Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-26
FEAR THE WORST
LEGATIONS AT PEKIN BELIEVED
TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.
ABSENCE OF RELIABLE NEWS.
Japanese Report That Admiral Sey-
mour's Force Has Been Captured
Big Army of Chinese.

Big Army of Chinese.
London, Tune 2S. s:s5 a. m.-The Britt
lsh cruiser Terrible has arrived at Che
Foo from Taku with the latest news.
which is as follows:
.sEight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh
fusilers have effected a junction with
the American, German and Russian
soldiers which had been cut OF by the
Chinese about nine miles from Tlen
Tsin. It was proposed to deliver an as
sault upon the Chinese forces at Tien
Tsin last night Saturday.. 1t Is not
clear what forces united. 1t would seem
that one relieving force. cut on, had
been relieved by another. At any rate,
1T is apparently certain that the allies
arrived in sufficient force at Tien Tsln
on Sunday to attack the besieging Chi
nese." -
"Foreign officials here" says a dis
patch from Shanghai to the Dahy Ix,
press, dated yesterday, incline to the
belief that the worst has happened TO
the legations at Pekin and to Admiral
eymou Even if the legations were
safe on June IA. there is no guarantees
that they are safe now. The sltuatlon'
In fact grows more and more gloomy.
The entire absence of reliable new from
the capital seems to justify the worst
construction which can be put upon w.
bad news comes from 1an Nums.
where the ullEeSl ID SiibA
hourly. Viceroy Liu Kin Yih has teie-
granhed the British authorities that ne
has ordered the five Chinese cruisers
which have been lying on the haroof
here to proceed to Nankln.
General Mas army, says "a COLI
snondent at Shan Hail KAN consisting
of AZ, 900 men, left a week ago LOT fehln'
and General Sung Ching's troops mum.
herring $500, left for the same paace oh
June Is. ~, 49, her
.,a armament of the Chinese troops
around pekin puts the total at 56o'ooV,
and If is calculated that THESE tioops
possess 227 Creusot guns. Is krupps anu
15O .Afa Their supply OF amn1unl-
tion Is practically inexhaustfble. II mas
haan mainly supplied by a German firm
~ Carliwitz. Fully three-fourths OF the
chinese forces are badly drilled. wholly
undisciplined and quite unfamiliar with
modern weapons
Another Shanghai dispatch says:
Iii Ping Seng, former governor OF
Shan Tung. who IS intensely ant-iolsn
has gone to the Kiang Yin forts on the
Yang Use. He has declared his intention
OF resisting the landing of British forces
in that region
According to a Hong Kong dispatch
dated yesterday, strong achievements
OF indian police with three Maxims nave
been sent to Kow Loon on the mainland.
A che Foo message of Mondays date
says:
-Four cannons nave been added to the
west fort here, where there are now l.oOO
soldiers permanently encamped. a fur
ther force having arrived from Ming Hal
Chou. There is an uneasy feeling pre-
vailing here, and an attack is generally
anticipated Chinese merchants are clos
ing their offices and preparing to leave
the port All business is at a standstill'
Extensive preparations by the allies
are going forward The first regiment of
British Indians, 10, 900 men, embarked at
Calcutta yesterday and S33 more marines
received orders to go out from English
ports.
The British war office. in anticipation
of a prolonged campaign. is contracting
for winter clothing and fur caps.
The Amoor army corps, ordered out by
Russia. numbers 81. 100 men with "a guns.
japan purposes to and $4,000 men on
Chinese territory within a fortnight.
Among the minor military prepara-
lions the Portuguese governor of Macao,
at the southwest entrance of Canton riv-
er, in sending arms to the Portuguese
concession. The in Hong Kong
have cabled Emperor William to ask if
they may serve in the local forces in de-
tense OF Hong Kong. A million rounds
left Hong Kong yesterday for Taku by
the British steamer Hailong. The Shang-
hai correspondent of the Times sends the
folloW1ng' under yesterdays date:
"A military correspondent at Tak1
lays the operations of the allies are SUI
ieflng from the want of a recognized
mead defective organization and the Lack
of transport" "
Mr.. Kinder, the noted engineer. has ar.
rived at Che Foo.
Che Foo. Tuesday, June 26.-Rear Al.
miral keFnpf reports by a Japanese
torpedo foat that the combined forces
entered Tfen Tsin on Saturday, June %.
sustaining small loss. They started on
Sunday to relieve the force which is be-
lleVed to be surrounded near Pekin.
According to these Japanese reports.
Admiral Seymour has been captured and
the ministers nave left Pekin guarded
by Chinese soldiers.
Washington, Tune 25.-The reported
action of the gunboat Monocacy in fail
ing to respond after she had been fired
upon from the Tai forts is understood
to have been received with surprise by
the president, who requested an explain.
alton of the matter. which has not vel
been furnished. This was made known
today in official quarters to offset the
published intimations hat the Monocacy
would not have failed to respond unles!
She had been ordered to hold her fire.
FALSE CHINESE DISPATCHES.
Berlin. June 25.-The Kreutz Zeitun,
warns the public against crediting dis
patches from Chinese officials, especial,