Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-07-26
CHINA vs.. RUSSIA.
Mongolians Invade the Dominions
OF the Gar.
Figh ting occurs I'm Manchuria-Litsie
News from Pekin, but the Reports
that the Worst Has Hap
pened are Not Yet OIL
ciaIIy Confirmed.

evening, beyond an admission that
there was no ground for hoping that
the report was not true, William
Broderick, parliamentary secretary
TO the foreign Office, had nothing to
communicate.
Tien Tsin, July 13, via Shanghai,
July 17-At . O'Clock this afternoon
1000 of the allied troops attempted to
storm the walls of the city. The Chi
nese on the walls were estimated at
10000. They poured terrific hail of
artillery, rife and machine gun fire
upon the attackers. The Americans,
japanese. British and French troops
attacked from the west and the Rus
slams from the east.
The Americans suffered terribly.
The chief surgeon of the Ninth infan-
try said that 25 per cent. of the Amer
leans We're hit. Col. Emerson Ii. Lis
cum was mortally wounded.
New York, July IA dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from
Tien Tsin. July S, says: Intellectual
attempts have been made 10 conceal
the fact that Admiral Seymour was
compelled to shoot his own wounded
during the recent disastrous retreat
of the Peitin relief expedition. All
the wounded and prisoners who fell
into the hands of the Chinese were
frightfully tortured.
When Admiral Seymour. in his re-
treat, found himself so hard pressed
that he was unable longer to carry
his wounded with him. he asked them:
(Which do you prefer, to be left to
the mercies of the Chinese, or be shot
by your own comrades?"
1--WE prefer death to torture. Shoot
us now. that we may die like men"
was the response of the helpless men.
\ firing squad was told off, and
while the little allied force stopped
and beat off with gun fire the Chinese
horde that surrounded it, inside it's
lines an act of mercy was performed
as the firing squad carried out its or
derS.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Evening News says: The allied
troops resumed the attack upon the
Chinese walled city of Tien Tsin on
the morning of July Il. and succeeded
in capturing all the forts. The Chi
nrse were completely routed. and the
allies took possession of the native
city and its defenses. The total losses
of the allies in the engagements of
Thursday. Friday and Saturday were
about 500 killed or wounded. The cas-
ualties were greatest among the Rus
slams and Japanese"
London, July 19.-While evidence
accumulatcs daily that China has long
been preparing a formidable military
organization in anticipation of tn"
present conflict, and that the area Of
rebellion is continually extending,
harmony among the allies is still
lacking. The Russians have refused
Admiral Seymour's request to hand
over the restored Taku-Ticn TSin rail
way to the English company, and it
is rumored that Germany purposes
taking serious independent step,
namely, to patrol the Yang-Tse Kiang
with German men-of-war. Such
step would be greatly resented by
England.
London, July 2O.-The Chinese as
sertions that the members of the for
eign legations are still safe have been
so often repeated that they are again
beginning to raise hopes in some
quarters. According to the Daily
Telegraph's ST. Petersburg cores
nent is already in possession of def
mite news that all the foreigners in
Pckin were massacred on July 6.
\ Chinese merchant who has Just
arrived at Shanghai from Pckin gives
horrible details of the massacre. He
says he saw European women hanlcd
into the street by Boxers, who strip
ped them and hacked them to pieces.
THAR. CavaraI limbs were tossed tO
the crowd and carried off with howls
of triumph. Some were already dead,
having been shot by foreign civilians.
The Yokohama correspondent of
the Daily Mail, who repeats his state
ments regarding the jealousy felt
among the allies on the subject Of
japanese cCmmander-in-chief and the
general lack of unity among them,
adds:
"The Japanese correspondents
charge the Russian soldiers with APP
raIIing barbarity toward the Chinese.
They declare that the Pei Ho river Is
rll of the corpscs of women and chill
trsn and that the Russians loaded 300
bodies on a junk and burned them"
Shanghai reports that three mis-
sion stations on Po-Yang lake have
been destroyed, but it is believed that
the missionaries escaped.
II is rumored that Yu I.u. the miss
ing viccrov of the province of Chilli,
has committed suicide.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times expresses doubt that the south
ern viccroys VIII be able to withstanl
tn" pressure of the provincial otlici;. Is
tn join the anti-foreign movement
lie thinks that already there are
signs of wavering on the part Of the
viceroy of Nankin.