Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-19
CHINESE SITUATION
The Americans Took No Part In
the Storming Of the Taku
Forts.
MANY OFFICERS DEGRADED
Great Britain and Germany Would Like
to See Japan Land Big Army In
Ohina-The Revolt Is
Spreading.

Washington, June 19.-Secretary O
State Hay has been notified by the Rus
sian embassy that 400O Russian troops
have been dispatched from Port Arthur
to Taku. -
TELEGRAPH LINE CUT.
Paris, June 19.-At the cabinet coun
ell to-day the minister of foreign af
fairs, M. Delcasse, announced that the
telegraph line between Pekin and Tien.
Tsin Is still interrupted.
Ii HING CH ING SUMMONED.
! A dispaNh from Shanghai says that
Ii Hung Chang has been summoned tc
Pekin from Canton.
SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS-.
| Chicago, June ia special to the
Tribune from Washington says: "There
are persistent rumors to the effect that
President Mckinley has decided to call
an extra session of congress to take
measures to send troops to China"
| AMERICANS TOOK NO PART.
| London, June 19.-From German Off
cial dispatches it Is learned that the
American ships took no part IN the
bombardment Of the Taku forts on Sat-
urday morning. No news has yet been
received here Of the relief of the lega-
ton at Pekin. Berlin dispatches inti-
| mate that Germany would not object to
Japan sending $4,000 troops, while Great
| Britain will indorse the plan with avid
| ity, though perhaps only secretly. The
Japanese legation at London has official
troops. The British are dispatching six
native regiments, besides artillery,
from India.
THE REVOLT SPREADING.
The revolt Is spreading in western
China A representative of Pritchard
Morgan, a member of parliament, at
Cheng Tu, wires that he and party
are detained there owing to the news of
the revolution having broken out in Sc
chuan, which adjoins the province Of
Yuennan, which is also in revolt. The
official news comes to-day that the
London missionary society's premises
at Tsao Shih, in central China, west of
Hangkow were destroyed by mob
The missionaries reached Hangkow in
safety. Gable dispatches from Shanghai
report that a number of Chinese cruis-
ers are anchored in sight of the foreign
settlements, which are only guaroed by
small Japanese gunboat. One thou
sand Chinese troops, with two forty
nine-ton guns. still hold the forts out
side Of the town. The viceroy of Woo
Sung is reported to have assured the
consuls of the foreign settlements that
Shanghai will not be attacked.
THE BATTLE OF TAKU.
The admiralty office received the fol-
lowing from the officer commanding the
British cruiser Endymion
Lieu Kun Tau, June 1S.-The Taku
forts opened fire at o'clock in the
morning on the ships of the allied
squadrons. After six hours engage
ment the forts were silenced and occu-
pied by the allied forces. Additional
men for storming the forts were sent
ashore from the ships on the previous
afternoon. The British ships engaged
mp the river were the Algerine, gum
boat: Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer
and the Whiting, torpedo-boat Destroy
er. The two latter captured four Chi
nese torpedo-boat destroyers. The cas-
ualties Of the Algerlne were slight:
hose of the storming party and others
are unknown. The Chinese second-class
cruiser, flying the admirars flag, is de-
tained outside of Taku by the allied
,dmirals. No information of Com
mander-in-chief Seymour's return to
Tien-Tsin has been received by the rear
,dmiral up to 2 o'clock this afternoon,
June IT, am sailing forthwith for
Taku."
CHINESE GENERALS DEGRADED.
An agency dispatch from Shanghai,
lated June 49, says that the latest news
from Pekin is that the dowager en-
press is greatly concerned at the cap
ture Of the Taku forts, and that whole
sale degradations in the Chinese army.
including Generals Sung Ching and
Fung Flu. the governor Of Pekin and
other high officials who promised the
Tsung Ii Yamen to accomplish the ex-
pulsion of foreigners, have taken place.
Three of the Taku forts, 1t Is added.
were completely destroyed. and most Of
the garrisons killed or wounded by the
charge of the sailors.
ANXIETY PREVAILS.
Shanghai. June 19.-The consulates
received no communication from the le-
cations at Pekin since June II, and the
greatest anxiety prevails as to their
safety. There are innumerable rumors,
but nothing authentic. Sensational ma
tive rumors are current that Tien-Tsin
has been burned by the Chinese SOL
diers, and Yulu. viceroy of Chile, fed
from his province to escape degrada-
tion.
OPPOSED TO THE REBELS.
Hongkong, June 19.-It is understood
that Ii Hung Chang will leave Canton
for the north on June 20. Canton IL
quiet. The viceroy's provinces border
ing the Yang Tse Kiang are believed to
be strongly opposed to the revolution
ary movement.
AMERICAN TROOPS FOR CHINA.
Washington, June 1s.-Adjutant Gen.
eral Corbin declared positively that UP
to date only one regiment, the 9th in
fantry, had been ordered from Manila
to China. In addition, the Oregon,
which is to go up to Taku from Hong
kong; the Buffalo, with 800 green lands-