The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1900, Page 2

President McKinley and the Cabi- net Decide That the Resources Now at Their Command Will Be Ample --- Reinforcements Will Be Hurried to China From Cuba and the Philippines. CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASH- INGTON, July 17.—One thousand additional marines will swell the American b of th2 other Gover in establishing and maintaining order in Chin Five thousand . * - e @@ R will go from the Philippines as scon as arr: ments fo portation can be made, and additional troops will be sent should developments in China show a necessity for their presence. This was the immediate result to-day of the meeting of the Cabinet. There will be about 2500 American marines China 211 told, and the total An force will be about 19,000, with the Philippines to draw 5000 more. ' | EURCPEAN JOURNALS INDULGE IN WILD TALK redited. u's Information C - The buile- patch from Con orming him that the V for Hc night appointing e randini an edict 1z presence ther at “C: g that may give occasion ts | disturbance of the peace. French gun- WILL BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE INTERNATIONAL FORCES B e SR S Y ] b - ® e e i et e st e e - e o R S e 2 L g ® * & . GEN.FUKISHIMA - JAPAN RANKING OFFICER NOW ONTHE beDebe DG be-0beDS - » 4 s o \.STOESSEL, MAS Gé:',..fi‘fnp, RUSSIAN CONTINGENT COUNT NODZU, FIELD MARSH AL OF THE JAPANESE ARMY, NOW ON HIS WAY NT. WILL RANK ALL OFFICERS NOW IN CHINA. THE CERS WHOSE PORTRAITS ARE HERE COMMAND PORTIONS OF THE ALLIED ARMY. GIVEN s et e eieieieit et et eb e ede@ e e ei eiw Once there, they can be| } reach Peking. ram st regarded | ed upon, according to the best in is accepted in good faith ver penalty | administration, striking and 3 ! has set n s of the success of | o tion some machinery by which it is con- 4 fidently predicted absolutely authentic | success has been d bought. appeas news zs to th te of our Mi 1o clear the air somewhat. This victory | ¢ ter and the other foreigners at Peking will be ver the Chinese, it is hup(;d‘;;'lll enable | " i " . “han: a the allies to resume pfeparattons for an ertained Thr\nz}z what (h.u:ntl the afi- advance, especially as to-day it is official- istration expects to receive this all- |}y announced that the Japanese force of mportant news is not known, but that a 9 will all be disembarked by July 19 at the latest. The suggestions of scatter- ing the forces throughout China in{v r- suit of the Boxers emanate wholly from irresponsible quarters. In official circles there i= a full realization of the neces- sity of having the coast towns occupied and secure before proceeding to Peking. The only course open to the powers is to remain in the capital unul fanaticism mears itself out and the elemeg:!mot an _ |orderly native government n to Root furnished to the Cabi- | emerge. of the troops available | According to a Shanfi'}‘:)nl dispatch pub- | lished here to-day. 100000 Chinese troops, armed with Mauser rifles and modern ar- tillery, are encamped at three points within forty miles of Shanghal, ready to besiege the town in the event of an at- | tack by the Europeans upon the Woo Sung forts. According to 2 telegram from Chefu re- ceived here to-day, 170 of the allied troops were killed in the assault upon the native city of Tientsin. tement of the situation in Peé- ilv, hourly expected can be h the utmost positiveness. e advices received from Peking prob- will be a determining factor in blaz- ug the fut course of this Government. If Minister Conger has been murdered an ion of Congress seems inevit- definite st the Philippines. 1we ) 006 d 12,000 troops in all couid ed for service in China. These re- ts are to be rushed thzough at the earlicst possible moment. Most if not all of them, It is believed, can be landed | s the end of August or carly in Septem- Ler. One Cabinet officer zaid that beyond RiG GEN.SIRA. sAsm.: COMMANDING BRITISH CONTINGENT i : i z % i e an e oL B S T ot e o LI HUNG CHANG PL sailed to-dav | a Qe e se e *oe® - ACE | boats have arrived at Canto i | The appointment is regarded here as particu gnificant, as the provinece f Chi Li is the s of practically all of | he present trouble. Pao Ting is the cap- | | ital of the province, but within its bor- rs are 1o Peking. the capital of the and Tientsin, where the first great | | ttle has just occurred. Li Hung Chang is knowr to desire service so far | intains he has 1 influ- | section of China than in h present valty, the holders of which are at Canton. Tt is deemed probable, however, that he has been persuaded to take ppointment in view of the fact he is the most influential Chinaman mong foreign nations. LONDON, July 17.