Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-28
Communication Opened With
Him Sunday by Tien
Tsin Force.
THREE HUNDRED SICK,
Only Few Of His Men We're killed
Force short of Provisions-Foreign
ministers Have Left Peking-
Other War Newsa

between the Russians and the Anglo
Americans and say, they believe the
Russians are planning to break the
concert and take possession of Peking
Independently. They assert that Adj
miral Seymour's command lacked uni
son, the foreigners sulking because
they We're under British leadership.
They bitterly denounce the Russian
generals conduct as uncivilized and
sbarbarous and charge that the slaugh-
ter of peaceful Cinnamon at Taku has
reused the otherwise passive natives
against the foreigners.
London, June PA Shanghai spec
Hial says: Communication with Adj
miral Seymour was opened by the Tien
Tsin relief force Sunday. Seymour is
said to be ten miles from Tien 'Isin.
Three hundred'of the party are report
ed sick and wounded, tho only few
have been killed. They are short Of
provisions and were returning with
out having rescued the legations.
A Tien Tsin dispatch dated yesterday
says the protestant mission at Weih-
,sien was burned by the rebels on Mon
day last.
Paris, June 27.-The French consul
at Shanghai announces that nhe allied
troops have entered Iien Tsin and that
the foreign ministers have departed
inorthward under Chinese escort. A
Yang Ste telegram confirms this news.
Berlin, June 27.--The German consul
at Che Foo confirms the contents of
the message from Seymour, which
reached Tien Tsin Monday, Saying he
was then eight miles west of that city,
terribly harrassed and could only hold
out another two days. He had sixty
three men killed and over two hundred
wounded. The admiral asked for the
dispatch OF relief column Ut 1000
men. This column left Tien Tsin dur
ing the morning of June 25. under
Russian command
ssstlr TO-
London, June 81 A ChesFoo dis
patch says: 'Aafight by the allied
forces against the combined Boxers
and Chinese soldiers barring the road
to Tien Tsin opened at daybreak. One
hundred and fifty Americans are
among the two thousand international
troops. The Chinese soon broke under
the heavy shelling. Then the arsenal
was attacked and the guns gradually
'silenced. AT noon the fight was prac-
tically over. " (
IS Washington, June 26.-The president
has assigned General Adna I. Chaffee
to command the military forces oper-
ating in China. Chaffee will leave for
San francisco in time to sail on July
! with the Sixth cavalry. This detach-
ment sails onssthe Grant, switch has
been ordered to touch at NagasaH for
further orders. 1t is probable the ship
will then sail direct for Che Foo.
Washington, June 26-Six great vice
Iroys of China, acting thru the Chinese
minister here today renewed the eff
forts to have the foreign troops kept
out Of China until Iii Hung Chang
reaches Peking. The request was a
formal document signed by the six
viceroys including Ii Hung Chang
The answer of the United States was
the same as that to the informal re.
lueSti Oh sSlluisteT WI yesterday StuO
amounted to a declination.
Unsettled Near Canton.
Z London, June 27.- The report of par.
tial success of the international forces
at Tien Tsin is counterbalanced by the
news that the situation to the south, in
the vicinity Of Canton, is decidedly un.
satisfactory.
e A dispatch to the Times from Hong
Kong June rs, says: Iii Hung Chang
officially announces the presence OF
foreign troops in the capital and that
their presence is due. to the Boxers
He urges all sections of the com1nuni.
ty in the Canton provinces to be ready
if the occasion arises, to exterminate
the enemies of their country. Infam.
matory placards are posted in the
streets urging the killing of foreign.
ers.
British May Direct Fleets.
Arrangements are afoot for placing
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