Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-18
CHINA DECLARES
WAR ON RUSSIA
Dispatch to the London Mail Says
There IS No Doubt About It,
CAPITALOF AMUR ATTACKED
Garrison Held out Bravely, FINALLY
Overwhelmingly Overpowered-
Nearly All Persisted.

London. July ls.-The Daily Mall
publishes sensational dispatch from
ST. Petersburg, dated Monday which
asserts that there Is no doubt that
China has declared war against Russia.
"rhe Russian press, says the c0fIe'
sp0ndent. us restricted 20 the pubilca-
ton OF officials details. and the puDhca.
ton of any dispatches from the 'front.'
has been prohibited. I hear however
from reliable source. that the Chinese
troops and the Boxers seized "a Russian
transport vessel laden with munitions
40 Ariag0n on the Amur river ab1u'
eighteen miles from the Russian IRON
tier killing almost the entire Russian
escort
"They next suddenly attacked an
bumblrded the town OF BlaguNeCnnth
capital OF the Amur government ON
the Amr river The garrison held out
brayely. but was finally overwhelming,
ly oyerDoWered Nearly AN perishyl
and the town was burned
NEWS FROM MANCHURIA.
London July IS. a la. m--The news Of
the Manchura disturbances is not Zee
garded as jnsUfying the serious view
attributed by the Daily Malls advlce-.
Amur ls boundary territory between
eastern Siberia and Manchuria. The
district has been the scene of local disc
ufbances for a long time owing 90 the
provocative conduct of the Cossacks
toward the $4,000 Chinese employed IN
the construction Of the Russo-Manchu'
rian railway
Several serious collisions have oc.
CURED between the COssacks and the
Chinese troops. one happened several
weeks ago when two Russian officers
and sixteen men We're killed. The eN'
tension OF the Boxer movement 90 Man
churia has resulted in a great destruc'
ton Of the railway, compelling the Rus
SLAMS to withdraw their officials The
Chinese tried TO stop the Russian
steamer Michael carrying ammuni-
tlon, and the steamer Sel0nga. with
the Russian frontier commission on
board from passing uD the Amur ar
lgun. They fred on the steamers.
wounding an officer and a few men, but
the steamers reached BagoyesChensk.
The local commander at Aigon seems
90 have sent the Russians a sort OF ul-
tmatum 10 quiet Manchuria,
The Chinese according 90 the Daily
Mails ST. Petersburg correspondent,
have thrown up Notifications and
! placed forty guns AZ point twelve
miles from AigOn 90 dispute the pas
sage OF the Russians The official Rus
sian adyices leave the inference that
! BlagoyesCh,nsk is suu IN Russian
| hands. the Russian losses during the
bomhar5ment being only three killed
| and five wounded
The Amur military district was
! modified a fortnight ago ON a war
! footing. and Sc is believed that the
! Russian forces there are $1,000 men and
ll2 guns. The goyernor-general has
now ordered the troops on the frontier
| 90 form a Gordon
The Russian papers demand retrihu-
ton Tor Chinese audacity 10 Manchu-
rla but they hold 10 the view that the
! Russians must perseyere IN their reso-
/ luton 10 avoid war. The Chinese min
! lister IN 81. Petersburg has disavowed
/ the events IN Manchuria. on behalf Of
| his government and has promised 20
make serious presentations 90 Pehn
regarding the consequences that Will
/ follow II the hostlitles there be the
case.
There IS little further news from
China this morning The attack upon
the native city 0f Iien Tsin was fol-
lowed up so swiftly that the Chinese
never had time 90 reorganize, and
| once their lines were broken their re-
| treat rapidly became a rout il Hung
Chang has already left Canton. This
causes the utmost anxiety for the
safety of The Europeans there as there
are only two gunbOats. one British and
one American, at Canton, pending the
arrival Of a French gunboat.