The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1900, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 31 1900. [acDONALD REPORTS THAT LEGATIONS ARE SAFE Hope Is Revwed by a Message From thej: English Representa- i tive at Peking. Many Foreigners Killed ai Wounded, but an Armaistice Was Declared on July 16, W hen Firing Ceased. Admira made Admiral m.—The has Ity the following dispatch from Rear Bruce llowing message has been received from Pe- tish I( gation at Peking was from June 20 to July 16 repeate v Chinese troops on all sides. Both s 1 There has been an armistice since | a cordon is strictly drawn on both sides of the posit Chinese barricades are close to ours. mer 1 n in the British legation are s to date are 62 killed, including Captain mber of wonnded > in the hospit including Cant I av. The rest of legation are all well, except I ¢ 1\ o were killed July 21. ‘MACDONALD.” ed Peking, July 21, ipher, is accepted on 1ave existed regard- to an error in Owing fails to show the number of wounded. ] 1 phant and Warren were two student interpreters.’ to mention the other legations and other yrtance, but it should be borne in mind not be aware that all his previous He may be the im- under yeer ve 1 suppressed. t the Government is fully posted regarding 411 re- lispatch there m no fresh news, 3ritish and the is practically lentsin asserts that the ire getting ready to advance within forty-eight He the ents him continuing the journey to Peking. hang remains at Shanghai. says N - Now | was effected to Daschizao, with forty- casualtles, Killed, wounded and ot The v from Mukden to Telin and » expect that within a very | Daschiza s been completely destroved . g will « from Min- | and the fate of the workmen and raflway P \ o » fficiais north of Mukden is not known. The whole Mukden district is menaced by i, large bodles of Chinese troops with ar- tillery. Chinese troops and Boxers, in defiance of treaties, have appeared at the towns of Tukshou, Sinjudshi and the inhabitants to revolt garrison Sinjudshi the town, three men b slan detachment, returning from an in- pection of affairs in Gaoudun peninsula, attacked and surrounded by Chinese on July 21. The Russlans eventu- repulsed the Chinese with a loss of ht Cossacks killed and ten wounded. Gaifen Inciting On July 17 the was shelled from ing killed. A R - Similar reports have been recetved from ” July 22 (via Shanghal, July R ivices from Peking, under non S 5, say that the legations are iz g The Chinese attacked the | = on the night of y but | et 11into a trap by the Amer s and | » and 1000 of them were killed T, Pi Afterward they continued bombarding the o - legations more freely indicating a | Am ng the Chinese killed was General b h rough Manchu- | Ma ' the ghborhood of | The legations were subsequently at- s northward has ntly increasing fury. o g ns that the Rus- cse advices were brought from Peking s p s mpelled to re- | by a courier. tr from Mukder hward Ji S, July 30.—A dispatch from Alexieff, a Russians Surrounded. ed s 4 sously the column with nd communicated to the Forelgn Of- B he m at Al i states that the latest advices confirm v 8 was surrounded | {h€ news that the foreign Ministers at Reinforcements. were | Peking are out of danger. column | — | Encouraging Tidings. BERLIN, July 30.—The [ at Tientsin has telegraphed under date Saturday® July 28, to the Foreign Offic as follows: “The German Secretary of Legation at Peking, Herr Below, writes, 21: Thanks for your news. On July 16 the condition of Cordes was satisfactory. The remaining members of the are all right. The detachment guards lost ten men kilied and wounded. The houses of the were much damaged by cannon wal of the X § Whe have the Bilues of fourteen legation fire, but of the Chinese troops on us ceased July 16. Speediest possible advance ,of reliet troops urgently necessary. ‘According to a trustworthy report the body of Baron von Ketteler has been Is a mental conditlon | <) vy the Chincse government's order.” " directly traceable to some distinctly female ill. Well women don’t have the blues, but compara- tively few people under | stand that the right medi- cine will drive them away. overcomes the blues, be- tause It is the safeguard of woman’s health. [ 3 the entire female organism as else does. When nlhhyn The Cordes mentioned In the above dis- patch 15 the second interpreter of the German legation. He was with Baron von Ketteler when the latter was mur- dered and himself was wounded. He es- caped to the legation. LONDON, July 30.