—William Pritchard- Morgan, member of Parliament for | Merthyr Tydvil, to-day received b; rahle‘ positive assurances from a source upon which he relies that the British legation | v e s . EY . > 6 e - )¢ THE WALLED CITY, TIENTSIN, CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES. » & ure was made from a drawing in Allyom's *“Picturesque China,” fch was made about the time the first ¢ 5 i concessions were laid off ( h and British). The city was some distance back from the river and inclosed 4| y a wall three miles in circuit and forty-five feet high, with about the same thickness at the base. This is what has ¢ & Dbeen breached, stormed and captured by the allied forces, according to the recent reports. . @ 24 In the foreg of the picture the banks of the Peiho River are seen in their natural state. Since the drawing 4 ., was made » foreign concessions have been laid out and built up along the river, a tunnel constructed and _ + the whole the foreground changed. With the advent of the forelgners and the opening of the treaty | ¢ port the po has more than trebled itself, and now the walled city contains but a portion of the miilion * $ more ing in Tientsin. The added native town covers an area five times as great as that included in the old % ¢ walls, and the whole aggregation on both sides of the river and of the Grand canal, which has its northern terminus ¢ & here, is surrounded by a mud wall thirty feet high, which until lately was kept in quite good repair. The railroad sta- & | o tion and arsenal are on the north side of the river, from which the picture was made. P R0 0P o0 06700 eietse-000-0506606ieb0d *-D+D DGO 000000 eie® D TO COMMAND AT PEKING ceroy of Chi Li Province and His Pres= Will Have a Salutary Effect in Quelling the Boxers. at Peking was still standing on July 9, and also that Li Hung Chang left Canton this morning to take supreme command at Peking. HONGKONG, July 17.—All the foreign Consuls in Canton had an interview with Li Hung Chang on July 15. but failed to dissuade him from going north. Li Hung Chang Is said to have accepted full re- sponsib for any disturbance in Can- ton during his ab nce. He takes the viceregal seal along with him, thus pre- venting the issue of proclamations while he is away. Li Hung Chang is expected to reach Hongkong to-day and will see | the Governors to-morrow. Soon afterward | he will proceed northward. The Black Flag chief, Lui Yee, is mov- | ing his forces preparatory to marching | overland to Peking. The Chinese are glad af this, as they think Canton will be safer | without Lui Yee while Li Hung Chang s | away. | 'CHINA’S WILL TRY Herald Company. Special Cable to the New York Herald. Republication of this dispatch is prohibited. All GREAT STATESMAN | TO SAVE LIVES Copyright, 1900, by New York | rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain. ONDON, July 15.—The Daily Tele- graph publishes this dispatch from its special correspondent: CANTON, Monday, via Hons- ‘\kung, July 17.—In reply to the British, | French, American and Portuguese Con- | | suls, who officially visited him in a bod this morning, Viceroy Li Hung Chang in- | sisted that his departure for the north, | which is fixed for Tuesday, has a two-fold | object—namely to save the lives of forelgn | Ministers in Peking and to arrange the best terms for peace possible with the allied powers. He assured the Consuls that he had taken all precautions against any uprising. He added that he had re- | ceived important cable messages from | Lord Salisbury and the French Foreign | Minister, M. Delcasse, identical in tene and demanding full protectiofl from in- jury and insult of foreign Ministers im | Peking and threatening to take life for Mife of high officials responsible if the Ministers were murdered. Li Hung Chang informed the Consuls | that he was the only Viceroy 8r high dig- nitary in all China who dared to transmit such messages to the Empress and that | he had sent them verbatim. She received | them and he had no doubt whatever that they have exerted powerful influence in saving the Mimisters' lives. As Doyen (meaning senior Viceroy) of Chinese Viceroys, he says, he has induced by per- suasion and advice all the Viceroys ex- cept two to join in a lengthy memorial to the throna to secure the safety of all for- eigners in Peking, suppress the Boxe end the present conflict and make full anc thorough reparation for the damage done arid lives lost. To the American Consul, who had in- quired about accurate intelligence con- cerning the actual safety at this date of the foreign Ministers, the Viceroy an- swered that he had had no news from Peking within the last week. His pre- vious adviees had assured him then of | their safety. If they were alive he was | almost certain that matters could be sat- isfactorily arranged with the alliad pow- ers. s “If they are dead—here he shrugged his shoulders significantly and added with lowered voice—'it is hard to tell what' may happen. 