The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1900, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1900. e e o e o e o e A A A e AR 4 e e e ] 3 & b *ie . POBODOEOD . o EN ROUTE TO PEKING. * Chinese junks that ply on the “ Pe twe Tientsin and Pe- Ps h ese are to be the depend- & ex d troops for tra * ¥ ammunit P ing the wound- 3 k @ieisieieieieieteiog Advance of the Relief : Column Shows Thal 13 Commanders Agree|: as to the General|: . : d . % boo P! Plan of Campaign ——— ' § ¢ I'REATU, WELLINGTON |. THE RAILROAD BRIDGE AT YANGTSUN DESTROYED BY THE CHI- SHINGTON, Aug. P4 NS 1y JOpn. i General ( ';x'{/fl'j 'd‘{f“fl"“‘ to "-“P & Yangtsun is a considerable town lying on the east side of the Pelho, twelve War, although written o miles beyond F ang and seventeen miles from Tientsin. There the Impe- ¢ + rial Rallroad crosses the Peiho and strikes off more to the west toward Pe. © 4 lg ki»c The important steel bridge ove hich ili runs was destroyved by the ¢ . inese during Admiral Seymour ance to the relief of Peking in June. | © As the rallroad can soon be repaired that far, it will be used as an ad. ¢ vanced base of supplies for the allied forces, A large force of Chinese ara ¢ e | 4 said to be strongly fortified there, and a heavy battle may be expected before + the allies gain possession. b dispatch is regard- the reports of dis- anders of the i t shows that n a plan of battie h command was to vance. It is jon in the dis- it is thought | y due to (hv fact that xhn ad- ehind to aid s Cavalry in guard- - 3 n -8 = ® 58 B H Tee's dispatch 5 men in the mentions were in- up of the Ninth and Four- d a marine detach- > these he had the | h Artillery, knowy from its captain, | ery is equipped two ten-inch field - went into the f men. GeneraF Cha doubtless 3 uld have been v g the Chinese if re- eat became & rout, as it hoped was the se. The general's dispatch, however tes the arrival of the Conemaugh ai £ is one of the three transports rses for the Sixth. It is be- time all the animals belonging to that regi- E ashore, though they eld at the front. Chaffee shows that it was the he co-operating forces to ad- anks of the advance, and he Chinese on both sides ger of the | tsin being | *Xt objective is Yang- t where the rail- h st side of the It also crosses the e same point. It is prob- his point both divisions of forces will join on the e river. Yangtsun is a strategic importanca be probably left in charge of strong to repel any might slip around wiil be no da river to the west highway \ Q4000400044000 04006-450505 04 D 'PROOF OF CHINESE DUPLICITY D R B e S CRR SCRS SN S BRIDGE AT YANG- [SUN— DESTROVED By THE Box Continued from First Page. an emergency, and it is quite probable that they will be ordered to Tientsin. General MacArthur may even be furnish more than these two regiments. WARNING OF WERATH. Meantime the authorities here feel certain that General Chaffee and other commanders of the international forces will go forward with the force at their disposal just as r: rapidly as pos- sible. They are convinced that if the battle on Sunday ended in the rout of the Chinese forces the invading army will follow up its advantages with little delay. It is not impossible that Minister Wu may be told in plain language to-morrow that if his Government persists in its pres- ent course it can hope for no mercy, and that every one in any degree respons sible for the outrage upon the ~Ministers, even though it be the occupant of the throne, will be held to a strict accountability. The same message may be communicated through the Consuls in China to the various Vi iceroys, and es- pecially through Consul General Goodwin, to Li I{ung Chang, in the hepe that through some channel the w: arning of the wrath of civilization may be carried to the supreme power at Peking and the lives of the inmates of the legations saved. ALL FOREIGNERS IN BRITISH LEGATION. BRUSSELS, Aug. 7.—M. de Favereau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, celved the following message from the Belgian Minister in Peking: “PEKING, Aug. 2—We succeeded In defending our legation from June 4 to June 16, but with the aid of eight Austrian marines were unable to save it. The Austrian, Dutch and Italian legations were all burned and the French legation is in ruins. “All foreigners are at the British legation, where we have been besieged by Chinese troops since June 20. Up to the present fifty-eight marines have been killed and seventy wounded. “The attack has ceased since July 17. hope to be vered next week. called upon to has re- Provisions are almost exhausted. We All the Belgians here are well."” Ing forces and attempt to re- INSURGENTS AT CAGAYAN GROW TROUBLESOME Troops Stationed There May | Shortly Be Rein- ‘ forced. Correspondence of Associated Press. s MANILA, P. 1., July 13.