The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 21

s B e e e R e s e e e e e ages 2110 30 P e aeaem e e e e e e e e e g ] @rrrbii g e The :Www! > > < : Pages 21 10 30 BT I H 4 44+ 8 VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 66. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1900—FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BREAK CANAL AND FLOOD COUNTRY _ BETWEEN TIENTSIN AND CAPITAL P e L ] . .5 w ‘. .0.00‘101~0=00O"OOQQ.@OQCQOQO'OIC’0'0lo,‘.g‘g.‘a‘l‘A.Q.A.A‘A.4‘104‘0@040:0 R e e S T e S e o o S e g L. PROCEED | WITHOUT CHIEF} Each Officer in the Column Ad- vancing Toward Peking Acts Independently. JL. Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-—No fons the allies against Peking 1 yesterday orted it-is ‘un- -t independently. al troops were to d communications should be assigned to each for instance, have been were to ch the British and tions , lies in the fact that there will ing of orders. pl Conferences of the n of operations for the fol- be informed -of the route ¥ in the operations. Upon ecuting these movements. cated by Adjutant Gen- who think make much resistance. t believe there can be ef- 1 that this will prove dis- pointed out to-day that + would burst into rebel- 20,000 men will take a strong force k. Officials think Pelho River and the runs alongside the ailway and river wiil een the A Both th used to transport supplie The allies cpened fire on them °nt of confusion and inflicted etreat ;ALLANTRY OF JAPANESE - IN TIENTSIN FIGHTING ™ the san walled city in the posse The rn_arsenal was captured at time with two guns, but the | Aug. 4.—Japanese the steamer Argyle Japanese VICTORIA arsenal remained | 'nemy and were | h, when a joint he . whole allied Amerfcan and Jap- 3 left, the Russlans, Germar nd French on the right. This action was most bloody, the allles having 600 casualties. Again the Japanese dis- tinguished themselves. They bore the brunt of the fighting on the 9th and it swag by them the Chinese position ‘was | captured on the 1ith. They had 250 killed | and_wounded on the latter occasion. General Ishakiwa Yasujiro, the editor | of the Mainichi Shimbun, who was war correspondent there, says that terrible charges are being made against Russian from t Th the sharp fight W tnat th state ainder of th t in three bodie Chinese ish and | E Chinese were | ! . soldiers. He says that they kill peaceful esp cavalr, m"""'“ | people without compunction, slay both e enemy five five | men and women, shoot children that cling 1 and shooting | weeping to the corpses of their murdered y fled in confu- | parents, break into shops, massacre thefr | 5 1 and captured | gypers and steal goods. The Petho is full r guns, the Chinese escaping into lhe\ of dead bodies, among whom are numer- d city, leaving 300 dead on the7ield. | ous women and children, and the Chinese haste to get through the gate was | have come to regard the Russians as great that they blocked their own ling | devils. Ishakiwa adds that the Russians FIGHTING FOR LIFE---Legations Attacked by Boxers and Chinese Troops. From Le Petit PO PDIDEDEDEDEDIIED 4090 eO0IPIOI IS IIEOIOS OO Parisien. B e o R e PREPARING FOR LONG CAMPAIGN Quartermaster General Making Every Effort to Hurry Rein- forcements to Far East. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Gen- eral Chaffee has been directed by Secretary Root to report where he pro- poses to locte his base of supplies 'and what he needs. anwhile tlie War Department is not waiting to hear from him, but is sending all the supplies 1t buys .to Taku, believing that will be the prime base. Once the supplies are landed there they can be conveyed by rail or boat to Tientsin. Quar- termaster General Luddington is making every effort to hurry reinforcements to the Far East. -He chartered another steamer to-day and proposes to charter others, so that practically the entire force of 12,000 men intended for the Chinese campalgn will be at General Chaffee's disposal before the gulf of Pechili freezes over. fforts will be made to supply one of the greatest needs of the internationai fore: dditional artillery. Orders were issued to-day for Light Battery M of the Seventh Artiljery, now at Washington 'Barracks, and Light Battery C of the same regiment, now -t Fort Adams, R.' I, to