New-York tribune., 1900-07-07

furnishing none except the river. the wells being
poisoned.
The Chinese are committing terrible atrocities
upon the wounded. and are mutilating all the
dead who fall into their hands. General Tung
Fuh Sian, with ten thousand of the best dis
ciplined troops in the Chinese army, Mahom-
etans, is marching from the southwest toward
Picking. The army thereabout numbers fifty
thousand men. The Empress has fled to the
Summer Palace. The Mahometans and Boxers
fighting in Peking Ten regiments of Gen
eral Nieh's command. north of Tien-Tsin, are
reported to have deserted and to be pillaging
the country.
Residents declare that a Chinese commune
has been inaugurated, and that the peaceable
Chinese are the greatest sufferers.
The foreign soldiers are burning the outskirts
of Tien-Tsin TO deprive the enemy of shelter,
and the Boxers are destroying the outlying viii
lagos for loot. The smoke of a hundred fires
can be seen in every direction.
Tien-Tsin was not bombarded to-day for the
first time in a fortnight Families are returning
to their homes within the concessions. The
women and children will be sent to Taku soon
travel is safe. No Cinnamon visible in
the streets. a few Of the richest Chinese, with
their families, are huddled together in outhouses
for protection. They are badly frightened.
Others are concealed in houses and shoot at
Europeans the streets The Chinese dead
about Ten-Tsn number thousands. Most of
those who have been killed lie buried in the
fields. The river to Taku is full Of floating
bodies, and many of the corpses have been
washed up by the tide and dogs are feeding on
them along the banks
The small American contingents have every
where distinguished themselves. Captain Nc
Gala and Major Waller are most popular at
Tien-Tsin. and their men placed in the lead
in every movement by common consent with
the British close beside them.
The foreigners of Tien-Tsin declare however
that they owe their lives to the Russians. with
out whom the other small detachments would
have been overwhelmed on the darkest day,
Wednesday week, when the Chinese We're press
ing every side and the braVeSt men were
abandoning hope the Russian commander, Colo
mel WoZack arranged that the main body of the
troops should make sortie. with the civilians
in the direction Of Taku, leaving four hundred
Russians TO defend the city, engage the atten-
ton of the Chinese and ultimately sacrifice
themselves. The arrival of the Americans saved
the day and proved a surprise
Among the military evidences of the immense
Chinese preparations for il may be men
toned that arsenals and stores hitherto un-
known have been discovered. About $4,000 900
worth of and ammunition, mostly modern
has been destroyed in three arsenas outside Of
Tien-Tsin.
Several thousand troops under General Mich
are holding the native city, five miles north Of
II was rumored that forty thousand Chinese
would make an attack at noon to-day. The
troops were under arms, but the Chinese failed
to materaZe.
Vice Admiral Seymour has been wounded
slightly by a spent ball. which struck him n the
shoulder while he was in his house With Cap
tain MCCalla and Commander TauSsig.
The hero Of Tien-Tsin is JamsS Watt, young
Englishman and the best rider in China, who
with three Cossacks, ran the gantlet TO Taku
with messages for reinforcements, charging
through villages under fire repeatedly. Several
Of the foreign commanders have recommended
that the four men be decorated.