1 am going to Peking prac- tically unarmed, except for my body- guard of two hundred men.’ he added. “That ought to be evidence to the whole world that I do not favor any fighting and of my pacific intentions.” He was evidently exceedingly anxious about the Ministers, for, returning to the subject, he said. “My heart is sore about them. I know them all personally and am on the best of terms with them."” News of Li Hung Chang's coming de- | parture has caused a fresh exodus of wealthy natives and foreigners and has intensified the feeling of uneasiness. CAPTAIN OF THE MONOCACY IN CHARGE AT TONGKU VICTORIA, B. C., July 17.—The steamer Empress of India to-night brings news of the arrival of the Japanese steamer Korko Maru at Chefu, carrying seventy- three missionaries and thelr families who were on duty at the British churches. “They had been chased about by mobs and in their flight they had to pass two nights in small boats. Captain Wise of the American cruiser Monocacy has been appointed by the al- lied forces as superintendent of Tonglku. He is to undertake the duty of supervis- ing the operation of the railway trains for the purpose of sending provisions and am- munition to the front. Mrs. James, a lady missionary who has returned from Tientsin and Taku and who was present at the bombardment, says that ‘while the Tientsin station was being fired on on the 14th of June she and many other women with chiidren were awak- ened at 4 a. m. and after spending the early morning in the compound of the town hall, were sent to Tongku on flat cars. She was on the ship during the bom- bardment with a number of other women and children. The residents of Taku who were on the Monocacy fay the roar of cannon was deafening. The marines went ashore the day after the capture of the fort and_the ruins were covered with blo Headless and armless bodies were stre overywhere and the bluejackers gathered them and cremated themn in eaps. ENGINEER CORPS TO GO. FISHKILL LANDING, N. Y., July 17.— Companies C and D of the engineer corps arrived at West Point to-day. They are under orders to leave for China next Mcndng. together with all engineers at West Point. . — COMMANDER DRAKE ‘ ORDERED TO CHINA| Special Dispatch to The Call. VALLEJO, July 17.—Commander Frank- lin J. Drake, long of Mare Island, has been ordered to China on August 1. Com- | mander Drake has been the ordnance of- ficer at Mare Island for some time, and it was his foresight that enabled this Gov- ernment to furnish Admiral Dewey with ammunition at that critical time when every hour counted in the Spanish-Ameri- can war. Commander Drake, seeing that the department would be unable to fur- nish canvas ammunition sacks enough to supply the great demand, took the grave responsibility of ordering the sacks from San Francisco firms, taking the whole af- fair upon his own shoulders. This is but a !ll‘ght instance of the extraordinary dis- | cretion shown by this able officer, and when he arrives in China he will be a | valuable addition to the already capable | force of officers who are there at present. | - MAY RECALL MISSIONARIES. NEW YORK, July 17.—The board of management of the Missionary Soclety of the M. E. Church at its monthly meet- | Ing to-day passed a resolution giving full | authority to the secretary with the China | committee to recall all missionaries of trne society now in China if it should at any time deem it wise to do so. The resolu- | tion authorizes the expenditure of any | sums necessary to effect the purpose. | Cameras, photographic supplies. books OI; photography lel books. for unmounted | 0to; hs, rinting and developt Kone frf‘&e latest style. Sanborn, V-g ng| Co., 741 Market st. ¥ | Africa has drained England ‘Ample Provision Made for the Equipment and the Comfort of America’s Fighting Force in China---Splendid Medical and Hospital Service, Warm Winter ASHINGTO jutant gener: made public ment showing made by the in the equipment of the force sent by the United The strength of this force in.all the arms of the service aggregates 10,665. It is pos- sible that this force may be further aug- mented to the extent of two or three thousar men. The Ninth Infantry, in addition to four medical officers and twenty members of the Hospital Corps, has with,it 1 gimental field hospital and an addition- al field outfit for fifty beds. The Fou teenth Infantry and Light Batter ovided with a field hospital of fwenty ce beds. In addition to this