The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1900, Page 1

7{'OVI;L'.\IE LXXXVIII-NO, 12, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE lé, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MORE MARINES ARE CHRISTIANS FLEE FROM THE BRITISH NEAR THE ORDERED TO CHINA ~ WRATH OF THE CHINESE RABBLE MARAUDING BOERS Upon Request of Admiral Kempil Situation Grows Worse Hourly and Demonstra- Lord Roberts Has Fifty Thousand for Further Landing Forces @ tions Against All Foreigners Have Spread From| Troops Within a Short Distance Detachment Is to Be Sent From, the Neighborhood of Peking to the Capital Itself, of the Republican Forces and IS Manila on the Solace. Where There IS Great Alarm. - Expected to Crush Them. Reports From Uncle Sam's Representatives : - , - Meanwhile Kruger's Men Are Doing Some L o S e S S o e e S e o in the Far East Are Not Reassuring, and & | Lively Fighting, and Recently Caused the Derbygshires to Sustain a Loss of Additional Precautions Are Taken to; , Protect Life and Propertu. Six or Seven Hundred Men. ) | I3 | L4 [ ONDON, June 12, 3:30 a. m.—Fifty thousand British troops are within half ASHINGTON, J Department recelved the following | ¢ . a hundred miles of the marauding Boers north of Kroonstad. and they it B PS | are expected, of course, to make short work of them. Nevertheless, out- . Washingto: In ¢ | side of the War Office telegrams, no one knows what is going on. South of Kroonstad there a wide gap. The railway is only partially defended and as General Kelly-Kenny has hurried all the available troops northward the assumption is that there is danger of a se raid. The loss of the Derbyshires is estimated at from 600 to 700 men A Reuter dispatch from Maseru, dated June 11, $:35 p. m., says: “Fifteen hundred Boers surrendered to General Brabant to-day in the Ficksburg dis- triet.” Machadodorp has been officially proclaimed the ca to go alone. 1f other n structions. 8i fon serious. wer. MPF above Secretary Long sent the following cablegram to e e R SCS S SC Manila: Send by So mmediately 1 of the Transvaal. A pt ~Reme: gy S raclineinn S thnt Lourenzo Marques dispatch says that the village has llen inte a small city, i e ey S i the majority of the inhabitants living in tents e st L Ahe. 5 e i | An officlal Boer telegram asserts that the British have been defeated with con- T w een rpv‘*rh-« t Navy De | siderable lo: at Donkerspoort, in the southern extremity e the Free State, or Orange River Colony. ten miles from Norvals Pont. It was thought that tiYs district had been cleared of Boers and rebels long ago The Boers still cling to Laings Nek, but General Bt far around in that direction. Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town that prior to W officers and 3500 of the rank and file. The Boers conseq different of the Monocacy at Taku. morning. It is fc te th between the foreign forces at Taku and at Peking Is int through the r's forces & working ay he lberated 151 took off only 900, g of - BT ins a channel 0 ication be- Mr. Schreiner, the Cape Premier, had eight f fo at a cau- e of o Governments by wires to cus called to consider the Ministerial programm Treasurer, and this roundabout W r J. W. Fauer, Commissioner of Public W and Mr. Schreiner's own resignation is belleved to be imminer construct the Ministry with the aid of the opp The Cabinet situation Is so Interesting that his trip northward. Food is still scarce at Mafeking, but the railway two rebels have been arrested in the Vryburg and Ms men were marched into M: two of their late p mats and their i e sent the Pao Ting Government rissions t According to Minister forces from Pek to the per Chinese All of Gene ngton's force was landed at Be A W ne with his prev of opinion indicating | ganization to invade the Transvaal from the north i at the few Chinese disposed to tect A Boer deserter who arrived at Maseru yesterda rec by the elen ese court which