Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-06-28
GLOOMY SITUATION
,,pEsr SAID TO BE GROWING
HOURLY AT NANklNG.
ecANT NEWS FROM PEKlN
r,,rese Troops Number 100000 With
supply of Ammunition That's In
s~baustlble-Forces Are, However,
BADLY Drilled and Undisciplined-
Ferment of Rebellion Spreads.

london. June 26.-The British
..T,iser Terrible arrived at Chefoo from
Taku with the latest news as follows:
,r;gbt hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh
s-s'lers affected a junction with the
american. German and Russian forces
u.hich had been cut off by the Chinese
sb,,t nine miles from Tien Tsin, and
!, was proposed to deliver an assault
mon the Chinese forts at Tien Tsln
Sunday night. 1t is not clear what
.,rcss we're united. 1t would seem
that one relieving force had been cut
NJ and relieved by another At any
rats ii is apparently certain the allies
arrived in sufficient force at Tien Tsin
sunday to attack the besieging Chi
nese
Foreign official opinions here says
dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily
Fypress, dated Sunday, incline to the
bslisf that the worst has happened to
the legations at Cekin and Admiral
SEYMOUR as we'll. Even if the lega-
tops we're safe June 10, there is no
guarantee they are safe now. The
situation. in fact, grows more and
more gloomy. The entire absence Of
reliable news from the capital seems
IN iustify the worst construction which
can be put upon it. Bad news comes
from Marking, where unrest is said to
be growing hourly. Viceroy Liu Kin
Yih has telegraphed the British au-
tborities that he has ordered five
Chinese cruisers which have been lying
off harbor here to proceed to Nan
king"
Allies Massing Forces.
London June 26.-"General Mas
army" says a correspondent, Shan Hal
Twan, consisting of 1000 men left
week ago for Pekin. Gen. Sung
Ching forces, numbering $500, left for
the same place June Is. A careful esti-
mate of the number and armament OF
the Chinese troops around Pekin puts
the total at 100000, and it is calculated
these troops possess 227 Creusot guns,
Is Krupps and $50 maxims. Their sup"
py Of ammunitionsis practically mex
haustible It has been mainly supplied
bya German firm at Carlowitz. Fully
three-fourths of the Chinese forces are
badly drilled, wholly undisciplined and
quite unfamiliar with modern wea-
p0ns' Another Shanghai dispatch
says, Iii Ping Heng former govern
Or Shan Tung, who is intensely anti
foreign, has gone to the Kiang Yin
forts on the Yang Use. He has de-
cared his Intention of resisting the
landing Of the British forces in that
region
According to Hong Kong dispatch
dated Sunday strong reinforcements of
Indian police, with three maxims, have
been sent to Kow Loon. on the Main
land A Chefoo message of Mondays
date says: -Four cannon have
been added to west fort here,
where there are now 1000 soldiers
Permanently encamped, a further force
having arrived from Ming Hal Chou.
There is an uneasy feeling pre- ailing
here and an attack is generally an
. ucipated, Chinese merchants are
closing their Offices and preparing to
leave the port All business is at a
sandstill' Expensive preparations
By the allies are going forward. The
t1st regiment of British midas 10000
men embarked at Calcutta Sunday and
S5 more marines received orders to go
out from English posts The British
var Office, in anticipation of a pro-
.5lged campaign is contracting for
winter clothing and fur caps, The
Amlr army corps ordered out by Rus
va numbers 80 100 men and "a guns.
'alan purposes to land $4,000 men on
V1nese territory within a fortnight.
Shanghai correspondent OF the
times sends the following under Sun
Jay date. "The military correspon-
aslt az Taku says the operations OF the
@AIss are suffering from want of rec
.sazea head, defective organization
a-l Tack OF transport.