The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1900, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OFFICIAL CIPHER DISPATCH DIR \JULY 30, 1900. CT FROM PEKING ANNOUNCES FOREIGNERS IN THE LEGATIONS ALIVE 0 ixrkrirkki: SPHECIAL DISPATCE TO THE CATLL sy e D+ 5000600000000+ 800000000itss000000000tPtIt0+I 04040+ 0e 0+ 0400043000000 e =‘rf,—o@»vrz—"*r"éw—@w@—o@»@v@—w@—o—~sm@f«®ww&~ e o TS SR o o %"H\., . ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, July 29.—Again the veil which shrouds the fate of the foreigners in Peking has been lifted. A foreign Government has received a cipher message from its Minister in the ¢ . beleaguered legation building, dated well past the middie of July. The authenticity of the dispatch is beyond question. it was brought from the capital to the coast by a runner sent by a foreign Consul to Peking for the ? . purpose, who returned with a dispatch in the Government cipher. Naturally the message gave no news of casualties, except in the legation concerned. It stated, however, that attacks had become less severe, and ex- 3 p pressed the opinion that the hesieged foreigners could hold cut for some weeks more. > . g ; ( [Special Cable to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1800, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. Republication of this dispatch is prohibited. All rights reserved in the United States and Great Britain.] + ~ CHEFU, Friday (via Shanghai), July 29.—The Japanese Consul at Tientsin sent a runner on July 15 to Peking. On the 19th the runner left Peking, bringing a cipher telegram to the Japanese Governmgnt. It reat’s: : : “We are defending ourselves against the Chinese very well, but now the attack has stopped. We will keep up to the last of the month, although it will be no easy task. The Japanese casualties are: Killed— ? ! Kozima, diplomatic attache; a captain and one student and aiso a few marines. Wounded—Five or six. Slightly wounded—Very many. : - ‘ = Yot | ] ? : The Chefu Consul says that nothing was written about the other Ministers. 3 ‘. S e e e 2 D D . L 2h & G e DO e D e e ebeIeHetei et e ® ‘)0€v&&.0707¢m-07<‘4tomroroo-Ao—hwmfo—b—@L.MA,y‘—O—O—M—o—Q—o—.’ . 40 " L ] * 1&‘& q*&‘: dMew % 2 > “ <t ¢ MINJSFER CONGER IN FRONT OF HIS OFFICE AT < THE AMERICAN LEGATION, PEKING. * ¥rom per's Weekly. et “FIINISTERS LIVING.” REITERATES EARL LI Wily Chinese Diplomat Favors Hold-l ing Them to Coerce Foreign Powers. York Herald Publishing Company. Republication of this dis- All rights reserved in the United States patch is prohibited. and Great Britain.] | i [Special Cable to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by the New l | | Tele- h from and ch | explain why, if the Mir b cannot produce such proof as would sat- | powers, but he strongly favors | g the Minis s as hostages so as dren in Peking. He is unable to Hung " ecure favorable terms for the Empress ca 1 Government. He e ng the envoys as & only a lesser crime ir R Consuls for [ spresent thelr Govern- no I think he has not met with t. PLOT TO MASSACRE ALL | FOREIGNERS IN CANTON e to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by the New d Publishing Company. Republication of this dispatch hibited. All rights reserved in the United States and Great ST | of the The Boxers are charging | s to the Chi for passport 3 3 » Tientsin. Lao Yun Fu, Tr . & ch has refused :0 unless Viceroy Taksu Mansato temple and * ficials while pe of the ad suc orted that Russians from Har- arrived at a point 150 miles north fter severe fighting. of the abidly anti-foreign, are advancing toward Peking with large bodies of troops. Their advent must seriously affect the situation there.” foreigners. To-day the consular body decided that # of the second Japa- | the situation demanded the presence of a allied forces at Taku | military force in Shanghai, and the Con. umber 70.000. The river | suls have notified their governments ac- itsin are diminishing. ! cordingly. ver of foreign Rioting has al- the Mobs R e O e e S e -0 EDICT (TLATION THAT NOW CONERO i NEW situation, scarcely less appalling than would have been the massacre of all for- . eigners in Peking, confronts the world. In the light of the dispatch to The CallZ creq- b ence can at least be given to the messages announcing the safety of the legations in > Peking which have been sent out in profusion by the Chinese authorities. The Ministers are ¢ safe, but they are held as hostages. Li Hung Chang himself admits this, being apparently ¢ unable to see, as a special dispatch from Shanghai says, the enormity of the crime against < international rights. 