The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1900, Page 2

THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900. SECRETARY HAY NOW BELIEVES THE ALLEGED MESSAGE FROM MINISTER CONGER WAS A FORGERY O S S SR . A+N+9+M§—Q—‘ R R S o e S SR fw\+*+®—¢49-*>*0~« —-0-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-¢ Cipher Code Stolen From the State Department Known to Be in the Pos- session of the Chinese. Dispatch to the Call. ASHING- to LINGTON IH )JTEL, W ctantly coming message from ‘,."n»‘«‘ Conger ters in Peking are probably cials, has degrees and by Consul General stallize the t to-day that a copy that that <copy ssion of the ( ese Government. At the same ; s not an old code and a new e se ( was different from that s et s in Europe. In the uent vhile in the former it ¢ SCo that the missing le: cia » belic > are great 4 ; Conge <nat « proving a —_——e AV, V4 S VY \ ’ Pl q see at a Mr. | s#fety. Hov ; Remey e on Pe- abinet to- ay there ailable for B ¢ (From a photogra * In the foreground is shown a & eigners who were allowed to walk through the grounds. ¢ surrounding the compound of the British leg: o In taking t > in who died within the palace and whose bier, R IRCRE SO SRR SO cLLMLLL INCLOSING WALL AND ENTRANCE OF THE PALACE OPPOSITE THE BRITISH LEGATION AT PEKING. sent to Supervisor W. ection of the canal which runs from north R O O B O o R 0 /////// 1111 il fon, which required si ty CHlNESE PROPOSAL of the REJECTED BY HAY Will Not Suspend Military Opera- tions on Promise of Safety for Ministers. coolies to carry, { | I | | il AST N, Ju retary sonal intercourse with the President, was H alized return to ! in a position to advise colleagues of this morning by the | the ministration’s purpose and the | hat under no cir- | whole Chinese situation was discussed < w Government accept sides Hay there were pres- | t 1 : foreign | er Postmaster General ) if i 1 Tien- | Smith ¢ ¢ Root. | n leration of spension of |~ e r to general iay t is belleved upon him. s to be pur se in thi: ut that irope United bitter critici pers directed agair policy is based upon a total misunder- tanding of the fundamental principles which have governed the actions of the department. At no time, it is said, has the State De- rtment allowed the belief that the for- Ministers at Peking were alive to in- ere in the siightest degree with the secution of military plans for reach- g Peking. On the contrary, the news that t isters were alive was accept- | ed by the State Department not as con- veyir lute certainty but as an addi- tional reason for hastening the relief col- umn forward to Peking. It was the d thou surrounded th » of affairs in | considerAtion of hu- demanded that it ul consideration and | acted upon as it true, eontentior every policy it sho be provided that action went to the relief of | the foreign Minister: to the objects laid down in and did not operate the consummation of any of ecretary Hay's nt identical note. The department is abso- lutely satisfied that its attitude was per- fectly rrect and that even European eritics will in time admit t fact. Secreiary State Department’s Policy. Hay’s decision to decline the last Chinese proposition was based upon | bis determination to adhere strictly to the conditions laid down in the reply to the Chine »eror's appeal. The State Department required that the Ministers at Peking be put into communi- | the relief e the legations. done the State De cation with their Governments, and the most significant condition of all was that the 1 authorities co-operate with pedition for the liberation of Until these two things are Chinese s to be led into any arrangement 10ok- | ing to the mitigation of the punishment of the Chinese Government, such as the abandonment of the expedition to Peking. It is not known at present just how this | last proposition reached the State Depart- ment. It is Inferred that it came from | Chinese sources, but all are believed to be traceable to Li Hung Chang. Mr. Good- now, who is Consul Géneral at Shanghai, is the nearest United States official to Li, {and has acquitted himself so well up to R s e elioiebei e >0 UP TO JULY SIXTH| reig Still Held Out Despi oreigners Sti el ut Despite Heavy Losses but Feared Annihilation o s eg h lleged intention to begin e a dvance Peking 1 & week, ting _ that he of y‘ * > \ H rprdiy been received here say- t the German Cathc mission: in Shantung are still and that of them are in the intericr - sstern L] HUNG CHANG TO gners in Pe RETURN TO CANTON = P HONGKONG, July 1t is asserted ¢ ing at Canton is going to Shanghai to Chang back. States iliary tish third-cl v pi- arrived here. | sugges n at gl o ' N s sntioal it may ASK FOR A WARSHIP. - Dels ) The Call and New York Her- | - . . 