Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — BATTLE IN CHINA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BATTLE IN CHINA.

Boxers Surround Imperial Troopsand Hundreds Are Slain. It was reported Thursday from Chinese official sources that 4,000 boxers surrounded 1,500 Chinese troops between Lofa and Yong-Tsun anS that 500 boxers were killed, but give no account of the Chinese casualties. Thirty of Gen. Nien’s troops encountered a body of boxers three miles from Tien-Tsin on the Taku road, and killed twenty-one of them. No news has been received from Pno-Ting-Fu for several days, and the situation there is believed to be critical. It is reported that

the Chinese troops have been defeated near there. London advices say that dispatches from the far East show apparently no cessation in the activity of the boxers, but the powers are gradually feeling their way to common action for the suppression of the disorders. I't is be-lieved-that witen the-dowager empress realizes, the first intention to check her connivance in the anti-foreign movement, fhere will be a speedy end to the rioting, as, if the Chinese acted in good faith, they could easily quell the rabble, which is armed chiefly with spears, agricultural implements, a few swords and some old rilles. —Pressing appeals are being sent to theState Department aud the President by missionary interests in this country to semi United States marines into the interior portions of China, whore American missionaries are threatened by the boxers' uprising. To maintain an appearance of 1 neutrality and not to offend the Chinese with too much show of force, a Washington correspondent says that the Goverijmeiit cannot safely land more marines in China. To send them into the interior would be deemed folly. With this situation of affairs there is no possibility of aid for the missionaries unless they seek the protecting wing of the American legation at Peking. This is the situation which confronts the State Department.

SCENE OF NEW COMPLICATIONS.