Connecticut western news., 1900-06-28
RELIEF OF TIEN-TSIN.
Americans and British Led the
 Way.
THE RUSSIANS LOSE HEAVILY.
Admiral seymour's Column Hemm ed In Ten Miles From City-Ministers From PekinE May Be With Him. Report of a Massacre.


 London. June 2I.-A dispatch from Chefu says:
 ''The Americans and British entered Tien-tsin first. silencing the guns of the arsenal aud breaking through the Chi. nese lines. The other foreigners were close behind. The Russians lost foui killed and 30 wounded. The losses of the other nationalities were small.
 Admiral Seymour's force is about ten miles from Tien-tsin. It is surrounded by Chinese troops and Boxers and ham, pered by the presence of ill and wounded men. IL is reported that all foreigners were sent from Peking with a weak Chi nese guard. and it is assumed that ehey are with Admiral Seymour.
 ''One thousand Japanese are landing at Taku. and 2,0O0 more are expected to- morrow, when a battalion of French Is also due. The foreign admirals have ap- pointed Captain Wise. commander of the Monocacy, to be commandant at Tong. ku."
 A new phase of the crisis is the proba- bility of outbreaks in the great southern provincial centers. The populace there Is daily assuming a more hostile attitude toward foreigners, and the latter per ceive symptoms of general rising. espe- cially at Ranking, where, according to a dispatch to The Daily Express, Kans Wu, one of the most truculent enemies of foreigners. has arrived by way of the grand canal. armed with full power from the empress to deal with the south ern provinces. The friendly attitude of Vieeroy Liu Kun toward foreigners has brought him into disgrace with Prince Yuan, president of the tsung-li-yamen.
 Unconnrmed Report of Ma..acre.
 According to Chinese refugee who has reached Shanghai, the condition of Tien-tsin is horrible. Everywhere in the streets are the bodies of massacred men and women, Americans as well as other nationalities. The Hongkong and German banks, he adds, were both de stroyed early during the bombardment.
 A dispatch to Berlin from the German consul at Chefu says the relief column entered Tien-tsin Saturday afternoon and started again Sunday to rescue Vice Admiral Seymour, who, with the foreign ministers, was said to be occupying a position, 12la miles from Tien-tsin. where he was surrounded and hard pressed by a great force of Boxers and Chinese reg ulars. Possibly the Japanese report that Seymour is prisoner and that the min isters had left Peking guarded by Chi nese soldiers is a distorted version of the Berlin story.
 Shanghai also reports that the Ameri- can-Russian relief force was so badly ambuscaded that 1t was obliged to aban- don several field guns and much ammu- milton. About 1S0 Russians and II Americans were killed or wounded.
 The German gunboat Iltis and Rus sian torpedo boat destroyer are patrolling the Pei-Ho river and raking with ma chine guns the native villages on the riv- CT banks, which are filled with conceal ed '.snipers."
 A Shanghai special, dated Tuesday, says:
 "Niceroys Liu Kun Yih and Chan Si Tung and the governors of kiangsi Kiangsu, Anhui, Nunan and Hupeh sent a joint memorial to the empress and to her advisers on June 15 pointing out the fatal error of going to war with the world and of imperiling the dynasty Nevertheless, they reported. they had al together 100000 men and only awaited her majesty's permission to go north No reply has been received"