The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1900, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from the Library.++++ " VOLUME LXXXVII— \0.’ FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WOMEN MASSACRED BY CHINESE FANATICS AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO HIDEOUS BRUTALITY Chmese Soldiers Dlsgmsed as Coolles Concen= have been massacred after revolting torture. had been subjected to hideous brutality. e 2 e e S LONDON July 27.—-The Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Express wires as follows under yesterday’s date: “An Italian priest has just arrived here from Hensien-Fu, in Southern Hunan, where the Italian Bishop and three priests This took place on July 4. Six hundred converts were massacred after the women Six other prlests fled to the hills, where they were probably Killed. escaped had a perilous journey to Hongkong. He hid in a coffin on board a river boat for seventeen days.” oo et oo folenfofe oot oo sfeote trating Around Shanghai and the Imperial Government Continues Its Strenuous Prep- arations for War With the Civilized World. Al e Bpecial Cable t e s lies ¢ their forces of the All rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain. ance, ion on the ground 1 that th The N of Admiral Seymour may the \kqxhu\n. of the Const '\ -re that the Ministers of the powers to whom Japan, Russia and the United States have visited Li Hung Chang, but the others he New York Herald. Copyright, 19C0, by New York Herald Publishing Company. Republication of th.xs d.spatch is prohibited. aily Tc]cgmph. telegraphing yesterday, says: \tions have already left Peking and may be expected China has applied for mediation may ant over the fact that United States Consul Goodnow has entered into relations with that he is following the instructions of his Government. customs revenue will not suffice to secure the payment of the next install- s in the Yangtse region for war are in progress—not for war against the rebels. but against liers and Boxers disguised as coolies are arriving daily. anking and Wuchang garrisons are being constantly reinforced, and the Viceroys hstand the pressure brought to bear by Sheng and Li Hung Chang upon them to join The arsenal is full of arms stiffen the backs of the foreign Viceroys and restore the security ladies, Miss Whitchurch and Miss Searell, have been murdered at Hsiaoi, in the providce of ) reported from Taiyuan and Paotingfu.” ESCAPED PRIEST'S STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF CH RISTIANS IN SOUTHERN Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1800, by the Herald Publishing Company. >, a two hou ds of . in Southern Hunan, in the course of an interview says that on July 4 the native converts warned distant, had been set on fire and the Bishop, Right Rev. Six other priests had fled to the mountains. o hid in the mountains for three days, and then some converts came and carried him to the river in a Afterward tlie boat people discovered that he was not a corpse, and were fright- After a hazardous journey and many ad- v to Canton, whence he took a steamer to Hongkong. He says that Hunan prov- m.—Rev. ' journey converts had been murdered. boat. nately they consented on promise of a reward. Stephano Sette, an Italian priest who has just arrived here after an adventurous Antonio Fantozzati, JAPANESE REPORTED TO HAVE GAINED A GREAT VICTORY OVER THE CHINESE AT SHANHAIKWAN Special Cable to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. Republication of this dispatch is pro- hibited. All rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain. LONDON “TOKIO, and gained a g FOUGHT TH —The Daily Telegraph publishes the following from its special correspondent: tis reported that on the 22d inst. a Japanese force of 15,000 succeeded in landing at Shanhaikwan PP NS STATE DEPARTMENT EIR WAY WITH THE BAYONET Russian Party That Was Belie‘{ed to Have Been Annihilated Reaches Pyongyang. ap dets sChipent ur en route to their way throug he point of the bay- dekoff in a dispatch dated sday, aflway guards safe- 220 civilians and urughaitu | rkoff adds, alu Valley. | amer with Russian troops ymbarfied by Chinese from Securing rein- an commander re- and landed on the He at- forcements, yurned to tk agazines were Eussians low was tory bombardment of Blagovest- chensk continues The town of Algun has been set on fire by the Russians. The Cainese at Saghalien have been compelled to retreat and take & new entrenched po- sition July 24, states | were | e Chinese lost |« Cossacks have destroyed the Chinese sprianovsk and Star- vikiev ¢k -— | SAYS LEGATIONS WERE SUPPLIED WITH FOOD 1 TOKIO, July 24—The message received | here from Shanghal yesterduy makes the | following assertions: “Yuanshai Kai, Governor of Shantung, | has received a letter from Peking, dated | July 18, declaring that a legation courier was captured by the Chinese guards on July 13. and that thereupon General Yung Lu petitioned the throne to employ the courler as a messcnger to communicate with the Ministers. This project was car- ried out, and a reply was received that the Ministers were well and were unanimous in favoring the restoration of peace. “An official of the Tsung li Yamen aft- erward visited the legations and Inter- viewed a Minister, and it was subsequent- decided to petition the Emperor to sup- y the legations with food and to send them te Tientsin “Yung Lu is said to have great difficulty | in intervening between the foreign sol- | diers guarding the south gioka bridge and lma Tongo troops on the north side. Fight- ing has now ceased, however.” CHANGES ATTITUDZ: Growing Suspicion at Washington That Chinese Officials Are Playing False. ASHINGTON, July 26.