The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-07-06

| persing the Boxers after sympathizlnr
| with them would not oppose the entry OF
the foreign forces, but would appeal for
Russian support and depend upon a
speedy breakup of the concert through
| jealousies and intrgues
The British Adm rally is a slow-so,n ing
| institution which has an idolatrous love
of red tape. 1t was silent hour after hour
| Yesterday, although the dispatch OF the
American Admiral had been publ shed IN
Washington and the German Foreign Of
| flee had heard from its Consulate at Che
Foo that the third relief column had en-
tered Tien-Tsin on the way to Peking
and that Admiral Seymour was twelve
and one-half miles from that place with
foreign Ministers. Owing to the slug
| gishness of the Admiralty in giving out
| dispatches. the American press is able
to get official news from China In adj
vance of the English public, since moth
ing is held back by the Navy Department
in Washington
! Press dispatches available at midnight
were meager, but it was fairly clear that
| the allied forces had been greatly
strengthened by French, German Japan
! csc and Russian troops; that the march
to Tien-Tsin had not been attended with
serious loss and ..at the plight of the
foreigners there had not been so serious
| as had been supposed. It is not known
| with defniteness here whether Admiral
Seymour's force marched into Picking and
/ carried the Ministers and refugees out
! with them or whether they were sent
out under the escort of their own guards
but the opinion prevailed at midnight
among well-informed members of Par
Lament that a catastrophe had been
| averted and that the military and naval
forces, while not sufficient to secure per-
manent occupation of Peking, were ade-
quate for the immediate protection of the
| foreigners in T!en-Tsin. Mr.. Broderick
and Mr.. Balfour were closely questioned
! in the House of Commons respecting Chi
ma, but their information was apparently
| secondhand The present Government
was evidently unprepared for the crisis
which has arisen, but has pulled itself
together and is hunting in the dark for
a policy.
ESCAPE OF 1i1E ENGINEERS
| CHICAGO, June ia special to the
/ Tribune from Victoria, B. c., says:
| Advices rece we'd by the Empress of In
| from Picking and Tien-Tsin of foreigners.
| OF all the fugitives to reach the coast
none had a harder fight for their lives
| than the American, French and Belgian
engineers, who We're surrounded by the
| Boxers at Peng raj, the terminus of the
| railway that was to run to HankOw.
When the Boxers attacked the station
and the machine shops the engineers bar
| ricaded themselves in the machine shops
and held the Chinese off for some tine.
| They had several women with them, wives
| OF some of them. These women loaded
| the mems rifle belts and otherwise assist
| ed to repel the Boxers. Soon, though, the
| foreigners found their position in the
shops untenable, as some of the Chinese
| had rushed them an. set fire TO n part
| of the building. Then they ran for 1t,
| fighting their way through the Boxers.
When they had got through the Boxer
| lines the Chinese gave no more attention
| to them, but ins,eau began to pillage
and destroy the station and machine
shops. Two of the Belgians then hurried
| to Picking, where they reported the dan
ger of the party and called for volun-
| teers to help them.
A number of Cossacks were dispatched
| to the rescue. 1hey set out on June 2
and encountered large crowd of Boxers
| forty miles from Tien-Tsin and were
obliged to return, being unable to fight
their way through the Boxers. The Cos
| sacks, who numbered thirty-three, had
two officers wouL~ed
In the meantime the engineers were
, between two forces of Boxers. There
were thirty of them. They had taken up
| n position on small hill and there they
made trenches, in which they fought for
an hour holding off the Boxers to their
front. They were all unconscious OF the
party to their rear, and after their hard
fighting arranged that eight should be LETT
In the trenches to hold back the Boxers
while the other twenty-five including the
women and children, went on towards
Picking.
They had no carts anu the men carried
the weaker ones when they became ex-
hausted. The march of the fugitives TO
Picking was an awful one. When some
few miles from where they had been in
trenched they found another party of
Boxers, not so strong as the party before
encountered, however, to their front, and
the men formed hollow square with the
women and children In the center and
dragging along, fight-ng and repelling the
onslaughts o. the Boxers, they made
their way to Peking.
The Boxers OF this party were without
firearms, being armed only with poles
shod with iron and knives and spears.
They We're kept at a distance by the rifles
and revolvers OF the railway rsen, who
killed n number Oh them.
The eight heroes who were left behind
TO guard their retreat were slain by the
Boxers. There were three Englishmen
and one Italian among them, the others
being Belgians and Swiss. The fugItives
on their arrival at Picking were In ter
ribly destitute COHESION.
American marines Ied the way OF the
relief party to Picking. Despite the Vice
roy's edict that no foreigners should be
allowed to pass Taku fort, forty United
States marines landed and made their
way up the river by lighter.
Reading the chinese papers, one Woulu
come 10 the CONCLUSION that China her
self was making an EFFORT to suppress the
Boxer rising. Referring 10 the battle or
June 7th. between the troops under Cen
oral Mich and the Boxers, one paper says
that several hundred Boxers were killed
and nYe buildings were burned down
during the conflict and the local railway
station was destroyed TINS was at Lola. !
the third station from Tien-Tsln. Another !
paper says the Boxers lost 700 men IN
thla engagement General Itch, who