Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-06-19
Western China the Scene OF
More UprIsInes-Chlnese Tor
pedo Boats Taken by
British Boats.
JAPAN TAKES A FRONT PLACE
OREGON Ordered to the Scene of
Trouhle-LlttIe News From
Transvaal-C Chicago
Strike.
ILLINOIS AND ARIZONA FIRES

Chicago, June 19-A special to the
| Tribune" from Washington, says:
Persistent rumors are afoat that Nc
Kinley has decided to call an extra
session Of congress to take measures
to send troops to China.
Washington, June 19-Secretary of
State Hay has been notified by the
Russian embassy that 1000 Russian
| troops were dispatched from Port Ar
thur to Taku.
Paris, June 19-At the cabinet cOun-
ell today, the minister of foreign af-
fairs, Del Casse, announced that the
telegraph line between Pekin and
| Tien Tsin was still interrupted. A
dispatch from Shanghai says Ii Hung
Chang has been summoned to Pekin
from Canton.
London, June 19-From German Off
cial dispatches the American ships
took no part in the bombardment Of
the Taku forts, Saturday morning. No
news has yet been received here of the
relief of the legation at Pekin. Berlin
dispatches intimate that Germany
will not object to Japan sending eigh-
teen thousand troops, while Great
Britain will endorse the plan with
avidity, though perhaps only secretly.
The Japanese legation in London has
official information of the dispatch of
5000 troops. The British are dis
patching six native regiments, be-
sides artillery, from India. The revolt
is spreading in western China. A rep
resentative of Pritchard Morgan, M. p.
at Cheng Tu, wires he and party are
detained there owing to the news that
revolution has broken out in Sechuan
which adjoins the province of Yuennan
also In revolt.
Official news comes today that the
London missionary societys premises
at Tsao Shih, central China, west of
Hankow. were destroyed by the mob.
The missionaries reached Henkow in
safety
Cable dispatches from Shanghai re-
port that number of Chinese cruis-
ers are anchored in sight of foreign
settlements, which are only guarded
by a small Japanese gunboat. A
thousand Chinese troops, with two
forty-nine ton guns, still hold the
forts outside of town. The viceroy of
Woo Sung Is reported to have assured
the consuis that foreign settlements of
Shanghai win not be attacked. The
admiralty office has received the fol
lowing from an officer commanding the
British cruiser Endymien: Lieu Kun
| Tau, June 18-Taku forts opened fire
at O'Clock this morning on the ships
of the allied squadrons After six
hours engagement the forts were ST.
fenced and occupied by the allied
forces. Additional men for storming
the forts were sent ashore from the
ships previous to the afternoon. The
British ships engaged up the river
were the Algerine (gun boat, Fame
(torpedo boat destroyer) and Whiting
torpedo boat destroyer), the two lat
ter captured four Chinese torpedo boat
destroyers. Casualties to the Alger
inc were slight, those of the stormine
party and others unknown. A Chinese
second class cruiser flying the admir-
ais flag, is detained outside of TAXI
by the allied admirals. No informa
ton of Commander in Chief Seymour's
Z return to Tien Tsin, had been received
i by the rear admiral up to this after
noon of June 18th. | am sailing forth
with for Taku. An agency dispatch
! from Shanghai dated 18th, says the
i1atest news from Pekin is that the
dawager empress Is greatly concerned
at the capture of the Taku forts, ant
that wholesale degradation of thu
Chinese army, including Generals
Sung Ching and Fung Flu Slang, gov
ernor of Pekin, and other high off,
cials who promised Tsung LII Yamel
to accomplish the expulsion of the for
eigners, has taken place. Three o
the Taku forts, it is added, were com
| pletely destroyed and most of the gar
risons killed or wounded by the charg
of the sailors.
! Hong Kong, June 19-It is under
/ stood that Ii Hung Chang leaves Car
ton for the north June goth. Cantol
, is quiet. The viceroy's provinces, BOZ
dering on the Yang Use Kiang, are be