The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-05

SHANGHAI, July A. p. m.-Three
Chinese servants of foreigners have, 1t
IS rumored from a good source, escaped
from Peking. They report that all the
foreigners, 1000 in number, including 400
soldiers 100 members of the Chinese Gus
toms staff, and a number of women and
children held out till their ammunition
was exhausted in the British legation.
The legation was finally burned and all
the foreigners were killed.
1t is reported that Kwan Hsu and the
dowager empress have been poisoned.
LONDON, July s. 2:3O a. m.-The com
manders of the allies in Tien Tsin inform
the correspondents that it would be sui
eide to attempt to reach Peking with
the troops now available in the face of
the colossal force of imperial troops and
Boxers occupying the country between
Tien Tsin and Peking. So far from
taking the offensive the 1900 interna-
tional troops at Tien Tsin and the 5000
others at Taku and intermediate points
can barely keep up communications,
fighting incessantly with overwhelming
numbers, using far more numerous ar
tillery than the allies. This telegram
has been received:
Shanghai July 4, 11:1O a. m, via Che
Foo.-Tien Tsin city fell between and
o'clock on the morning of June 3O
1t is thought the dispatch referred
10 the native city of Tien Tsin,
from which the Chinese have been bonn
harding the foreign quarter and the
dispatch is taken to mean that the al
lies are more than holding their own.
Other advfces, received by way Of
Shanghai, aver that the Chinese losses
around Tlen Tsin are between 1900 and
5000, according to official estimates.
ADMIRAL SEYMOUR SHOT.
The correspondent Of the Express at
Che Foo telegraphing Wednesday, says
Admiral Seymour was wounded while
sitting in a house at Tien Tsin by Chi
nese sharpshooters. Official news re-
ceived at Che Foo shows that the Chi
nese have been guilty of horrible cruelty
toward the wounded and captured, sub
jecting them to what is known as ling
che, or the slicing process. Under this
hideOus rite, the bodies of the fallen have
been mutiIated. The Russians are re-
taliating by the wholesale shooting OF ma
tives.
The situation, according to the Express
correspondent, shows no signs of drifting
into barbarianism and savagery.
Revolving stories are told OF harbarities
practiced upon Japanese and European
prisoners captured on the way to Pc
king, though 1t was not known before
that Admiral Seymour lost any prison
ers The Chinese troops marching to-
wards Tien Tsin, the Chinese say, left
behind them trails of rapine fire and
blood Native women were ravished and
children were cut in two.
Direct tidings from Pel1ing end with
the dispatch sent by Sir Robert Hart on
,1une %.
According to roundabout reports, 1t is
asserted by the Chinese that Prince Tuan
IS personally directing the assault upon
the legati,rs He conferred honors dnd
gave large sums of money and other pres
ents 10 the leaders of the Boxers and
the commanders of the troops who drove
back Admiral Seymour, and also gave
money to every soldier taking part in the
operation.
TUAN FULL OF FIGHT.
An edict of Prince Tuan's has reached
Shanghai, ordering the southern vice.
roys to assemble the vessels of the Chi
nese fleet and to attack the warshps
at Shanghai.
Japan is reported to be landing army
at Peetaughs, to the northward Of Taku.
The Japanese generals are believed to be
about to move towards Peking, follow
lowing the plan previously formulated.
Europeans and American residents in
Shanghai are quite IN panic over what
is viewed as the lHduSQudlS
preparations Of the powers.
dispatch to the Express from Shang-
hal says that according to the best mill
tary estimates 100000 men will be neces-
sary to subjugate northern China, and
even then it will take two or three years.
The forces Of the Chinese empire have
gathered such motion that even Japan
full strength, launched now, will be une-
dual to the task of restoring order.
Tao Tai Sheng, of Shanghai, issued
proclamation on Wednesday, which pr3c-
tically forbids foreign warships approach
ing the Yang Use Kiang, saying that II
they do so the Chinese authorities will
not hold themselves responsible for the
consequences.
1t is considered that the Chinese off,
cials are preparing way to evade re-
sponsibility If an outbreak occurs. Even
Ii Hung Chang is suspected. The for
eigners are simply aghast at the extent
of the Chinese armaments, which have
been Systematically accumulated.
HOPE ABANDONED.
The directing of the admirals not to
attempt the relief Of the besieged forces
has filled the entire European commu-
nifty, the Daily Mails Shanghai corre-
spondent says, with bitterness and de-
spair Few, however, affirm that any
other course is possible. The weakness
of the allied forces left no other course
opposing Admiral Seymour were a frac-
ton of the force now cutting off the cap
ital from Tien Tsin, and which numbers
900, nearly all well armed.
The allies have no real means OF tran
sport, and there Is no food in the coun-
try, as 1t is being laid waste. The ques-
ton Of ammunition is also serious one
Only Japan, and to a lesser extent Rus
sia, are able to push up war material in
the vast quantities made necessary by
the continuous fighting. Though tran
sport will. soon arrive at Taku, the pres
ent pressure is not removed.
The consensus Of opinion among mill
tary and naval authorities is that it will
require at least $4,000 men to rescue the
Europeans in Peking. The allies will
have to hold Taku in strength and the
occupation of strategic points on the rail-
roads to Tien Tsin will be most difficult
,Tien Tsin itself is none too strongly held
Among the edicts received at Shanghai
on June % were orders for the foreign
minister to leave Peking within twenty
four hours. Fhe legations were to be
sealed up and the fiagstaffs cut down.
Another edict issued on June % announc-