The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1900, Page 1

Tall, VOLUME L\&\VIII—NO 26. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REPORTED CAPTURE OF SEYMOUR AND DEPARTURE OF MINISTERS FROM PEKING Fierce Fighting Continues at Tien- tsin, and the Russians Alone Are Said to Have Lost 180 Killed and 800 WWounded -- 8O00 Allied Troops Land at Taku. For Twelve Days No Direct News Has Been Received From the Chinese Capital and the Worst Is Feared--Some 380,000 Mongol Troops With 220 Creusot Guns-Massed to Resist Relief Columns. SR HEFU, Tuesday, June 26.—Rear Admiral Kempif reports by a Japanese torpedo boat that the combined forces entered Tientsin on Saturday, June 23, sustaining small loss. They started on Sunday to relieve the force which left Tientsin on June 10 and which is believed to be surrounded near Peking. According to these Japanese reports Admiral Seymour has been cap- tured, and the Ministers have left Peking guarded by Chinese soldiers. Their whereabouts is unknown. TSING TAU, June 24, 8 p. m.—Eight thousand allied troops have landed at Taku, including 1200 Germans. A French ofiicer who has succeeded in get- ting through from Tientsin to Taku says that the Russians alone have lost 150 killed and 800 wounded. The German gunboat litis, up the Peiho or Tientsin River, reports that masses of Chinese are nearing Tong Ku and that an immediate attack is ex- pected. T \ )ON, I'mc 26, 3:35 a. m.—The British tcruiser Terrible has arrived at Chefu from > latest news, which is as follows: Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh Fusi- C ul a junction with the American, German and Russian forces which had 1ese about nine miles from Tientsin. It was proposed to deliver an assault nese forces at Tientsin Sunday night. t ar what forces It would seem that one relieving force, cut off, had At any rate it is apparently certain that the allies arrived in sufficient ttack the besieging Chinese. opinions here,” says a dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily Express, e to the belief that the worst has happened to the legations at Peking and Even if the legations were safe on juie 19 there is no guarantee that they ation, in fact, grows more and more gloomy. The entire absence of reli- ital seems to justify the worst construction which can be put upon it. from Nanking, where the unrest is said to be growing hourly. Viceroy hed the British authorities that he has ordered the five Chinese cruisers united. Ma’s army,” says a correspondent at Shan Hai Kwan, “consisting of 4000 men, or Peking, and General Sung Ching’s troops, numbering 2500, left for the same | estimate of the number and armament of the Chinese troops around Peking it 360,000, and it is calculated that these troops possess 220 7-centimeter Creusot and 150 Maxims a Their supply of ammunition is practically inexhaustible. It has German firm at Carlowitz. Fully three-fourths of the Chinese forces 10lly .undisciplined and quite unfamiliar with modern weapons.” nother Shanghai dispatch says: “Li Ping Heng, former Governor of Shantung, who is i-foreign, has gone to the Kiang Yin forts on the Yang-tse. He has declared isting the landing of British forces in that region.” According to a Hongkong dispatch dated yesterday strong reinforcements of Indian police ith three Maxims have been sent to Kowloon, on the mainland. A Chefu message of Mon- 's date says: his ur cannons have been added to the west fort here. where there are now 1000 soldiers 3 ped, a further force having arrived from Ning Hai Chouy. here, and an attack is generally anticipated. 1d preparing to leave the port. All business is at a standstill. Extensive preparations by the allies are going forward. The first regiment of British In- ’s 10,000 men embarked at Calcutta yesterday, and 833 more marines received orders to go out from S 1 ports. There is an uneasy Chinese merchants are closing their The British War Office, in anticipation of a prolonged campaign, is contracting for winter clothing and fur caps. The Amur Army Corps, ordered out by Russia, numbers 32,100 men, with 84 guns. Japan proposes to land 15,000 men on Chinese territory within a fortnight. Among the minor military preparations the Portuguese Governor of Macao, island of Macao, at the southwest entrance of Canton River, is sending arms to the Portuguese in Canton. 