Morris tribune., 1900-07-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

international troops commune 10 nol
Tien Tsin.
The bombardment of Tien Tsin ha
been renewed.
The Ninth United States infantr
has arrived at Taku.
The Washington officials have de
cided to send more troops to China.
j The Bogue forts on the Canton rive
have been reinforced by 5000 vicerega
soldiers.
Thousands Of Chinese were killed il
q battle with international troops a
Tien Tsin.
The British public bitterly denounce
the attitude of the government in tn
Chinese affair.
Washington officials have decided t.
dispatch 5000 regulars to Manila, to b.
sent to China if necessary.
! Twenty-Five hundred Japanese troop!
with ID guns have arrived at Taku anc
800 more are expected at once.
The Japanese government has de-
cided to Immediately dispatch $4,000
men and 5000 horses to China.
The entire French colony has fled
from Tung Chow. The mission station
there has been converted into little
fort.
England notifies China that the au-
thorities at Pekin will be held per-
sonally responsible for the lives Of the
| legationers.
Russia has given her consent to Japan
attempting to subdue the Chinese. All
reports agree that the legation forces at
Pekin are dead.
Prince Tuan and his force of Boxers
are in complete control Of affairs at
Pekin. The emperor and empress are
prisoners in the palace.
Chinese reports state that two other
foreign ministers were murdered by
Chinese on the same day that the Ger
man minister was killed.
The German East Asiatic squadron
has sailed from Kiel from China. En-
peror William and Prince Henry Of
Prussia witnessed the departure of the
Warships.
Dispatches from Shanghai say the
legations were holding out on July 3,
that the rebels had been repulsed with
a loss of 1900 and that the Boxers were
discouraged.
Tien Tsin is still hard pressed. A
Chinese force numbering from &c. 900 to
100, 900 men, as estimated by inconclu-
sive reconnaissance, floods the country
round about.
To consistent reports Of the massacre
of the whites at Pekin are now added
the additional horrors that savage sol
diery butchered at the capital 5000 ma
tives, Roman Catholics.
In response to inquiries from London
cabled to Shanghai in regard to the sit
uation at Pekin, the following cable
gram has been received from an au-
thoritative quarter: Prepare to hear
the worst. :"
A dispatch to the London Express
from Shanghai says that according to
the best military estimates 100000 men
will be necessary to subjugate Northern
China, and even then it will take two
or three years.
An official telegram from Pekin an
nounces that the British legation,
wherein were all the foreigners, was
intact on July 8. The rebels were re-
pulsed with loss Of 5000 and were
afraid to reattack.
A combined force of Russians and
Japanese left Tien Tien, followed the
railway as far as Lang Fang, and thence
swept swiftly to the west, attacking
the Chinese 18 miles north Of Tien Tsin
and killing 1000 of them.
A messenger with official advices who
left Pekin June 81, says that over 100,-
200 Chinese soldiers and rioters sur
the legations, but, in spite Of
fierce attacks, they had not then sue
,eeded in breaking through the wall
The consuls at Shanghai report that
The Pekin legations were safe on July
4 and that the Chinese had ceased their
attacks. The only fear felt at that |
time, according to the reports Of the !
consuls, was regarding the food sup
plies.
The danger of general revolt in
China becomes more and more potent
md Europe is confronted with rap
dly increasing fear not merely that the J
International column will be forced /
rom Tien Tsin, but that the interna-
ional troops at the colonies and treaty
ports will stand in grave danger of
expulsion.
BRiTIsH-BoER WAR NEWS.