—The British Consul fice to-day that a letter from a Japanese colonel in Peking states that the lega- tions were safe on July 22. There had been no firing on the legations since July 17. The Consul adds: “A reliable messenger, who fallea to enter Peking but reached there, returns stating that there had been n¢ firing on the legations between July 15 and July In view of this evidence the Brltiuh Gov- are safe. RUSSIANS TO GUARD AND . LONDON, July 30.—In the Commons to-day the Parliamentary Sec- | retary for the Forelgn Office, Mr. William St. John Broderick, read the dispatch from the British Consul at Tientsin, say- ing that the foreign Ministers at Peking were safe July 22. Mr. Broderick also read a dispatch in and at Tientsin July | German Consnl | of | legation | the | are being held by the guara. The attack | at Tientsin telegraphs to the Foreign Of- | Q-I-H‘ M g ‘l-n-!-—.--l-h—.-lol'l-l—!'!‘l-l‘l'l'l'l‘ & 'l--H-I-!-i—H'l-H-l"!-fl—H-i-H—I—I-. -~ SITUATION IN CHINA AS TOLD BY THE CALL'S DISPATCHES advices by runners from the beleaguered legations in Peking assure the world that the bulk of the CCUMULATIN foreigners were alive on July 21 an armistice was declared on Ju! German diplomat expr es fear Apparently, however, Hun; ang and el other Vi one. Li isters at the c lomats, it cannot I surances that no such conditions shall = hours. THE ITALIAN LEGATION PEKING, WITH CHINESE SOL- DIERS ON GUARD IN FRONT. From Le Monde Illustre. breach in the left bank, in order to flood | the country to the eastward. Mr. Broderick added that the councll of | admirals decided July 16 that tie rall- road between Taku and Tientsin should be guarded and should be managed by the | Russians. The Government has informed Russia It acquiesced, as the .urangemvnt\ might be the mpre convenient, but that 1t must be clearly understood that the line | would revert to its former management, | that is, the British, on termination of hos- | tilities. Mr. Broderick added that he aid | not yet know who was to have supreme command, British troops would be avail- able to eo-operate with the allies, but no arrangement has been made to put (h@m | in commana of foreign officers. e POWERS MUST LAY | CABLES TO GET NEWS 30.—The tele- just now are vernments in- terested are endeavoring to better affairs. The rcal cabie station from which China . The only way hed by wire from | land line is un- der the control of the Chir athorities | and Sheng, of whom so much has Been published, and they control everyt! which goes over it. The only communi tion that the United States has between Taku and Chefu is by na L -3 is presmmed lnn is not known, that the internatio = have telegraphic com- munication Il'lv\l Tientsin and Taku. At Taku the con tory tions are not satisfac- The international fleet, including the erican warships, lie far off shore and ages must be sent out to them by | The ons are trying to arrange | from Shanghai to Chefu. Al- tugs for a cable ¢y arrangements have been made to a cable across from Taku to Chefu, and the United States will pay its share, amounting to $150.000. Some difficulty is encountered in arranging the details for the ational cable from Chefu to | as all the governments have to | sulted and communication witi the | cable office and telegraph companies must be provided for. FIGHTING POWER OF CHINESE OVERESTIMATED WASHINGTON, Lieutenant | | | X July 30.—Although Sanford of the signal corps sald in his dispatch to General Greelpy that “further advance may not be made before September,” it is expected that General Chaffee will strongly oppose any such gdelay. War Department officials rely on the American commander to find out speedily the exact situation which confronts the international forces. Military men in Washington have all along insisted that the international com- manders were overestimating the fighting power of the Chinese troops. The defeat of a great force of Chinese at Tientsin by a much smaller number is cited as evi- dence of this. That any legation bufldings remain standing and that any of their Inmates are alive after being subjected to fire for nearly a month is regarded here as little short of marvelous and showing their lack of efficiency. The War Department has ordered two more batteries of artillery to China, C of the Seventh Regiment, now at Fort Ad- ams, R. I, and M of the same regiment, now at Washington Barracks. They will g0 by the way of Nagasaki, and in the event of a settlement of the Chinese trou- bles will be sent to the Philippines. | The Third and Seventh Infantry regi- 5§ ernment 1s convinced that the legations | MANAGE THE RAILROAD | St ve ments now in the Philippines are under | orders for China, but will leave Manila |only in ecase of “extraordinary emer- geney.” i General MacArthur has protested so the withdrawal of d that the re reluc- vigorously against any more troops of his comm War Department authorities tant to act ngn‘nut his wlshe& "CHINESE REFOMERS WOULD AID