The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-27
AMERICA
Will Place an Adeqaute Force
In China.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 25.--ihe navy
department has issued tho following ca
blegram from Admiral Kempff
"Talu. June 25.-Secretary Of the Navy.
Wash .net1n.-Relief force reached Ten
Tsin June 23d loss very small: Pek II re-
lief force which left Tier Tsin June 10 re-
ported ten miles from Tien Tsin sur
rounded; Forne left Tien Tsin 2ith to rem
der assistance.
IS gned) KEMPFF."
WORST HAS HAPPENED.
LONDON, JUNE 26.-The British crui-
ser Terrible has arrived at Che Foo from
Taku with the latest news, which is as
follows:
Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fu-
siliers have effected a junction with the
American, German and Russian forces
which had been cut off by the Chinese
about nine miles from Tien Tsin. 1t was
proposed to deliver an assault upon the
Chinese forces at Ten Tsin last night
Sunday. 1t is not clear what forces
united. 1t would seem that one relieving
| force at Ten Tsin Sunday to attack the
other At any rate, it IS apparently GER
tain that the allies arrived in sufficient
force at Tien Tsin Sunday to atac kthe
beseiging Chinese.
Foreign official opinions here" says
dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily
Express, dated yesterday, "inclne to be-
lieve that the worst has happened to the
legations at Pekin and to Admr raj Sey-
mour as well. Even if the legations were
safe on June 10, there is no guarantee
that they are safe now. The situation, in
fact, grows more and more gloomy. The
| ,f IL ,a,-
capital seems to Justify the worst con-
struction which can - put upon 1t.
TIEN TS1N CAPTURED.
CHE Foo, TUESDAY, JUNE 19.-Rear
Admiral Kempff reports by a Japanese
torpedo boat that the combined forces en-
tered Tien Tsin Saturday, June %, sus-
tanning small loss They started on Sun
day TO relieve the force which left Tien
Tsin on June 10, and which is believed
to be surrounded near Pekin. According
to these japanese reports Admiral Sey-
mour has been captured and the ministers
have left Pekin, guarded by Chinese sol
ders. Their whereabouts is unknown.
AMERICAS INTENTIONS.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 26.-The pur-
pose of the government to place an ade-
quate military force in China was made
perfectly clear today, when orders We're
issued to Brig. Gen. Adna r. Chaffee to
take command Of the forces in China and
to proceed at once to assume his new
duties More significant, probably than
the assignment itself, was the wording
Of the formal orders to Gen. Chaffee, IS
sued late in the day by acting secretary
Of war NIeiklejohn, directing him "tC
take command OF the troops ordered tC
China and to proceed to Pekin by way
of San Francisco and Taku accompan &c
by his aides. 1t had been expected thai
the military forces would be concentrat
ed at Che Foo or some other convenient
military base, but the direction TO pro
ceed TO Pekin, the capital of the Chinese
empire, indicated a firm determination on
the part Of the government authorities t,
have a strong military force at the sea
Of the Chinese government. The an
nouncment Of Gen. Chaffee's assignment
and the orders to proceed to Pekin came
after the state department had declined
to accede to a second proposition from
six great viceroys of China that fore'gr
troops be kept out of China until Ii Huns
Chang reaches Pekin. In more forma
manner, with the signatures of the si1
e. viceroys representing the greater par
of the empire, Minister WI repeated to
day his plea Of yesterday that tine foreign
troops be kept out Of the country.
Secretary Hay laid the formal reques
; of the viceroys before the cabinet meet
2 ing. but thre was no disposition to var!
6 from his present determination alread!
made known by Secretary Hay 10 tn
Ch nese minister to send our forces t
such points as were menaced and wher'
our officials and citizens were in danger
! While the viceroys spoke for their prov
inces they could not speak for Pekln
and it is to Pekin that the offic ais mos