Show OEAD LE UNBUfflED Horrible Condition of Affairs Reported at lien Tsin RIVER FULL OF CORPSES Dogs are Feeding on the Boclfes Along the Brinks of the River Between Be-tween Taku and Tien Tsin Chinese are Committing Horrible Atrocities Upon the Wounded They are Mutilating All the Dead Which Fall Into Their Hands Boxers Destroying Villages Tion Tsln June 29th via Cite Foo July 1st and Shanghai July 5 Copyrighted Copy-righted 1DOO by the Associated Press Those best Informed In Tien Tsln consider con-sider the position of foreigners in Peking Pe-king as almost helpless It is hopeless to attempt to force the way with the force available Commanders are willing 1 will-ing lo resort lo desperate means but to attempt a forced march from Tien Tsln with the forces at hand means certain destruction to thC army besides slaughter slaugh-ter of the civilians left at Tien Tsin Enough soldiers are necessary to defeat the Chinese army maintain communication communi-cation with the base of supplies and guard the hospitals en route The water supply Is an important problem In a country furnishing none except the I river the wells having been poisoned TERRIBLE ATROCITIES The Chinese are commuting terrible alrocllles upon the wounded They arc mutilating all the dead which fall Into their bands Gen Tung Fuh Slang with 10000 of the best disciplined troops Jn the Chinese Chi-nese army Mobamedans arc marching march-ing from the southwest toward Peking The army thercabouls numbers 50000 The Empress fled to her summer palace pal-ace The Mahamedans and Boxers are fighting in Peking 0 PILLAGING THE COUNTRY Ten regimenls of Gen Nlehs command com-mand north of Tien Tsln are reported lo have deserted and gone to pillaging the country Residents declare that a Chinese commune has been inaugurated and that the peaceable Chinese are the greatest sufferers The foreign soldiers are burning the outskirts of Tien Tsln to deprive the enemy of shelter The Boxers are destroying outlying villages for loot The smoke of a hundred Jlrcs can be seen Jn every direction RETURN TO TIEN TSIN Then Tsln was not bombarded today for the first time for a fortnight Families Fam-ilies are returning to their homes for their possessions The women and children chil-dren will be sent to Taku as soon as travel is safe No unfriendly China mon are visible In the streets A few of the richest with their families are huddled in the outhouses for protection badly frightened Others concealed inV in-V houses shoot at the Europeans on tho street THOUSANDS OF DEAD The Chinese dead about Tien Tsin number thousands Most of those who have been killed lie unburied in the fields The river to Taku Is full of floating bodies and many have been washed up by the tide Dogs arc feeding feed-Ing on these bodies along the banks The small American contingents everywhere dIstinguished themselves CapU McCalla and MnJ Wailer arc at Then Tsln Their men are placed in the lead of evory movement by common consent with the British close beside them OWE LIVES TO RUSSIANS The foreigners in Tien Tsin declare however that they owe their lives lo the Russians without whom the other small detachments would have been overwhelmed On the darkest Wednes day when the Chinese were pressing on every side and the bravest men were abandoning hope the Russian commander com-mander Col Wozack arranged that the main body of the troops should make a sortie In the direction of Taku leaving 100 Russians to defend the city engage tho attention of lho Chinese and ulll malclv sacrifice themselves The arrival ar-rival of the Americans saved the day and proved complete surprise MANY ARSENALS DISCOVERED Among the evidences of the Immense Im-mense Chinese military preparations for war It may bo mentioned that arsenals ar-senals and atprcs hitherto unknown have been discovered About 10000000 worth of arms and ammunition mostly modern has been destroyed in three arsenals outside of Tien Tsin Several thousand troops under Gen NIoh are holding the native city five miles south of Tien Tsin It will be remembered that 10000 Chinese Chi-nese were to make an attack at noon The troops were under arms but the Chinese failed lo materialize Admiral Seymour was wounded Hllghtly recently by a spent ball which siruck him In the shoulder while In the houso with Commander McCalla and Commander Tausslg HERO OF TIEN TSIN The hero of Tien Tsln fa James Wail a young Englishman perhaps the best rider In I China who with three Cossacks Cos-sacks jan the gauntlet lo Taku with messages charging through villages un der fire repeatedly Several foreign commanders have recommended that the quartette be decorated |