2@ +2000006220400609 0000009000006 05 00+ 0 4000 - L S S e e O D S S e e e SR S g ASSASSINATION OF BARON VON From Le Journal Illustre, Paris. Attacked by a mob of Chinese on June 17, while on his return from a visit ¢ eign Office), the Kaiser's representative was dragged from his horse and beaten Qs i 0000600006000 000000000 00000000 e0 Special Cable to the New York Herald. Copyright, 1900, by New York Herald Publishing Company.® Re- publication of this dispatch s prohibited. All rights reserved in Qo000 ing. You are incurring I ! is- + < ¥ ; 3 & 3 ] . g Imperial dis b § ONDON, July 30.—The Daily Mail publishes the following from its special corre- :;“fl‘;:’;:’l“‘,“'-‘;r«ifl' Y, JYou have been ap- ; spondent : your military experience, ;;“m:m o 4 bH:\} GHAL, ]u]__\ 28,—~.4\ telegram was received . yesterday from Mission- ) e ;lz)rseim;:’r's”;:x bl e i ',’{‘xf | & ary Morgan at Shinan-Fu stating that in Shansi province the natives and converts were being g | the present Viceroy, is unable to do, ow- P s 4 = ®!ing to his ignorance of milidary affairs.’ ? massacred and that five more foreigners had been murdered. * "Li Hung Chang replied to this edict. | 4 Chinese hordes are now deluging the province of Chiii with Christian blood. More than : o3 h?,g;;p,be SHowed: 0 Fatise ow secant ¢ two thousand persons have already been butchered. The Catholic cathedral at Huhfung- & L e o admits that he. hes had > - . & z L 2 4 legrams since 19, in that . Kow is besieged and the inmates are doomed. Yu Seen, Governor of Shansi, has ordered that :. g1ty orsiguar in Paoting.Fu wis mur- q a5y B 3 iy e e i3 ? | dered, .including forty British, French ’ all missionaries and converts be massacred. The China Inland Mission at Ying Chow, Ngan- 4 | and American missionartes, and announc- { whei province, had been burned. ing that two French Jesuits and a thou- + sand converts have been massacred at [ §90000420004600000400000000000606000000000s 0000000000000 000e00] ONDPON, July 30.—The Shanghai correspondent of the Express tele- graphing yesterday says: “The Viceroys are also commanded io guard their territories vigilantly against attack and to prevent by all means In | “A new imperial edict promul- | their power the advance of the foreign gated this evening urgently orders | troops, especially along the Yangtse-| all Viceroys and provincial Governors to | Kiang. The decree says the officials will endeavor to negotiate peace with the pow- | answer with their lives for any failure to ers, whose Ministers are ‘held as hostages | execute the orders. pending the result of the overtures for | “Commands are also given that not a the abandonment of hostilities against | single forelgner shall be allowed to es- China.’ cape from the interior, where there are SAYS MINISTERS ARE HELD AS HOSTAGES B R e e e e e B e e e e ). ® teb s ebeteQ OF THE TARTAR They vary in height and thickness. At been executed. There is a regular path [ L e i S e e e e e L e e O S S SO S S Sy S MARCH Depar | ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HO- TEL, WASHINGTON, July 2. ! tion—and immediate action,’ Secretary Hay to me this evening, | “Is the policy which the United States is | urging in China. We are not waiting for more information, but are proceeding as & |1t we knew all.” Lacking sufficient forces in China to | make an advance on Peking independent- Iy of the other powers, this Government can urge the American commanders in @ | China to exert their influence to the ut- + | most against delay. This is being done, @ | and it is believed that more energetic ae- 4 | tion may follow the arrival of Major Gen- & | eral Chaffee at Tientsin. 