The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-12
ASPECT is OMINOUS.
ourEEN DAYS SINCE A WORD
FROM FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN.
WORST MAY HAVE HAPPENED.
HING CHANG HAS BEEN ORDE r..
ED TO THE CAPITAL.

4 :. 7. said This Means He Is Wanted
90 the Powers-AIIies at Tien Tsln
a. PeriIous Position StOrit $
Come of severe Fighting and One
of Defeat-Japnn Is Said to be
Tardy With Troops.
Tondon, July IL. $50 a. m.-The Chimes
situation again ars a most miluus as
nscr. Eighteen d US ago Sir Robert Ha l
4 soatched his asst me sage. d c a i g
tba The situa ion was desperate ana
since 1hen 10 word has come from the
Europeans in Pekin.
According TO the Daily Mails Shang-
ha correspondent, Lii Hung Chang has
immediate departure for Pekin, pre-um-
sblv 10 break the ws of the Pekil ras-
fdy t.. Lur,i AN p wers, and, S
usual role of t ator wi EUR pc in
daicul. matters, to eudea.or 10 act as
media or and TO avert the vengeance of
the wers.
To add to the grimness of this sug-
gestion. all advices from Tien Tsin tend
10 confirm the reports of the perilous con-
ditions of the allied forces and belle the
Il optimistic Chinese rumors. Unless rein
forcemenis speedily reach Tien Tsin, an
other disaster may be expected.
4 The Daily Mails Tien Tsin correspond
ent telegraphing on July 5, says:
The situation is about as bad as it
can well be. I only trust that we shall
not soon want relieving ourselves. A for
ward movement is impossible. From 30
G0 10 10000 troops are wanted, and there
are only 10000 here. The foreign troops
are ,9orklng Well together, but it Is incon-
yenient that there is no supreme com
mander. In some quarters the feeling is:
4 Let US rescue Pekin and then clear out
in favor of Russia"
Other Tien Tsin correspondents say that
no advance is possible until Sept I, and
explanations are being asked by the pa
pers here of the tardy action of Japan
III sending troops. since it is known that
she was ready and willing to send them
and that Russia raised no objection to
her doing so. 1t is hinted that difficulty
arose as TO the manner in which Japan
was 90 be recouped for her heavy out
lay Rumors are current that Japan de-
manded the cession Of a Chinese port.
The Russian papers report that the
Boxers are ravaging Manchuria and have
damaged sixty miles of the railway,
threatening Tein and Kirin, while Port
Arthur and New Chwang are said to be
Endangered. Russia, therefore, has noti-
: fed the Powers of her intention to dis
S patch a large military force to Man
churia.
Il appears that the Russians censorship
is suppressing all references to this mat
ter and it transpires that 5000 regular
n troops have already arrived from Port Ar
thur and Amur to protect the Manchurla
& Railway, and that other troops are now
\ on the; way to Manchuria.
"A All kinds of oIies come from Shanghai,
81 NWhich are impossible to verify 1t is stat
s ed ttat the Boxes have murdel ed the
#chanc5llor OF the Pekin University and
sixty of The members of his family and
&retaners
81 A confidential officer Of Gen. Yung Lu,
\ dise used as a Boxer, is reported to have
crept into Prince Tuans tent while the
s Prince was sleeping, with the intention of
stabting him. He was caught by the m
e tFIes SO the story goes, and decapitated
~ the s1ot His head was mt, with
B Prince Tuan's compliments, to Yung Lu
las warning to him to beware.
The French consul at Shanghai has news
thet the Chinese prefect at Moukden him
sell murdered the Catholic Bishop Gull
ION in his yamen. Beside Bishop Guillon,
athers Crunoet, Corbet, Bourgeois and
eulIenot and two sisters of the French
mission and numerous native Christians
were massa cred.
81 FROM Canton comes a report of large de-
heruons from Chinese regiment at Eiao
n Shou and of sanguinary riot between
herman troops and Boxers, many of the
latter being killed.
Both at Shanghai and Canton appre-
henslon exists that these evidences of a
n widespread native rebellion Indicate the
n necessity for immediate measures on III
N part Of the Powers.
II Is stated that Germany intends te
Il heAa to China 10000 to 1900 men, well
equipped with guns.