fa- The Russlan Embassy, Feking, ticipated in the Ropekrantz engagement; that General Olivier wa. eral de Villiers mortally wounded The American young women who are nursing in have been slighted by the Boer w en who are nurs hospital, and have been made the object of unple: Americans are nursing the Where the Empress Dow- ager Is Said to Have Taken Refuge. Boxer troubles ritatively ment respect ers, it can be st aken t yops 4 v gl | PO TSRS DS PPN Thirty thousand troops were engaged in the mimi . the se in the present aspect of the e s | shot yesterday. e bie=cs i ONDON, Yune 12,3 &. m.—The last | AGAIN THE BRITISH s t f e e o message out of Peking to reach | o IV : e o the’ e e pEDE London left there vesterday morn- HAVE LOST A BATTALION | TOWN, June 1 zens Tn China. sination of ing at 11 o'clock, going by way of tein this o LONDON, June 1l.—Lieutenant General | greater part Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker, in com- | early in the m mand of the lines of communication in | south of Hei South Africa, reports that in the disaster | ported to be to the British troops June 7 at Roodevs Methuen lef! | where the Boers cut Lord Roberts’ lin pies for hir of communications, the Fourth Battalion | Paget to hold I of the Derbyshire Regiment were all | force and supplies Killed, wounded or made prisoners, except | dered Knox to p x enlisted men. Two officers and fifteen Beligatg the the Rus R Lok sian telegraph through aticable, al- Manchuria, the Tientsim line being cut, It follows: “General Tung, a Mo- 4 { hammedan, extremely h to foreign- ers, 1 4 here this morning and had a | ; idience with Prince Tuan, father | ; ent, who is seemingly wdly to the Boxers. Prince Tuan has ? L 4 1 * ® : ! =n appointed chicf of the Forelgn Ofes yver Prince Ching, who is more friendly toward the foreigners The atch of more marines was in ¢ & + n wi rise for it. He k dittonai rrent with I the High! r ap ength to be B e e R R C C d vere killed and five~off and i ! g coust s o response to a telegram from the Ministers nen were woundeéd, many of as regarc to the to the Consuls ientsin for additional them severely. The Boers returned the | south. ‘Communic ¢ Kroon- wounded to the British. The officers killed were: Lieutenant Colonel Baird-Douglass and Lieutenant Hawley. The wounded include Colonel Wilkinson been cut tad hav GENERAL BULLER ALSO SUSTAINS SOME LOSSES troops. Conveyances have left Peking to meet the troops coming by the first train. “The arrival of the | bas rendered the city Impress Dowager ymewhat more re suspicion { gujet than i had been recently. The Pro- | [ | dian Infantry. | all th 'y y‘,l,é More | testants have erected a barricade before | 6 !and Lieutenant Blanchard of the Cana- ot dean of the |tne building in‘which they have taken | | ® w bu: id China s;‘r refuge 1 they have small guard. The | General Forestier-Walker’'s dispatch in LONDON, June 11.—The following re- f = re concentrated north of the port from General Buller has been issued Ctholics | full is as follows: ish Minister. “CAPE TOWN, Sunda: by the War Offi E 1 under t protection of a| nch guard of twenty-five men, who | will hold out to the end. I am convinced | that Peking, especially the Tartar City, | 15 safe. At Tientsin the Viceroy finally con- , June 10.—The | been received ¢ ? | from Charles Knox: - Jor S . = 3 | K& River at i nction with the Gans- S0+ 4090400000090 00000060000004000+0 ‘KROONSTAD—The following dasual- | viel last might. We anticipated at that LONDON, June 11.