Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-06-21
THE REVOLT IS SPREADING.
Growth Unexpectedly Rapid, Show
ing Organization.
EMPRESS IN ANGRY MOOD,
Degrades Generals Responsible for Loss
of Taku Forts-Germany Agrees to
Allow Japan to Land $4,000 Troops
chinese Cruisers a. Shanghai.

| London, June 19.-Rumors that ia
pan, as the mandatory of the powers,
will restore order in China were reviv-
ed in a dispatch today from Yoko-
hama Germany will not object to
Japan sending $4,000 troops, while
| Great Britain Will indorse the plan.
An agency dispatch from Shanghai,
dated June 10, says the latest news
| from Picking is that the dowager en-
press is greatly concerned at the cap
tur2 of the Taku forts and that whole
sale degredations of the Chinese army.
including Generals Sung Ching and
Flung Flu Slang. the Governor of Pc
king and other high officials who
promised in the tsung-li-yamen to
accomplish the expulsion of the for
eigners, have taken place
The revolt is spreading in weste =
China, revolution having broken ~
in Szechuan, which adjoins Yunnan,
also IN revolt. Official notice Of the
burning of the London Missionary So
ciety's premises at Tsao-Shih. central
China. northwest of Han-Kow. has
been received. The rising seems to
be spreading with rapidity and shows
unexpected organization among the
foreign element
All the missionaries at Tsao-Shih
escaped and reached Hankow in safe
ty. Cables from Shanghai report that
number of Chinese cruisers are an
chored in sight of the foreign settle
ments, which are only guarded by a
small japanese gunboat One thou
sand Chinese troops, with two forty
nine ton guns, still hold the forts out
side the town.
The viceroy of Woo Sung is reported
to have assured the consuls that the
foreign settlements at Shanghai Will
not be attacked
London, lime 19.-China declared
war against the world when the Taku
forts opened fire upon the information
al fleet. The accounts of what took
place are still unsatisfactory, the best
semi-official information being the
dispatch received at Berlin from Che
Foo
Firing Ordered by Empress.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday.
says: The forts began firing in OBJ /
servance to orders from Pekin - .
veyed in a personal edict of the
press dowager by advice of Kank
president of the ministry of war. Sevsvj
eral warships We're struck by shells
from the twelve-inch guns of the forts
The heavy Russian losses were due to I
the blowing up of the magazine at
Mandghur. Four hundred Chinese are
reported TO have been killed. The Chi |
nese, when retreating. fell into the
hands of the Russian land force
The Daily News has the following
A OH Che-Foo: Two Of the forts were (
blown up. The thirty-two wsrships at (
Iaku aggregated 100000 tons and car
rled more than 300 guns"
Peril at Pekin Increases
Inc failure of Admiral Seymours
Colunn and its retreat to Tien-Tsin 4
increase. IT is presumed. the peril of j
the legations in Pekin. which is still
although Shanghai forwards
chinese rumors that the legations
were attacked by mobs. who were
moved down by machine guns: also
that the members of the legations
were massacred and the buildings
burned
1 ne situation at Niu-Chwang is re-
ported critical. The British consul at
i\lu-kwans has ordered all foreigners
% leaFs hu-Liug and Nau-Kiuyf
Chang. ~