be sent to San Francisco. Major George G. Greenough will be in command. These two batteries. will be filled to the maximum enlisted strength of 162 men by the transfer of men from other batteries of the Second and Third regiments. That it is the expectation of the department that troops will remain in China for some time is shown by instructions that the men transferred to the batteries going-to China be only those “having elght months or more to serve or who have signified their inten- tion to re-enlist.” v Surgeon General SBternberg sald to-day that Major John R. Hoff, chlef sur- geon, now on his way from Porto Rico, will be ordered to China as chief surgeon of the troops there. “Upon’ his arrival,” said General Sternberg, “Ma- jor Hoft will select a hospital base. Medical officers aiready sent to,China are provided “with ample funds, $50,000 having been:placed at' their disposal., Eacn command sent from Manila and from this country has been provided with the usual medical supplies. In addition we are sending quantities of. medicine, band- ages, etc., so that the troops will'be well cared for by our department.’” It is expected that Admiral Remey.will decide before ‘the-gulf of Pechill is frozen over to lay two gunboats up-at Tientsin. 1 D e e S Br 6000660t Pt0eP eI +Iededededed It will be impossible for any ship to remain at Taku, but the Monocacy and perhaps the Yorktown wiil be sent to Tientsin with instructions to enter the mud docks and rémaln housed until spring. This will be no new experience for the Monocacy. Naval officers who have served in China say that in many respects the winter season is the best for campaigning between Tientsin and Peking. it is a dry cold. One difficulty that may be encountered The dust is very fine and fills the air so as to hide the sun which prevail. and make day almost as dark as night. The cold is Intense, but is the dust storms loaded 300 bodies on a junk and then burned them. R AND IMPERIAL TUTO FAMILY SLAIN BY BOXERS VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 4—The Japan Daily Mail reports that on July § one of the Empress Dowager's chief councilors, the Grand Secretary Hsu Tung, was killed with hig entire family at Peking by the Boxer hordes. Hsu Tung was a Chi- nese bannerman and was last January appointed assistant imperial tutor to the heir apparent. He was a most ‘bigoted reactionist, and during the Emperor’s re- form government repeatedly asked leave to retire, as “he could not bear to be an active participant in the ruin of the Mid- dle Kingdom, to which the Emperor and his advisors were rapidly driving it.”” The prayers to retire were as often refused by the Empress Dowager, to whom they were made, who consoled the old man with ““Wait and see.” The massacre of Hsu Tung, who was over 8 years old, his family and retain- ers, who are computed at over 300 souls, occurred during the pillaging and burn- ing of a part of Peking after an attack on the legations, which had been repulsed. . MAIL FOR THE SOLDIERS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The War De- partment desires it to be known that maii intended for the United States soldiers in China should be addressed with the full —— e Chinese Reported to Have Commenced - Operations Against the Force of Allied Troops Now Marching to the Relief of Peking. Principal Opposition Will Begin Twenty Miles West of Tientsin, Where Mongols Have Erected Exten- sive Barriersand Placed Obstructionsinthe River. IENTSIN, Aug. 1, via Chefu, Aug. 8.—It is reported that the | Chinese have broken the canal bank, flooding the country between Tientsin 4nd Peking. Thirty thousand Boxers are ‘eight miles north of Tientsin and a battle is imminent. L e e e e i A publication. ment had been the American, guard the base China’s e defeletetotelo oo oottt Peking. According to a disp: these measures. men. SHANGHAL Aug. 5. answer was refused., COMBINED force of Americans, British and ‘Japanese, which at most liberal estimate cannot exceed 20,000 men, has set out to relieve the imperiled foreigners in Peking. Ac- cording to Washington dispatches this is the sum and substance of the report from General Chaffee, which was received at the War Department on Friday and withheld from It may be recalled that a recent dispatch from Tientsin stated that an arrange- effected between the allied commanders that the main advance was to comprise British and Japanese forces, while the Russians, French and Germans were to and line of communication. determination to resist the advance upon Peking to the uttermost is shown by the flooding of a section of the country in the direction of Peking. will the foreign envoys be held as hostages, but o communication with their respective gov- ernments will be allowed them. More than this, the Chinese Minister in London reiterates the warning that the advance of the allied forces may precipitate a massacre. ONDON,; Aug. 5, 3:50 2. m.