The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-08
KILL
All FOreigners-Is the Maxim
of the Boxers.

says the dowager empress has ordered
Gen. Neis ST Chong. with 5000 men 10
protect the railroad at Pekn.
A severe fight. it is added, has occur
red with the Boxers whose ranks in
clude many soldiers from other gener-
ais commands.
When the battle ended 200 dead were
left on the field
The dispatch goes on 20 say:
zone hundred and eighty British
marine with machine gun are about
to force a passage from Tien Tsn to
Pekin. Altogether about 900 British
have been landed from the fleet great
er number than have landed from the
combined vessels of the other powers.
This evidence of Great Brtains inten-
ton to assert her position strongly is
giving great satisfaction here"
KILL ALL FOREIGNERS"
LONDON, June 7.-Telegraphing
from Tien Tsin. under date Of June 6,
correspondent says:
" l left Tien Tsin this morning en-
route for Pekin, accompanied by Gen
Mich, supposed to be one of the best
Chinese generals, with sixty troops We
proceeded to Lofa, a distance Of g.!
miles. We found the plate lawyers
cabin in flames and the telegraph poles
cut, and men engaged in destroying
others in the villages near the railroad.
where bags were seen bearing the in
scription: Kill all foreigners
Il saw smoke evidently from burn
ing houses, in the distance, but Gen.
Neih refused to proceed further being
in mortal fear of the boxers, though
the foreigners try to persuade him to
disentain his troops. who are firmly
convinced that it is useless to fight the
boxers, as other Chinese say they have
seen boxers hit with bullets rise and
run away.
There seems to be little prospect of
a resumption of traffic to pekin unless
the foreign powers assume control of
the railway until the Chinese govern
ment proves itself capable Of manag-
ing communications with the capital"
COMING TO A CRISIS.
LONDON, June 7.-Affairs in China
are gradually working UP to crisis of
the first magnitude. The morning pa
pers think the British squadron is
recognized as inferior in etrength to
the Russian as well as to the Japanese.
The Daily Telegraph says:
1--WE regret that Great Britain is too
much occupied in South Africa to set
tie the China business with a strong
hand"
The Daily Chronicle says: The for
egn office ought to publish the dis
patches from Sir Claude Macdonald
| British ambassador at Pekin,) follow
ing the course of the United States in
publishing Mr.. Conger's."
1t is generally considered that inter-
ventiOn in some manner is necessary.
The morning Post has the following
dispatch from Pekin dated yesterday:
Reports say taht the court party are
collecting inside of the city. Conse-
quently there is an increased uneasi-
| ness"
The Times, referring to the Chinese
situation editOrially, calls attention tC
! the Interruptions of communications
between Pekin and the coast and says
England cannot allow cOmmunica-
tions to be interrupted for any length
! of time between her contingent Of tn,
capital and the naval base upon which
it depends" Concluding an elaborat,
survey of the field it says: To d,
nothing and to let mat, ers drift is L
jeopardize our vast interests in the ia
east. To act independently may not b.
prudent in the existing circumstances
but to allow any other single power t,
act independently might be worse thar
| to do nothing"
There is an uncOnfirmed report tha
two Russian engineers have been mur
dered at Yu Chow Flu, northwest 0
Port Arthur, and their wives have bee
outraged.
The total damage done to the Chimes
railroads by the boxers is now estimat
ed at S., 900 900.
LONDON, June S-The war situatio
in China, continues to be full of posi-
bilfties, but apparently It has no
grown any worse in the last AS hours.
The naval commander in Chimes
waters have received instructions as t
procedure, the question as to an emer
gency being left to their discretion.
Six hundred International troops a
at Tien Tsin with six guns. A dspatc
to the Daily Mail from Shanghai date
June Z, takes gloomy views Of thing
which are pictured as going from ba
to worse. The correspondent says:
The authorities are displaying pa
pably guilty sup@neness in dealing wit
the boxers and the powers are MOI
and more taking the matters into the
: ow nhands. The boxer revolt is spread
ing and is rapidly changing IT'S char
acter. The boxers are getting arms pre-
: pairing to meet force with force.
There has been no communicate
between Pekin and Tien Tsin since La
Tuesday, although one miserable abol
: tive attempt has been made by Chimes
soldiers to reach the capital. The trooI
were fired upon and the train had I
] come back. Another station has bee
burned on the line"