The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900 THE TMESSAGE FROM CONGER IN ° Bocs 2800 e0e090etebeiedtdrdsdesdeideoe® | MARY CONDIT SMITH. eb e e @ - e e e i et eie P et etoel eietei et o ebeoe® FALSE ACCUSATION BLASTED L i L i LIFE OF MARY CONDIT SMITH to was 1 Miss nor Ge thoug Forget the the National Capital for Peking, There; Cruel Charge of Malicious Scandalmongers. Fated House Party. whose talent every- we m quouth to mouth, t Pretty “Polly” In fact it is said S person even went so t e tae girl Crushed by the Scandal. \ere came & change over was 1o longer She had heard the was helpless. She was in med at her had ons came in fewer did come were got paler and outside her sunken; laughing for: were m constayt weeping: 1 and her sensitive nature that the whole worid a crime of which she nocent. Smith’'s brother-in-law is Gover- eral Wood of Cuba. It was that a change of scene and yn to a life of misery wn e irreparable done to the young It of her hc forgotten the “Polly” Smith t s of other s, but Imost o agains: get. a immediatel. i, and no her own plac to forget, otting kind T speaking to, growing thin- former self every but killed her by its ¥ her all It was when family had almost de- spaired of e King her w gain that the trip to Chi nge 1 and hap- was pro- e to the e “Polly"” The girl old China she who would e heathens? In uld at 1 1 gossip, \at if they 1 her, as they perhaps have done? : would at least make her ery sh red h went to China. She ng little thing when n, the only home ghe where she had done so appy the lives of others. is gaid that it was Miss Smith’s pur- be a missiona in a. § 1 never return to Wash- ington. It was urged upon her that Wash- »n had already forgotten the accusa- made against her and was only too dy to right the wrong. The wrong, however, was too great to her thinking u\'r'r be righted and she chose to go tiful lo Washing forever. 1y’ Smith met death has not known vet, but, no mat- he died, death was sweet to There may be those in Washington suffer a paneg for_the girl ¢ sent to her death. None can the calumny they helped to ve breath and life to made her a martyr. EUROPEANS FOUGHT WITH THE CHINESE 21.—The Daily Express ¢ following from Tientsin G in the three da fight- ve city of Tientsin ex- now certain that there s and Frenchmen se side. The Chinese women wholesale to pre- ng into the hands of the ¥y ‘he whole native city was . and the stench of the burning of cory was unspeakably “*Among the incidents of the fighting o July 13 was the precipitate fij ght nfgm? French troops from Annam. Trey had been ordered to hold important front. but on being charged by the Chinese with ayonets the entire detachment nic-stricken g “The Russians killed all the Chinese | wounded in revenge of the Peking mas- sacry 444404444444 4044 404444440 $ The Art Magazine Section 3 + of the Sunday Call leads all + + others. Get the special Chi- + 3 nese edition which will appear = + next Sunday and it will bring 4 : you more up to date on this 4 3 world’s crisis than all the 3 : other publications in the + { United States combined. 31 ‘WOWM‘ o e L e o B R R R o o expressed purpose | Hold Out ASHINGTON, July 20.—Like a flash of sunlight out of the dark sky came the intelligence at an early hour to-day that United States Minister Conger had sent | a cipher cablegram from Peking to the { State Department at Washington making | known that two days ago he was allve | and that the foreigners were fighting for | their safety. The Chinese Minister, Wu | Ting Fang, received the message. Within an ‘hour the welcome intelligence that Mr. Conger had been heard from, after weeks of silence and evil report, was flashed through the country, and indeed, through- out the world, dispeiling the gloom which had prevafled everywhere and bringing to officlals and to the public generally a | sense of profound relief. The dispatch is | supposed to be in reply to Secretary Hay's cable of inquiry to Minister Conger on July 11, and as both messages were in the | American cipher code they were regarded by the officials as above the suspicion of having been tampered with in the course of transmission through Chinese channels. Mr. Wu promptly communicated the dis- patch to the State Department, where the translation was made from the cipher figures and soon all Washington was astir | with the intelligence. Telegraphed to the President. | It was telegraphed by Secretary Hay to the President, who responded with a wholesome expression of gratification and word of it was sent to the varfous Cabinet officers. They gathered in Secretary Hay's office and an impromptu Cabinet con- ference was held in the diplomatic cham- ber, mainly for the purpose of exchang- ing congratulations and of taking a sur- vey of the situation to see if it had been | materially changed by this important de- velopment. First of all, from the stand- | point of the administration officials, the > feature of the message was nces that the American Min- self was alive two days ago. But is cheering news came the ominous statement of Minister Conger that the | besieged foreigners were in the British legation under continuous shot and sheil from Chinese troops, and that only quick relief could avert a general massacre. After the first flush of thankfulness this graver feature of the message began to sress itself upon the Cabinet offi deeply. B There are the poor creatures, penned :p under fire of shot and shell, and ap- | pealing to us for help.” The consultation brought about no pro- nounced change of policy, for it was felt that already every energy had been bent ting the situation and that absolutely nothing more that After all, the Cabinet of- toward there was could be done. - B . b . 4 2 155—THE COUP D'ETAT. & SEPTEMBER 22-Young Emperor Kwang- ¢ su resign! power into the hands of the !lgs Empress Dowager. All reform edicts re- + 10 “REVIVAL OF ANTLFOREIGN Cd FANATICISM. | I-Ho-Chonan (Boxer Society) grows and be- | e comes bolder. i ris disagreements with Germany 4 and Fr g Li Hung Chang appointed Viceroy of two | southern provinces ? Rev. Mr. E s murdered at Ping-yin, §8 Shantung + 1900—CRISIS APPROACHES. ¥ JANUARY 24-Dowager Empress deposes 18 " Kwang-su and names To-Pu-Chun, son of 4 Prince Tuan, as helr, hetselt continuing # FEBRUARY dict reinstating old system 4 o examinations. Troubles in Shantung lge . press receives wives of for- |0 inisters with great ceremony. - trages increase. 4 APRIL 7—Ministers jointly demand suppres- §% sion of Boxers asive replies. i 4 MAY—Boxers advance toward Peking. For- Je eigners and native converts murdered. 1% Ministers egain demand effective measures | # “tor their suppression. Dowager Empress |& scribes large number of reformers and o orders that they be put to death. ¥ Minister Conger asks for support and pro- e o tection. Unitea States crulser Newark sent to Taku. Foreigners attacked and murdered at Pao- Tung, Tung-Chow and other places. Spread of rioting all over Pechili. MAY 25— Boxers break out In Peking. Dip- lomatic corps hold a session and demand action on part of Chinese Government. Much promised. Nothing done. In sham of a battle Boxers defeat impe- rial troops. Many of the latter join them. MAY 26—Minister Conger telephones Admi- ral Kempff at Taku for additional protec- tion Captain McCalla, with eight officers and one hundred men, lands at Taku; refused passage on railroad; go by river to Tient- ein; first Caucasians to arrive, MAY 30—British and other troops arrive. MAY 31—Captain McCalla, with fifty Amer- jcans and three hundred of other nation- alitles, goes by rail to Peking; reach lega- tions at 9 m. JUNE 1—Captain McCalla returns to Taku. [ R *ReRoeRNeReNeNe RN N | Rejoicing in Washington Over the Peking Cablegram Dimmed by the Fear That the Legations [light Not Be Able to Until the Reaches Them. ficials felt, and so stated, the message was an evidence of friendliness and good faith of the pro-foreign element of the Chinese, and wisdom dictated a course which would continue to utilize this friendship. Europe Urged to Act. The Government accepted the message as authentic, and Secretary Hay trans- mitted it to all our Embassadors and Min- isters abroad., with instructions to lay it before the respective governments to which they are accredited and to urge upon them the necessity of co-operation for the immediate relief of the foreigners at Peking. A message also was sent by Secretary Long to Admiral Remey con- veying the intelligence of the desperate situation in Peking and instructing him to use and urge every possible endeavor for relfef. This message, Secretary Long explained, meant for Admiral Remey to himself “uge” and ‘“‘urge” upon the commanding officers of the other powers the use of every endeavor for the relief of Peking. Secretary Root sent a similar notifica- tion to Colonel Coolidge, the senior officer ashore at Tientsin. This action was the result of the conference of Secretaries Hay, Long and Root. It was realized that the land and naval forces of the United States now in China could not | single handed push on to Peking, and the other powers accordingly were appealed to, on the basis of Minister Conger's message, to co-operate for relief. Secre- tary Hay explained his reasons for plac- ing reliance in the authenticity of Min- ister Conger's dispatch, saying that it avas a complete reply in code 10 the code message sent to him and that its au- thenticity was vouched for by the Tsung Li Yamen. “Of course,” sald Secretary Hay, smil- “I am not omniscient and may be ed, but I cannot see how the authen- ticity of Minister Conger’s cable can be questioned.” Secretary Hay says he attached no sig- nificance to the use of the words “Chinese troops” in the message. They did not, in his opinion, mean that the Chinese Government troops were besieging the foreigners. He seemed