Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-28

HAD 200 WOONDhD' Al LhAoA'
G, Petersburg. June 2S.-The minis
,er nj war, has received the following
nom Admiral Alexieft dated Port Ar
thur June 27
""During the night Of June 25, a de-
.scbment Of four companies Of Rus
sians Col. Schivlnsky commanding, ana
~ same number Of foreigners, went TO
~ relief of Admiral Seymour, and
broueht 200 OF his wounded to Tien
Tsln.'
SITUATION OVERDRAWN.
New York June PA dispatch to the
Trlbune from London says
The situation in China Is clearing
sloylv but surely. The losses and dan
ssrs Of the foreigners in Tien Tsin are
now known TO have been grossly eX'
aeperated by the rumor mongers' lhere
bas been no massacre Of foreigners
Tbs casualties have been few and dam
agss to property have been slight. Dis
matches received from Shanghai ana
re Foo agree In minimizing the peru
80 which the foreign quarter had been
ev,,sed and a European VINO mas
reached The coast from Tien Tsin re-
norts that there has been no approach
The relief column which entered Tien
Ten saturday night met with little re-
sistance The Russian losses are re-
norted as four killed and ~ wounded
ana the casualties Of the other detach-
ments were light
THIS VIEW IS TOO OPTIMISTIC
Admiral seymours mixed force which
MAS retreatlng toward Tien Tsin does
not appear 10 have been In so desperate
a Might as the earliest and most sem
sational dispatches made out ana on
Sunday II was only three hours march
from the city. The details Of the rescue
~ mis- force by a relief column 2VO
strong are still lacking but the return
~ The entire body TO Tien Tsin is a fore
gone conclusion. 80. T.,
the safety OF the foreign legations y
,sst,rad The foreigners with tber
ovn Guards. We're conducted out OF the
canital and placed under the protection
ofSsvmotr's force, which retired Slow
~ toward Tien Tsin with its sick ana
wounded The column was harasseu
nv chinese mobs and compelled TO move
eioulv hut apart from the difficulty OF
securing supplies Il does not appear 10
have been In serious danger, much less
In great extremity.
CRISIS HAS BEEN PASSED.
II now seems probable that with the
,sn thousand troops. including the
Jananese between Taku and Tien Tsin'
pekin can be approached with little an
acnltv within a few days, and members
Of Inc Legations reinstated in their
quarters. This may be an optimistic
view. but the situation has improved
so rapIdly during the last 4S hours that
the collapse OF the entire Boxer moNe-
ment within a week - now forecast
Inv well informed men. The optimlsts
are probably oversanguine. Just as the
oroakers have been unduly alarmed Dut
the Improvement IN the situation Is uh-
mistakable.
Information was not definite at MD
night but there was general feellns
among those watching events IN the iar
east that there had been no catastrophe
and that the crisis had been passed.
When Seymour's force is rescued ul-
plomacy will come In. Russia ana ia,
ban will have troops on the ground ana
Il will not be easy 10 bring about. thelr
exit: but there will be diplomatic SIT
uaton In place Of a crisis IN Asian ar
fairs with China at war with Chrlsteh-
dom
SEYMOUR THOUGHT 1T SERIOUS
London. June 2s. S:2O a. m.-The last
steamer arriving az Che Foo from Iahu
brought this message dated Iien lsih'
Monday June 25th:
The Russian general in command
Of the relief force had decided, IN view
Of Saturdays heavy lighting anu
marching, that one days rest LOT the
troops was essential, and that the au-
vance should not be resumed uhui 10
day Meanwhile came Admlfal oSS
mour's hellogaph that his p0siul9n
was desperate. and that he coulu oilS
hold out two days. The rellel s'ai'eu
At dawn today (MondaD.
10000 FOREIGN TROOPS.
Several thousand Japanese have LEFT
Taku for Ten Tsin and altggelner
1900 Japanese have landed ne III
ternationai troops now aggregate near
ly 10000 and Japan Is preparing y"
send 10000 more. With British, AIhelI-
can and other troops ordered 10 20,
probably 10000 men will be availaDie III
. month.
The Ton shan refugees and the lot
tign engineers At Che Foo estimate , ~
Chinese troops now In the held as 1870
ealed troops al Lu Tai, $4,000 at shan
Hci Wah. 1900 driven on from lien
Tsin, and 10000 at Pekln.
The dlspatch received by the foreign
Office stating that the foreign legations
We've requested to leave Pekin within
a specified time. Is interpreted In some
unofficial quarters as tantamount 10
giving the ministers their passports
and to a declaration Of war; but az
China does nothing like other countries
the official opinion is that there Is noth
Ing TO do but await the course OF events
and 70 see what the ministers them-
selves say.
An the students az the foreign nos
pltals In Canton are leaving women
missionaries are returning from the
west river ports. There was susn'
disturbance al Wo-Chou Tuesday VIII
The women We're embarking hf
crowd shouted, XIII the foreign ae'-
ils"
CHINESE ULTIMATUM.
According to advices from shanghai;
The Chinese officials. by direction ~
the southern viceroys, are asking the
consuls to agree 10 conditions lhsu,
ing, as the Chinese say, the heutl" J,
lty Of Shanghai and other coast sl.l ',,,.
They are also asking thar loIelsn
warships shall not sail OF anchor IT,
The forts. nor go 10 ports Where 49,
are no warshlps now; that theli 49, -
shan not 20 ashore. and that the p,V-
lection OF foreigners be left TO the I'm