The true northerner., 1900-06-20
VICTIMS OF TE DyX+sS.
Thus Far Over Seventeen Hundred
Native Christians Have Been
Killed in China.
THE SITUATION B5COnIsG ALARMING.
Danger-Tien-Tsin I'm the Hands
of "a Mob-Oniciais burned at the
Stake-German Minister Reported
Killed and Legations burned.

Moscow, June 16.-According TO a
dispatch from Port Arthur, the Box
ers have killed, up to the present, 1,764
Chinese Christians. They have de-
stroyed the telegraph line between Pc
king and Kiachta, on the Trans-Baikal
frontier, whence communication was
had with Irkutsk and st. Petersburg
This leaves Peking isolated until the
international force succeeds in restor-
ing telegraphic communication be-
tween Tien-Tsin and the capital.
May Send Troops.
Washington, June 16.-The possibil-
ity that United States troops from
the Philippines would have to be sent
to China was Friday discussed seri-
ously by President Mckinley and the
cabinet. AT the meeting it was prac-
tically decided to send the Brooklyn
and the New Orleans from Manila to
Taku with 500 marines, and If this
force proves insufficient the army will
likely be called upon.
Minister Reported Killed.
Hong-Kong, June II. - Dispatches
from Ten-Tsin say that all the lega-
tions at Peking have been destroyed
and that the German minister, Baron
Won Ketteler, has been killed.
Not Confirmed.
London, June 1S.-All the London pa
pers print sensational dispatch about
Picking legations being burned by the
Boxers and the German minister be-
ing murdered. The only message ap-
preaching an authentic confirmation
comes from the Posts Peking CORE
spondent who says that the German
minister was captured.
Situation Very Critical.
The following summary of the situ-
alton was telegraphed to the Daily
News from Shanghai Sunday evening:
THE situation is critical and without
parallel since the Indian mutiny. At the
Yang Use ports there is a grave feeling
of unrest among the natives. AS yet
there has been no outbreak. but placards
have been posted in Kin Kiang. Ugas Skin
and Wu Hu, calling on the people TO
kill and burn A body of rioters 5000
strong are at Kwei Hsein, in the pre-
lecture of Canton. and troops have gone
to suppress them. The powers, unpre-
pared. are helpless to prevent disaster;
but, barring trifling local friction, they
are working amicably.
Hundreds Massacred.
The Peking correspondent of the
Times. in dispatch dated June IA, via
Tien-Tsin, June Is, says:
"A serious anti-foreign outbreak took
place last night, when some of the finest
buildings In the. eastern part of the city
were burned and hundreds of native Chris
lou. htr fnF ion
ers were massacred within two miles of
the imperial palace. 1t was an anxious
night for all foreigners, who were collect
ed under the protection of the foreign
guards. The Boxers burned the Roman
Catholic East cathedral, the large build
ings of the London mission and the Amer
lean board of missions, and also the
buildings in the eastern part of the city
occupied by the foreign employees of the
maritime customs"
Will Go to China.
Manila. June ls.-The Ninth regi-
ment has been ordered to Manila,
whence it will proceed to China.
Under Sealed Orders.
Manila, June 1S.-The gunboat Con-
cord, with marines aboard, has sailed
under sealed orders, supposedly for
China. The British cruiser Buena
Ventura has sailed for Hong-kong
with troops and stores for Hong-Kong
and Tien-Tsin.
No News Received.
Washington, June 1S.-The third day
passed here without a single line of
news from any official source respect
ing the critical situation in China. All
day the telegraph offices at the white
house and in the state, war and navy
departments were manned, but no
word came. Inquiries of the cable COM
panies showed that not only were the
communications by wire with Pekin.
Taku, Tien-Tsin and all northern
China suspended, but the notices con-
veyed little encouragement for the
hope that they would be soon reopened.
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