The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1900, Page 1

L4 VOLUME LXXXVIII— SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOMBARDMENT OF THE LEGATIONS BEGAN ON THE FIRST OF JULY Messenger Who Left Peking on That Date Reports That Four Foreigners Had Been Killed and Thirteen Wounded by the Chinese Mob Up to the Time of His Departure. IENTSIN, Friday, July 13, via Chefu, July 16 and Shanghai, July 16.—A messenger has ar- r.-ved here who left Pe Iegation. king on dJuly I Chinese troops were beginning to bombard the Iegations from the streets. The foreigners at that time were all in the British The legations had been under fire for a week previously and in that time four foreigners had been killed and thirteen w gun on a wall commanding the legations. of provisions. TIENTSIN GIVEN OVER TO FLAMES Hundreds of Chinese Dead Found in the Streets When the Allies Entered the Town. BY JOHN F. BASS. Sr ecial Cable to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1800, by New York Herald Company. Republication of this dispatch is prohibited. All rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain. NTSIN, Saturday (via Chefu, July 17).~—The Russians ie up the right wing of the international column in the nce on the native town of Tientsin on Friday. As they the open in toward the entrance of the se shelled steadily from the walls, The Russians 1 1d wounded. ring the night the Japanese, Americans and some Eng- ps attacked the city on the left wing. The Japanese ing a breach, gallantly entered first of The ition and were forced to The Ninth Infantry and a handful s killed and wounded. Colonel Liscum was ng his men. The Welsh Fusiliers and the Wei- e up on the American right. The lls bravely, but fled once a breach was nal troops. Americans occupied the advance over abso- ground Chi- ccupied by the international troops, who streets in hundreds. To- 1g about the 1es. the city will have the effect of discour- > total loss to the foreigners is thought to CHINESE ATTACKS ALONG THE MANCHURIAN RAILWAY 18 —Reports have been staff from the Amoor district show- re- hat the Chinese have made serious preparations there and v concentrated on the railway line from Aigun to Sakha- artillery and have large quan- tions. The Russian generay, Gribovsky, after recon- ie district, returned to Blagovetchensk, the capital of - of Amoor, on Monday. are well supplied v cial reports confirm the sericus news of the stop- on the Manchurian railway, owing to Chinese at- y at Charbin, where an attack by four hundred Ised on July 9. m the wc;t. south u Charbin is in a critical state, and north. troops n different points to protect the railway. The are still working on the eastern section of the 1 gives hope that cnergctic measures may succeed in Russian or he opinion of the staff officers, the chief command of ° forces at Tientsin will eventually fall to Duke Aliexoff ion to the Japanese commander in chief. CONSUL GENERAL GOODNOW CABLES FOR A WARSHIP \SHINGTON, July 18 —Consul General Goodnow, at cabled for a warship. His suggestion was merely , and after considering it, the Navy Department ler. s withheld action, in view of the fact that the Castine is already at that port and foreign ships are on the way: ™ ounded. 4400000000 PO OEIDEIIDIDI DIV II IS I DI06 00040000000+ 000+Q be b eie DR R S | TOP ROW FROM LEFT SID MAJOR W. F. SPICER, CAPTAIN SETT, MAJOR C. L. McCAWL , LIEUTE T CHARLES S. HILL, LIEUT BOTTOM ROW FROM LEFT SIDE—CAPTAIN SME Y D. R. DUNLAP. . D R R )L | + | @esoecoceo0e0eee0 00000000000 | POWERS ALREADY ARE QUARRELING Grave Dissensions Arise and There Are Prospects of Dis- putes That May Disrupt the Present Concert. ONDON, July 19, 4 a. m.—While evi- | equally futile to discuss whether hos | dence accumulates daily that China | ities are being waged by the Chinese Gov- £ has long been preparing a formid- | ernment, inasmuch as it is evident that { @ble military organization in antic- | an administration of seme kind exists and ipation of the present conflict and that the | is directing the. anti-foreign movement. | area of the rebellion is continuously ex- | Unless unmistakable evidence excuipat | tending, harmony among the allies, which | s necessary to meet such a grave situa- | tion, is still deplorably lacking. The Rus- | sians have refused Admiral Seyvmour's re- a to hand over the restored Taku- | Tientsin Railway to the English com- | pany, and it is rumered that Germany taking a serfous independeut coming the powers should treat China as | a belligerent state and act accordingly." A similar line of comment is taken by | the other morning papers. All applaud | the course of Count von Bulow, the Ger- man Foreign Secretary, in stopping cipher telegrams from the Chinese legation in ely, to patrol the Yang | Berlin and all urge the other powers to Kiang with men-of-war. Such a step | follow Germany's example, would be greatly resented by England. The Russian