1e Germans in Hongkong have cabled Emperor William to ask if they may serve in the local -ces in defense of Hongkong. ° B R o S S S e S 'Y 3 - + s FoREIGN ConcESSION - TIEN TSI - ScaLs 2cc0o FeeT... TIENTSIN, WHERE THE FOREIGN POPULATION IS BESIEGED BY THE CHINBSi. plan of the foreign concessions in Tientsin is taken from a recent directory of the Far East. the western of the German concession, which extends almost three-quarters of a mile farther to the an. The Chinese city, containing, it is said, over 1,000,000 of people, Mes to the south and east of 4 on the west of the grand canal. The raliroad station lies on the north side of the river, where spulation. It is said that all the foreign residents are gathered within the compound of the Brit- & surrounded by a high wall of heavy masonry, offers better facilities for defense than any other are there fighting against an innumerable horde of Chinese soldiers and Boxers untll a relief column shall reach them from Taku. Tientsin is aiready infamous to Europeans from the frightful massacre of the French Sisters of Mercy and other forcigners on June 21, 1570, when the most appalling brutality was exhibited by the Chinese. The Only @ =m right, 18 show 1 part, on the y % o et e an i an o os wwm%wwmw-;i i PR S DR P P D SN S S S . ALL HEADQUAR' LINGTON HOTEL HING- TON, June 2.—Chir appeal for an armistice untfl Li Hung C can reach Peking has been d by the powers. Secretary Hay has notified the Chinese Minister, Wu | Fang, and it is understood sim | cation has been given by the European powers to the representatives of China ac- credited to them that there can be no de- lay in the dispatch of troops to Peking Orders to all foreign commande ex- plicit. Peking must be occupled as soon as possible and communication between the capital and Taku maintained. There is a disposition here to regard the of the Viceroys for a cessatlon of o] tions by the allied forces as a move on the part of the Chin selves as well as their country. capital and have:since held it. Chang and the Viceroys who have pealed to the United States, Japan Europe are Chinese, surprising, according to diplomats here they should be seeking to turn the and and it would not be if Gov- ernment of China over to the Chinese. The United States, however, does no tend to awalt the pleasure of subord officials, nofwithstanding their assertion that if foreign troops continue their opera- tions they will not be responsible for the consequences. The Empress Dowager and Emperor are recognized as the ruling pow- ers of China, and it is to the interest of this, as well as other civilized govern- ments, that there should be some central authority with which the powers can treat. Hopes in Li Hung Chang. Great hopes are placed in the proposed only because of his influence with the Em- press Dowager, but because he can prac- tically control the imperial troops, which are believed to be engaged in the opera- tions against Tientsin. Most of these troops come from the province where Li Hung Chang’s home fs situated, and it is recailed that during the Chino-Japanese war his influence prevented their depart- ure for the front. With the imperial troops under his orders he will be strong enough to put pressure upon the central Government which it is expected will re- sult in the restoration of peace. While declining to refrain from dispatch- ing troops into Northern China, the pow- ers will respect the wish of the Viceroys of the southern provinces, especially those of the Yang-tse-Klang region, that gun- boats be not sent up the river or troops ordered into that section. The Washing- ton Cabinet first granted this request, and Japan and the European powers have con- curred in the assent. The one condition is that order must be preserved in the region or the powers will feel it advisable to send troops there. No News From Peking. The continued failure to hear from Po- King is absolutely unexplainable to the authorities. Embassador Cambon, repre- senting France; Herr von Holleben, repre- enting Germany; Lord Pauncefofe, rep- resenting Great Britain, and Wu Ting Fang called upon Secretary Hay to-day to ascertain if this Government has jearned anything respectirg the situation at Tientsin or Peking. The only informa- tion Secretary Hay was to glve was that mnvmd