ALLIES Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., July I)—W A Cum Yow, secretary of the Chinese Re- form Association of Canada, announced | to-day that cables had been received by representative leaders of the association all over the world from Kang Yu Wel, head of the reformers, to come to Maco, the present safety of the envoys is assured, them free' communication with thelr home Governments. Washington res: ards the latter as the first requisite, and has again rejected the suggestion for the delivery of the Min- . No matter with what speed. or under what safeguards the Chinese Government Sends the insulted dip- 1t the advance of the forces of the powers, which will exact at Peking indemnity for losses anq as- According to one dispatch from China the American and English forces are preparing to move on Peking within twen- ty-four 2 2 e e a2 2 e e After nearly four weeks of shelling, which cost the lives of sixty-two Europeans, ly 16. Sir Claude Macdonald reports the Chinese barricades very close, and the of a renewal of the attack. and the problem of their rescue is the vital ieroys are memorializing the throne to send the diplomats to Tientsin or to allow again he, permitted In the Chinese capital. X2 D o e o e e e e 2 S B B ® | |+ eviebelloioi ONE OF THE HEAVY GUNS, MOUNTED ON THE WALL OF PE- K'ING. USED TO BOMBARD THE LEGATIONS. =fofs CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S -H-H—I-l-l—l*l‘-l-!-l—l-l—,—l—l—l‘ L AR Jooferferjoofooder Consul Fowler Cables Cheering News Con- cerning the Besieged Legations at Peking. Information That Increases the Hope That This Governmen! Can Get in Direct Communi- cation With Minister Conger. er restraint for their own protectfo: hat was all, he thought. In the p: listurbed conditions, the Minister bel this might be a w prec NEWS CABLED BY ASHINGTON, July 30.—Th Secretary of State received at midnight a dispatch from Mr. Fowler, American Consul at Chefu, dated July 29, noon. Mr. Fowler says: | aated the 21st inst., the German legation, has been received at | is between “A letter from LIEUTENANT STAMFORD Tientsin. The German 11”551'}1 i o woly urec e Chinese f-i?.-e:"?hm':wal:xicé"f,n the 12th. Baron| WASHINGTON, July %0.—General Gree- Yon Ketteler's body is sald to be safe. | ly, chief signal officer, has received a | The Austrian, nmrn and Spanish lega- cable message from Lieutenant Stamford, tions were destroyal, and the French par- the volunteer signal officer serving at t A letter 1mm the Japanese lega- | Taku, Chi; e Ninth Infar 1y. ! tion dated the 22d arrived at Tientsin on the 2th. Ten battalions of Chinese shelled the legations consecutively from the 20th of June and stopped on the 17th and is as f a “fl!r‘trs killed, m; wounded, s and Bookmiller, command are good of July, but may renew. The hne‘mA\' are e g 1 | decreasing. The jerman, Russian, Amer- kA Lawton doing we | fcan, British and half the Japanese and Marine corps, officers killed, Ctptain French legations arestill defended. The |Davis: wo = nv».—;g.-.: Leonard, Japanese say they have food for six days, | "r"’;' » "'I‘ Amy -Y"""l aptains Loug Bl and Lealy, Lieute but little ammunition. The Emperor and s domng we « Empress are reported at Peking. s gt - e Proceeding With Caution. has been r 1. Colonel Meade of the The effect of the day’'s news from China | marines a battery was to freshen the hope that the Gov- Sokaienl as% ernment can soon get In direct communi- cation with Minister Conger. The mass of testimony as to his being alive as late as the 22d inst. s now so great to w rant the department in resuming con indicate the erations of projects for the futur With all its anxiety to Mr. Conger and the Americans in Peking safely away, the de- partment is proceeding with the proper and is by no means t“‘(‘-"" ed to taken at the War De- caution, | accept any proposition that would unduly ant Stamford jeopardize their lives. Such might be the > has been in- result of an off-hand acceptance of the f importanca proposition to have the Chinese Govern fore Mini ment deliver the b .t Tientsfn, for it is realized that the esco might be overpowered by superior forees | COL, COCHRM\: GOES TO | of Boxers on the way to the The State Department has come to the con- CHINA IN PLACE OF MUSE clusion that Mr. Conger himself is the best person to jud f the conditions un- | evidence yet received touching the safoty | shall again looking e it in rder his de erance therefore it Is ese Government to plac communication with Mr that it may be advised by | quirement was the first of the con lald down by President McKinley answer to the appeal of the Chine: peror, so that the situation diplomatic der which in ally Cochrar cannot be said to have been materially | 20" -hanged by the developments vy