Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-14
ENROUTE
TO PEKINC
international Forces Are Max
ing Slow Progress to
Capital.
WILL IS OPPOSED.
R.por.. Tha. g, Slang VIII De-
fend Peking 4 e. Entrance of
Foreign Trod iotat Yum.
Nn.Fa-t News.

Na-Fa-s News.
Washington, June 14.-Admiral KEN
pff cabled today: "Tong Ku, June
IA. Twenty-Five hundred men are Oh
the road to Peking for the relief of
the legation. There are one hundred
Americans. The English and the Rus
SLAMS are in a large majority. All
nations here are represented. The
viceroy at Tien Tsin gave permission
to go. The railroad is being repaired
as the force advances. The Russians
are now sending soldiers from Port
Arthur with artillery"
London, June IA special from
Shanghai says: "The positions of the
legations at Peking are most critical.
Thirty thousand Chinese troops are
drawn up outside of the city gates to
oppose the relief force. Guns are
trained on the American, British and
the japanese legations. The ministers
have sent Couriers to Tien Tsin, ask
ing for 1000 troops of each national
ity. The gunboats Yorktown and
Castine left here yesterday for Tong
Ku. There is no foreign warship now
there"
Tien Tsin, June 14.-The railroad
communication between this place and
Admiral Seymour's of the the Interna-
tional force, is cut three miles beyond
Yang Tsun. Two bridges were de-
stroyed. 1t is; rumored here that the
Boxers have determined to- burn the
Tien Tsin station tonight
Shanghai, June 14.---,A large body of
Boxers have burned three American
launches at Soo-Chow. Four hundred
Boxers are drilling at Shanghai. There
are only two small warships in port.
The Monocacy has gone to- Tien-Tsin
and the Yorktown to Che-Foo.
London, June 14.-The Shanghai cor
respondents report that United States
Minister Conger, by courier, asks for
1000 United States troops. The ques-
ton of provisioning the relief force is
already difficult, and it is predicted at
Shanghai that it has become acute. The
leading members of the reform party,
representing fifteen out of eighteen
provinces, are at Shanghai.
Tien Tsin, June 14.-It is expected
that Admiral Seymour has made Lang
Fang a secondary base and that he will
advance. the remaining forty miles as
rapidly as possible. 1t is reported that
Prince Tuan, the new head of the Chi
nese foreign office, and General Slang
have resigned, Three more Russian
warships have arrived at Taku.
Tien Tsin, June flowing to the
extensive damage done the railway line
it is feared that international troops
now at Lang Fang, half way to Pek-
ing, cannot reach there before Sun
day.
A courier arrived from Picking and
Lang Fang and brought a letter from
the American legation, stating that
General Slang intends to oppose the
entrance of the foreign troops into
Pelling. Ten thousand troops are
guarding the south gate. The courier
reports upwards of two thousand Box
ers in the Immediate neighborhood OF
Lang Fang. The japanese cruiser
Suma has arrived at Taku.
Hong Kong, June 14-Four COM
panies of the Hong Kong regiment,
the mountain battery, the field bat
terry the Asiatic artillery with bat
terry OF two five inch guns start for
lien Tsin tonight.
Shanghai, June IA dispatch from
. Chung. King says a riot has taken place
at Yum-Na-Fu. The buildings of the
China inland mission were partially
destroyed and those of the Roman
, Catholic and Bible Christian missions
totally. All the missionaries are safe.
London, June 14.-It is learned in Of
ficial quarters that the commander of
the international forces has been in
structed to inflict a sharp lesson to the
government at Peking in the event of
any resistance and not to brook any
delay in the reopening of the gates OF
Picking If he finds them closed.
Yokohama, June 14.-Japan is about
TO send the mixed regiments to China.
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Collision Results Fatally.
Atlanta, Ca, June 14.-A passenger