in the dispatch from Consu| ‘General Goodnow at Shanghal. Many re- have come from Shanghai stating mflu foreign 1!:&&!0— are safe. Con- visit of Li Hung Chang to Peking, not | e officials to secure de- | lay, in the hope that it wiil benefit them- | . POWERS SHORTLY AFTER THE COUP T UTBREAK OF THE PRE: NT TROUBLE AND WEARING A NAVAL CAP, IS 4 CISCO. TO HIS RIGHT, SITTING DOWN ‘IN THE FRO! ¢ FICER OF THE FOREIGN CONTING (D000 et e ebeisdeiedoisied CHING'S APPEAL FOR @N ARMISTICE DENIED BY POWERS There Canp Be No Delay in the Dispatch™of For-| eign Troops to Peking, and Communication With Taku Must Be Maintained. Special Dispatch to The Call. WEL- | sul General Gocdnow proved the unrelia- bility of these 1eports by a word had been received in from Peking since June 14. authorities do not know. tating that not Shangha forelgn Ministers in Pekir 1 their passports, and doubt if take such action without first con- »ulllr&: their Govern: The authori- ties here are sparing no g mour’s column at Peking, Kempff w trustworthy informati Inesday first troops will safl from Manila will be rapidly as p ku until a sufficient for General MacArthur send ¢ d-fire gu has been di- fom Gibraltar it is expected that the d oth- ammur Taku. The collier Scind rected to proceed at once to Marjla “There is no foundation that the ‘North Atlantic ing prepared for war.” Long this afternoon are needed in China, that the internation such’ that there will be the powers." ALL ENERGIES MUST BE DIRECTED TO RELIEF CHEFU, June 25, via Shanghai.—United States Consul John Fowler has received from Rear Admiral Kempff the following: ‘“Only one communication from Peking has reached me since were interrupted onJune 10. It was dated June 12. No direct or Indirect news from the Ministers since. “About 450 foreign troops, Including 56 American marines, went to Peking to guard the legations. A force of 100 Amer- icans, with a total force of 2500 men of all nationalities represented here, went on June 10 to open the road and to relieve Peking. This movement was by permis- sion of the Chinese Government. “The latest news from the expedition was dated June 12, when the_expedition was at Lang Fang. The rdilroad has been destroyed behind it since. “Any news that can be obtained or ef- fort made for the rellef of the legations and the lives and property of foreigners should be done at any hazard. All ener- gies and forces here must first be directed to the relief of Tientsin, particularly, as it is the key to Peking.” DOWAGER’S EMISSARY IS SLAIN AT CANTON VANCOUVER, B. C., June 2.—The steamship Tartar, from the Orient, brings the following mail advices: “Liu Hsiushun, the Empress Dowager's secret emissary to Japan, was shot in the abdomen as he stepped ashore at Canton. At the Instant the shot was fired the | friends of the assassin threw Mexican dol- lars among the crowd of 300 present. There was a scramble for the money and | the assassin escaped with his mends Liu dfed of his wounds, “Liu was formerly a favorite of Li Hung Chang and was In his traln of re- tainers. Knowing he was hated he had in the \I.fl\ 2 vrl ne and 1 am o tion is not sh between twenty Chinese soldlers accompany him | wherever he went, who cleared the crowd away from his chair by force. Ten at- tempts have lately been made on his life and his political haters have finally finished him. When shot Liu, It is sala, was en route to Japan on a secret missior connection with the Boxer uprising.” O4-0-0+04-0-+0 GROUP WERE SENT TO PEK communications | 158. WITH ONE OR TWO E 3 = BACK ROW, S MAR co BRITISH ROYAL {LDE OF B O o OFFICERS OF THE LEGATION GUARDS AT PEKING. THE OFFICERS COMPOSING THE ABOVE ‘G WITH DETACHMENTS OF MEN FROM THF WARSHIPS OF CEPTIONS TH FROM THE MARINE e e *be Beo b X3 teePe® i <4 R A R CORPS, THE RANKING OF D S = 'CUNNING DECREES ‘ Office, ALL HEADQUARTERS, HOTEL, WASHING I decrees have an impor 1ting the resy of the.jmpe usly of and ¥ ed to any aggression by and to de Governor: Kiang provi by force of im War if Necsssary. 