P The State Department was inc e Rl s Me. wh F s cc imication as egard Consul Fowler's commt the most valuable piece of confirmatory FUNDS TO MEET THE EXPENSES IN CHINA pe plomats. Up to a late of the Peking diplomats 3 hour no answer had been received to the second Congef message, but in view of | Consul Fowler cia e | S Inclined to look forward to an early re In the House of ¥ Hick-Bea ESCAPE FROM THE BOXERS, Wife of Consul Ragsdale Writes of the Attack on Tientsin and Flight of Herself and Her-Children. Special Dispatch to the Call. v to-day that Mrs. J. . wife of the Ameri n, together with her 1l and Effie, and b Mrs. Bertrand Ragsdaio, , Japan, hanm: escaped from Tientsin on July 2. Con- le and his son, Bertrand, were, at the time of writing, still in Tien tsin, ayed at their posts. A letter written on June 13 was received here about ten days . but beyond describing the scenes of activity witnessed in the preparations for the expected trouble contained nothing startling. To-d letter, which arrtved this morning addressed to Mr: P. Whiting, was from Mrs. Ragsdale herself and contains much of interest, being in part as follows: “I have started you a letter which [ find I can’t finish, telling you of our slege and depafture from Tientsin, where we left Mr. Ragsdale and Bert well and our house not injured. All the women and children have been ordered out for fear of fever and famine. The place is packed with soldlers and they will require all the houses for them. We have Americans, both well and wounded, at the consulate and we have a cook & other servants, gathered from the refugees, so Mr. Ragsdale will be able to run the house. I was asked or rather ordered to take my children and leave, to show to others that it was safe to go to Taku. By the river it is a distance of sixty-eight miles. We started on July 2, at 11 a. m., on the Chinese Viceroy's tug, that had been captured by t Americans. So we came out—Mrs. Bert Ragsdale and baby, Effie and Earl and myself and our Chinese amah, the only Chinese servant who did not run away on Saturday, June 16, the day before we were shelled from the Viceroy's forts, two miles above Tientsin and the attack on us begun in earnest. We arrived at Taku at 7 o'clock,” p. m., having made a quick trip and went on the Monoc- acy, an American gunboat anchored in the river. There we spent the’ night and learned of the firing on a party who came down two hours later than we did. “We only saw nn!?\rps. but they met troops, preving it was not by any means a safe trip that others might be led to follow. We, by the advice of Admiral Kempff, came on to Japan, as the whole of China is in a turmoil. Will try to have the next letter ready to go by the first mail going oyt In a few days on the City of Peking. Of our dear friends in Peking as yet we know nothing. The agony we have endured for them has been dreasiful.’” The letter states that the two Ragsdale children, Earl and Effle, are now en route to San Francisco, from where they will come to this ecity to make their temporary home with friends. The writer says that it is with the greatest relief that she sees her children depart for a place of safety, her fear that they might fall into the hands of the terrible Chinese mob belng always with her. She says that she has tried to persuade her daughter-in-law to take her baby and return also to California, but that she will not do so. sul F resentatives under escort to Tientsin, or the restoratlon to them o free telegraphic communication with thelr governments. CHINESE ARMY MOVING BY ORDER OF THE EMPRESS Special Dispatch to The Cah. say they will have no trouble In ralsing 100,000 men at once. Their ultimate object is to place Emperor Kwang Su securely on the throne. Sixty prominent reformers from Eastern American cities sailed for China to-day by the steamer Empress of India. EIGHTEEN FOREIGNERS SLAIN AT TUNG CHOU LONDON, July 30.—The Chefu corre- spondent of the Dally Express, telegraph- ing July 2, says: “I have recefved a dispatch from Pe- king, dated July 10, saying: ‘All silent. Bullets and shells occasionally fired from streets, causing but few casualties.’ “It is reported that eighteen foreigners ;l.fl::': been murdered at Tung Chou, on the eiho.” Shanghal cables that the Chinese army of 15,000 men, under command of Imperial Commissioner Li Ping Heng, is marching, by order of the Empress Dowager, from Nanking to Wouchou, murdering Chris- tians and plunderin, prn&nr(y The French gmmcled crulser Pascal has arrived at hanghal. The Christlans in Foklen are becoming uneasy, The Magistrates are maintaining order. \ TO ' OPPOSE ALLIE’ ADVANCE. PORT XRTHIJR July 2%5.