The age-herald., 1900-06-09
One Account Says the Troops
 Were Badly Defeated.
THE UPRISING STILL GROWING
American Missionaries Have Address ed a Communication to Mckinley Saying They Are in Danger
  and Need Protection

London, June S.-DeInlte returns reRarQ- ing the severe fighting between the Chinese troops and the Boxers that going on Thursday between Tien Tsn and Pekin had not been received at Tien Tsin when the latest teegrams to reach London were filed.
 The Chinese troops, however, had killed many boxers according to some reports, while another account had the government sorely defeated in engagement near Pao Ting Flu.
 Apparently the legation guards had not yet taken hand in the fighting, but they are ready to do at a moments notice. The Boxers movement affects some hun dreds of square miles, Official dispatches to Vienna from Pekin aver that the sect is more powerful than any political party in China, embracing no less than four mill lion and manipulated by zealous and adroit men. The representatives of the powers are still acting in perfect concert, which ap- pears for the present to give the Chinese government ample chance to put down the disturbance alone. The Tien Tsin corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing June 7th, says:
 For the last three days the whole com- munity of Tien Tsin has been preparing to defend itself against an expected attack by l the DOXerS. mere IS a lnIuX or refugees from the surrounding country, l who are now crowding~ the city. This in- creases the excitement Nearly all the vil- lages surrounding Tien Tsin are joining the boxers movement, which is taking more and more fanatical character. Foreigners Driven Back Parties of foreigners when approaching the villages are driven back by armed bands. Yesterday the Chinese troops were | ordered 50 Manchang on the grand canal, within twenty miles of which a large body of Boxers is reported to be collecting At tempts to re-establish the regular working of the Pekin-Tien Tsin railway have hith- erto proved futile Every night the Boxers Set fire to the sleepers and the woodwork of the bridges.
 General Neih seems bent upon acting with energy and dealing out heavy blows to the rebels, recognizing the necessity of restroying the prestige of the Boxers which has begun to demoralize his army
 Secret orders from Pekin, the protector of the rebels, have paralyzed military ac- ton and raised the status of the Boxers in the eyes of the masses. Although the Boxers declare tlfeir first object to be the annihlation of Catholic converts the wire pulers evidently wish to propagate hatred among the country people against foreign CTS and things foreign in general. The move on the surface has a patriotic char acter, but it natures ultimately against the dynasty. This seems to be the req son why 1t has thus far been treated with a gentle hand. The legations at Pekn have asked for endorsements. i A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Yoko- hama. dated Friday, describing the effect l on the Japanese of the refusal of the Korean emperor to give an audience to the Japanese minister regarding the torture and execution of political suspects, says: Nakahama is Excited
 "The feeling here is exceedingly excited. It may not be possible for the government to keep it in check, as the officials were able to do at the end of March when Rus- sia made her demands, particularly on the : question of Masampo. It is thought here that Russian influence Is behind the af- front given by Korea to Japan. The tone of the Japanese is bitter, and grave de- 1 velopments are possible"
 The Pekin correspondent of the Times, in 1 a dispatch dated June 2, says: Particulars received here show that Messrs. Norman and Robinson, the mis- sionaries, were hacked to pieces under cir cumstances of reyoting barbarity. The Chinese government cannot be exonerated : from the charge of complicity in these murders From the beginning it's action will bear only one interpretation, name- ly, that of approval Of the anti-foreign movements which has had these results
 "Fhe government has delegates as com missioners to Cho Kwau and Pao Flu Ting, the chief centers of the boxers, to investi- gate and report a notorious anti-forefgn of- ficial who Is known to be in sympathy with the boxers and who was tfse director of a mining bureau which was founded to thwart all railway and mining develop ments"
 The Pekin correspondent of the Times, telegraphing June s. says:
 "The news that General Neihs foreign drilled soldiers had fired upon the boxers who were destroying the railway near Tien Tsin was favorably received, as giv- ing some ground for hope that the govern- ment would change its policy.
 Troops Ordered to Retuyn
 "Now arrives the intelligence that Neihs troops have been ordered to return to camp at Lu Tai. and that their action has been condemned. The tsung Ii yamen, however, denies the truth of the latter statement.
 But the denials of the tsung Il yamen are never convincing. If 1t be true the news must be regarded as serious.
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