Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-07-05
LEAVE UNDER GUARD
FOREIGN MINISTER'S DEPART FROM
PICKING.
News Regarded in Washington ~
Evidence That China Realizes the
Enormity of Permitting the Min
iste1s to Como to Harm-Compo-
site Brigade That Raised the In
vestment of Tien-tsin Has Pushed
on to Help Seymour and Has
Probably Saved Him, but the
News Has Not Yet Been Received.


Probably Saved Him, but the
News Has Not Yet Been Received.
Washington, June 29.-The develop
ments of the day respecting China
were important and interesting. The
Chinese minister's report Of the de-
parture of the foreign ministers and
their guards from Picking greatly re-
1ieved the officials here, who took it as
the first tangible evidence that the i'm
perial Chinese government had full
realization Of the enormity Of permit
ting the ministers to cone to personal
harm, and were thus undertaking. as
far as lay in their power, to observe
the amenities Of international ex-
change The keenest interest is shown
by the officials to learn the conditions
under which the
Ministers Left Picking.
Minister Wus dispatch was ominously
Nlent on that point, and though the
minister himself maintains almost OBJ
stinately his confidence in the nom
existence Of a state of war, it is gen.
orally admitted that it will be difficult
to accept his conclusion if it shall
transpire that the Picking government
itself has sent tue ministers away
with their passports, or what may
come to the same thing, with a guard
as safe conduct. At the state depart
ment it is said that if it shall be ex-
planned that the imperial government
did this not with purpose Of ruptur-
ing diplon attic relations, but simply to
Insure the Safety
of the ministers, which they were I'M
able to guarantee as long as they re-
manned in Picking, then there is still
ground for an understanding. 1t is,
however, pointed out that in such case
the self-confessed inability Of the I'M
perial government to maintain peace
and order at the capital would amount
to an admission of its utter failure as
a government, and would leave China
in state worse than that Of actual
war. In either event it now appears
to the satisfaction of the officials that
there was absolute justification for
such Intervention as we have offered
in China.
Seydour Probably Saved
London, June 30. - The composite
brigade of 1890 men who raised the
Investment of Tientsin and pushed on
to help Admiral Seymour. has prob
ably saved him. butt the news has not
yet reached Chefu, the nearest wire
point. The last steamer arriving at
Chefu from Taku brought this message
from Tien-tsin, dated Monday, June. %:
s'The Russian general in command Of
the relief had decided, in view of Sat
urday's heavy fighting, that one days
rest for the troops was essential and
that the advance should not be re-
sumed until to-day. Meanwhile Ad-
fniral Seymour photographed that his
position was desperate and that he
could only hold out two days. The re-
lief
Started at Dawn
to-day (Monday.) Saturday fighting be-
gan at daybreak. The allied forces
opened with several of the Terrible's
naval guns, six field guns and numer-
GUS machine guns, the firing being at
long range. They continued to ad-
vance steadily, the Chinese mean
while replying. The guns of all the
allies were more skilfully handled and
put the guns Of the Chinese out of ac-
tion one by one, the Chinese retiring
about noon. There was keen rivalry
among the representatives Of the vari-
GUS nations as to which would enter
Tien-tsin first and the Americans and
British went in neck and neck. The
Russians stormed the arsenal there
by sustaining the largest losses. Sew
eral thousand japanese have left Taku
for Tien-tsin and altogether $4,000
Japanese Have Landed.
The international troops now aggre-
gate nearly 10000 and Japan is prepar-
ing to send 10000 more. With Brit
ISL, American and other troops or
dered to co. probably 10000 men will
be available in monah.''
The TOng-shan refugees and the for
eign ENJOYS at Chefu estimate the
Chinese troops now in the field at 25.-
600 drilled troops at Lu-tai $4,000 at
Shang- wan, 1900 driven off from Ten
tsin and 10000 at Picking. The dis
patch received by the foreign officers
stating that foreign legations were re-
uuested to leave Picking within spe-
cited time is interpreted in some unof-
fetal quarters as tantamount to giving
the ministers their passports and to
declaration Of war, but as China does
nothing like other countries, the Of
fetal opinion is that
There Is Nothing to Do
but to await the course of events and
TO see WudC Uue ululStGIS luCmoClNCo
say when hey are rescued. According
to dispatch from Shanghai the Chi
nesc officials by direction Of the South
ern viceroys are asking the consuls to
agree to conditions "insuring,'' as the
Chinese say, 'the neutrality of Shang-
hal and other coast cities..' They are
also asking that foreign warships shall
not sail OF anchor near the forts, nor
go to ports where there are no war
Ships now, that the crews shall not go
ashore and that the protection of for
eigners be left to the Chinese authori,
ties. These conditions are considered
at Shanghai to be virtually an ultima
tunr from Viceroys Lieu Kang Lieh
and Chang Chih Tung. The consuls
desire a sufficient naval and military
force to back up their refusal to COM
ply with these demands.
POSSE MUSTERED OUT.