The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-22
THE MIGHTY Oregon
To let the Celestials Know
That we are on Earth
The Allied Forces are Re-
ported to Have Forced
Their way to Pekin

Washington. June LIT was re-
ported today that General Macarthur
had been ordered to send three regi-
ments of troops to China. Adiutant
General Corbin declared positively
that up to date only one regiment, the
Ninth infantry, had been ordered
to go.
Admiral Remey has been directed to
send the Oregon to Taku as soon as
she can start. She will take extra
marines and sailors from the Mont
Grey, now at Hong Kong.
The Oregon is sent because of her
great moral effect and the large num-
Der of men she carries. The Iris is
expected to leave Manila for Taku
with food, coal and ammunition for
900 men for three months for Admiral
Kempff's squadron. She will take at
least eight days to make the voyage.
The Solace, which left Manila with 100
marines last Wednesday, is due at
Taku.
In addition to the Oregon, the Buff
falo with POO green landsmen aboard,
has been ordered at once from South
ampton, England, to the Philippines,
while the gunbOats Princeton and
Marietta. which are admirably suited
to service in the Pei-Ho river above
Taku, have been held at Cavite under
orders to be ready for service at any
moment. The Zafiro also has been
held at the same place in readiness to
take on supplies for the naval con-
tingent at Taku.
If the Princeton and Marietta join
Admiral Kemptf, as seems probable
now, he win have at his command a
more numerous and effective fleet of
gunboats adapted to service on the
Pei-Ho river as far up as Tien Tsm
than amy of the other naval powers
there represented.
ONE REA FOR THE FORTS FIRING.
The announcement of the return Ia
Tien Tsin of the combined brigade
after . weeks Ruthless efforts to reas1
Pekin is thought TO explain why il
was necess AIRY to SeiZe the Taku foyls
If the commanders of the combined
fleet below the forts learned of Nh,
expeditions return to Tien Tsin, tina
city being in the possession of mObs
it must have been necessary to s9nc
reinforcemants and provisions up tn,
river promptly, no matter if the Sun
had set. The Chinese regulation
permit no0hing ,so pass the forts a
night under any circumstances Eco
the same reason the gates of Pellin nr'
closed inexorably at sunset and no
reOpened until sunrise.
Dispatches say the forts fired three
quarters of an hour after midnight
which bears out the suggestion tha
the gunboats we're sent up the rive
with food supplies from the fleet ont
side, and were firHd upon for violating
the regulations. With the forts IL
BASES the powers are expected I'D
form large force as speedily as pos
petition of sufficient force to open tn
railway. No further restrictions will
operate to impede the landing forces
particularly those of Japan.
Secretary Hay has been notified bg
the Russian embassy here that 400
Russians troops have been dispatched
from Port Arthur TO Taku.
AMERICAN SHIPS NOT MENTIONED.
1rrip N fpnn
German official dispatches the Ameri
can ships took no part in the bonn
b ardment of the TalOh forts Sunday
morning. No news has yet been re
ceived here of the relief of the lega
tions at Pekin and EurOpe's attention
is conferred far less on the overwhelm
ing display of naval force at Taxi
than on the fate of the diplomatic
STATS and the 900 cosmopolitan resi-
dents guarded by handful of inter
national marines within the legation
compounds. There has been no news
thence since June Ia.
The British are dispatching si1
native regiments, besides artiller!
from India. The revolt is spreading
in western China. The representative
of Pritchard Morgan, member o
Parliament at Cheng Tu, wires that HI
and his party have been detained
there by news that the revolution ha
broken out in Szechuan, which ad
Joins the province of Yunnan. Ofiicia
news comes today that the Londol
missionary society's premises at Tsa'
Shih, Central China, west-northwes