Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
THEY ARE BUTCHERS.
Boxers Said to Have Slain Over
1900 Native Christians.
Foreign Ministers in PckinE REPORT
ed I'm Grcnt tPcriI-Ticn-Tsin in the
Hands of n Mob-Americnn
Troops May he Sent.

Moscow, June 16.-According to
dispatch from Port Arthur, the Box
ers have killed, up to the present, 1,764
Chinese Christians. They have de-
stroyed the telegraph line between Pc
king and Kiachta, on the Trans-Baikal
frontier, whence communication was
had with Irkutsk and st. Petersburg.
This leaves Peking isolated until the
international force succeeds in restor-
ing telegraphic communication be-
tween Tien-Tsin and the capital.
The same dispatch declares that the
Chinese government recently acknowl-
edged Russia's right to increase her
armed force in Peking for the pro-
lection of Russian interests.
Ministers Safe.
Shanghai, June 16.-News of the
safety of all the foreign ministers in
Peking was received here Friday. None
of them has been murdered The le-
cations have been barricaded and the
foreigners within will thus be able to
resist any attack by mobs. If, however,
the Chinese soldiers should storm the
barricade the diplomats and refugees
would be powerless and many lives
might be sacrificed.
The PelSing government is defiant on
demands made for the suppression of
the Boxers. Proof of this is seen in
The appointment of four anti-foreign
ministers to the tsung-li-yamen.
The powers, however, are not in
clined to allow mobs to menace for
sign lives and interests further. A
myriad of foreign troops has been
landed at Tien-Tsin.
Burned mt the Stake.
Tien-Tsin, June Is, p. m.-The New
York Journal correspondent cables:
Boxers control Tien-Tsin. The native
city officials have been burned at the
stake. The foreign settlement is ex-
pecting an immediate attack.
The allied forces, under Vice Admiral
Seymour, now marching on Peking,
are short of provisions and water and
the railway has been destroyed be-
hind them. They are expected to en-
counter strong opposition. The au-
thorities fear massacre of foreigners
and native Christians at Picking.
China is gathering munitions of war.
More reenforcements are demanded by
the commanders of all foreign forces.
A great panic prevails among the Chi
nese. Most important news is expect
ed every moment.
Virtually a State of War.
London, June 16.-This is the situa-
tion in China as it appears to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express, cabling Friday evening:
ut is really a state of veiled war.
The members of the foreign legations in
Peking are virtually prisoners. and the
Chinese troops are only restrained from
attacking them by fear of the legation
| guards. Meanwhile the ministers are al
together unable to communicate with the
officers commanding the relief column,
which is making an enforced and iso-
lated halt between Tien-Tsin and Peking.
| The walls of the capital are guarded by
| 100000 imperial troops The gates are
| heavily defended with modern guns. Gen.
Tung, acting under orders from the en-
press dowager, says that no more foreign
| troops shall enter the sacred city. On
Monday the ministers sent a demand to
the tsung-li-yamen that the gates be
| opened, declaring that otherwise the for
| eign troops would enter forcibly. To this
| no reply was given. A second message
went unanswered, or had not been an
swered when the latest news left Peking.
| Sir Claude Macdonald's latest message
says that the legations are capable of sus-
tanning an effective defense unless at
| tackled in force.
1T is still felt here that the foreign
| force is wholly inadequate to battle with
| the hordes of Chinese troops massed out
| side the gates, which now include the
| imperial troops from Shan-Hai-Kwan."
VIII Attack Tnku Forts.
From Tien-Tsin it is reported that
| the foreign forces in the harbor will
| attack the Taku forts, and if neces'
| sary lombard them. The report that
| the mixed forces will seize the Taku
forts is to be taken to mean that the
| foreign commanders expect no aid
from the Chinese government in re
| pressing the disorders and are deter
mined to make Taku secure as base
from which to cooperate.
May Send Troops.
Washington, June 16.-The possible
| ity that United States troops from
the Philippines would have to be sem
| to China was Friday discussed seri
ously by President Mckinley and the
cabinet. At the meeting it was prac
tically decided to send the Brooklyn
and the New Orleans from Manila tc
| Taku with 500 marines, and if thi!
force proves insufficient the army will
likely be called upon. At the stat
department it was officially said
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