general staff deny thé re- Still more alarming news has been con- | port that the Chinese have captured Blag- veyed to the Daily Express from Tokio, | to the effect that the apparent reluctance | of Germany and Russia to consent to a Japanese commander for the army corps | has led the Japanese Government to de- lay the forwarding of the division already mobilized. The Standard, in an aiarmist editoriai, says: “It is useless any longer to hide from ourselves the fact that China has declared war on civilization and has plunged Intu the conflict with rabld frenzy. It is ovetchensk, capital of the province of Amur, and it is rumored from Irkutsk that the Russlans have taken Aigun. Thousands of Chinese Slain. A Tientsin correspondent asserts that | thousands of Chinese were killed and that fighting was still going on, when his dis- patch was sent, in various parts of Tien- tsin. With reference to the rumors that Fu- ropeans were seen working the Chinese the Peking Government is promptly forth- | B S O e e C C SRORY SR RS SRCER S BUTLER, LIEU R as R R T T D PSR PRE P B R SO DAVIS, COLONEL P. C. T GEOR POPE T ZORGE C. tain A. K. Davis has been reported killed and Captains Smedley D. Butler, Henry Leonard and Charles G. OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES ENGAGED AT TIENTSIN. (From a group Photograph taken at Cavite, P. I., just before sailing for China. R e e O B A AP POPE LEO ASKS FOR PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN PERIL ROME, July 18.—Pope Leo has addressed a letter to the Vicar General, in the course of which he says the sorrowful events in China, hesides filling his soul with sadness on ac- count of the spilling of so much Christian blood, inspires him with the deepest fcar as to the situation of the Apos- tolic Vicars and the dangers to which Christians and mis- sionaries are exposed in scri- ous trials, as well as sacrifics of lives. His Holiness there- fore asks that all communi- cants pray that God inspire thoughts of concord and peace and that he will end destruc- tion and massacre. guns at Tientsin, the Standard learns that elght Russian military instructors, forci- bly detained by the Chinese, were compeli- One escaped and reached the Russian lines with his hands ed to work the guns. bound. A special correspondent of the Daily Express at Tientsin contrasts the “splen- dld work and perfect equipment” of the Japanese with the “inadequate supplies of the British, German and American con- tingents, which are terribly lacking in the most obvious necessaries.” THORPE, LIEUT: REID, + O+H+4 4444414444404 444404 9 The marines had unsuccessiully attempted to capture a The foreigners were supplied with an abundance R S e S = ] c PTAIN HENRY LEONARD, CAPTAIN H. C. HAINES, CAPTAIN H. O. BIS- ANT R. M. GILSON, (— — —). AIN B. H. FULLER, CAPTAIN CHARLES G. LONG, LIEUTENANT R. Long as wounded. GEE IO 0+ 0400+ 00 0060 060+0+000 - | ALL CHRISTIANS { Fantai of Shantung Issues a De- cree Which He Declares Is .~ Authorized by the Imperial Government. GO0 000 0000000000000 000D 000000090000 P000P 0000000000605 00000000000 Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by the Herald Publishing Company. | HEFU, July 13. via Shanghai, July| The calamity has its saurce with ve c 18.—The Fantal of = Shantung, | Christians, who have clothed y the highest legal officlal of | ‘he power of fore) B the province and next in rank | "@tive Christians have insulted the people to [to the governor. has issued to his IR an exten PGS, Gemiine subordinates. the magistrates of the prov- 3 —e an- {ince, the following anti-Christian letter. | yo o Of b7 lawless men to carry out evil such as burning and robbing. It purports to be addressed to and record |a conversation between the government and the Fantai, but that is pessib! tdered a good P the pot boiling t from below, over the fuel | terfuge to impcse upon the m but the native Ch s are part of our peo- | The Fantal is notorlously anti-Christian tved by the and his letter cannot fail to have evil con- eht road. It sequences. It is as follows: the right path- According to your remarks to me, when | Wa¥ they 1d be oyal people again. In speaking or: the subject of the Boxers, who this way mutual hatred would cease and tran- clars themselves the enemifes of all Christi quillity restored we exhort you, according to the in- from the time of the settlement of the Ping yuan affairs and the Brooks murder, they h: ke a-swarm of bees and-their pos s grown day by day. The provinces Chang Fu and Chi Li are filled with them. | give security Beginning at Peking and Tientsin they have | Christla burned churches, murdered Christlans and per- | secuted other people. On this account soldicrs | were dispatched, but trouble increased so that it seems endless. ve Christians to n and make them that they will not again enter a reh. e of churches and Christians fa s to be | robbing Christians who remounce their fewr