1909, by the Herald Pub- —Missionaries and wh ved from Hoithow ch co rned for the safety of for- g s left behind in H They have ¥ { RY hed the American Consul here, R. . e 4 with a view to sending the » » which has j ed, ¥ = The Consul is await- s K amer which is e i before deciding. The & cruiser Mohawk arrived to-day e g fch received h r Minister Wu Elated. C ¥ WASHINGTON, July 27.—Minister Wu pror was quite elated this morning when in- med that it was reported the surviving members of the diplomatic corps were g conducted to Tientsin by troops of Lu, commander in chief of the Chi- nese forces. He said he would not be sur- | NEW HOPE IN BERLIN THAT MINISTERS LIVE at Tientsin. Minister Wu said he had re- cetved no news from China in the past | twenty-four hours. He did not expect to visit the State Department unless he ! heard from his country. GERMAN TROOPS SAIL. AN, July is reported that r William has written letters to | Victoria, or Nieholas, Em- Francis Joseph and King Humbert strong appeai off behalf of the | harmony among the | China, and dwelling solidarity of interests | by which BREMERHAV an expeditionary force for tened aerts, w h}® that the Kaiser is seeretly pre- | Emperor William, accompanied by™ tw a much iarger force for Chi of his sons and the Imperial Chancellor, a » 5 | Prince Hohenlohe, witnessed the embars that this is being brought about by | ation of the expedition and delivered a md appeal within the regiments' farewell address to the troops. ,a diplomatic agent. | this point that ‘he State Department does not hesitate to make free use of him as Therefore it may be | interesting for the foreign contingent at | Shanghai, yrised to hear at any ti ¥ v 1]\[1— Goodnow's intercourse with Li Hung prised to hear at any time of their arrival l(‘hn.ng‘ b, KTiOW, EEAEIN JCOHE - Gk spml | structions of the State Department. | tain as much as possible that Chinese of- | | ficial's influence in secur: | plainl. July 2.—Part of the [nm follow that the United States is bound China | to accept without question any statement 1 which has complained against |1s acting in strict accordance with the in- Sec- retary Hay has cabled him to put himselt {into communication with Barl Li and ob- tated in the identical note. It does d to-day on board three transports. { by Earl Li. Discussed at Cabinet Meeting. A special Cabinet meeting was held in Secretary Hay's office this morning. The Secretary of State, fresh from his per- partment absolutely re- | g the objects | inions a laid before t ‘ormation had latest cluding Goodnow he anghal. has received views members the received, in- | dispatch from Consul General | | from Admiral Sec- in- informa- | Remey, on- n is 28000. The movement of the troops from Tientsin to Peking, Secretary Root | ays. would depend upon the arrival and | | mobilization of troops of other nations now on the way to aku He said it would |.be impossible for the United States force, { small as it is, to go alone. | that coula possibly ordered to China. This Government, | accepting in good tions made by faith Minister Wu. presumably, It is further ted that all the United States troops | be spared had been is still the representa- Our n‘{nn(.u figure that two days must elapse ‘hefore an an | Conge last cc time th SWer can he (presuming he i messag. sent him. Tn t received from Minister till alive) to the he mean- y are bending very energy to get- tingyall the men they can into China and | forward mov ovement. |EXTENDED POWERS PARIS, July cil to-day had been | China to take such be necessitated by the