there has been shipped already field hos- pital of 300 beds, medical supplies for 5000 men for three months and a hospital fund of $30,000. The Grant, sailing July 3 with Cavalry nd the Sumpner On J , carried eizhtecen medical office and seventy-eight hospital corps men. while Major Stevenson, one of the medical has been provided with a $50,000 fund and $10,000 hospital fund. all on August 1 with not a to fi medical » Meade will s less than eight medical officers and a field hospital of fifty beds. The details for the Hancock's sailing on August 1§ are not yet complete. Food for the Fighters. has made The Commissary Department tions to feed a force of marines en engaged in shore service in Fifty tt dollars In gold for China b invoiced to the chief ¢ at Manila. Major H. J. Gallagher :n detailed to report to General Chaffee as ary of the troops in China the proba- ble scarcity of fresh supplie ore the devartment has had recourse again to canned beef, but for the pr stew, corned beef and corned beef hash and sufficient vegetables have been canned with it to obviate the difficulty experi- enced in Cuba, where the troops we forced to eat beef from the cans without further cooking. Major George F. Scriven has been or- sent cam- | | paign it has been put in the form of beef " Clothing and Good Food. dered to report to General Chaffee as chief 1 4 Chief Sig- nal Officer Greely recommends_that Cag tain Edward Ives and Lieute Charies B. Rogan be relie from duty order to report here, pending ina ing the States for China will carry a complete outfit of comfortabla clothing, in_addition to_their regalatio clothing and tentage. Owing to the se- vere weather that may be expected in Northern Ch during the winter. the pedition carry 1400 Sibley 000 rs of Arctic 1 canvas hoods and W ov shoe other e portion The qt ady s T mounts for Sixth Cavalry, two completely equipped pack trains of 190 mules each and supplies for the same for 19 days. There are en route to Seattle 400 rhules and aparre= jos to be shipped wh er ne E Two Distilling Plants. To secure suitable drinking water for the troops on shore 100 sterilizers, capa ity twenty-five gallons per hour, will sent to San Francisco as soon as pe . The Meade on August 1 will carry two capacity 60 gallons contempiated to send g plants as rapidly in view the supply stilling plants It sible. east 6000 men Animal ships have will be fi d up as carry about 4000 anim The chief of ordn been chartered fast as als furnishes a of officers and material which will available for use in China. He r there is an abundant supply of tion for small arms and machir of rifle caliber on hand for a pro- 1 war on a large scale. For the ge guns there are from 400 to 5 rounds ilable and additional per gun now ders have been placed for more. For tha plar service field guns, 3.2-inck are avail e for the fourtee te < 50 rounds per gun, and prov has been made to keep up the supply in- definitely. Two complete six-gun batteries of 12- pound /ickers-Maxim guns, with 30 rounds.of 4 munition_per gun, have been ordered in Engl d. Two other batt 3 of six guns each, l-pounders of the sama make, with 1000 rounds of ammunition pe gun. ordered in 1 | tie e ipped to this country at th sible moment. be st pos: POWERS IN A BAD | WAY FINANGIALLY America the Oily Nation in a Position to Carry ‘On an Extended Campaign in the Far East. i oot via - Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, WEL LINGTON HOTEL, WASHING- TON, July 17.—While a lack of suf- ficient troops to make up an effect- ive army in China, without drawing | tco strongly on the forces in the Philip- pines and in Cuba the principal di culty with which the United States is con- fronted, other powers engaged in the pa- cification of China will encounter finan- eclal difficuities if the campaign is greatly prolonged. A high official of the adminis- tration, discussing this phase of the ques- tion to-day, said: “The fact cannot be denied that the allied powers are totally unprepared in available, well-equipped forces and in well-provided budgets for a conflict of the magnitude threatened. The war in South of her sol- diers and the English and native troops in India are required for the maintenance of order and the protection of northern | borders from incursions. Russian fin- ances are taxed to their utmost to meet the vast outlays for the construction of the Siberian Raliroad, and Russia's forces may be required to protect her interests in Manchuria to such an extent as to be of little value in the main occupation. The jerman and French governments are not prepared for an expensive foreign ‘There is no trouble in providing men; the difficulty will be to get them to the thea- ter of war