to entertain little doubt that the Chinese Government itself was doing all in its power to suppress the Boxer insurrection. Fowler’s Confirmatory Dispatches. In this connection the message from Consul Fowler that General Yuan Shih Kai, Governor of Shantung province, re- ported that the Chinese authorities were doing all in their power to eut down the insurrection is exceedingly welcome intel- ligence. It not only confirms the theory of the State Department that the position of the Chinese Government is correct, but CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EVENTS LEADING TO THE PRESENT CRISIS IN CHINA JUNE ~Reve. Messrs. Norman and Rob- inson murdered at Yung-Ching. JUNE 3—Boxer outrages increase trouble n Tientsin. Captain McCalla lands with fifty more marines. Railroad to Peking destroyed. ine foreign warships at Taku. Other forces land and go to S$—Imperial troops defeat ~Boxers near Peking. Victorious ,generals censured. Prince Tuan recognized as the head of the Boxer or- tion. I 9—Boxers practically supported by vernment_edlet cacy and Yorktown meet at Taku 10—Anarchy spreading in Peking. merican missionaries all gather In Methodist mission compound, Send wail of woe to the civilized world. 400 foretgn troops In Peking. Admiral Seymour starts with international force of 1040 men on three trains, repair- ing road as they go. JUNE 12—Peking racetrack and clubs burned. Foreigners attacked in streets. All foreigners gather in legatjons. 15—~Empress Dowager forbids foreign troops to enter Peking. Japanese Lega- tion burned and Minister killed. JUNE 16—Admiral ymour's force Boxers near Long-Fong. Baron von Ketteler reported as murdered. Boxers burn foreign buildings In Tientsin. JUNE 17—Taku forts fire on allles and are bombarded and captured. Oregon ordered to Taku. Wild riots Peking. Legations besieged. JUNE 19—Tndian troops ordered to China. Li Hung Chang ordered to Peking. JUNE 21—American Consulate at Tientsin burned. E 22—Kempff asks for more troops and fight in Ds. E 24—Admiral Remey order»d from Ma- nila to China. 263000 Japanese land at Taku. NE 27—Seymour's expedition returns to Tientsin after terrible experience of six- teen days’ fighting—loss near 400. JUNE 28 inese soldiers captured by Sey- mour say that the legations were destroyed and Ministers all killed. Pringe Tuan in full command. JULY 2—Message from Bergen, German La- gation, countersigned by Sir Robert Hart, “*Situation desperate. Hasten.” R R B B B B R R R B L I S - REPORTED MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES AND CONVERTS IN SHENSI PROVINCE LONDON, July 20.—To add to the gloom occasioned by the extremely serious impor- tant news showing the daily developing strength of the anti-foreign movement in the south of China, comes this morning from Shanghai a report that sixty missionaries converts have been murdered at Tai Yuan, a fortified and populous city in the province of Shen- si, on the Fuen Ho, an affluent of the Hoang Ho, twenty-five miles southwest of Peking. The report is not yet corroborated, but it tends to confirm the belief that the hope that the central and southern Viceroys would hold aloof from the Boxer movement was unfounded. GOOD s ol Relief [Force it Is assumed to indicate that Yuan Shih Kai has thrown the weight of his influ- ence on the side of the government. Yuan is considered one of the ablest, if not the ablest, general in China. He has, according to a statement made b; Lord Charles Beresford to a promi- nent State Department official when he was here last fall, the best drilled and equipped army in China under his command. Some doubt was en- tertained as to which side he would alily himself with in the present insurrection, and the fact that he appears to be on the side of the government is accepted as evi- dence that his best judgment is that Prince Tuan's rebelilion is destined to fail. | Throughout the day the Conger message | remained the absorbing topic of discus- sion. Secretary Hay was congratulated on the success of the steps he had adopted to open up communication between Peking and Washington, for, while the chancel- lories of the world stood hesitating and inactive, he had adopted a course which had brought a message from our Minis- ter. The Chinese Minister, Mr. Wu, shared also in the universal approbation of what had been done. He seconded Mr. Hay's effort from the outset, and it is due to the official machinery set in mo- tion by him that the communications were gotten through. It is appreclated by the offictals, both American and Chinese, that there will be suspicion in some quarters. | Against this it is declared that a message authenticated by the American code and THE LATE LORD LOCH, D I L O S U SCR SCI SO OB T s g @4‘M-0. State Department that it was not thought expedient to give out either the text or | r, Sir Harry Parkes, Mr. a paraphrase of the message sent by the State Department July 11 to Minister