—The insurgents “ & n the vicinity of Cagayan, on ‘the island are becoming 50 troublesome | 1t become necessary to aug- ment the United States force stationed 2 body of troops from some other The insurgents, numbering, It is mated, about 100 in all, are fortifying the mountain passes and are otherwise preparing to give battle to our soldiers. Only recently a detachment under com- mand of Captain Miller of the Fortieth Infantry had an exeiting and DHloody ex- with the natives near Agusan, perience @bout ten miles from Cagayan. In attempting to take his command through a narrow defile Captain Miller encountered such strong defenses that his entire advance guard, numbering fourteen smallpox, 7 46 hl'nsl“s ihxr-(- the total number of deaths, includ- &k news of atrocious murders of Amerfcnna gnd others by k.uled at Santa Cruz, and a re tnh""y crime in revenge for through official channels. After Major Maxino was taken prisoner by our froops Unisen a gang of Tulisanes killed his father-in-law, his wife, four of his chil- dren and his nephew, butchering and tor- | turing them and robbing the fa about $11.060 in money and jewel eft In the power of the insur- e of this number eventuallv i reported that eight of their were killed and one taken pris- aptain Miller was wounded in_the preceded the ‘.lmn'lnyl- ~ | etachment of sixmen under Captain C. 5. a native contrivi | hirtieth Infahtry. with Fuck by s us — their guide, encountered a spear shooter. Captain i e s e T Ame s no less than a halt ng nine and taking . o Dot @ , besides recovering a n of thes Weapon: Both | JoWelry and. $10067 of The RECEPTION AT PERU “vopr| MINISTER DUDLEY GIVES ) ;Entertnins Dignitaries of the Peru- vien Capital in Honor of the o Memory of Bolivar. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- L he E m\l compicted his report | ar, which ended 9 e - gures were Kept by the i 10, B (3he TREERN SN g with October, 1866 | 1 g Peru, Aug. 7.—United States s from October to. Juns ster Dudley gave a brilliant recep- amber of deaths re- o During this period the | tion at the legation last nignt in honor of al number of deatirs, exclusive of Chi. | e anniversary of Bolivar. the ,_“m."m classes” of dis. | . Mr. Dudley also gave a breakfast to- o ! day 'in honor of Minister Guachalla of Bolivia, soon to depart for_ the United ‘States. It was attended by Senor Braun, | Bolivian Minister to Peru, and Senor Candamo, Mr. Garland, Felipe Barreda, Belgian Charge d’Affaires, and Champion ; typhoid fe a5 1 hubomc plngue, 180; lvvpros . The death percentage during this period | Joves. of nine mnntRs, estimating Manila” ¢vpe<‘pu- lation to be 490,000, is about 28 per cent. B Burns on Sresovich Ranch, During the months {rom January to | g oja) Dispateh to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 7.—Luke Sreso- vich, the San Francisco fruit merchant, ‘seems to be in hard luck ln “this county. Last night a barn on his property was burned, the second fire on the place within 3 week. Lus‘: we:‘{ the pucklng hous‘e and rver were burn, was no E SEe on elther pallding. T The caiars st the fires are unkno but are supposed to ba incendiary. hree years ago the whole place was burned. all classes, from bubonic plague was From many - sections of .the archipelago Toval natives wers Tt of a ajor Max- 0's capture by the Americans comes ’*€+®—0—®—0 S SR SR S St S o S e o e e e S This Is the Dictum ! of Li Hung Chang, Who Is Doing All in His Power to Stay the March on Peking. LR ONDON, Aug. 9, 4:35 a. m.—*“In case the troops advance the Chinese must fight. The suggestion that the allies will be allowed to enter Pe- king in order to escort the Min- isters to Tientsin is absolutely impossible.” This is the dictum of Li Hung Chang. It was transmitted last evening to William Pritch- ard Morgan, member of Parlia- ment for Merthyr Tydvil, by his agent at Shanghai. The agent had carried to Earl Li a message from Mr. Morgan urging that the allied troops be allowed to enter the capital, and stating that a settlement could fbe made at Tientsin whereby a war of the world against China could be averted; but even the optimistic Li failed to hold out the slightest hope of its feasibility, although he reiterated to Mr. Morgan’s agent his declaration that the Ministers had left Peking, fixing the date of their departure as Au- gust 2. The agent makes this comment: “The Consuls are without confirmation.” These messages