—A special dispatch from Tientsin says it . UeS reported from Roodeval June 7, re- | gele o force of the e about 3000 2 celved from Stoneham, commandir *D e ePe D e e | AL Fae ; 3 N rong, who had, I think, i ed to oc~ sented to furnish nsport for a rellef | is reported that the Dowager Empress has fled to the Russian lsga- o Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, cupy it, and he retired as soon as our - force of 400 under an American command- noster River, June 8, received here by flag | heavy guns opened, which were very 1on | smartly brought into action by Major May Sher- | of the Royal Artillery and Captain Jones jeutenant Baird | o¢ the royal navy. he South African er. The partial re ation of the railway ed to be effected by re massacres of Chris g3 tion at Peking. r | of truce June 10: The Fourth Batt s d o205+ 2542025085 e%5e@ Of the Derbyshire Regiment (the ¥ |« of ";‘;‘.'“’r‘: | @200 %o e R R I % wood Foresters). Killed— believe 2 \uses ks on the fc | the great powers, in order that a demon- | the coup d'et 88 . wl e Douglass and Lieutenant Hawley and fif- | [ gy mggpeld Shcond O . i St permit hanghal, ander. fo-dey’s dats, repobis| ateation may e giads or a batile farehi| SDE:at Lesition OF tas e T e Tk snt e, Wounaed CoL.| 1 g, ol et R g muct there has been street fighting _in | under the flags of all Eurcpe. Japan and | party, including three viceroys, a mes- | onel Wilkinson, Captain Bailey, Lieuten- | ering our left f r ight the Chinese Government would ’ Sunday afternoon. The | the United States have been informed and | sage to the people of the West. It is ‘n | ants Hall, Lawder and Blanchard and | ahout six killed and s . ation of its views on the lanc £ for- sl £ "“'(ng;qflf"h l"}';‘n"‘fl* of | agree to the arrangement, | follow. fifty-nine of the rank and file; the Shrop- e n tr s an with the fon, but not a word as | ¢anned provisions at Shanghai and ery N Majesty is convinced, through | shire Ligh fantry, one; Cape Pioneer | - » ¢ 74 25 | ihing points to a break of hostilitie TRAINS COMMANDEERED trustworthy sources, that the ln,\’-z,n 1:::nrc¥m“}(¢n:zr;m‘»m} seven; emmanitica WRUORWE RODX-GUAND. Secr. nad Sent 90 Aivect auswar. ts - AL B s will probably be | support of many scores of millions of the | Park, Royal Marines and Imperfal Tele-| LONDON, June 12.—The Lourenzo Mare the Times says: ent Kruger has ghers. Stores are = rdered to return quickly to treaty ports. | Chinese will be aceorded s Is e. sary in view of the subsequent |, oy * J 2o | nese will be accorded to proposals | graphs, one ea postoffice corps, one. ques corri nforcements in the shape of The Shangh: .r-‘ndevn‘ of {hf l’{ml{ FOR FOREIGN TROOPS i for putting an end to the state of anarchy | « ‘Stoneham reports that many were se- | “At Machs Gurtng ot ph, in ch, dated yesterday | — | brought unded and the remainder of the | a body-gt [ | preas Hsi Tsi. Telegr rom Manfls the action of the Em- | verely we course . . - at 1:40 p. m., P o The Gove! t of Chi 2 = 5 of prison- | bei . ¢ as s E ly. It will take the |3%1:40F TIENTSIN, June 11.—The captain of the | Th rnment of na | Fourth Derbyshire and de f prison- | being moved as pos from Solace £o of Th HaYa | *Repor m the Han-Fu district | oot s here commundecred | elng virtually non-existent the Emperor | ers, except six of the rank and file are | that point to Lydenburg. The Portuguese » o say that the French Minister has tele-| & o8 CEARIER 0 Ay and a fourtn | PTOPOSes that the foreign powers whose | in his camp. All the wounded are in his | authorities sent a further body of troops sis is imminent oreigners to e nd that te to-any for the {ransport of 213 Russlans | Goobs dom and two guns and 62 French marines, with stores and one gun for the British. | The international forces are near Lang- ate the capital shall remove | camp, lately occupied by the Fourth |to the border to-day e person from the palace in| Derbyshire. Inquiries are being made as | — - which his Majesty is confined a prisoner, | v the names. " | BOERS SURRENDER TO HUNTER, ams indicate shall declare Empress Hsl Tsi and her| 71t s inferred that the Boers captured s ion has not in the deast improved. On o 3 T sters to be us s 8 s Y = 2 Thie ‘ah e 10 held | he contrars the divorders have spread | fonk. forty miles from Peking, but 1t faf BrehRIRRrs 2 L