Show REBELLION IN CHINA TROOPS FIRE UPON REBELS FROM CHENG TU WALLS walla BE LOSING MANY MEN missionaries are ara under fire in besieged city but it Is believed the regular So soldiers idlers will be able to r protect them from fanatics pekin latest advices advises received by the chinese foreign board and tho the foreign legations indicate that chong cheng tu capital of sze chuen province Is under siege that most it if not all the missionaries are inside the walls and that the city is garrisoned by 1 I troops who lave have had gage ments with the besieging forces A dispatch from the prefect of tsu chau says bays that the troops have been firing upon the rebels from the cheng tu walls and that the besiegers had lost loat many men the belief is held there that the garrison Is capable of resisting the attacks of any num number berot of organized rebels from the outside tsu chau Is seventY five miles froia ra 1 1 tho the canadian methodist compound within the city has open spaces around its own walls it Is believed that the foreigners have taken refuge within this compound which Is considered the strongest and the most easily defended whether the foreigners and thena tives inside the walls walla are prepared to endure a siege la Is not known the question of supplies is all important and it is probable from pa past st experiences that the missionaries have taken precautions against such a contingency tin gency the missionaries abw ever have no weapons unless they have been supplied by the viceroy every effort la is being made to communicate muni cate with cheng tu but so far there hero has been no movement to relieve the city i |