—The damage to the forts and barracks at Tientsin s being rapidly repaired. The Chinese troops occu?y three camps well situated to op- pose the advance of tHe allies to Peking. ————— ch’l’ION —_——— URGES SENDING OF FOREIGNERS TO TIENTSIN LONDON, July 30.—Sir Chih Chen, Chi- PARIS, July 30.—~The French Consul at | which the statement was made that a China, at once. A council of war is to be strong body of troops, composed entirely held there for the purpose of arranging of Kwang Sus, was around the legations | for the raising of an army to suppore the and the Chinese were forced to block the | allied powers. The reform association river with sunken craft and make a |claims a membership of 20,000,000, and they nese Minister in Londep, has been notified by telegram that Li Hung Chang, con- Jointly with other Viceroys and Gover- nors, has memorialized the throne to urge the immediate sending of the foreign rep- RESTORED. NEW YORK, July 30.—The cable com- panies sent out the following notice: “We are advised that communication between Shanghal and Chefu is restored.”" ' : | German representative | stopped on the 12th: | | still_peopled. here that Germany is one < known i is putting forth of the governments which ort every o to et Into direct communic = tion with the beleaguered Minis ; ers, an course e United Stat fhas had recoul :ffikk;h:‘h" An object of route. solicitnd s to discover whether - ;xp::/‘.;l-esmx‘,.‘:. nkp.qln-yor has esca; or MAIL CLERKS FOR CHINA. | whether she has shared the fate of her WASHINGTON | husband. Up to the present nothing has | 2 been received to throw light upon the | sublet. o S ten | Baron von Holleben, the German Em- bassador, called upon Secretary morning. He sald he had not rect word from Berlin on receipt o ’( portant letter from the German I¢ at Peking, described by Mr. Fow . ‘As s always the casé with these Chi- nese advices, % discrepancy appears im- mediately upon a comparison of the Ger- man and the Japanese Mr. Phil yesterday W. « ONE-DOLLAR BARGAINS ! no 2 advices. The said the attack the Japanese report places the cessation of firing on the l‘.rh The State Department officials believe this is easily explainable by a considera- tion of the difference between the C! hris- tian and Chinese calendars. Another cu- rious statement, however, is contained in the Japanese report that six legations were being still defended on the 22d. Thig is in apparent conflict with Mr. Conger's | last reported statement that the legation- ers were “in the British legation under | ed shot and shell.” m}':u“v‘nxnf understood that Mr. Conger | meant that all the legationers were in | the British legation, though this might | have been a strained interpretation of his message, and the various légations men- | tioned In the Japanese dispatch may be | 1% conp Tllog 14 packages fari b cans Maine pack su papers fmpor Military men here are amazed that the | legations successfully resisted nearly a month’s Incessant shelling by ten bat- talions of Chinese. That any trace of a brick bullding should remain after such a bombardfent is utterly inconceivable by them. } Minister Wu Hopeful. Chinese Minister Wu received the Fow- lew dispatch with satisfaction, but re- trained from any decided comment. He said: am glad at last that the public here and in Europe has some news from Peking It has no possible reason to ques- | tion. This news bears out what I have maintained ever since the receipt of the Conger dispatch. The Ministers are alive | and they have been aided by my Govern- | ment, otherwise they could not haye held | all this time. | ““When this first horrible report of mas- sacres came from Shanghai naturally I | was alarmed and distressed. I did my | duty as a loyal citizen of the empire and tried to ald this Government in getting | news of Its Minister. When the Conger dispateh came I felt it was genuine. It | was accepted by this Government and I | was satisfled. But ever since then thers | have been many eontradictory reports. The rest of the world was not willing to believe any truth could come out of China. ‘When imperial edicts were issued, pledg- ing the faith of my Government that the Ministers were safe, there always was bad news manufactured, some excuses | made to offset the Chinese reports. The | Chinese were made out to be a set of liars | and murderers, as though there were not | lars and murderers in all countries. Now | comes this news from European sources | and transmitted through American hands. Thus there is now no chance for the un< believers to doubt it. I am glad of it on my own account, but more so for Secre- tary Hay, who has thus won a great vic- tory against the skepticism of all Europe. Regarding the reports that thes Minmis- | ters were being held as hostages, Wu said it was very unlikely. 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