Spers 200 Shat | over S0 men and as late as Tane 1 bl | from the neighborhood of Peking o the | oubtful If they reach the capital before, wy “chang or Shanghai, whichever the | horth of Kroonstad from reinforcements. | capital itself; which is growing turbulent “',]'_']"}’_'5”“ i foreign powers deem to be the mosl| A second dispatch from General Fores- in i-foreign demonstrations. In addi- . al of the | tfor-Walker General Methuen u od last week to Yorktown and the C: 1 that the Oregon ines she has sent Department approves is shown by the disin- - | Yunnan.” All the telegrams indicate that the sit- NTERSDORP, June 11.—Two hun- d and fifty Boers have surrendered to iinder in this ve up th to hamper h by . € June 11.—An American offl- | sypaplo. situation for the GERMAN ing who ttempting to set fire to a RECEIVE 1 to co-operate in quelling the | ticn to the burning of the Feking Club, | ¢°T, Who t arrived from the front | Chinese empire under the ondition: ¢ bancel " 452 the secretary of the Belglan Legation hys | {0F provisions. 1eports that the fofoes are | 1 s proposed by his M and his = = o = rxe = NEWS OF OUTRAGES been roughly handled in the streets. Hos- | Tepalring Jrack boivean YOfa 800 (o Sisers. Lt foreign powers shouid | z : ; e ST FIRMNESS OF AMERICANS tile crowds continue to demonstrate | Angfong. He caught a Boxer last even- | goijave 4 joint protectorate and under- | empire they have before them the huge a powerful supporter of the ! ; | | task of facing millions who, although against the legations. Two thousand in- take the task of governing the country ey weien | PREVENTED FURTHER DELAY | ternational troops are approaching _the E”d'«: =md‘ h;x ik sv;’;r;w(lmzr&n:f*- €Vi- | through his Majesty - |lacking In training and who make but n the reor- Ol hes. 5 ol il Looe I | city and the advance guard is due to ar- 'r'n(l;l,\ uml bagiskae ¥ troops | “upnd” message suggests that the pro- | contemptible s possess boundless consid- king afternoon, saying the ey | rive to-day - The fifth tratn lett at 5 to-day | tectorate should' abolish certain boards in | powers of passivg tance and would fleanice ur An sion House Tungchow. A ¢ i ol United s, according to dis-| The fifth trafn left at 5 p. m. to-day | peying; appoint new Ministers; abolish | be able to wear out the patience of yny | It means that the t . Ehe Momsts OE to | from Copenhagen, has given | With provisions. Great sax¥iety Jo felt | the existing so-called ‘armies: establish | European rulers seeking to govern them. | has finally thrown of 1 ¢ and .. tain Me- adhesion”_to the scheme for a | ”st nglng.b e gendarmerie under foreign officers; taks | Without regard to thelr prejudices.’ ™ o7 resolved nv.:~ .s«p everyth of In charge of the| puropean demonstration. The Russian | | control of the customs, posts and tele-| “The conquest and division of China | foreign policy. Prince Tuan is a s x and the British | yrinister at Peking, who also acts as the | How THE EMPEROR | raphs and work them through Chines| Would be possible with 100,000 troops, but | of the Empress. who is kuown to I o P the Int ;. envoy of Denmark, is credited with ha | officials; establish a uniform currency: ; to retain In‘x;‘ gu\'er‘nmen[ ‘[’nuldfnm ku patrons » Boxers P 1 guards | sent a dispatch to the Danish Forei | st taxation and insure the i 1,000,000 soldiers and centurfes of work. . o ¢ e of Peking e = ing sent a dispa ign | readjust taxa e freedom 8 e - has be the ¥ ting of the Consuls | Office to the effect that a demonstration | WOULD OUTWIT EMPRESS ]or religion. Weng Tung Ho, who predip(b;The task r\oum end with the mnslt e ral“_ in ;"' ! attacked by | AN commanders of troops last evening, s been planned, under the leadership of a peaceful acceptance of such a regime, | happy resuits for both conquered and con# | and headstre when the nece of the immediate dis- ngland and Ru a, in which all the| LONDON, June 12.