—Last night’s dispatches add nothing to the general informa- tion concerning the progress of events in China. Although the agents of the cable company at Tientsin on July 30 asserted that censorship of press dispatches had been abolished, it is evident that correspondents are not allowed to cable any account of the advar tch from Shanghai, dated August en killed and twenty wounded. Mines are said to have Sheng, the administrator of telegraphs and S e e e e i U o e e A o SUMMARY OF CHINESE NEWS AS TOLD BY CALL DISPATCHES S 1 ) o ’ Meanwhile, not only e e o i 5 ce in the direction ot ion will 3, the principal oppo be met twenty miles west of Tientsin, where it is stated the Chinese have erected extensive bar- riers and obstructions have been placed in the river. the railway, the line apparently being left intact. railways, objected to the measures taken for the defense of the foreign settlements, the enrollment of volunteers and the presence of numerous warships, and asked the foreign Consuls to suspend The British Consul replied by pointing out that the measures were only intended to strengthen the hands of the lawful Chinese authorities. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated August 4, says that General Mosievsky reports from Chita that a part of General Orloff’s forces attacked and drove back the Chinese regulars on July 30., capturing one gun and a number of flags and killing the Chinese commander and 200 The Russian loss was sev Reports from Berlin say that Prince Henry, in behalf of Emperor William, made the part- ing address, bidding good-by to the Fourth East Asian Regiment, which sailed from Bremerhaven in the direction of China to-day. REPORTED SUICIDE OF LI been located under HUNG CHANG. :25 a. m.—A report having been circulated here to the effect that Li Hung Chang had committed suicide, a foreign official sent a messenger to his residence, but an name of the soldier, his company and reg- iment with the words “China, via San Francisco.” In the case of staff officers or civilians of the army, the same means— China, via San Francisco—should be em- ployed. All the regular Chinese mail routes in that seciton having been suspended, the Government has been obliged to devise a service of its own, using the army trans- ports as far as possible. A postal agent distribution of these hmails and another agent at Taku will care for the details. These agents have started for China and will be in a position to handle any mails written after this date. i IMPERIAL TROOPS JOINED THE BOXERS ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 4—A dispatch from Shanghai, dated Thursday, August 2, received here to-day, says that after 14 Hung Chang left Canton the imperial troops joined the Boxers. The dispatch adds that the provisional troops along the Yangtse River are quiet owing to the promise of the Viceroy of Nankin to the foreign Consuls. Boxers, it is further stated in this dis- patch, are murdering missionaries in South China, but are not disturbing treaty ports. Troops are being secretly brought to treaty ports. Batteries of the Yangtse River, the dispatch says, are being re- paired and new ones are being erected at Wusung. Despite the declaration of the Viceroy that the work would be stopped five guns have been mounted. : The dispatch accuses the British of a secret understanding with the Viceroy In accounting for the indifference of the British fleet to the strengthening of the Chinese forts at Wusung. RUSSIAN COLUMNS BATTLE WITH CHINESE ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 4.—General Grodekoff has sent the following dispatch to the War Office: 3 “KHABAROVSK, Aug. 3.