Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
PEKIN WELLGUARDl.
Chinese to thu Number Of 800, 900
Invest the City.
HEAVILY EQUIPPED VIM AWfILERY
KrupPs and MaHirns Galore and AM
munition Ia On Hand In Insx-
haussibIe Quantities.

as-lI e F. .
General Mas army" says . cor
respondent Of London paper sk
Shan Hal Kwan, Consisting Of four
thousand men, left week ago
for Pekin. and General Sung ohing's
forces, numbering 2,600, let tos the
same place en- Jane 18th.
"a careful estimate Of the number
and armament Of the Chinese troops
around Pekin puts the total at $3.50, 001s
and il Is calculated that these troops
possess 900 seven-ceptimeter Creusos
guns, eighteen Krupps and $50 Max
inns.
Their supply Of ammunition ID
practically inexhaustible. II has been
mainly supplied by Q German firm at
Carlowitz. Fully three-fourths Of the
Chinese forces are badly drilled, whol-
~ undisciplined and Quite unfamiliar
with moder n YeapoDa y" &. q
u Another Shanghai dispatch says:
eli Ping Heng, former governor Of
SEan Tung, who Is intensely snti.for-
on, has gone to the Kiang Yin forts
he Yang Tse. He has declared his
IGNITION of resisting the landing Of
;tish forces in that region.
;ncording to Hong Kong dispatch,
Sunday, strong reihforcements
aisn polices with three Maxims,
zen, sent, to Kov Loon, on the,
md, A Che Foo message Of
-y's dGte says:
A.
- st fort here, where there are
80 nj soldiers permanently an
- further force having arrived
= ag Hal Chou. There in an
. -, rre'ing prevailing here and an
- . generally anticipated. Chi
! 1.5r -us. .snts are closing their Offices
rN:I' p = UAring to leave the port. All
, :.rs = at q standstill. =
| Ca. -, preparations. By the allies
! or. onward. The First regi-
! .ret,. fish midas, 10,000 men,
emit Il at Calcutta Sunday aud
g., = 4-arines received orders to
g"-.ti- English ports.
In., british war Office, in anticipa-
ton Of a prolonged campaign, 10 con-
tracing for winter clothing and fur
| CO.. sas
ia Amur- army corps, ordered out
Is 4Suss:a, number 80, 100 men, with
e.: Vt .:r guns. Jspan proposes to
Ia 5000 men on Chinese territory
wi'H fortnight e: 81 isfi$
., 'ong the minor military prepare
t 40 he Portuguese government at
10, island of Macao, at the south
west ep '-ance of Canton river, ie send
ing arms 10 the Portuguese in Can
ton. The Germans in Hong Hong
have cabled Emperor William to AK
if they may serve in the local forces in
defsns- # Hong Kong. A million
round Jeff Hong Kong Monday for
Taku by the British steamer Hal
LooEg. -.c t.4.'ttrs ft 80
! The Shanghai correspondent OF Ths
London Times sends the following nm
der Sundays date:
"A military correspondent at Taku
says thstth operations Of the allies
are suffering from the want Of q recog-
nized head, defective organization and
the lack O transport"
Mr.. i1der, the noted engineer, has
arrived Of Cne Foo.
The Bril- cruiser Terrible has ar
rived ct = e. FOO from Toku with the
latest new. Itch is as follows:
Eight hundred Sikhs and 200
Welsh Fnsiliers have effected juno
ton With iI- American, German and
Russian So {. which had been cut OF
by the CT: bout nine miles from
Tien "t''. ras proposed 70 deliy-
or an AZ ,on the Chinese forces
at T., a tst night Sunday"
It - Ivhst forces united. Il
would e. that one relieving force,
cut OF, - be an relieved by another.
At any r:.,. it is apparently certain
that ths allies arrived In Sufficient
force at Tien Tsin Sunday to attack
the besisging Chinese. fh -