SITUATION DESPERATE
Tien Tsin Will Be Abandoned as Soon as Possible.
A grim wartime dispatch reporting that foreign forces at Tien Tsin, besieged and short of reinforcements, expect to have to abandon the city.
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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readChe Foo, July 9.
New York, July 13.—A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo, July 9, says:
The situation at Tien Tsin is desperate. The commanders are calling for troops, but the troubles brewing elsewhere render it impossible that they can be sent.
Germany has been obliged to withdraw from Taku troops that were to have been hurried to the aid of Tien Tsin. The reason for this is a report that a large body of Boxers is marching on Kiau Chou, German territory.
So far as can be gathered the foreign troops will have difficulty in getting out of Tien Tsin. They are fighting incessantly day and night and the losses must be heavy, for the Chinese keep up a bold, well directed bombardment with heavy guns.
It is certain that Tien Tsin will be abandoned as soon as possible.
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