The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-29
T|EN.TSIN IS BOMBARDED
United states Guuboot Mouocacy Shot
Through the Bows-Rumor That Em-
Press and Emperor are Both Dead

| Ircss ana emperor are BON DEAD.
WASHINGTON. June 21.-Acting
/ Secretary of the Navy Hackott receive
/ ed cable message this afternoon from
Admiral kempn, dated Chefoo, June
| 2lst. saying 1ien-tsin is being bonn
/ barded and that much of the American
sions are being destroyed. A relief
party is en- route to Tien-tsin, includ-
ing $50 American marines under Maj
| or Walter,
LONDON, June 22, A. M.-The
| Shanghai correspondent Of the Times
/ says: Great destruction was caused
by the Boxers i'm the native quarters
! of Tien-tsin on June 18th, but the pres
ence of foreign troops in the foreign
settlement protected that The native
press asserts that there are bitter dis
sensions i'm the Manchuria party.
! LONDON, June %, $3.50 a. M.-The
! United States gunboat MOnoCaCy was
| two miles up the Pei-Ho river when
! the international fleet began the bonn
bardment of the Taku forts. Accord
! ing to the Shanghai correspondent Of
the Daily Express, she was shot
through the bows. The correspondent
says that Chinese riiemen on both
banks of the river attacked her but
unSuCCessfully.
! The scantiness of authentic news
with reference to the situation con-
tinues. Admiral Kemplfs dispatch to
the United States Navy Department
announcing that Tien-tsin is being
| bombarded was prominently used by
| the London papers and commented up
on as indicating a change for the worse.
The stoppage of trade has thrown
| 10000 coolies out of work at Shanghai.
All the English ladies at Tien-tsin left
there Saturday by train for Tal<u.
Shanghai wires that they had some eX-
citing experiences and would not have
gotten through except for the assist
ance of the Chinese troops. The Boxers
made several desperate attempts to at
! tack the train.
! Taking advantage of the political dis
orders, bands of robbers are pillaging
! in the vicinity of Sam Chun The Chi
nese authorities are powerless. Precau-
| lions have been taken to prevent dis
turbances in British territory. The eX-
PLANTATION given at Hongkong of the
| failure of Ii Hung Chang to go to Pc
king is that there is an uprising on the
| border of the Kowloon hinterland.
The Singapore correspondent of the
Daily Express, telegraphing yesterday,
| says: kang Yu Wei, the refOrmer, as
serts that Russian agents precpitated
| if they did not entirely organize the
present disturbances for purely Rus
sian purposes.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Shanghai says that the mission
aries from Tsang Chou have safely ar
rived at Wei Hal Wei.
BERLIN, June 21.-A semi-official
dispatch from Toxic, dated June 21st,
says the Japanese Consul at Shanghai
confirms the report that Vice-Admiral
Seymour has arrived at Picking and
that the members of the diplomatic
corps are safe. According to an Off
cial japanese report from ChefOO, the
! 81, gntt Of tCir
duced to ashes June 18th.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-A cable
gram received at the Navy Depart
ment today from Admiral Remey at
Manila states that the Zafiro sailed
| yesterday from Cavite for Hongkong.
She is a supply ship, and may proceed
to Taku after communicating with
Captain Wilde of the Oregon at Hong
kong.
The Zafiro has about $50 sailors in
addition. to her crew.
Admiral Remey, from Manila an
nounces the departure of the Iris from
Manila for Taku. The Iris is a water
boat but on this trip she carried
quantity of supplies for Admiral
Kempff's little squadron, as well as
cargo of good coal, a commodity which
will be sorely needed by the time she
arrives.
TAKU, June 21.-"The following pro-
clamation was agreed TO today, to be
! issued forthwith:
1.-THE Admirals and senior naval Off
GERS of the allied powers in China de-
sire to make known to all Niceroys and
authorities along the coasts and rivers
and in the cities and provinces of China
that they intend to use armed forces
only against the Boxers and people that
oppose them on their march to PekinS
for the rescue of their fellow-cOuntry-
men,
LONDON, June 21.-The soldiers and
Boxers are said to be masSacTeing each
other in Peking and the Chinese Man
chus are also reported to be engaged in
mutual slaughter. Prince Tuan is al
| legged to have sacked and burned the
palace. The Emperor is reported to have
been killed, the DoWager Empress is
represented as missing, and in some
quarters it is believed she has commit
ted suicide. All this purports to have
been contained in a letter from Picking,
received by a high official Chinese at
Shanghai, where it is hoped the desper-
ate struggle between the leaders and
the DoWager Empress Will prevent the
sects combining against the Europeans.
LONDON, June 20, 3 A. M.-The
Russian relieving force arrived outside
! Picking this morning, says the ShanS-
hal correspondent of the Daily Express,
and Immediately began to attack the
city on two sides, employing numerous
dGllllely. lie IOltt 6lljditlll al "
ed in the nick of time, for the Chinese
assert that the attack upon the lega-
lions had been successfully renewed,
On the night of June 10th the Chinese
troops under Generals Tung Fab Slang
and Tung Ching attacked the lega-
tons and set on fire five European
buildings. Nothing definite is known
as to the result except that the Chi
nese were disappointed in results.
ROME, June 2O.-In the Senate to-
day, Marquis Venosti, Minister of For
eign Affairs, who was absent tele-
graphed that a dispatch from the Ital-
ian Consul at Shanghai had been re-
ceived saying the legations in Peking
had been saved.
LONDON, June 20.-A news agency
dispatch from Shanghai dated June
goth, says:
After an arduous march and frequent
fighting with the Chinese Vice-Admiral
Seymour arrived at Picking Sunday
afternoon. On five occasions the Chi
nese attacked the column in great force.
!