Con- ger. Jehol and the them and that they were all well. The British and French Commi: purged by some signal punishme their policy of prevarication Europeans was exhausted of the Emperors. summer palace JULY 2—All women and children ordered from. Tientsin to Taku and Chefu. JULY 4—Shanghai advices verify story of massacre of Ministers at Peking. JULY 5—United States agrees to co-operate other powers to restore order. Five thousand native Christians massacred in Peking. JULY 7—6000 more American troops ordersd to China. Heavy attacks on Tlentsin by Boxers and Chinese regular troops. JULY $—Japanese and Russians have heavy fight with Chinese at Tientsin. JULY 9—Prince Ching said to head counter revolution against Prince Tuan and defend forelgners. Ninth United States Infantry arrives at Taku. JTON, July 20.—After hope | ad almost been g aring from the legati king, two cablegrams, bearing ings of the unfortunates beset in the Brooklyn arrives at Taku with marines. British legation, were received this morn- German squadron sails from Kiel for § First came a short, sharp w from China. ¢ , at Sh: JULY 10—Chinese recapture arsenal at r’r,m‘-cr of the State Department w Tientsin. Newchwang sacked and burned. * | o+ be soon forgotten because of the im- JULY 11—Three days’ battle at Tientsin; ¥ | o o energy and zeal he has exhibited 10,000 allles attacked by 50,000 Chinese hav- §8 | {1 “Cl ir o sormation to meet the de- ing best modern guns. Director of Telegraphs ‘Sheng at Shanghat says legations were safe July 2. JUELY 12—Allies badly beaten at Tlentsin; situation desperate. Courier from Sir Robert Hart brings mes- cage dated June 26: ““We are close to the end. Good-by."" (This is the last authentic message from any European in Peking.) JULY 13—Chinese Ministers at Washington ana Paris undertake to send clpher mess- ages to Ministers at Peking through Sheng at Shanghai. Fierce fighting at Tientsin. Colonel Lf cum, Ninth Infantry., and Captain Da: Marine Corps, killed. Detalls of murder of M. de Giers and wife recefved. JULY 14—Allles breach walls, capture native city, Tlentsin. Anarchy spreading all over Northern China. JULY 15—Large force of Japanese sail for Taku. Marshal Nodzu in command. JULY 16—Empress and Prince Tuan show their hands in new edicts ordering expul- slon of foreigners from all China. JULY 18—Report of Chinese invasion of Amur provinces regarded by Russia as a declaration of war. JULY 20—Chinese Minister receives an un- dated cipher message from Mr. Conger, which purports to have left Peking July 15 and to be in answer to the message sent on 13th fnst. mand of the department in the’ex days of the past six weeks. He gave notice that Minister Conger had at last | | been heard from directly and that his | words were on the Way to the State De- | partment. | Scarcely had the cheering news reached | Secretary Hay before Minister Wu came | tearing down the asphalt streets from his | legation In his automobile bearing in his hands the precious message from Mr. Con- ger. The Minister was perspiring and almost speechless with pleasurable ex- citement and even the swift new elevator in the State Department scarcely could meet his demand for haste in reaching | Secretary Hay. The Secretary already had prepared | himself for the Minister's appearance, but, { nevertheless, not knowing the nature of | Mr. Conger's communication, he sat in suppressed anxiety to receive the message. | Mr. Wu himseff was ignorant of what h | had in his hand. because the message was in the State Department cipher, an ap- parently meaningless mass of figures and | periods. Translation of Cipher. | Secretary Hay at once called for Assis- | tant Secretary Adee, and the two dis- | tinguished officials themselves set to work translating the cipher into Engiish. This occupled nearly half an hour. The first movement of Secretary Hay upon de- ciphering was to make a copy and dis- patch this by messenger in haste to the White House, with a request to the tele- graphers there to forward it at the earliest moment to President McKinley for his information. Then Secretary Hay, remembering the | storm and PRI BIRENIRN NN eN e Nt oNeBReN o the Americans in Peking, caused his pri- vate secretary to prepare coples of the message he had received, thoughtfully ac- companying them with an explanatory | statement, and these copies were given to the newspaper men, who by this time, scenting the fact that news of the great- est importance had come, began crowding the broad corridor before the Secretary’s | office. i Then Secretary Hay betook himself to the War Department to convey the news | in person to Secretary Root and to Sec- | retary Long, who were together at the| time. } After a short consultation in Secretary Root’s office Secretary Long, upon emerg- and a hundred native where. Canton itself is quiet. HONGKONG, July 20—A BLACK FLAGS ACTIVE AROUND CANTON AFTER LI HUNG CHANG’S DEPARTURE