Show CHAOS IN I lIEN TSINj There is Lack of Cooperation Among Allied Forces NEED GENERAL COMMANDER J In Addition More Troops are Necessary Neces-sary Present Force or 10000 Men is Attempting to Hold a Line Fifr teen Miles Long Around the City Chinese Shell the City Throwing Great Projectiles All About tho Hospitals Russians Have One Gun Dismounted in an Engagement Tien Tsln July 1th via Che Foo July Sth and Shanghai July lltli LCopy right 1900 by the Associated Press A homcogencous army of half the strength of the allied forces could do better work than Is being done by them The operations are dangerously handicapped and the safety of the city I is Imperiled by lack of organization and the want of one commander to control all the forces The representatives oZ the several nations manage their civil and military affairs largely without cooperation The ranking officer of each nationality has absolute jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over the operations of his Governments Govern-ments troops Questions of policy are discussed dally at International conferences con-ferences which have not the power to enforce the wishes of the majority Admiral Seymours method of commanding com-manding is to make requests which the other commalldcrs I generally follow fol-low but here I have been instances of the ranking officers holding aloof from operations of which they < disapproved MORE TROOPS NEEDED There Is I great need of more troops The present force of 10000 men is attempting at-tempting to hold a line fifteen miles long around the city There Is i also great need of rebuilding the railroad to Taku and getting artillery equal to the guns with which the enemy are dally bombarding the allies positions I The work resulted in substantial 1 gains for the Chinese as the allies lost fifty or sixty men and succeeded in accomplishing ac-complishing nothing 1 WEAKNESS OF PRESENT METHOD I Yesterday furnished a new illustration illustra-tion of the weakness oC present methods meth-ods A majority of the commanders had agreed that it was imperative to attack the native city beyond the foreign for-eign settlements and to destroy the artillery therein which menaced the settlements The attack was fixed for four days ago but was posponed > because be-cause the Russian commander considered consid-ered his men unfit for the duty after their recent work It was again fixed for yesterday morning but was postponed post-poned because credible reports were In circulation that 10000 regulars from the northwest had reinforced the Chinese HOSPITALS SHELLED In the meantime the Chinese had removed re-moved two big guns on the fort near to the native city and had planted four in the open near the east arsenal two mlies away These shelled the city for four hour sending in more than 100 shells They got the range of the public pub-lic buildings and of the clubhouses used hospitals and dropped shells all about them Fortunately most of the shells were defective and failed to burst and the others had a small radius I ra-dius of effeqtfveness 1 ALLIES GUNS DISABLED On the absenco of a concerted plan the Russians sent a few companies of Cossacks with two field guns and tho Japanese a battery of six 3pounders and two companies of Infantry supporting I sup-porting the English lUpounders from II M S Terrible to sIlence them The TerribleV guns failed to get an effective position and the Russians had one gun dismounted l and four men I killed early In the engagement The Japanese were confident that they silenced si-lenced the guns In the open but it I appeared to the onlookers that these guns fired the last shots as the Japanese Jap-anese were retiring The Russians lost heavily and the Japanese had one killed and twelve wounded The Chinese Chi-nese threw a few shells Into the city to show that they were still alive SITUATION CHAOTIC A British officer described the situation situa-tion as chaos Ho said We have wasted many days In politeness and it is 1 time we did something There Is no disagreement among the commanders but Jn the absence of a definite head several of them are disposed dis-posed to follow their own methods and I they simply abstain from operations contrary to those methods The foreign population is greatly aroused concerning concern-ing this apparent apathy While the city is being bombarded they are likely to suffer heavily and they cannot understand un-derstand the apparent negligence of the Government to furnish relief and I why reinforcements arc not coining on I faster The Americans are particularly I dissatisfied because though they have ono of the smallest representations their interests are second to none One experienced olllcer said tin Is impossible l impossi-ble to realize at home that thbre has been more real war here than in Cuba or the Philippines I The Germans have occupied and raised their Hag over the Imperial university I uni-versity of Tien Tsln The officers of I the university are Americans The I Viceroy deeded the property to them Consul Rab dale has protested against the action of tho Germans |