have been sent to Lord sbury, accompanied by a statement by Mr. Morgan, urging that the allies should take no step to endanger the lives of the Ministers. A message from the Belgian Minister, dated Peking August 2, seems effectually to dispose of the rumors that the Min- sters have efther left or are intending te leave Peking. The Chinese Minister in London, Sir Chib Chin Lo Feng Luh. says he has received a telegram from China announc- ing that a long Imperial edict was issued m August 2, authorizi the immediate ind safe conveyance of all Europeans in Peking to Tientsin Several aispatches are printed giving heargay accounts of Sunday’s battle. The I y Mail's correspondent at Chefu, tele- graphing Monday, s: “Fhe fightin sted seven hours and the allies, when my report left, were pur- sing the Chinese: but owing to the floods progress was difficult. Thus the Chinese will have to reform and to recover from the effects of battle. Only a small gar- ison, with fourteen guns, remains at entsin, where some anxiety is felt be- se of a report that 15000 Chinese are said to be moving two days' march to the southeast.” All the correspondents agree in praising » bravery and organization of the Jap- anese, but none of them brings the story much beyond General Chaffee's report. Li Ping Heng, according to the Shang- hal correspondent of the Standard, has been appointed generalissimo of the Chi- nese forces and has left Peking to com- mand the troops outside the city. A Shanghai special that official ad- Vi from {o announce that armed collisions have occurred between parties of Russians and Japanese outside Taku. This, however, as it comes by way of Shanghai, must await confirmation before being credited. The Shanghai cnrrsspondzt of the Dal- ca L ly Mail, confirming the magsacre of mis- sionaries at Chuchowfu, says that two American women were among the vic- tims. The Sebastopol correspondent of the Daily Graphic asserts that the Russian Government will send 125,000 additional troops from Odessa to the Far East be- fore the end of the year. Berlin dispatches say it is rumored there that an agreement has been reach- ed between Emperor Nicholas and Em- peror Willlam whereby German troops will be permitted to proceed to China by way of Siberia. The royal arsenal at Woolwich has been ordered to send thirty million rounds of smallarm ammunition to China. —— ENGLAND HAS GIVEN “CHINA DUE WARNING LONDON, Aug. 7.—The Parliamentary Secretary of the Forelgn Office, Br. Brod- erick, in the House of Commons to-day, answering a question, said her Majesty's Government has informed the Chinese Government that its members will be held personally responsible if the members of the forelgn legations or other foreigners at Peking suffer injury. Mr. Broderick added that her Majesty’s Government did not think any useful purpose would be served by further communications. swerirg nnother question, Mr. Brod- id her Majesty's Government had no confirmation of the statement attrib- uted to Li Hung Chang to the effect that the foreigners had left Peking for Tien- tsin under escort. BATTERY 0 COMING WITH THE BIG GUNS FORT RILEY, Kans.,, Aug O, with its seven-inch sfege guns, the largest in the army, and 175 men were started for San Franclsco during the night ©n hurry orders from Washington to pro- cted to China. The guns, with the new carriages just reccived, alone filled four cars.” Two trains were necessary to carry the entire battery. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 7.—Two Hospital Corps, destined for service in China, passed through Kansas City this morning on their way to San Francisco. One corps, composed of forty men in charge of Stew- art Butroppe, came from Jefferson Bar- racks, St. Louis. The other was composed of men who recently returned to the United States from Porto Rico. R iy PROVISIONS SUPPLIED FOREIGNERS AT PEKING ROME, Aug. 7.—Information received here from Taku via Chefn, August 3, says the commander of the Italian cruiser Elba has seen a note of the Governor of Shan- tung, dated Peking, July 30, saying the Ministers and foreigners are safe; that T—RBattery B S R o T R e R al’da,\ “CHINESE MUST FIGHT THE ALLIES IF THEY ADVANCE™ THE LESSON OF CIVILIZATION. CHINA—Remember, You Taught Me How.—cnicago News. @* 00D e edl eI et tieieieiesieieieied e beise i eieseie® - @ R d et ededededed * o0 ¢ T X I S SRR RO R e o S S B g tre b e e Rl With Reinforcements Now on the Way the Powers WIill Have One Hundred Thousand Troops Operating on Chinese Soil. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HOTEL,’WASHNGTON, Aug. 7.