The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-09
Dispatches Received in London Are Hopeful
and Give Cause for Encouragement
to the Governments
There Is Still, However, Grave Doubt as to
the Status of Affairs in Picking
Ten Tsn Is Bombarded

LONDON, July g. 2:45 a. m.-The for
eign cOnsuls at Shanghai met on July
and officially announced that the legations
at Picking were safe on July 4. The fore
going statement, read with Consul War
rens dispatch to the foreign Office on
Saturday. makes it possible to believe that
the legations will hold out for a number
Of days yet. Having fought to a stand
still the first outbursts OF fanatical fury,
It IS belieyable that something may IN
tervene to. save them.
The news, after the sinister rumors of
the last ten days, Is enough upon which
10 build up hopes.
DOUBTED AT SHANGHAI.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the Ex-
press, telegraphing on Sunday at BIO p.
m, however, throws doubt upon Consul
Warren's information. He says Tao Tai
Shen now admits that there was an err
ror in his communication to Gen. War
rem. The date Of the courier's arrival at
Chinen Flu was July 8, which does not APP
ply to his departure from Picking The
journey from Pekfng to Chinen Flu occu-
pies five days. The courier, therefore,
could not have left Picking later than June
Is. The date of the massacre there, as
given by Chinese reports, was June 80 or
July l.
Tien Tsin Is still hard pressed. A Chi
nese force, numbering from $4,000 to 1OO-
600 men, estimated by inconclusive re-
connoissances. floods the country round
about Tien Tsin Communication between
that place and Taku is apparently possible
by river only.
RUSSIANS LAND AT TAKU
A Che Foo dispatch to the Express says
the Russians have landed 5000 men at
Tallu, and the Japanese nave discharged
several transports. The Japanese push
ed on to Tien Tsin, leading in the subse-
Quent assault upon the native city, in
which their commander was killed.
Ten more transports are engaged at
Japanese ports. With the 10000 British
India troops afioat, and fresh japanese
contingents, it is quite probable that the
allies will have $4,000 men ashore.
DISORDERS MORE VIOLENT.
The disorders in the provinces appear
to be increasing in violence A Chinese
army is within forty miles Of New
Chwang, and the foreigners are prepar-
ing to abandon their homes. The south
erH part of the province is swept by raid
cFs, destroying all works of the white
men, except in spots garrisoned by Rus
slams.
Proclamations have been posted In all
villages near Che Foo calling upon the
loyal Chinese to rise and expel the for
eigners for introducing among the pious
Chinese an immoral religion. Every good
Buddhist in exhorted to remain on his
knees three hours daily knock his head
on the floor thrice and pray earnestly
that sudden, cruel death may overtake all
aliens.
ALERT AT CHE FOO.
The Christian settlement at Che Foo is
at the mercy of the two Chinese forts,
equipped with Krupp guns, which COM
mand the sides of the city Six warships,
including the United States gunboat Nash
vile, are constantly cleared for action
The provisional government at Picking
appears to have designs upon the south
ern provinces. Besides having ordered
[wan Shikai to advance upon Nankin,
which Kwan Shfkai says he will not do.
Prince Tuan has sent an army along the
route of the grand canal. Nankin is on
the south bank of a river nearly a mile
wide. The British cruisers Hermione and
Pique viii assist in repelling attempts
to cross. Six Chinese cruisers are there,
and 1900 Chinese troops are at the dis
posal Of Viceroy Liu Kun vi. The forts
mount thirty-four high power modern
guns. The foreigners in Shanghai are be-
coming uneasy. Everything depends, they
feel, on Viceroy Liu Kun VI
NEWS FROM TEN TsIN.
Refugees from Tien Tsin arriving at
Shanghai say that only five civilian for
eigners were killed during the long Chi
nese bombardment. The foreign women
became so Indifferent that they walked
through the streets, not heediSg the shells
Most of the civilians were deported to
Taku, thence to be conveyed to Shanghai.
The courier, mentioned in Consul War
ren's dispatch, gives a strange picture,
says the Daily Nails Shanghai CORE
spondent, Of how life jostles death in
Picking. Business apparently goes on as
usual The shops and theaters are open
and the streets are full of people. No i'm
perial troops, except those of Gen. Tung
Fuh Slang, took part in the fighting. The
courier even asserts positively that pro-
visions are being supplied to the legations,
but by whom he does not say The
Boxers and Gen. Tung Fuh Slang do not
get along well together. The Boxers as
sert they do all the fighting and the lat
ter all the loOting and nothing else
Gen. Kwan Kan Sui, governor of Shan
Tung, a correspondent of the Daily Mail
AYERS, predicts that by July IA the Boxers
will disband and negotiations will be
begun for peace
GLOOMY FOREBODINGS.
Circumstantial rumors of dark things
to come are in circulation. The CORE
clearing house of all China news saw
that a combined force Of Russians and
Japanese have left Tien Tsin, following
the line as far as Ii Fang, and have
thence swept swiftly westward, attacking
the Chinese eighteen miles north of Tien
Tsin and killing 1000 of them.
BATTLE AT TEN TsIN.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Standard says reports from Tien Tsin,
from Chinese sources, say a battle has
taken place, in which the Chinese lost
heavily. The allies at Tien Tsin are short
of provisions, and suffer considerably from
"sniping.''
The Daily Mails Tien Tsin correspond
Ont, in a dispatch dated July 2, via Che
Foo. says:
No forward movement is possible with
less than 10000 men, A letter has been
found signed on behalf of British manu-
facturers offering Ii Hung Chang com
piete armament and ordnance for an
army corps for 3453. 600
The messages of British correspond
Fnts at Tien Tsin are censored by Brit