on the other side of the globe and to maintain them there. “The reliance upon Japan to bear ‘the brunt of the war, being nearest the scene of action. does not promise as much in reality as it does on paper. The finances of the empire are in a bad condition, owing to the vast outlays Incident to the recent war with China, and the expendi- tures for the military and naval increase | necessitated by the unsettled state of affairs in Korea, and complications likely to arise. “The United States, acting of its own volition and without alllances other than in the nature of co-operation, is the only nation ready to meet the issue, so far as interests are concerned. Of course, there is common cause in_punish. ing thé crime of Peking, and for that pur- pose a sufficient force will be organized and forwarded to the seat of war.” OTHER OFFICERS WHO FELL BEFORE TIENTSI Admiral Remey’s List of Casualties Contains Additional Name: July 17.—TIn <he list of casualties forwarded in Admiral Remey's telegram to-day are six names not men tioned in yesterday's advices, namely, Major Jesse M. Lee, Captain Andrew W. Brewster, First Lieutenants Lewis B. Lawton, Willlam K. Naylor and Harold Hammond and Second Lieutenant William Waldron. i Major Lee is a native of Indiana. He entered the volunteer service in Novem- ber, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War, rising to the rank of captain. He was appointed a second lieutenant in the regular army July 25, 1866, reaching his majority April 26, 1888, He has held a volunteer command as commander of the Tenth United States Infantry during the Spanish war. Captain Stewart from Pennsylvania He was commis- sioned secon fantry in January, 1%%. He held a vol- | unteer command as captain and assistant quartermaster during the Spanish war, ands was promoted to captain in the reg ular establishment March 2, 1899 Lieutenant Lawton is a native of Iowa, but was appointed to the Military Acad- emy from New York. He was commis- sioned second lieutenant in 1593 and was promoted to first lieutenant April 26, 1398 Lieutenant Hammond is a native of Tllinols. He was appointed to the military academy from that State. He was com- missioned second lieutenant Aj and first lleutenant March 13, Lieutenant Naylor is a native of Illi- nols and was appointed to the regular army from civil life. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Fourteenth Min- nesota during the war with Spain. }He received his commission as second lieu- war. | arter they get | | is a native of New | Jersey and was appointed to the army | lieutenant in the Tenth In- | " ] tenant in the regular army July 18, 1309 and was ‘pr(»mn(sd to first lleutena Marech 2, 184 Lieutenant W. winia He rgeant in the unteers during the appointed second i | establishment April 19, |NO TROOPS WILL BE | REQUIRED FROM CANADA OTTAWA, Ontario, July 17.—At to-day’s | session of the House Mr. Bourassi asked whether it was the intention of the | ernment to send Canadian troops to part in the present war against ( { and if so, would action be taken without | the Government first comsulting Parlia- | ment. Sir Wilfrid Laurier in reply thought that the allied powers of Europe would be able to handle the business in China without any assistance from Canaca. He of courss could not say that there might not arise s a native of We: as quartermas st West virginia Vol- panish war, and was utenant in the regular 1898, 1dron 1 a such a state of affairs in Canada and such a popular demand be made throughout tha country similar to that in regard to South Africa as would call for immediate acti In any event the Government did not in- tend to propose any new legislaticn this season. “We do not intend,” the Premier added, “to have any war or to send any contine gent to take part in any way in the Chi- nese war, but sh the occasion arise, and T hope it may not, and a feeling should take shape in the country of suffi- cient strength and importance to ecall for action. the Government will then comsider ftself in duty bound to summon a s session of Parliament the purpose considering the advisability of contribut« adian aid to the allied forces in CHAFFEE TO BE MADE' A _M;_A.IOR GENERAL WASHINGTON, July 17.—President Mec- Kinley, upon his return to W st will promote Brigadier General Adna F Chaffec to be a major general of volun- teers, in consequence of the decision ar- rived at by the Cabinet meeting to retain 1t | General Chaffee in supreme command. was made possible by the legal decisic obtained that the promotion of Lieuten- ant_General Miles and the resultant pro- motions caused a vacancy in the grade of major general of volunteers. 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