Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12
NO CONCERTED ACTION.
Allied Forces at Tien Tsin Doing Little
Effective Work.

Tien r. Tsin, July 4, via Che Foo, July s.
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army of half the strength Of 's the ei,gHas a1ied
forces could do better work than IS being.
done by them. The operations are dan.
ety IS pee and the safety Of the
ana the want OF one commander to control
an the forces The representatives of sew
tary affairs largely without co-operaton
The ranking officer Of each nationality has
apsoiute Jurisdiction over the operations
policy are discussed daily at interna tiona
conferences which have not the power to
enLdren Adrss,o; the sov, wishes of the majority
ing ls to make requests. which the other
commanders generally follow; but there
nave been instances Of the ranking officers
holding aloof from operations Of which
they dtBapproved. G5 = .s..s,s--~-f { :
There Is great need of more troops
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enemy are daily bombarding ing the '' allies t9
positions. The work resulted in substantial
gains for the Chinese, as the allies lost
~ OF " men and succeeded in accomplish
Yesterday furnished new illustration Of
the weakness OF the present methods. A
tnat It was imperative to attack the native
city beyond the foreign settlements, and
to destroy the artillery therein. which men
for four days ago, but was postponed be-
cause the Russian commander considered
ms men unfit for the duty after their re-
cent work 1t was again fixed for yester-
day morning but was postponed because
credible reports were in circulation that
o.eoo regulars M 81 from the northwest had re-
In the meantime the Chinese had re-
moved two Dig guns on the fort near the
native city and had planted four in the
tW mill
away. These shelled the city for four
hours, sending in more than. 100 shells.
and of the club houses used as hospitals
and dropped shells about them. For
tunately most OF the shells We're defective
and failed to burst and the others had a
small radius of effectiveness.
In the absence of concerted plan the
anna Russlans n;t, sent Mt few companies of Cos
nese battery of six s-pounders and two
companies of infantry, supporting the Eng
lish 12-pounders from H. N. s. Terrible. to
to get an effective position. and the Rus
slams had one gun dismounted and four
men IN killed early IN the engagement The
the guns in the open, but 1t appeared to
the on-lookers that these guns fred the
last last shots, shots as the Japanese We're retiring.
nese had one killed and u wounded The
Chinese threw few shells in the city to
show that they We're still alive. A British
said:
I'VE have wasted many days in polite-
ness and it is time we did something"
There Is no agreement between the COM
manders, but in the absence of definite
head some of them are disposed to follow
their own methods, and they simply abb
stain from operations contrary to those
methods. The foreign population is greatly
aroused concerning this apparent apathy.
While the city is being bombarded they
are likely to suffer heavily, and they cam
not understand the apparent negligence or
the governments to furnish relief. and why
reinforcements are not coming on faster.
because. though they have one of the small
est representations, their interests are Sec
one to none. One experienced officer said:
1T is impossible to realize at home that
there has been more real war here than
in Cuba or the Philippines"
The Germans have occupied and raised
their flag over the imperial university Of
Tien Tsin. The officers of the university
are Americans. The viceray decided the
property to them. Consul Ragsdale has
protested against the action Of the Ger
mans.