| Show PRINCE JUAN IN CH RGE Chinese Troops Under His Command Attack TieD Tsin HAS MANY KRUPP GUNS Gives Notice That Ho Intends to Sweep the Handful of Foreigners from the Chinese City His Active Command of the Troops is Positive Evidence That the Dowager Empress Em-press Has Declared War on Combined Com-bined European Towers Situation at Shanghai is Becoming Critical London June 3A dispatch from Shanghai announces that Prince Tuan has taken chargo as Generalin Chief after dismissing Young La a nephew of the Emperor the former commanderlnchlef Prince Than gave notice that he would march to Tien Tsln and sweep out the handful of foreigners for-eigners there At daylight on the morning morn-Ing of June 21st he attacked the settlements set-tlements at Tien Tsin with artillery and the best foreigndrilled troops The Chinese army had about fortyfive 1 Krupps They managed to burn the United States consulate The warehouses ware-houses and the Standard Oil companys premises are belIeved to have escaped hough the situation Is grave the Chinese Chi-nese have not occupied TEen Tsin NO CIIANG13 AT PEKING I The latest news from Peking emanating emanat-ing from authentic sources Is to the InS I I effect that there if I no change In the situation This Is understood to mean I that the legations still hold out The I Chinese have surrounded them but do I not dare to make another attack Apparently Ap-parently they hope to starve out those who have taken refuge there CLIMAX OP SERIOUSNESS Matters In China appear to have reached nearly the t climax of seriousness serious-ness The announcement that Prince Tuan has assumed active command of I the Chinese troops and the bombarding of Tien Tsln seem conclusive evidence that the Dowager Empress has declared de-clared war on the combined European powers and that tho whole military strength of China Is to be employed in behalf of the Boxers I is considered significant that the Chinese merchants of Shanghai are realizing on their effects ef-fects In specie and retreating to the Interior Evidently they anticipate n spread of the trouble Consequently it I is urged the forts at Woo Sung should be seized by the international forces I in view of possible eventualities FLEET REQUESTED TO MOVE Possibly as n preliminary to some action of this kind the Consuls at Shanghai today addressed a note to the Chinese Admiral asking him to remove his fleet from Shanghai In compliance with this request two Chinese warships are to sail today and tho rest tomorrow tomor-row rowSITUATION SITUATION VERY GRAVE In the meanwhile the gravity of the situation can hardly I he overestimated The critical state of affairs seems plain from the haste with which the small force of 2000 men was dispatched from Taku to the relief of the Tien Tsln garrison gar-rison force I Is doubtless conveying ammunition the absence of which adds so sensibly to the straits of the garrison sonFEAR FEAR CHINESE AMBUSCADES A late message from Tien Tsln warns the relieving force to beware of Chinese ambuscades I tho assurance of the Chinese Minister at Berlin relative to the safety of Baron von Ketteler the German Minister at Peking can be rcdited It will tend materially to brighten the situation at the Chinese I capital as it leads to time inference that lCe the other legations are similarly safe GERMANS WOUNDED I I appears from a telegram sent by I the German Consul at Chee Foo that Commander Llns of the Iltis was really I wounded at the Taku fight together to-gether with four other Germans while hle seven were killed Including Lieut Hell man Probably Commander Linss telegram to his relatives at Vessels ucant that his condition was satlsfac tory satsac Yokohama reports that another dl vision of troops Is proceeding to China I A dispatch received here announcing ho burning o Wei Hal Wei announcInb I I ly a mistake as there mlltalte are no foreign settlements there Apparently It I refers to Tien Tsln BOMBARDMENT OF TIEN TSIN Special dispatches from Shanghai lat d Friday night give additional de alls of the bombardment of Tien Tsln I is reported that Tien Tsin has been Incessantly 1 bombarded for the last three days The entire British ahd French settlements have been destroyed de-stroyed Heavy casualties are reported GUNS WORKED PROM WALLS The Chinese number at least fifteen thousand Inside the city while their emissaries crowd the foreign quarters setting fire to the buildings The Chi fre nese gum arc being worked steadily from the walls oc the native city The consulates all being destroyed the foreigners for-eigners flocked to the town hall REINFORCEMENTS IMPLORED The assistance of reinforcements Is Implored The Russians are now in trenched in the depot resisting tho advance which tho enemy Is making in overwhelming numbers No word has been received from Admiral Seymour and it is feared that the relief column fared badly There Is an exodus of foreigners from the YangtseKlang forts to Shanghai and Japan Many consider Shanghai unsafe owing to the absence of foreign troops COMMANDER WISE REPORTS The American Consul at Shanghai John Goodnow has received from the Consul ac Chee Foo under date of Juno 22nd a bulletin from Commander Wise of the United States warship Mono cacy as follows Junc 20On the arrival of marines this morning I started fires in the loco motives and got cars and two fieldpieces field-pieces Just now 1 p m trains with 400 Russians and one field piece and 1JO marines are leaving AMERICAN CONSULATE BURNED A French officer has J Just arrived having left Tien Tsln yesterday at 730 when troops were attacking the foreigners for-eigners and the American consulate had been destroyed He docT not know what has become of our men The Chinese havo modern field guns and are battering the foreigners In their strongholds He says the line can be traveled from here to Chang Chen halfway half-way to non Tsln A few Russians are therePUSHING PUSHING TO THE FRONT He says I may be attacked here tonight to-night but I have sent all the marines as I can look out for myself This place will be deserted again tonight I Is very Important to the preserve rollingstock of the railway When train has raiway a got as far ahead as it can the troops will press ahead afoot and the train will be sent back for reinforcements I seized here at daylight n dispatch I could start more locomotives If I had competent firemen WISE Captain of the Warship j Monocacj Lieut Kcmpff of the navy through the British Consul at Tien Tsln sends by special courier the following Re inforcements are urgently needed Tho casualties are henry The ammunition Is insufficient and machine guns are required re-quired The Russians at the railroad station are hard pressed The Chinese troops keep up an Incessant fire |