4| The authorities here attach much im- portance to the report of the Chinese stu- dent who was sent from Tientsin to Pe- DA S S RO R S0 KETTELER. to the Tsung li Yamen (Chinese For- & | {in€ r""", R ok :";“‘"r Compeiodoiiony and hacked to pleces. )2 s ey SN Gy s il nese troops for sixty miles south of Pe. G565+ e b beoeoe @ King but found 20000 in the nity of fangtse-San and Pietsang. If this report ;|s correct the international troops are con- fronted in the immediate neighborhood of | ance they will encounter until they reach | the neighborhood of the capital, which his student reported to be surrounded with imperial troops. It is thought here | that this force of 20,000 could easily be | overcome by the inter: | that their defeat, followed by a steady | advance on Peking. would produce a | moral effect that would greatly weaken | the resistance at the gates of the 1 the United States and Grzat Britain, B e e e ) Kwangping-Fu, on the borders of Shang- tung and Chi-Li. “A majority of the consuls favor strong measures against Sheng’s duplicity. ‘“Local officlals assert that the Italian priests murdered in Hunan-Wen were wrapped in cotton, which had been soak- ed with kerosene, and were slowly ro ed to death. It is believed that all eigners in Chi-L! have by this time been massacred, and the wave of massacre is spreading toward Ning-Po and Hons- chow, from which point thirty English and American missionaries are endeavor- "ing to escape in boats down the river to still” fully 2000 Europeans connected with missionary work in isolated situations. “When the Governor of Shantung com- municated to the Consuls the imperial de- | cree of July 24 he omitted the important passes addressed to Li Hung Chang: “ ‘It is admittedly Inadvisable to kil all the Ministers, but it is equally unwise to send them to Tientsin. It will be much wiger to keep the survivors at Peking as hostages. *“ ‘You are commanded to hasten to Pe- VIEW ALONG THE TOP OF THE EASTERN WALL From Navy and Army. The walls of Peking have a total circumference of over thirty miles. wall is fifty feet high and forty-five feet thick. f of the wall near the front are used to expose the heads of persons who have e o e PPN URGING A HURRIED | Tientsin with the only formidable resist- | P I e e I R L e S S IR I ST A SRS S CITY, PEKING. the point shown in t The poles shown int e 2 y along the top of the wall. Qie 3400800000000+ ON PEKING “Immediate Action” Is the Policy Advocated by the State tment. Special Dispatch to The Call. Though there are many reasons for be- lieving that the Chinese Government is not acting in good faith, the United States ’wm officially accept all its protestations | of friendship that come through Minister Wu until it is known to a certainty that | they are false. President McKinley’s re- | ply to the appeal for mediation and the use of the good offices of the United ates to secure peace has not yet re- d In disclosing the real attitude of the imperial Government, as it was hoped would be the result. Minister Wu did not officially express his opinion to the State Department that his Governmetn would T‘codw to the conditions imposed in the ident” has since been with on in- ited States as pre- liminary to any negotiations with the Chinese Government Whatever may be the attitude of the imperial Government, which even Min- ister Wu admits, he not understand, the State Depart nt Is satisfled that werful men in China ypeful feature of the believed that if the eed in defeating r the Chinese forces Ng. pres- imperial on a basis ty of foreign- hina in the fu- many of the most | Government to s | that will | ers and their ture. & American intrigue has ed to the consuls here in the f a sk 1 to get the latter's ende hoodwir 1 with regard to events in Peking, was supported by the Ameri- | can officials in the claim to the appoint- ment of Inspector | FOURTEENTH INFANTRY ARRIVES AT TAKU Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyright, 190, by the Herald Pub- i Company. CHEFU, Friday. via Shanghai, July —The Fourteenth United States Infan- y from Manila has arrived at Taku. NTIAGO DE CUBA. | Second _Battalion of | States Infantry, ing, will leavé to-mos | States. and Baracoa will be taken route. The officers have received instrue= tions to prepare warm clothing for a hard winter campaign and to be ready to re- embark shortly after arriving in New York. All the men are enthusiastic at the prospect of active service in China. w for the United The companies at Guantanamo aboard en