The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-12
IT GOES TO MCKINLEY
Kempff Asks For 100 More Marines.
They Will be Sent.
THE ADMIRALs SEND I, ,5oo.MEN TO PEKlN
McCal!a With Them With 1O0 Men. 40 Ameri-
can and English Missionaries al Pekin
Waiting For Guard to Take
Them to the Coast
Them to the Coast.
(By the Associated Press.)

10y the ASSOCldIeu fTeSS.)
London, June 12.-(Tuesday, 3 a. m)--
The last message out of Pekn to reach
IL O'Clock, going by way of the Russian
telegraph through Manchuria the Tien
Tsin line being cut. 1t is as follows:
General Tung, Mohammedan, ex-
tremely hostile to foreigners, arrived
here this morning and had an audience
with Prince Tuan, father of the heir ap
parent, who is seemingly hostile to the
Boxers. Prince Tuan has been appointed
chief of the Foreign Office over Prince
Ching, who is more friendly toward the
foreigners.
THE dispatch of more marines was in
response to a telegram from the Min
listers to the consuls at Tien Tsin for ad
ditional troops, conveyances have left
Pekin to meet the troops coming by the
first train.
1.-The arrival of the Empress Dowager
has rendered the city somewhat more
quiet than it had been recently. The
Protestants have erected a barricade be-
fore the building in which they have
taken refuge, and they have a small
guard. The Catholics are concentrated
north of the Cathedral. under the pro-
lection of a French guard of twenty five
men, who will hold out to the end. | am
convinced that Pekin, especially the
Tartar city, is safe.
AT Tien Tsin the Viceroy finally con-
sented to furnish transport for relief
force of 400 under an American command
or. The partial restoration of the rail-
way is expected to be effected by tomor-
row. More massacres of Christians are
reported" ,'".s
Shanghai under yesterdays date, cables
that there has been street fighting in
Pekin since early Sunday afternoon.
The Russians are making large pur-
chases of canned provisions at Shanghai.
and everything points to outbreak of
hostilities. All British missionaries will
probably be ordered to return quickly to
treaty ports.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph in dispatch dated yes
terday at lao p. m, says:
Reports from TIE Yum Nan Flu Dis
trct. say that the French Minister has
telegraphed that a crisis is imminent and
evacuate Yum Nam
All the kilograms indicate that the
situation has not in the least improved.
On the contrary the disorder has spread
from the neighborhood of Pekin to the
capital itself which is growing turbulent
in anti-foreign demonstrations. In ad-
dition to the burning of the Pekin Club
the Secretary of the Belgian Legation has
been roughly handled in the streets
Hostile crowds continue to demonstrate
against the legations. Two thousand in
ternational troops are approaching the
city, and the advance guard is due to ar
rive today (Tuesday.)
The United States, according to dis
patches from Copenhagen, have given
hearty adhesion" to the scheme for a
European demonttration. The Russian
Minister in Pekin, who also acts as the
envoy of Denmark, is credited with hav-
ing sent a dispatch to the Danish Foreign
Office to the effect that demonstration
has been planned, under the leadership of
England and Russia, in which all the
great powers and several of the smaller
will take part The latter are not called
upon to send troops, as there are enough
on the spot: but they are asked to dele
gate the right to hoist their flags to the
great powers in order that a demonstra-
tion may be made or a battle fought under
the flags of all Europe. Japan and the
United States have been informed and
agree to the arrangement.