situation cordingly as naval reserves various point: be deemed adv abl Foreign Office that two military | Lazarist establishments at province of Kiangsi, burned. patch adds that |ALL MISSIONARIES [ IN PAOTING'FU Inland Mission received the cablegram from Shanghai this “All ml:smnarles murdered ting-fu.” The China Inland Mission has slonaries stationed at Paoting, pro\mr‘e of Chi-li, which Tientsin, but further inland. sionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Ba; all, | three children, A IR BERLIN, July 21. here to-day, dated Tientsin, Ju July 15, brought office here news troops and had been defeated. the city.” FOR FRENCH CONSULS| 27.—At the Cabinet Coun- the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, M. Delcasse, stated that full powers given the French Consuls measures as should | the protection of French subjects, arrive at Taku naval vessels will be dispatched to where their presence may The Consul at Kankow telegraphs to the at Sze Chaun have been pl]lagcfi and the the Vicerovs sponta- eously took measures to ‘restore order. | _ TORONTO, Ontaris, July 27.—The China | is just about the same distance from Peking as These mis- | have undoubtedly per- ished. The North American_ Presbyterian Board g] nd the American Board of Mis- sions, the latter being mostly Congrega- tionalists, have also had “workers at Peking. PRINCE CHING’S FORCE DEFEATED- BY BOXERS —A dispatch recelvedf “A messenger who left Peking Sunday. to-day to the customs that Prince soldiers had Leen fighting Prince Tuan's | eigners were defending themselves in the | northern cathedral, ncar the fort iuside to co-operate with the allied forces in the | in to insure | Ac- stations | +4-H—PH~H~H'P++++'!~H+++I+H'+HOH~H-P+-H++++4°H4 Yauchou, The dis- | SLAIN | | | following | morning: | in Pao- two mis- in the is and their 24, says: | Ching’s The for- | to D000 o hin Chen Lo Feng Luh tele ONDON, July 28, 4 a hope, but that it is constantly minishing, is held here to define ac- curately the Chinese situation. The e Minister in London, Chih | vest gram from Sheng, to the effect th McCarthy of San Francisco by his brother-in-law, A. F. Chamot, now in Peking.) south through the Tartar city The higher part of the wall to the left of the gate, which is more than ten feet thick, which served for so long a time as a defense for the foreigners gathered within. The gate is the one always used by any for- e picture the photographer placed his instrument directly in front of the gate of the British legation. The occasion was the funeral of a man- is shown before the wall to the left of the gate. ———--0-4-0-0--04-0 PENDULUM SWINGS TOWARD HOPE’S SIDE London Paper Goes So Far as (o Assert That the Ministers Are Safe. m.—Lymdn J. Gage's statement that there is still | di- rday received a Director of Rail-| an | ways and Telegraphs, imperial decree in the following terms was iseued on July 24: “It is fortunate that all the foreign representatives except Baron von Xette- ler are found in safety and unharmed. | Provisions in the shaps of food stuffs, vegetables and fruits will be supplied {o the 1 tes ations in order to show our cour- The Morning Post goes so far as to as- sert that there is now direct communica- tion Peking arG Londcn, ter: the Chinese authoriti and that the M However this may be, between s are safe. n nis- it is certain that the attempts of the French, Italian and other Consuls to get direct replies from Peking have utterly failed, and it is pointed out that the ability to cupply the Jegations with fruit and vege- | @inirirdd il el @ il forfoedrefofortorfoforfocforfeofe ofe ofooe NO MYSTERY IN CHINESE NAMES Celestial J;fi?reakers That Are Basy When You Know How. HE mysterious names appearing in the Chinese dispatches become fa- miliar enough when translated, Tung means east; si, west; nan, south; pel, north; while tsin, kin or king stands for capital or metropolis, as in Peking (northern capital) and Nanking (southern capital). Tien means heaven, so Tientsin signifies heavenly metropolis. Ho or kiang means river, o Pel-ho is north river; Si-kiapg, west river. Che means seven, so Che-kiang is seven rivers. Shan is