The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-26
COMBINED FORCES
ENTER TEN TSIN.
The Entry Was Made
With Small Loss
SITUATION GLOOMY.
Admiral Seymour Said to bein Hands
of Chinese.
AMERICAN MARINES KILLED.
The Worst Is Feared for the Legations
in PcIin and admiral Scy,nour's
Force, as No Reliable News
Has Been Received from
the Capitai-Unrcst
at Nan kian..

CHE FOO, Tuesday, June 26.--Rear-Ad-
miral Kempff reports by japanese tor
pedo boat that the combined forces en-
tered Ten Tsin on Saturday, June e3d, sus-
tanning a small loss.
They started on Sunday to relieve the
force which left Tten Tsin on June 10th,
ana which is believed to be surrounded
near Pekin. According to Japanese re-
ports Admiral Seymour has been captured
and the ministers have left Pekin, guarded
by Chinese soldiers. Their whereabouts is
unknown.
NOTHING FROM PEkIN.
CHE FOO, June % (via ShanghaO.-
United States Consul John Fowler has re-
ceived from Rear-Admiral kempff the fol-
lowing:
Only one communication from Pekin
has reached me since communications were
interrupted on June 10th. 1t was dated
June 12th No direct or indirect intimation
from the foreign ministers since.
about 43o foreign troops, including fifty
six American marines, went to Pekin to
guard the legations. A force of 100 Ameri-
cans. uniting with a total force of 2,5O0
men Of all nat!onalities represented here,
went on June 10th to open the road and to
relieve Pelzin.
This movement was by permission Of
the Chinese government. The last news
from the expedition was dated June 18th,
when the expedition was at Lang Fang.
The railroad has been destroyed behind it
since. Any news that can be obtained or
effort made for the relief of the delegations
and the lives and property of foreigners
should be done At any hazard.
IAN energies and forces here must first
be directed to the relief of Iien Tsin. par
ticulary as it is the key to Pekin.''
LONDON. June $3.50 y. M.-The
British cruiser Terrible has arrived at
Che Foo from Taku with the latest news,
which is as follows:
Eight hundred Sikhas and two hum
dred Welsh fusliers have effected june
ton with the German American and
Russian forces, which had been cut off
by the Chinese about nine miles from
.Tien Tsin. It was proposed to deliver
an assault upon the Chinese forces at
Tien Tsin last night Sunday mighty
It is not clear what forces united. It
would seem that one relieving force, cut
off, had been relieved by another At
any rate. it is apparently certain that
the allies arrived in sufficient force at Tien
Tsin Sunday night 20 attack the be-
sieging Chinese.
Foreign Office official here say a dis
patch from Shanghai to the Daily Express,
dated yesterday, incIines to believe that
the worst has happened to tie legations
at Pelkin, and to Admiral Seymour as well.
Even if the legations were safe on June
10Th there is no guarantee that they are
safe now. The situation, in fact, grows
more and more gloomy The entire ab-
sence of reliable news from the capital
seems to justify the worst construction
which can be put upon it
Bad news comes from Nan kiang, where
the unrest is said 10 be growing hourly.
Viceroy u4iu Kin Yih has telegraphed the
British authorities that he has ordered the
five Chinese cruisers, Which nave been iy-
ing off the harbor here, TO proceed to Nan
kiang.