Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-18
SHE MUST DECIDE
UNLESS DOwAxER EMPRESS SUP
PRESSES TROUBLE POWERS
WILL DECLARE WAR on CHINA,
Nc Word From Pekin for Five DAYS
Reported Seymour is Fighting
Chinese Regulars.

ing the foreign authorities were about to
arrest him because of his stoppage of
kilograms. A third cablegram, assert
ing that the reports of the murder of the
German minister from Lon
don. is quite uncOnfiITmed and are dis
credited at Shanghai.
THE German minister has been cap
tured," is the announcement of the
Morning Post from Pekin, in a dispatch
dated June Is, 5 p. m, via Tien Tsin,
June 10. This is the laetst press mes
sage known to have left Pekin. 1t con-
tinues:
"A crowd of Boxers occupies Legation
street. cutting off communication be-
tween the buildings. A few Boxers are
p%arading in the city. Their superstition
in regard to foreign arms is pitable.
The Boxers hold the officials of Tung
Chau for redemption. Anarchy reigns at
that place. The Americans in the inte-
rior of the two n~eighboring provinces
have been advised to leave. but several
have no means of doing SO. Unless a
large force is sent. There is danger of a
massacre of native Christians. A large
native army is ready ITO oppose the relief
column on the way here. The Chinese
government cannot decide whether to
adopt the policy of rigidly suppressing
the Boxers or that of defying the world.
The decision rests with the dowager en-
press
During the isolation of Pekin and Tien
lS1Il, SIldilSlldl is supply ltlS d UeN lfucl-
ing bunch of reports and conjectures,
most of them picturesque and threaten
ing. Here is one:
miscellaneous armed crowds have
been in progress northward for some
weeks and the hordes around ->ekin
are being constantly swelling by these
arrivals. Well informed Chinese here
who are not unfriendly owards Foreign
ers, declare that there must now be
more than 1900 600 men outside the city
- Ill ~ %L-.~ ,,.aNl olth>,,11 ,r1n
in a more or less crude fashion. The
probability is that there are not more
than 10000 Chinese troops among them.
all told.
Information from Pekin. brought
hitherto by refugees, says that the city
is in a state of panir. Incendiary fires
are of nightly occurrence and scores of
outrageS are reported.
Women and children from Tfen Tsin
are pouring from Shanghai. The chief
danger here is the fact that the native
town behind the European settlement
is full of bad characters whose attitude
is becoming every day more insolently
menacing. The latest news to hand is
that 1000 Russians with IL machine
guns and II field guns are marching
from Tien Tsin to Pekin. Last week
the foreign ministers warned tn Tsuns
Lii Yamen that the event or an attack
upon the legations or of any INJURY 10
any of the ministers or members OF the
SIallS Oh llt lCS6lloIlS, Liz o"SiS IA ~
mon would declare war upon China. TO
this ultimatum the Tsung Ii Yamen, as
usual. returned no direct reply. The an
swero of the empress doWager is, no doubt.
the attack upon legations by the Box
ers ana the troops unusf Heheldi luhS
Fab Slang.
at has transpired that a few days
ago the Niceroy Of the southern prov
inces received orders from Pekin to CO.
operate with General Slang in the de-
go ~ IDn1y;y oooinGt q III r91 tened m
yasinn by the foreign devils The were
instructed to send to Pekin without an
instant's delay the troops they had
available within their respective Juris-
dietions. the time having now come 20
rid our empire forever Of the evil ele-
mants which nave SO long threatened
it,"
TIL Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Telegraph, in a dispatch dated
June Is, says: -,
saws the Boxers We're then killing hun
dreds of native Christians and the SER
wants of Foreigners
The same correspondent, IN a dispatch
dated yesterday, y ra,
.Chinese report states that Addnlfal
Seymour is fighting with the chlnese
regulars and the foreign forces nave
seized the Tak forts
Another dispatch says:
''From the character or the Cnlnese
movements anu lloAii eoN
is certain that the chinese ha'e eheose0
foreign advisers"
The foreign consuls at Shanghai, the
members Of the municipal councl anu
the officers of the volunteer forces met
Yesterday Sunday n adopted a plan
in the event of it's being necessary to de-
fend themselves against native Chinese.
The German gunboat Jaguar left
Shanghai suddenly on Saturday without
communication with the shore. 1t is
said there that she is chasing vessels be-
longing to the Chinese Merchants assO-
citation that are carrying munitions OF
war.
A dispatch from Hong Kong, dated
Saturday, says:
The air is full of sinister juniors with
regard to the progress of affairs in the
capital. but it is extremely difficult to
obtain confirmation of any of the. stories
ahOat. The position of the foreign en-
voys is believed to be desperate. The
authorities here are understood to have
received that one of the for
eign ministers and a legation secretary
have been murdered.
I'm the midst of these rumors an ex-
t~raordinary amount of excitement has
been caused by the sudden dispatch un-
der sealed orders of H. NJ. s. Undaunted
without awaiting her full supply OF
stores. The Rosario is also under orders
to prepare for an immediate start"
The following summary of the situa.
ton was telegraphed to the Daily News
from Shanghai last evening:
The situation is. critical and with nc
parallel since the indian mutiny. AT the
Yang Use ports there has been no out
break. but placards have been posted in
Kin Kiang, Ugas Skin and WI HUI, call.
ing on the people to kill and burn A
body of rioters 5000 strong are at Kweih.
sien. in the prefecture of Canton, anG
troops have gone to suppress them. TIL
lowers, unprepared, are helpless to pre-,
vent disaster, but, barring trifing loca
friction. they are working amicably."