The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-11
CONSTANT
FIGHTING.
Chinese Give the Allies No Rest
at Tien Tsin.
Foreign Troops Defending the
City Becoming Exhausted.
LOSSES ARE HEAVY.
Russians Buried 200 Men in
One Day.
Rain Saved the Allied Army
From AnnihilatiOn.
Little Confidence Felt Regard
iuO 60 fofv Of tho MinICfoy.S
Russians Buried 200 Men in
One Day.
Rain Saved the Allied Army
From AnnihiIatiOn.
Little Confidence Felt Regard
ing Safety of the Ministers.

London, July II, POP p. m.-Although
Shanghai today repeats the statement
that both the emperor and dowager
empress are alive and kilograms from
Chinese officialdom again testify to the
safety of the legations, the assertions
no longer stimulate hope here and pes
sinism will prevail as long as the au-
tnorities. who, on their own showing,
are able to get messages to the coast,
fail to send confirmation of the safety
of the foreigners from some member of
a legation at Pekin. London sees in the
disappearance and temperance of
prominent people at Pelin and the eff
forts apparently to shift the blame from
one to the other and in the attempts
to represent themselves as victims
instead of principals in the recent oc-
currences only preparations for alibis
and defenses in view of the approach
of the troops of the powers and the
tragedy they may discover on reaching
the Chinese capital.
According to dispatch from
Shanghai. the fighting at Tien Tsin,
July 6. was the heaviest that has yet
occurred, the Russians alone burying
200 men. The allies are becoming ex-
hausted by constant fighting.
Chang is keeping excellent order there.
Robbers and pirates are executed pub
licly and frequently, and the people
are cowed and afraid to disturb the
peace.
FROM ADMIRAL REMEY.
Washington. July 1.-THE following
cablegram has been received at the navy
department from Admiral Remey:
"Che Foo. July 10-Secretary Navy:
Arrived yesterday. Two battalions
Ninth infantry and one battalion ma
rines. Colonel Meade, landed today to
proceed to Tien Tsin- Allied forces at
Tien Tsin engaged in maintaining their
defenses. Ordered Solace here to take
sick and wounded to Yokohama hos
pital. Oregon proceed soon to dock at
Kure towed by chartered steamer and
conveyed by Nashville Just learned
from Admiral Seymour at Tien Tsin,
s.REMEY."
NEW CHUANG BURNED.
New York, July IA dispatch to the
Herald from Che Foo says:
The steamer chartered by the Ameri-
can consul to rescue missionaries has
returned from it's third trip, bringing
fifteen Catholics and six Americans
The latter were the Rev. w. B. Ham
ilton and the Rev. H. Perkins and wife,
from Gilman Flu. and the Rev c. Ma
teer and Prof. Mason Wells, wife and
child, from Teng Chow Flu.
The missionaries report that at Yang
Hi kwO, where they embarked, the box
ers collected and threatened them. Ma
tive Christians were suffering great
persecution The American refugees
are leaving here for Japan at every op-
portunity
The situation at Tien Tsin and Che
Foo is unchanged. No news reaches
here from Pekin.
Dissatisfaction is expressed by the
British residents here at the refusal of
the British admiral to station a war
ship in the harbor. They are grateful
to the American government for the
Nashville. which is here almost con-
tinuously. But for the Nashville Che
Foo would often be without any protec-
tion. Many other warships visit here,
but none stay.
A steamer which has just arrived re-
ports that the native city of New
Chwang has been burned.
dispatch to the Herald from
Shanghai says.
An edict of the empress dowager, pro-
muigated on June 80. has just been pub
hshed in Shanghai Her majesty ex-
presses sorrow for the death of Baron
Won ketteler, the German minister, who
she says, went to the Tsung Lii Yamen
on the day of his death against her
wishes.
Her majesty expresses regret that the
capture of the Taku forts should have
complicated matters. but orders that
the boxers be suppressed and the for
eign legations in Pekfn protected. The
whole tone of the edict protected. The
foreigners blamable for the gravity of
the crisis.
Two hundred and fifty white refugees
from Tien Tsin have arrived in Shang-
hal
ALMOST A DISASTER.
London, July u.-No authentic news
from Pekin, is still the burden of the
dispatches from the far east, and al
though the disposition is to believe the
optimistic reports from Chinese sources
no real confidence is possible until the
legations are permitted to communicate e
with their governments. If, as alleged
the boxer movement is losing ground in
Pekin, it might have been supposed that
the boxers would have endeavored to
send up reinforcements from Tien Tsin,
but instead of that they are still in
great force in the neighborhood of the
latter place and are assisted by the Chi
nest Imperial troops. with ample ef-
fieient artillery . According to a Che
Foo dispatch. the fighting around Tien
Tsin on the Sd and 4th. was the severest
yet experienced The British losses alone
were 30 killed or wounded. The Chinese
had 10000 men attacking simultaneously
from the west, north and east and made
excellent practice with over 100 guns.
The defenders numbered 1900 with
Scant supplies, and it was only the pres
ence OF newly arrived Japanese and
Russian guns that prevented a disaster.
One report is tfT51t= a Russian company
of infantry, numbering 120 men, had 115
killed or wounded. The German coatin-
gent also suffered heavily. BY the even