—There were no developments to-day to warrant the assumption that there was the slightest improve- ment in the Chinese situation. Indeed, the general tenor of such news as found light was to add to the steadily | growing doubt as to the good faith of the Chinese Government, as manifested in its acts. A letter from Admiral Kempff, given publicity by the Navy Department to day, made the direct statement that the imperial authorities were in sympathy with the Boxers, though he added that the Government was afterward paralyzed and incapable of controlling the situation. This was the first official declaration to reach our Government contradictory of the Chi- nese representations that the imperial Government had steadfastly and from the first opposed the Boxer movement, and our Government is bound to accept the word of its own officer until that is over- come by firrefutable evidence. Then the exchanges that are in constant progress between the powers are tending more apd more to cast suspicion upon the genuineness of the many communications that have come from Peking through Chi- nese governmental sources. If it should be finally established that there has been an attempt on their part to practice a gigantic fraud upon the world that fact may call for change of attitude on the part of the United States Government to- ward China. This would not affect the military policy already under way, but merely the technical relations between the two Governments, which probably would closely approximate a step of formal war. The Navy Department to-day contribu- ted a brief news item in the shape of a vindication by Admiral Remey of the United States marines from the general charge of looting at Tientsin. The ad- miral had a good deal more than this to report to the Navy Department, but the officials did not regard the rest of his re- | port as proper for publication just now. General Miles and General Buffington were again in consultation, separately, with Secretary Root to-day, and the sup- position Is that the Chinese campaign was under consideration. B s 2 COAL IS CONTRABAND. — LONDON, July 26.—In connection with the excitement created by the immensa quantities of steam coal leaving for France, admittedly for the use of the French navy, A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury and Government leader in the House of Commons, replying to a question in the House to-day, significantly pointed out that the bill before Parlia- ment to prohibit the exportation of war munitions applied to coal as well as to other military stores. HUNAN L S T2 2 2 U e e e e e e e SRR b e The priest who ! ; | CHINESE NEWS SUMMARIZED FROM THE CALL'S DISPATCHES e e CCORDING to Li Hung Chang, some of the foreign envoys have already left Peking on their way to Tientsin. This and other Chinese assurances of the safety of the legations con- tinue to be regarded with suspicion in Canton and Hongkong, not to speak of Shanghai, whence one correspondent telegraphs that the proposal to send the Ministers to the coast is a part of a deep-laid plot to conceal the date of the massacre. From Hongkong and Shanghai come reports of a spread of the anti-foreign feeling and of the more or less alarming attitude of the authorities. In Canton, despite many executions, the rowdy element remains undismayed, and even in the heart of China the feeling is such that, one correspondent says, if any reasonable fear becomes current of a partition of China being intended or of personal injury to the Dowager Empress being threatened, the whole of the cen- tral provinces will explode. Chinese troops which were beaten at Tientsin are massing at Yaungtun, twenty-five miles from that city, on the railway line to the capital. Fifteen thousand Japanese have landed at Shanhaikwan, inflicting a severe defeat upon the Chinese there. With occupation by Russian forces, a few days ago, of Lutai, on the railroad which connects Shanhaikwan with Taku, the allied forces are thus in possession of . a double base. Letters received in St. Petersburg and specially eabled to The Call present a vivid picture of events in Peking up to as late as June 19. o 3 I = 1 I b « &~ i * 3 x ! + * % x B e o L T S T A O 0 B i o o o g o o R O o Sl e e o .;.~H—-x—x-x?-x-H-H++++-F-H-l-x-«—kH-H-4~H—+-:—1-1—1+|—H-M—1~1~H+x—l'x-+++4-H—H—x~x;i4H-H-H-x-x-x-—x—|-xw it e e oo et el o MAKING READY IN CHINA. Boxers enrolling at a military post. A Government officer belonging to the army presides at the table. His um- brella indicates him to be a Mandarin of consideration. The picture is taken from the Illustrated London News and was drawn from a sketch made by a correspondent in China a short time before the outbreak. It is a type of what was to be seen at any of the military posts, which occur at frequent intervals along the roads, in the eastern prov- ipces, and is strong evidence that the high officials at Peking if not the Government itself were countenancing the anti- foreign movement and making preparation for the war that they knew was sure to' follow it. B e e ai a na in the form of two letters from the di-) LETTER FROM PEKING rector of the Russo-Chinese Bank to the DEScmBES THE RIOTS | Minister of Finance. The first is dated | June 15 and reads: |« oThe crisis. had a man belonging to the anti-Christian This '%H'!*X—I-H-!-FH-H'!’!-I-'XH—H efeele st B R B i e 2 o B Sl e 0 o 2 S S NN B B O BB O RN .-l—l- they turned their attention to European houses in the Chinese quarter and sacked and burned every one of them. It is im- possible to send any guards of the lega- tion to protect the houses from the mob, because the guards are too few to do any good. We are living in a state of war.’ “The second letter, dated June 19, says: ‘We are still without any news. Interna- situation here has reached a to the New York Herald. Cop; B 1 s”""‘h&“' oy New York Herald pub",h,“, On June 13 the German embassy pany. Republication of this dispatch is Srctlbited. AR rights reserved in the | mob, arrested” in Lexation street. United States and Great Britain. | caused a great commotion among the Chi- LONDON, July 27.—The Daily Mail pub- | nese, who burned the American church to ' tional and Russian troops are being be- lishes the following from its correspond- | the ground. Hearing of this E\.mpmnn sieged. We have taken every possible pre- . barricaded Legaticn street. The Chinese | caution to Insure our safety, as we are “ST PETERBBURO. July 26.—The first | then tried to set fire to the European | threatened with a sudden attack by the direct news frcm Peking arrived to-day | quarter, but here they were repulsed, so | Chinese.’"”