Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-06-28
DESPERATE BATTLE REPORTED
Heavy Casualties Sustained in the En-
gagement at Tien Tsin-Powers
Win Partition China.


Of the German squadron at TakD has
wired as followsto the government:
"a French officer who has arrived
here from Tien Tsin, which he left
June 20, says that for three days the
city had been bombsrded by the
Chinese and that the troops OF the
foreign detachment were short Of
ammunition.
"The German cruiser Irene has ar
rived here with $40 marines, who,
with $50 English and 1900 Russians,
proceeded to the relief of Tien Tsin.
The railway is working from Taku to
within fifteen kilometers Of Tiep
TIn.n
According to a dispatch from
Shanghai, received here, Tien Tsin lie
being bombarded by Chinese regulars
and not by the Boxers.
EIGHT HUNDRED AMERICANS FIGHTING
LONDON, June %, 3 a. m.-The
silence Of Pekin continues unbroken.
Four thousand men of the allied
forces were having sharp defensive
lighting at Ten Tsin Tuesday and
Wednesday, with q prospect Of being
r~e.enforced Thursday. That is the
situation in China as set forth In the
British government dispatch.
eight hundred Americans are tax.
ing part in the fighting at TIen TsIn,"
says the Shanghai correspondent Of
the Daily Express, cabling last even
ing; "and they apparently form q
part Of q supplementary force, arriv-
ing with Germans and British after
the conflict started. 1t is impossible
to estimate the number OF Chinese
there, but they had a surprising num-
Der of guns"
The consuls at Shanghai still believe
the Foreign Ministers at Pekin safe,
although Japanese reports received
at Shanghai sllege that up to June Is,
100 foreigners had been killed in
Pekin.
TO PARTITION CHINA.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-News was
received here that the maritime Pow
ers had decided upon the dismember-
ment of Chiua.
The United States has been invited
to participate in the partition.
The Cabinet decided to-day to post
pone the answering of that PROPOSE
ton, but to demand an ironclad treaty
with ali the European Powers inter-
ested in guaranteeing the open door
and the protection OF American inter-
este In China.
The Cabinet considered to-day the
a~dvisability of holding the Chinese
Minister, WI Ting Fang, as q hostage
until the safety Of Minister oongsr
and his family at Pekin is definitely
assured, and the understanding is that
the Chinese Minister, should he ask
for his passports, will not receive
them.
The Cabinet discussed the question
involving the assembling OF Congress
in extra session for the purpose Of
authoring the raising OF more troops
for duty In China.
Rear Admiral Kempf notified the
Navy Department that the fighting at
Tien Tain bad begun, and when news
from that city is received it is ex-
/ naafad IN nnufafn kA~ s,e.-~n.et.- 1
that thousands have beer m~assacred.
A hurry order to Gen. Macarthur
for the three regiments for China and
the Sixth Artillery was cabled to-day.
THREE MISSIONARIES SAVED.
UEw ToHx5 Jung z=DUcrUf RI
Walter Emens, Of Syracuse, whose
son, Walter s. Emens, represents the
American Trading Company in China,
to-day received the following cable
gram, dated Tien Tsin, June IS;
estimation growing worse. Pekin
besoiged. In danger Of massacre.
Signed. "WAITER 8. EMENs.r
The Reverend Doctor Leonard, Sec
rotary Of the Methodist Foreign Mis-
sionary Society in this city, to-day
received the following cablegram:
"OHE-Foo, June is. Tien Tsln
~bombarded. Pekin very serious. Hep
kins, Brown and King saved. Gum
boat. Signed. BROWN"
The three men mentioned are mis-
s~lonariee. Doctor Leonard infers from
the fact that only those who were
saved are cabled. the remaining twen.
ty-four missionaries at Tfen Tsin hav-
ing been murdered by the Boxers.
Among them are many women, In
GLIDING i've in the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society and members OF
the Hsynor, Pike, Hopkins and Brown
families.