essage from Canton received here to-day reports that all the Tartar troops have moved into the Bogue and other outer forts, and that some of the Black Flags have moved into the Tartar general compound. Three thousand other Black’ Flags, with their chiefs, are in an intrenched camp, with artillery, while ten thousand othel.'s have moved clse- ing into the corridor, was showered with ccngratulations by a large throng of de- partment employes and newspaper men who had congregated there. As the one member of the Cabinet who has con- sistently maintamed durlng the dark days In which others had given up all hope the safety of the foreigners in Peking, the news that our Minister was alive a few days ago was much in the | nature of a personal triumph for him. His face beamed with pleasure and he ex- pressed his gratification and rejoicing at the confirmation of his theory. Optimism of Long. “We are all very happy over the good tidings,” said he. “I have hardly had time to think of the exact effect of the news upon the situation, but it removes one of e great elements of doubt and leaves VICTIM OF CHINESE TREACHERY 3 Loch, one and four soldiers were returned. October § . unless the prisoners were re the time the Chinese officials protested This was done, and brought the Chinese to quick terms. for a long time from the effects of his tor in a narrative which he wrote of the exped intense publie anxiety to have tidings of | FAITH ; i Ve G roer v eies® . - 4 - @ - ¥ ONCE A R R R R R 3 backed by the integrity of the officials | pe through whom it has passed must be ac- b4 cepted as authentic until something better P4 than mere suspicion is brought forth.| ¢ The experience of Lord Loch at the hands of the Chinesa authorities at o Later in the day several messages were & the time of the advance of-the British and French rds a very & recetved from United States Consul Fow- | J useful example at the present time of 1 er . ler at Chefu, all strongly confirmatory of to which the celestials are naturally gi to be put the news that the foreigners were alive. on their most solemn oaths and promises ® § . On the approach of the allied armies, September 21, 180, ‘to Tu * ndon’s Pessimism. pp! . September 21, g 48 angchow. U::fi:ct:dn:;ymmcablwmm from Min. | ¢ tWelve miles cast of Peking. Mr. (now Lord) Lech, Sir Harry Parkes, with & _The fact that the canlee o redence 1 | ¢ Several other English and French gentlemen and officers, escort of e ister Conger was given scant credence In| U troopers, were seized and made prisoners by a flag of London official circles had no dampening | 7 truce, and dragged before Sankolinsin, their 4 effect on the optimism of the State De- | ® wora'forced to press their heads to the grov b partment officials. It was pointed out by | © yngults and personal mistreatment in his presence, A4 | one of the officials Interested that the | 4 bound and hurried off to Peking, where they were . weight of international evidence in the| 4 some indignities and cruel personal torture B dispatch was In favor of its genuineness. | | scribe. Their hands were bound behind th 3 Besides there were the several strongly | ¥ could draw the cords, and then thes 5 | corroborative dispatches from Consul | ¢ the strain. In this fix they were thrust into cage . Goodnow and Consul Fowler. The fact| % streets, day after day. L6k o TR enkdd . that Minister Conger mentioned the bom- | ¢ throw mud and filth on t # they - bardment of the British legation was con- | ¢ dungeons, and food of t kind flgoregrfi&or? -:Q\\'lllm,l:g:-\:'"t‘;\allolkllle;ed‘i:r;)at:l:] & A number of the party died in a few days from the torture, their hands rot- vas subseq 6th, as| ¢ 8 4y > cords while still b - Jhe best information here fa that the bom- | $ S8 Off under (he cords while stili bardment of the legations did not begin | & 7 r’ ot na‘{ G of e prior to that date. It was sald at the| | 'ater- s ¢ officer, no accurate information of the whole party ikh trooper, one French officer the Emperor had fled to e and were threatenin that no harm had befal of the spiendid R R Lord Loch suffered —which is more y described ition. & - ; e aas e s o s e o e a o el e aa e el i o oo o e o o S S D 2 ‘ MINISTER WU THE BEARER OF CONGER'S APPEALING MESSAGE e us free to hope for the rescue of the for- elgners in reat victory the United tendom y in its pos- a news of the and the United States ) give to the world authentle tely reliable word, direct from the beleaguered Min- garrisoned.” is a partment o LI A Woman's Face Tellsiho-mstor{. A laugh is often a lie on a woman’s lips. It belies the pain which is tearing at the nerves. But the eyes have no part in the laugh. Their purple rings speak of suffering. There are lines too about the mouth which only pain can give. Many women look for- ward to a week of such misery each month. Three months of each year are m them. 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