Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-12
Lack Of Organization Handicaps
Operations,
PRESENT METHODS WEAK.
% concerted Plan Of Action British
omeer SAYS situation l. Chaotic
German Flag RAISED.
fEarly Dlspatches.l


Tlan Tsin, July T. via Che Foo, July s,
md Shanghai, July n.-(copyrght,
s'o by the Associated Press)-A homo
aDeous army Of half the strength Of
he allied forces could do better work
,han is being done By them. The opera
lons are dangerously handicapped and
he safety Of the city Is imperlled by
ask Of organization and the want Of
bre commander to control all the forces.
rbe representatives Of the several ma
Hons manage their civil and military at-
airs largely without cooperation. The
,anslng officer Of each nationality has
tbsolute Jurisdiction over the operations
pf hts governments troops. Questions
M policy are discussed daily at interna-
iional conferences which have not the
bower to enforce the wishes Of the ma
.ority
ADMIRAL sEYMOURs METHOD,
Admiral seymours method Of COM
handing IS to make requests which the
tther commanders generally follow;
but there have been Instances Of the
Ranking officers holding al0of from
Operations Of which they disapproyed,
There Is great need Of more troops.
|The present force Of 10000 men Is at
tempting TO hold a line u miles long
around the city There Is also great
heed Of rebuilding the railroad TO Taku
|And getting artillery equal 20 the guns
|Nlth which the enemy are daily bonn
bardlng the allies positions.
The work resulted I'm substantial
falns for the Chinese, az the allies lost
b or so men and succeeded In accom-
pshing nothing,
/ PRESENT METHODS WEAK.
Yesterday furnished a new illustra-
Bon Of the weakness Of present meth
ods. A majority Of the commanders had
agreed that 1t was imperative 70 attack
BE native city beyond the foreign set
Elements and 10 destroy the artillery
lhereIn, which menaced the settlements.
Ths attack was fixed for four days ago,
kut was postponed because the Russian
fommander considered his men unit for
De duty after their recent work. II
gas again fixed for yesterday morning,
but was postponed because credible re-
|ports were IN circulation that 10000
fegulars from the northwest had rein
breed the Chinese,
In the meantime the Chinese had re-
moved two big guns on the fort near
ID The native city and had planted four
h the open near the east arsenal, two
miller away. These shelled the city for
four hours, sending in more than 100
ehells. They got the range Of the pub
u buildings and Of the club houses
used as hospitals and dropped shells all
about them. Fortunately most OF the
nbels were defective and failed to
bprst. and the others had a small radi-
" Of effectiveness.
no CONCERTED PLAN.
In the absence Of a concerted plan
the Russians sent a few companies OF
Gossacks, with two field guns, and the
Japanese battery OF six 3-pounders
and two companies Of infantry sup
PORTING the English l2-pounders from
u. NJ 5. Terrible. 10 silence them. The
Terribles guns failed to get an effective
position and the Russians had one gun
cismounted and four men killed early
n The engagement The japanese were
epnhdent that they silenCed the guns In
Pc open, but II appeared to the on
BOXERS that these guns fired the last
ehots as the Japanese We're retiring.
The Russils lost heavily and the
japanese had one killed and twelve
wounded The Chinese threw a few
fheIls into the city TO show that they
We're stlll alive,
SITUATION CHAOTIC.
A British officer described the sltua-
iion as chaos. He said:
We have wasted many days In DO
leness. and It is time we did some
Hing
There is no disagreement among the
commanders, but IN the absence Of a
pennlte head, several Of them are dis
posed 20 follow their own methods. and
3hey simply abstain from operations
contrary 20 those methods The foreign
| topuaton is greatly arc Nsed concern
hB this apparent apathy, While the
|Iiiy u being bombarded they are likely
r. suffer heavily; and they cannot un-
lefS'and the apparent negligence Of the
governments 10 furnish relief and why
ahl0reements are not coming on fast
H. me Americans are particularly dis
ssushed because though they have one
IL me smallest representations. their
interests are second 20 none One ex-
lpeHenced officer said. 1T IL impossible
realize az home that there has been
Ill,ote. real war here than In Cuba or the
philippines"
GERMANS RAISE THEIR FLAG.
The Germans have occupied and
llsro their flag over the imperial uni
/ leTalF OF Tien Tsin. The officers OF tina |
university are Americans. The viceroy
needed the property to them. Consul !
..'as-dale has protested against the ac-
uon % the Germans.