—Two columns from Blagovestchensk crossed over: the Amur River at 3 a. m. under Colonels Schwerin and Scherikinoff, attacked the stationed at Nagasaki will make the first | | Chinese troops and took the town of Sak- halin, one gun and a quantity of Mauser | cartridges. steamer Silenga suffered | severely from rifle fire. The trans-Seisk detachment, under Colonel bombarded Algun with twelve mortars and the Chinese replied. One officer and five men were killed and fifteen men were | wounded. Four armored steamers are pa- | trolling the Amur.” A telegram received here to-day from Engineer Offenburg, dated Kawg Kumsig, The Gasimur, in the trans-Batkal province, Wednesday, August 1, | “In the retreat to the frontier the agents, prised and bombarded by Chinese in the Chingan passes. men fled to the mountalus, none of whom have returned.” — AT AMERICAN AND BRITISH LEGATIONS YOKOHAMA, July 17.—The Japan Ad- vertiser to-day publishes through rived here from Tientsin, and who had close relations with the foreign communi- ty in Qeking, the following list of all known to be at the British and Amer}- nected with the customs and a few addi- tional names: American Legation—Mr. and Mrs. Con- ger, Miss Conger, Miss Pierce, . visitor; Mrs. Woodward, visitor; Miss Paine, visi- tor; Mr. and Mrs. Squires and four chil- dren; Miss Condit-Smith, visitor; Cheshire and Mr. and Mrs. Bainbridge. British Legation—Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald, Miss Armstrong. two chil- dren, Mr. Dering, Mr. and Mrs. Cockburn, Mr. and Mrs. Ker. one child; Mr. and Mrs. Toms, one child; Dr. Poole and Mr. Oliphant. Students—Mr. Rose, Mr. Hew- at, Mr. Bristow, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Por- ter, Mr. Barr, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Warren, Mr. Giles, Mr. Townsend and Mr. Drury. Customs—Sir Robert Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Bredon, Miss Bredon, Mr. and Mrs. Bra- zier, two children; Miss Brazier, Miss Myers, 'Mr. and Mrs. Piry, four children and governess; Mr. and Mrs. Brewitt Taylor, Mr. Macoun, Mr. Smyth, Mr. de Courcy, Mr. von Rautenfeld, Mr. Win- Pfotenhauer, | workmen and guards were sur- | Three guards and one | | workman were killed and twenty work- | the | kindness of an American woman who ar- | can legations, together with thoss con- | Mr. | tour, Mr. Wagner, Mr. Richardson. Mr. yon Strauch, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Eawrie, Mr. Bethell, Mr. Sandercock, { Mr. de Luca, Mr. and Mrs. Mears, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Russell, Dr. Oliver, two | children; Miss Dudgeon and Dr. Martin. | RUSSIANS SUDDENLY ATTACKED THE CHINESE CHEFU, Aug. 4—Dispatches from Niu- chwang state that 200 Russians suddenly appeared on July 26 at the rallway sta- tion and attacked the Chinese camp- out- side the south gate. The Chinese had be- { haved with propriety. and the attack did not appear te be justified. After two hours of fighting with little damage on | either side, the Russians retired. The | Consuls at Niuchwang. including the | Russian Consul, protested and received a verbal reply to the effect that the attack | would not be repeated. - FORTIFYING THE YANGTSE. SHANGHAL * Aug. 3. — According to trustworthy reports received here to-day | the Chinese are forfifying the Yangtse River. At the fort mear Nanking two 8- | inch quick-fire guns were disabled at the first trial. Chinese officlals affirm that the guns were mounted as a precaution | asainst Boxers advancing southward. Kaiser’s Speech Denounced. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 4—Japanese newspapers denounce the vindictive pur- poses of the. speech of Kalser William | calling upon his troops to revenge Baron von Ketteler's death. The Mainchi asks: | “Should the cry of vengeance be raised against China hecause her rebellious sub- jects perpetrate crimes?” The speech is called undignified and not what one would expect from a Christian | monarch. The Empress and Emperor of Japan on July 17 visited and expressed sym- | pathy with the wounded Germans in the German hospital at Yokohama. Commander Morio of Japan in his re- port of Seymour's march notes the bellef that the Chinese cast their lot with the Boxers because of the bombardment of Taku.