—The Shanghai cor- | goes on to say: queror. His Majesty and his advisers beg | puted. She reign Office in- nfirming the patch of troops was considered, the sentatives of two repre- powers and several of the smaller | respondent of the Daily Express, tele- | ‘ ‘China is ripe for the change of tide | America and Japan to pause before re-| which has ques- | wili take part. The latter are not called | graphing yesterday, says: which the reactionaries vainly seek to |sorting to dismemberment, which can be ard, combin ticned the neces: di upon to send troops, as there are enough “Weng Tung Ho, Emperor Kwang stem. If it should be, on the other hand, | deferred at least until the Emperor's ef- ! forces paraged the idea that the British force | on the spot, but they are to be asked to | Hsu's tutor and confidant, who was dis- [that the forcign powers seriously contem- | forts to govern his people and restore the | ce .of her entour should preponderate. The Anglo-Ameri- | gelegate the right to holst their flags with [ missed by the Dowager Empress after | plate the dismemberment of the Chinese | happiness of this great division of the parasites, as weil cans, however, insisted and carried their | | human race have proved abortive. If the | wijifulness has ed her to offer point. The Americans generally depiore @4Q+G4+ 0 404D 4 O+040 4040+ 0404 040404 040424 0424 040+ 04040+ 040+ OHCH0+ C+0+ O +0+0+@ | people are assured that the powers are | direct challenge to the foreign powers. <+ the smallness of the United States forces 6 gulding and protecting his Majesty and do | The challenge is one which they cannot Foreign Office park ascribed to ¥, the United States Sec- China wiil b chase, and Western DEFIANCE OF THE | Hom the Countr DOWAGER EMPRESS LONDON, June 12.—The Peking corre- spondent of the Times, telegraphing yes- terday, says: 4040404040 vorth th ————— h is W e ror s emimey of |MURDER OF A CHINESE e e GENERAL NEAR TING FU r the effect that the Ilow the country plece- | i re here. At th me time they are ready to not intend to swallo Y | decline to ey mu and United not enter Into an al- | gefer to whatever may be considered best meal they and thelr soldiers will return | they m er. a eed they e w powers regarding China, | (¢'Se, 0 T 5 unquestionably to the allegiance from |are doin: press is to have her . ded: *“There no question of an 3 ISR e : which the Empress diverted them.” | way, the pesition of no foreign power in | i SHOWN IN STARTLING STYLE The case Involves the ARSI e n, but of a ! Plague in Queensland. | ADELAIDE: South Australia, June 11.— | | | | VICTORIA, B. C., June 11.—The steamer | Queen Adelaide, fross the Orient, brings a story that six weeks ago Japan and | | "4t was further added at the Foreign O there are now 6# foreign sol diers at Tientsin. Of | A total of twenty-tr aths from the bubonic plague s officially yrted from Rockhampton, Queensland. Two fresh ed here, one of which except the Russians, are acting under the orders of the British admiral. It is reported that the head of a foreigner has been scsn exposed on a pole northwest of Tientsin. The Chinese are fleeing he 1500 now on the ' Russia were close to war over the landing German. They will | of a Japanese t Q I ONDON, June 11.—A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated to-day, nyl:. “All the naval forces, g cases are T has proved 40 4+ 040+ 4040 4 04040 » cr, whose removal was | : TR T M S & Tl U s setion st outbrska i he Sangte darst, Al duesn ot naive in che §) S et T e i i B e hvices from Saanghal A ot the v 1 | It display ntehge bayRiisy, cowed fomigpisiont o Ctinees iyl Elery polal Sl U et Soelgi- U/ | and iy Mendtos) gy pinservative; | | LONDON, June 11 Thets wire sevst The German Governor of Tsingtow has Fu. He was cut down from behind. +010+ 04040+ 040404040+ 040+ C+040+0+G+0+ 0+ 0+ O+0+ 04040+ 040+ 04040+ O+O+ O +O+0+@ |elgn aftairs, has been superseded by | maneuvers.