The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11

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the dowager empress has fed to the
Russian legation at Pekin.
COMMUNICATION CUT.
Tien Tsin. June photographic COM
munication between here and PelSin
was interrupted this morning. A special
train left at o'clock this evening with
thirty British troops to guard Tong
Shan. 1t is considered that the number
viii be inadequate. If trouble arises
in Tong-Shan, all the northern China
railways will be at a standstin |
Owing to difficulty in securing the |
viceroy's permission for a third special |
train to start for Pekin, the foreign |
troops occupied the cars, whereupOn the |
Chinese engine driver ran away with !
his locomotive. The crowd tried to pull
up the track but the troops cleared the |
rabble away at the point OF the bayonet
and seized the engine. on learning Of
this the viceroy granted permission and
the train left at Bis p. with about
five hundred men. The force was made
up of $50 Germans eighty British and
the rest French troops.
AMERICANS JOIN IN.
Washington. June 1.-THE following
undated dispatch has been received at
the navy department.:
Secretary of War: Forces landed by
different nations. Opening eommunica-
tions to Pelin. Americans Joined.
"KEAPFF."
Admiral Kempff also reports the ar
rival of the MonOcacy at Ta6u.
UNDERSTANDING REACHED.
London, June 1.-THE return of the
emperor of China and the dowager en-
press to Pekin from the summer palace
is regarded as a hopeful sign; but other
wise there is no favorable news from
hot fc
evidence of a continued perfect under
standing between the various powers
and the announcement that the interna-
ttOnal guards viii probably arrive at
Pekin today. Should these prove in
sufficient TO restore order, Russia is ap-
parently preparing to deal with the
crisis, judging from a, dispatch from St.
Petersburg, which follows:
As a result of an understanding be-
tween the Russian government and the
other powers a dispatch has been sent
to Port Arthur ordering that 5000 men
of the Russian garrison shall be held in
immediate readiness to leave for Tien
Tsin whenever the Russian minister
at Pekin asks for their assistance, or
circumstances require their interven-
ton"
According to a dispatch from Shang-
hal dated today, four thousand Rus
slams, with twenty guns, have already
been landed at Tien Tsin and are
marching in the direction of Pel1in.
Shanghai rumOrs however, must be ac-
cepted with caution.
A dispatch from Pekin dated Satur-
day evening, June g. says:
A body Of forty boxers armed with
knives have looted and burned the
Pekin club, race track and grand stand
buildings. Another edict issued this
morning orders the military governor
TO police streets with cavalry and in
fantry. Nevertheless in the neighbOr-
hood of the legation the street continues
thronged with the toughest kind of
mob ready TO break out at the slightest
prOVOcatiOn.
United States Minister Conger has
sent twenty marines and the British
minister, Sir Claude Macdonald. twelve
marines, to guard the Methodist mis-
sion compound, where members of all
denominations of PrOtestants had
gathered. The Roman Catholics as
semhled in the North cathedral, West
Ickin have a small guard of French
marines but the converts have been
we'll armed by Bishop Tavier and will
desperately resist attack
Business is practically at a stand
,Etill. Constantly increasing streams Of
boxers parade the streets at their pleas
ure, much to the alarm of the mer-
chants although thus far there has
been no looting Of native shops"
NO CHINESE GORDON.
New York. June IA dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
The boxers revolt has begun in the
same way as the terrible Tae-Ping re-
bellion, and there is no Chinese" Cor
don in sight to suppress it by craft as
subtle as the Oriental wiles. Russia is
the only power prepared 20 deal with
the situation in an effective way ny
sending a strong military force to Pc
kin but there will be grave risks oil
war with Japan if this be done, and
European complications win arise il
there has not been prearranged policy
sanctioned by the powers.
The only practical proposal which
London military men make is that tht
Chinese regiment now at Wei-Hai-We
shall be sent to Tien Tsin and rein
forced from Hong Kong and India. L
is also suggested that several division.
of regulars can be spared from SOutI
Africa when the war ends and thei
places filled by the retention of the yeo
manry, militia, volunteers and colOnia
forces. The war has not ended and tn
boxers and Russians are not likely t.
ait for the surrender of Kruger. 1
is easy for leader writers to assert tha