The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-25
DEFEAT AT TIEN TSIN.
ALLIES WISE IN RETREATING BE-
FORE 10000 CHINESE.
ANOTHER RELIEF FORCE SENT
FOREIGN CASUALTIES IN FIRST AT
TACK WE'RE 300.


tiOnaI Forces.
London, June 25. a m.-The position
Of the International forces In the section
Of Northern China, where 10000 men are
striving to keep footing and to succor
the legations in Pekin. appears to increase
in peril with every fresh dispatch.
Pekin has not been heard from direct
for fourteen days. The last dispatch was
one imploring aid. Admiral Seymours
column of 200 was last heard from
twelve days ago. At that time it was
surrounded midway between Pekin and
Pekin.
The 5000 internationals at Tien Tsln
were hard pressed and fighting for their
lives on Thursday and a relieving force
of less than LOCO had been beaten back
to Taku Friday. Observers on the spot
think that 100000 men would not be too
many to grasp China firmly.
The admiralty has received the follow
ing from the British rear admiral at
Taku:
"Che Foo, June 23.-Only one runner
has got through from Tien Tsin for FIVE
days. No information could be obtained,
except that the foreign settlement had
been almost entirely destroyed and that
our people were fighting hard.
News is received as this telegram Is
dispatched that an attempt to relieve Tien
Tsin on June % was repulsed with some
loss {"
The telegram also said;
The allied Admirals are working in
perfect accord, with the Russian Vice Ad-
n.iral as senior officer"
The Battle mt Tien Tsin.
A press dispatch from Shanghai, dated
yesterday, at p. m, embodies some later
information. 1t says:
"Official japanese kilograms confirm the
reports of a defeat of allied forces at I'll en-
Tsin. The foreigners there are now plac-
ed In a most desperate situation. The Rus
sian Admiral Hillebrandt yesterday sent
a mixed force OF 4,0O0 from Taku to at
tempt the relief of Tien Tsin. Nearly half
of the force consisted OF japanese. The
remainder was made up of contingents
representing the other nations.
1.-The guns of the Chinese around Tlen
Tsin are superior to anything the defend
ing European force has or is likely to
have for some time.
he beabardment of Tien -Tsin- con-
tinued Friday Bomb shelters were hast
lily erected by the foreign troops, largely
constructed of wetted piece goods. The
food supplies are insufficient and the con
tinued shelling is reported TO be telling ter
ribly
Among those killed of the relief force
Friday was the commander of H. NJ. s.
Barheur The foreign casualties were 300
Japan is making every effort. Her
troops are now arriving at Taku in large
numbers. The Chinese troops In the
province of Chi Ii include 10000 auXii-
lieries, who have been drilled by Russian
ana German officers
Capt. Beatty and Lieut.. Wright, Brit
ish, have been severely wounded at Tien
Tsin, according to- Shanghai dispatch
to the Daily Express, dated Saturday
The information was brought there by the
British cruiser Orlando from Che Foo
The losses of the Russians have been
heavy.
Thousands of Chinese Dead.
1t was reported from Shanghai last
up the Taku forts and that every available
man had been sent to the relief of Tlen
Tsn. Two thousand and three hundred
Chinese bodies are alleged to have been
cremated at Taku, and more than 400
Chinese are said to have been killed at
Tien Tsih.
Chinese runners who have arrived al
Taku report that a foreign force was en-
gagged several days ago with an over
l.
OF Tien Tsin. At Shanghai ii Is assumed
that this force was Admiral Seymours.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express says:
II learn from a mandarin, who stealth
lily left Pekin on June 16, and who sue
ceeded at great hazard in getting clear,
that the Boxers are massed around Pekin,
and that more than half of the northern
and western portions of the city, in
cluding the foreign settlement, were
afiame when the mandarin left He
could tell me nothing as to the fate >of
the foreigners, nor much as 10 the gen
eral situation; but he had heard that the
Empress Dowager was preparing to go to
the province of Shan ST."
Allies Wise fn Retreating.
A Che Foo dispatch to the Daily Mail,
dated yesterday, says:
"The attack on the Tien Tsin relief force
was made by 10000 Chinese, using ma
chine guns and modern field pieces. The
allies were wise In retreatlng. Forward
ing attachments in this manner is sui
cidal. and the defeats Of the foreigners,
even though IN small force, greatly aids
the movements Of the Boxers, which Is
gaining enormously through the inability
OF the foreigners 20 make head against 1t.
practically the whole of Northern
China Is ablaze. HostiliNes are now con-
Quoted on an extended scale. due to direct
orders from Pekin. Gen. Yam Shi Kai
governor OF Shan Tung, commands II 900
foreign drilled trops, organized TO a high
pitch OF excellence and equipped with
Mausers II was in the plans that these
troops should go to Taku. but the seizure
of the forts was effected before they
could get tehre."
Some OF the special dispatches from
Shanghai describe the great Southern
provinces OF China as still quiet, but 9TH
ers assert that the news from the north
is exciting the Southerners TO a dangerous
hight OF feeling. and that millions may
rise any day
Chinese Navy mt Shanghai.
Shanghai is quiet. but there are fears
Of a rising. The action Of the consuls in
asking for the departure Of the six Chin
csc cruisers was objected to by the senior
naval oficer who informed them that he
had at his disposal a force SUFFICIENT TO
compel them to leave II they objected to