mountain, and Shan-tung, east mountain, and Shan-sl, west mountain. Pal is white, and Pai-shan, white mountain. Hal is\sea, and kwan stands for gate, so Hai-kwan (the maritime cus- toms) is gate of the sea, and Shan- hai-kwan, mountain and sea gate. Shang is a city, and Shanghal, city by the sea. Hoang is yellow: Hoang-ho, vellow river, and Hoang-Hai, Yel- low Sea. Yang means ocean, and Tse, son; hence the Yang-tse River is son of the ocean, and Tien-tse, son of heaven (the Emperor). Ku or kow is a mouth or pass, and Ta, big or great, so Ta-ku means big mouth (of Pei- Ho), while Nan-kow stands for south pass (from Mongolia). Hu Is a lake; ling, a hill; hsiang, a village; hsien, a tax district. Fu is a prefecture: tal, a governor; tao, a circult or group of adminis- trative departments; so tao-tai is a governor of a circuit, and fu-tal is a governor of prefecture. Chao or kiao is a bridge; li, a Chinese mile; pa, eight, and thus Pa-li-kiao is the eight- mile bridge. Cho or chow Is a depot stopping place; hence Tung-chow, eun(-‘ depot of Peking. Shen is a province, and Shen-si is the western province. Yamen is a police station or official residence, and Hui, a secret society or club. Ts'ing means pure or cle: =0 Te'ing-klang 1s clear river, while Ta- Ts'ing means great pure (name of present dynasty), and Kwo being a kingdom or empire, Ta-Ts'ing Kwo sig- nifies the empire of the great pure (China). Ta-Mei-Ka Is the name ap- plied by the Chinese to the United States and means great America. el ieleleefeleleecfertedeode ool 1 i de ool —s—z;l-x—x-:—x+++++++—1-x-:—x«x—x- el el e is just like that L S B e o N A A S S SRR T TCR SCSP RIS SRS z\ofio tables involves the conclusion that com- munication i{s not impeded by the Boxers. | Thus, despite the daily alternation of | hopes and fears, the relterated Chinese ertions of the safety of the Ministers ajl to carry conviction and the decision | of the United States not to delay military | measures is taken as the only possible to pursue. The Daily N negotiations with Chinese authori- If there be any in China, are useless. turns out that as early from the press of China to n Victoria for mediation, dated July , was handed the Marquis of Salisbury, | and it is understood other powers were not communicated with until July Thv Nhanzh'!i correspondent of the l'\al- Iy Expres erts that three versions of Sir Claude Macdonald’s letter of Jul are current there, and that it is believed all three originated from Chinese sources. He adds, however, that Li Hung Chang says the legation party ought to reach Tientsin on Sunday. The Morning Post correspondent at Che- fu, wirlng on Wednesday, says there is a rumor that Prince Ching rescued the | legations and conveyed them to a place of safety. Eighteen missionaries have been massa- | cred at Tungchau. General Alfred | Gazel has started for Taku. | | course that tie It |GENERAL MASSACRE ) IN TWO PROVINCES | o TLONDON, July has the following .—The Daily Express from Chefu, dated | July “Four more British missionaries | | have been murdered in the province of Shansi. News from native Christian i sources say that for eight days a general | massacre of foreigners has been in pro gress in the province of Hunan ana Shansi. The Governor of Shantung has | wired the Consul here that he has pr | hibited the circulation of a proclamatio | threatening native Christians with death | unless then renounce Christianit; RUSSIA- MAKING BIG PREPARATIONS FOR WAR | | | ST. PETERSBURG, July The Rus- | sian General Staff has received news from Aigun, on the Amur River, of the burn- ing by Chinese of occupied by Russians. Newspaper dispatches assert that Chi- nese troops have appeared in Russian ter- | ritory within 100 versts of Stretinsk, on ! the River Shilka. | It is rumored that the forces of all ths | northern provinces will be mobilized on | a war footing. | — - SAILS FOR SAN FRANCISCO. : PHILADELPHIA, July 27.