Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24
H WORD "ARMY'
Used by Admiral
Kempf Leaves no
Room for Doubt
Dowager Empress issues
Orders for the De.
struction OF all
Foreigners.
AMMUNITION GONE AND
GARRISON NEEDS HELP.

AONNS O0AAS
navy department this morning
received an important despatch
from Admiral KempR. The fol-
lowing is issued by the depart-
ment:
Acting Secretary Hackett this
morning received n despatch
from Admiral Kempff, dated
Che Foo, June %, to the effect
that our marines under Major
Waller, together with 400 Rus
sinns have had an engagement
with the "Chinese army" near
Tien Tsin. They could not
break through the line. A
force numbering 1000, the adj
miraI reports, Is now ready to
to make another attempt.
The main Importance of this
is Admiral Kempf's disclosure
that it is the Chinese army and
not the Boxers who are fighting
the foreign troops.
The announcement that
Prince Tuan has assumed nc
tive command of the Chinese
troops and the bombardfng of
Tfen Tsin seems conclusive evil
dence that the DOwager EN-
press has declared war on the
combined powers, and that the
whole military strength of
China Is to be employed in be-
half of the BOXERS" 1t is con-
sidered Significant that the
Chinese merchants of Shanghai
are realizing on their effects in
specie and retiring into the in
terror. Evidently they antici-
pate "A spread of the trouble.
LIEUTENANT WRIGHT KILLED.
The New York Journal has a copy
righted dispatch from Rev. Frederick
Brown. presiding elder of the Tien Tsin
district of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The dispatch is dated at Che
foo, June %, and is as follows:
Il have just got away from Tien Tsin
a German gunboat. The city has
been b%ombarded for several days by
the Chinese. All the foreign part of
Tien Tsin has been destroyed.
Lieut.. Wright, of u navy, and $50
others of the white residents, marines
and sailors, sent up to our assistance,
are killed or wounded.
"The American consulate building
has been destroyed. Ammunition is al
most gone. The garrison are suffering
terribly and need instant help"
THE EMPRESS UNMASKED.
1t is said officially that the dowager
empress has issued emphatic instruc-
for the extermintion of all for
in China.
Large number of refugees are arriv-
ing here from the north. All is quiet
here and in the Yang Use Kiang valley.
The officials here are anxious busi-
ness Is practically suspended and all the
respectable Chinese look for foreign
protection in the event Of a rising.
Lieut.. Kempf, U. S. N, through the
British consul at Tien Tsin. sends the
following by special courier:
"Reinforcements are urgently need
ed. The casualties are heavy, the
ammunition is insufficient and machine
guns are required. The Russians at the
railroad station are hard pressed. The
Chinese troops keep up an ineessant fire
large guns on the European con-
cessions, nearly all of which have been
burned"
ADMIRALS' PROCLAMATION.
The following cablegram from Adj
miral Kempff was received late this
afternoon at the Navy Department:
CHE Foo, June %.
Secretary Navy, Washington:
Proclamation issued Goth: The adj
mirals and senior naval officers OF the
allied powers in China desire, in the
name of their governments, to let it be
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