Review of reviews and world's work . plies forthe lines projected under thenew concessions. ChapelsNv^ere burned everywhere inthe provinces of Shantungand Pechili, and hundredsof native Christians weremassacred. Finally, therailroad from Peking to Tien-tsin was cut. The foreignpowers immediately lodgedlarge claims for the damage to European property, the Russian claim aloneamounting to nearly $5,000,000 ; and, on June10, it was deemed expedient to send the BritishAdmiral Seymour with nearly 2,000 troops oftlie international forces to repair the road be-tween Tientsin and Peking. This force fou
Review of reviews and world's work . plies forthe lines projected under thenew concessions. ChapelsNv^ere burned everywhere inthe provinces of Shantungand Pechili, and hundredsof native Christians weremassacred. Finally, therailroad from Peking to Tien-tsin was cut. The foreignpowers immediately lodgedlarge claims for the damage to European property, the Russian claim aloneamounting to nearly $5,000,000 ; and, on June10, it was deemed expedient to send the BritishAdmiral Seymour with nearly 2,000 troops oftlie international forces to repair the road be-tween Tientsin and Peking. This force foundthe railway so badly damaged that in two daysit had advancedonly 34 came thestartling newsthat its com-m unicationshad been cut,and up to thetime of our go-ing to press, onJune 22, noth-ing authentichas been heardof AdmiralSeymour, andonly wild ru-m o r s of thefate of the dip-1 o m a t i c ser-vants and otherEuropeans i nPeking. The isolation ofTaku followed rapidly. Onnese forts at Taku openedsquadron. The warships of. REAR-ADMIRAL KEMPEF, U. S. N. Tientsin and ofJune 17 the Chi-fire on the allied Germany, Russia,Great Britain, France, and Japan promptly bom-
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