—The steam- | ship Bosnia of the Hamburg-American { line, lately impressed by the German Gov- | ernment to carry supplies to China for ‘lhe Kaiser’s troops, left port to-day for San Francisco. She has in her hold over | 8000 tons of material, and when she | reaches the Pacific_Coast, it is said, she lwm ship at least 1500 horses for the use of the German cavalry in China. P Continued on Eighth Page. Millions for Basenall. A million of dollars are spent every year up- on the game of baseball, but large as this sum | 1s. it cannot begin to equal the amount spent | by people in search of health. There Is a sure method of obtaining strength, and it is not a costly cne. We urge those who have spent | much and lost hope to try Hostetter's Stomach | Bitters. It strengthens the stomach. makes | digestion easy and natural, and cures dyspep- ble dispatch, as July 12 an | | Sincox fami | boara, which -apparently prevailed at Chef: an encampment there | — | S By t¥e carioad, road station. | #la, constipation, blliousness and weak kid- neys. 4 SULCESSFUL DOCKING OF THE ORECON Structural Strength of the Battleship Intact. Four \Ionth~ \\nnld Be Re- quired for Permanent Repairs. W P e e Department to-day following cablegram tain Wilde, commander of recetv Oregon: “KURE, July 26.—Secretary h ‘Washington: Ship docked. Struct strength intact. WILDE ‘While the dispatch omits the te: detalls of the injury received I Oregon in striki zpon a rock Gulf of Pechili, Captain Wilde to have pplied some of these They indicate that, although t tural strength of the great b: still intact, her injuries were of ar character. None of the longit frames wers injured, but the v bottom was badly torn d some pumping connections were broken main injury sustained was to ment A, as it is technically known Captain Wilde, in his cable mess. several days ago, estimated that it w is from ¢ ASHINGTON, July 27.—The \ avy w ge require a few weeks to make tempora repairs and at least four months to com- plete permanent repairs. The N Department _authorized Captain Wild to patch her up with temporar repairs in order that she might return to the Chinese coast £ service. These orders will stand, 3 after full consideration of the character of the Oregon's injuries by the bureau is desirou t chiefs at Washington, it proceed immediately With®the necessary permanent repai r NEWS OF AMERICANS IN INTERIOR CHINA WASHINGTON, July 27.—The Depart- ment of State is in receipt of a cable dls- patch from Consul Those not Fowler at Chefu reply to one sent him asking for informa tion of missionaries in China. Mr. Fowler in his reply says only one missionary, presumably French, is known to be in the interfor of Hunan Americans are situated. cued are the persons who went to Peking belonging to the American Board of For- eign Missions, and are believed to be Ar- thur Smith and wife, the Wyckoff sisters and Chapin, his wife and two children Their names were given in a previous ca- n which Mr. Fowler said he At Shantung only res- believed that only two foreigners were in the interior, both French. The following dispatch has been ceived at the State Department Consul_General Goodnow at dated July 27: Shangh. re “An officlal telegram réceived here on the 18th sald all foreigners and many na- tive Christians had been killed at Taoting and the mission burned Ameri: Sincox family, Taylor, Pekin, Miss Ge Morrill. The customs office turbances at Yuan yvesterda The cablegram is much confused, eports dis- but is | given out exactly as received by the Stata Department. It probabi of Peking. “PEKING ALIVE” THE v means that t Americans who were killed comprised t either a man or a woma | named Ta another named Perkins |and the Misses Gould and Morrill. Toa- ting is about seventy-five miles southwest WORD FROM PORTER BOSTON, of commi to-day received a cablegram Henry B. Porter, a missionary dated Chéfu, July 23, “Peking alive.” jioners for the foreign mis: of the words, Rev. Mr. Porter, who was stationed Pang Chuang, province of \nr(h China, escaped to ( yxer uprising. The cz famed only the two w alive,” no intimation being the evidence on which the co based. containi from Rev July 27.—The American board Just a Lllfle Out of Sorts That s the way many serious troubles begin. The stomach gets a little out of order, is neglected, and chronic dyspepsia follows. 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