The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-27
help REACHES
SEYMOUR.
Communication Opened With
the British Admiral
By the Rescuing Force From
Tien Tsin.
FOUND TEN MILES OUT
With Three Hundred Men Sick
and Wounded
Supply OF Provisions Was Al
most Exhausted
FOUND TEN MILES OUT

London, June pa special from
Shanghai dated last evening. says that
communication with Admiral Seymour
was opened by the Tien Tsin relief force
Sunday. Admiral Seymour was at that
time said to be ten miles from Tien Tsin.
Three hundred of the members Of his
party reported sick and wounded; only
a few had been killed. They were short
Of provisions, and were returning with
out having rescued the legations.
HEAVY LOSSES.
Shanghai, June PA German paper
has an uncredited statement to the
effect that Admiral Seymour is eight
miles from Tien Tsin with sixty-two
killed and 200 wounded.
MINISTER'S HAVE LEFT PEKIN.
Paris. June 27.-1O a. m.-The French
consul general at Shanghai telegraphing
under date of yesterday announces that
the allied troops have entered Tien Tsin.
He states also that the foreign ministers
have departed from Pekin for the north
accompanied by a Chinese escort. 1t is
supposed that they are headed for
Shanghai Kouan following the course
Of the great wall The telegram adds
that the viceroy of Nankin and the
viceroy Of Tieheng Gtchetong have re-
quested the consul to announce. to the
French government that they are pro-
tecting the interests of some of the mis-
siOnaries and some of the foreign mer-
chants in that region. A Yang Use
telegram of the same date states that
the French consul at Che Foo confirms
the news of the deliverance from Tien
Tsin and the fact that the foreign min
listers left Pekin under an escort.
ANOTHER MISSION BURNED.
London, June ga dispatch from
Tsin Tan dated yesterday says that the
Protestant mission at WeiSien was
burned down by rebels Monday night
last.
CHINA DRAWS THE LINE.
Washington, June 27.-The Chinese
minister called this morning on the sec
retary of state and communicated to
him the contents of a dispatch which he
had received from the Tsung Ii Yamen
at Pe1in, dated on the 18th instant. The
dispatch states that the foreign minis
ters had before this date asked permis-
sion for the legation guards to enter
the city, which permission had beer
granted; that they subsequently asked
that these guards be reinforced which
the Chinese government was not dispos-
ed to permit. The dispatch then goes
on to state that the consul general al
I1en Is1n-SuppOsed to be the French
consul general-had telegraphed to the
viceroy Of Chi Ii that the foreign ad
miral had demanded the surrender o.
the Taku forts and that the foreign
ministers were shortly to leave Pekif
for Tien Tsin with their guards.
MIR. WI HEARS FROM HOME.
Washington, June 27.-The Chimes
minister has just received a telegram
from Pekin, via Ching Flu, dated jun
19, saying that the ministers and for
eigners in Pel5in were safe there ant
well. and that arrangements were beins
made to provide them with an escOr
out of the city.
NECK AND NECK.
London. June PA special dispatcl
from Che Foo, says:
THE fight Of the allied forces agains
the combined boxers and Chinese sol
diery, barring the road to Tien Tsin
opened at daybreak. One hundred AM
fifty Americans were among the 1000 in
ternational troops. The Chinese 500
broke under heavy shelling, and thel
the arsenal was attacked and the gun
were gradually silenced. The fight wa
practically over at noon.
The keen, friendly rivalry for tn
honor Of first entering the city, resulte
in the Americans and British going i