—Word has been received that Japan has reinforced her troops in China by 3000 infantry and one battery of siege artillery. These will bring her army up to a total of more than 25,000 men and make it the strongest of any power in China. The allied forces on Chinese soil, when the additional Japanese troops and the troops of other powers arrive, will number 100,000 men. So far from any objection being made by any government to Japan’s increase of her military strength in China, the powers rather welcome it. The stout resistance the Chinese are making furnishes good grounds for sending such a force to China that the Celestial troops will be unable to stop their advance. European nations agree with the United States that the defeat of the allies by the Chinese would do incalculable harm and are as anxious that the troops shall capture Peking without reverse as this Government is. Major Byron, chief quartermastér on General Chaffee’s staff, has wired to Colonel Miller, chief quar- termaster at Manila, that he has plenty of lighters and is getting supplies ashore at Taku, but he needs more tugs to move the lighters about the harbor. be hastened there. Colonel Miller has sent several tugs to Taku and others will The Sedgwick, bringing home a battalion of the Eleventh Infaniry and a battalion of the Fifth Cav- alry, which will be sent to China, left San Juan to-day for New York. HONGKONG, Aug. 7.—Extensive arrangements are being made for accommodating more military in Hongkong. sionaries. The country adjacent is perfectly quiet, although it is deemed prudent to withdraw the mis- provisions have been supplied to them and that conferences had taken place on the subject of measures to be taken to protect the Ministers during their trip to Tientsin, wher®, it is added, they were to establish their headquarters. NEVADA CITY YOUTHS TEAR DOWN DRAGON FLAG Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEVADA CITY, Aug. T7.—Prominent Chinese to-day ralsed a new flagpole and | floated the Chinese flag. They were told to place the American flag above the Chinese flag, which they declined to do. | To-night at dusk twenty-flve youths, aged i from 15 to 1S, with a few older men, pro- | ceeded to Chinatown, their faces covered with handkerchiefs, and tore down the pole and flag, scattering the fragments | of the banner broadcast over the town. | The older citizens, while not approving | of the act, consider the Chinese were im- | prudent., The raiders took a deadly weap- on from a Chinaman, who made an at- tempt to resist them, and threw it in the | creek. The Chinese were much worked | up over the matter. | OREGON MILITIA i READY FOR CHINA PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 7.—The services of the Third Regiment Infantry, Oregon | National Guard, have been tendered the | United States Government for duty in China. Colonel Everett to-day sald: “The entire regiment is in shape to take | the field at a moment's notice. It is thor- | oughly organized and on a level with | many of the regiments of United States regulars. A iarge number of the men have the advantage of having seen ,*(‘l'-’ vice in the war with Spain.” BROTHER OF BRESSI HELD BY THE POLICE Charged With Having Known of the Plot to Assassinate King Humbert. ROME, Aug. 7.—The brother and broth- er-in-law of Bressi, the assassin of King Humbert of Ttaly, have been detained by | the police on the charge that they had foreknowledge of the murderer's inten- tion. The former says Bressl frequently practiced with a revolver. Altogether fifty-two suspected anarch- ists have been placed under arrest within the last forty- ht hours. pociis sy do New Woolen Mill Project. Special Dispatch to The Call SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 7.—Banta Cruz is likely to have a woolen mill. The Pigneer Waoglen Mills of Oregpn have mdde db of- {) remove here if a_site and roper ulldm‘ are donated. The mill monthi; 1 of §7000 and an lnmul output X)!w 1 Fire at Bluefields. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. patch received to-day from Bluefields, Nicaragua, gives details of a fire night which did $170,000 damage in 7.—A cable dis- ‘ heart of the town. ~The bufldings de- stroyed were for the most part w and the property destroyed Included J. .\. ‘Bolange s lumber yard and_ store, Sam et Co.’s warehouse, the Metropolitan A5t | Hiotel and the offices of the United Fruit the | Company. IMMENSE BUSINESS Is done every day in small purchases in San Francisco. We want people to know a Dollar will reach further in our Store in small buys than else- where. READ THE LIST! 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