORD COMES FROM CONCER

EurOpe's attention is centered far less
on the overwhelming display of naval
force at Taku than on the fate of the
diplomatic staffs and GOO cosmopolitan
residents guarded by a handful of in
ternational marines within the legation
compounds. There has been no news
thence since June 14th.
Rumors that Japan will, as mana"
tory of the powers, restore order III
China, were revived in a dispatch today
from Yokohama. Berlin dispatches inti-
mate that Germany will not object to
Japan sending $4,000 troops while Great
Britain will endorse the plan with avid
ity, though perhaps secretly only.
The Japanese Legation in London has
official information of the dispatch of
1900 troops. In the meanwhile the Brit
sh are dispatchng six native regiments,
besides artillery, from India The revolt
is spreading in Western China The
representative of Pritchard Morgan, NJ.
p, at Cheng Tu wires that he and his
party have been detained there owing TO
news that the revolution has broken out
in SZechuan. which adjoins the Province
of Yunan, also in revolt and official news
comes today that the London Missionary
Socetys premises at Tsao Shih, Central
China, West northwest of Hankow, have
been destroyed by mob.
The rising seems to be spreading with
rapidity and shows unexpected organiza-
tion among the foreign anti elements.
The missionaries at Tsao Shh escaped
and reached Hankow in safety.
Cable dispatches from Shanghai report
that a number of Chinese cruisers are an
chored in sight of the foreign settle
ments which are only guarded by small
Japanese gunboat. A thousand Chinese
troops, with two forty nine-ton guns still
hold the forts outside the town.
The Viceroy of Woo Sung is reported
to have assurance that the foreign settle
ments in Shanghai will not be attacked.
The Admiralty Office has received the
following message from the officer com
manding the British first class cruiser
Endynion:
"Liu Kun Tau, June 1S.-( Monday
The Taku Forts opened fire at one in the
morning of June 18th on the ships of
the allied squadrons. After six hours en-
gagement the forts were silenced and
occupied by the allied forces. Additional
men for storming the forts were sent
ashore from the ships the previous after
noon.
"The British ships up the river en-
gagged were the Algerine (gunboaD, Fame
torpedo boat destroyer and Whiting
(torpedo boat destroyer). The two latter
captured four Chinese torpedo boat de-
stroyers. The casualties of the Algerne
were slight. Those of the storming par
ty and others are unknown.
"a Chinese second class cruiser, flying
an admiral's flag. is detained outside
Taku by the allied admirals.
''No information of Commanders
Chief Seymour's return to Tien Tsin had
been received by the Rear Admiral up
to two in the afternoon of June 18th. |
am sailing forthwith for Talu''
The Admiralty draws attention to the
fact that the Endymion's report. which
is of a later date, does not confirm the
japanese report of Admiral Seymours
return TO Tien Tsin.
An agency dispatch from Shanghai
dated June 10th. says the latest news
from Pekin is that the Dowager EN-
press is greatly concerned at the capture
of the Taku Forts and that wholesale
degradatons of the Chinese army in
Guiding Generals Sung Ching and Fung
Flu Slang, the Governor Of Pekin and
other high officials who promised in the
Tsung Ii Yamen to accomplish the ex-
pulsion of the foreigners, have taken
place.
Three of the Taku Forts, it is added
were completely destroyed and most of
a charge of the sailors of the allied fleets.