1 h had their am- tified in respect to the ce Bay to them it is apprehen ¢ try to seek an oj I >r- | “Moreover the arbitrary and aggressive | actions of the French at Kuang Chau where they are Stirring up disturbances {in order to obtain further pretexts for demanding concessions from the imperial Government, may lead to actual hostilities between China and France. “It behooves us, therefore, to exercise the utmost vigilance and watchfulness to guard against sudden aggression and to be always prepared to resist an enemy. Your Excellency is, therefore, urged to | enjoin all this upon the generais and com- | manders of troops garrisoning important | points within your jurisdiction; and mot only this, but to be prepared also to give nors whose territories adjoin your own. as been an evil practice among ncial authorities to consid | ln)( the v of any of them lies only in | gu fely the region lying within his ow erl“du tion, ignoring a s that ce in the next adjoining fm'kv! ing that his neighbors, being overcome, his turn for overthrow becomes a near possibility. This lack of union is lamentable, but it must not be continued from this date. “This Yamen has received special com- mands from her impertal Majesty the Empress Dowager and his imperial Maj- esty the Emperor to grant you full lib- | erty and powers to resist by foree of arms all aggressions upon your several juris- dictions, proclaiming a state of war, if necessary, without first asking for ‘n- structions from Peking, for loss of time may be fatal to your security and enable the enemy to make good his footing against.your forces. Finally, your Excel- lency will be held responsible for any rep- etition of indecision or too great trust- fulness in declarations of an encroaching enemy, sueh as happened, for instance, to General Chang Kao Yuan in Shan- tung.” General Chang was in command of the AT!ln‘tflD forts when the German fleet may b province, seized Klaochau Bay, and was beheaded | for his action In surrendering them to the | invaders. Another decree issued by the Empress | Dowager was addressed to Viceroys. Gov- | ernors.s Tartar generals and provincial | commanders in chief. Its purpose was to inflame the patriotism of the Chinése with a view to uniting the country against for- eign aggression, “Qur empire,” it states, “is now labor- WEL- | ' THAT PRECEDED THE . PRESENT CONFLICT China’s Dowager Empress, Through the Foreign Urged Viceroys and Governpors to Resist Foreign Aggression by Force of Arms. Speeial Dispatch to The Call ing under great difficulties, which are be- coming da serious. Varlous looks of tigerlik ink that China, ey nor . troops, would e to g0 to war with them understand, however, that united t his duty to this end be that war has been under guch circum- stble chance of the of peace. “It behooves, therefore, that our Vice- roys, Governors and commanders in chief throughout the empire unite their forces and act together without distinction or particularizing of jurisdiction, so as to present a combined front to the enemy, exhorting and. encouraging their officers and soldiers in person to fight for the preservation of their homes and native | soll from the encroaching footsteps of the | foreign aggressor. aid to your brother Viceroys and Gover-'| “Never should the word ‘peace’ fall from the mouths of our high officials, nor should they even allow it to for a moment within their breasts. courage as ours with her v immense natural re: dreds of millions of t each and all of you would pre alty and love of country, what there to fear from any invader? Let no one think of making peace, but let each strive to preserve from destruction ana spoliation his ancestral home and graves from the ruthless hand of the invader.” With such if only ve his loy- indeed, is | SALISBURY EXPECTS SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT LONDON, June 25.—) still hopeful that the Chir solved without war agalnst t as a whole. In spite of th ports he inclines to the Government of China in some form will shortly be able to reasse: He does not mean that he belittles the { professions of the varidus Viceroys, who have given notice of their wi o co-operate with the united forces. With- cut committing himfelf to a definite view of the future, he appears averse to any scheme of territorial indemnity which, when order s restored, might be suggest- ed by the powers who have sufferc® Jure ing the upricivg. The 1 bassador. Joseph H. 4 Salishury on Saturday was due to instruc- tions 1eceived from Secretary Hay, which the Embassador was notified of t friendly professions of the various Vice- (Continued on Second Page.)