The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-26
Troops Were Reinforced.

London, June &c. 3:S5 a. m.-The British
cruiser Terrible has arrived at Che Foo
from Taku with the latest news, which
is as follows:
Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh
FusiIiers have effected a junction with
the American, German and Russian forces
which had been cut off by the Chinese
about nine miles from Tien Tsin. 1t was
proposed 20 deliver an assault upon the
Chinese forces at Tien Tsin last night
Gsunday nighD."
1t Is not clear what forces united. 1t
would seem that one relieving force cut
off. had been relieved by another. AT any
rate. 1t is apparently certain that the al
lies arrived in sufficient force at Tien Tsin
Sunday to attack the besieging Chinese.
Foreign official opinions here" says a
dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily Ex-
press dated yesterday, 'inclines to be-
lieve that the worst has happened to the
legations at Pekin, and to Admiral Sey-
mour as well. Even if the legations were
safe on June 10, there is no guarantee
that they are safe now.
The situation, in fact. grows more and
liable news from the capital seems to
justify the worst construction which can
be put upon il.
Bad news comes from Nanking, where
the unrest is said TO be growing hourly.
Viceroy Liu Kin Yih has telegraphed the
British authorities that he has ordered
the five Chinese cruisers which have been
lying off the harbor here to proceed to
Eanking"
Movements of Chinese Army.
"Gen. Mas army" says a correspondent
at Shan Hal Kwan, consisting of 4,000
men, left a week ago for Pekin and Gen.
Sung Ching's forces, numbering $500, left
dor the same place on June Is.
"A careful estimate of the number and
armament of the Chinese troops around
Pekin puts the total at $50 900, and it Is
calculated that these troops possess 227-
centimetre Creusot guns, eighteen Krupp
guns and $50 Maxims.
Their supply of ammunition is practi-
cally inexhaustibie. 1t has been
mainly supplied by German firm
at Carlowitz. Fully three-fourths OF
the Chinese forces are badly drilled,
wholly undisciplined and quite unfamiliar
with modern weapons"
Another Shanghai dispatch says:
la Ping Heng, former governor of
Shan Tung who is intensely and-foreign,
has gone to the Kiang Yin forts on the
Yang Use. He has declared his intention
of resisting the landing of British forces
in that region.'
According to a Hong Kong dispatch dat
ed yesterday, strong reinforcements OF
Indian police with three Maxims, have
been sent to Kow Loon, on the mainland
A Che Foo message of Mondays date,
says:
-Four cannon have been added to the
west fort here, where there are now 1000
eoldiers permanently encamped, a further
force having arrived from Ming Hal Chou
There is an uneasy feeling prevailing here.
and an attack is generally anticipated
Chinese merchants are closing their Of
hces and preparing to leave the port. All
business is at standstill."
Preparations of the Allies.
Extensive preparations by the allies are
going forward. The first regiment of Brit
ish india, 1000 men, embarked at Calcutta
yesterday, and 1888 more marines received
orders TO go out from EngliSn ports. Inc
British war Office, in anticipation OF pro-
longed campaign, is contracting for win
ter clothing and fur caps
The Amur army corps, ordered out by
Russia, numbers 100 men with eighty
four guns. japan purposes to land 1000
men on Chinese territory within a fort
night.
Among the minor military preparations
the Portuguese governor of Macao, island
OF Macao, at the southwest entrance of
Canton river, Is sending arms to the
Portuguese in Canton. The Germans in
Hong Kong have cabled Emperor William
TO ask. II they may senve in the local
forces In defense of Hong Kong. A mil
lion rounds left Hong Kong yesterday
Tor Taku by the British steamer
Hailoong
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Times sends the following under yester-
days date:
"A military correspondent at Taku says
fhat the operations OF the allies are suf-
tssing from the want OF a recognized