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Oar Gofernment
Awaits Result.
Special Commissioner Ap
pointed to Visit Cnina and
Ascertain the Situation.
Wasbingtoo, July 19.?Io the
absence of direct news from China this
morning attention was directed mainly
SO tbe more or lees speculative stories
emanating from Earopeao capitale in
dicative of discord among the powers.
It ?9 realized that these little bulletins
of mutual suspicion always character
ise allied movements and so are to be
expected ia the present case. It can
be stated that, so far as official record
discloses, there is absolutely do ground
for them. Oar government having
folly defined its intentions in Secretary
Hay's note of July 3, the other govern
ments interested io the Chinese situa
tion have eotered into the spirit of tbat
declaration of priaoiple with perfect
accord it is, of coarse, possible that
some of the powers are swayed by mo
tives that do oot appear in their formal
declarations. Tbe state department,
however, cannot go behind their formal
expression and cao now only await re
solte. There is not tbe slightest dis
position on the part of our government
to follow the example of certain Euro
pean powers and restrict io any meas
ure tbe liberty of the Chinese minister
here, Mr. Wu, in communicating with
the Chieesa viceroys and whatever re
mains of the titular Chinese govern
ment. The department doss sot credit
the-stories that any of the Chinese
ministers in Europe have been given
their passports.
Minister Wu and Mr Woilant, the
Kassian charge, again called on Secre
tary Hay this morning, but neither bad
sews from China
TO. INVESTIGATE THE SITUA
TION.
W. W. Bockhill, direotor of the bu
reau of American republics, bas been
appointed special commissioner from
this country to go to China aod investi
gate aod report upon the situation.
For some reason, tbe officials did not
eare to have it known that Mr. Rook
hill had been selected for this respon
sible duty. With io a week be will
hava a final conference with the presi
dent and Secretary Hay aod will leave
fer China.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CHAFFEE.
At today's cabinet meeting tbe qaes
tienfof instraotioos to Gen. Chacee was
gone over at considerable length aod a
cablegram was drafted which will be
forwarded to rea o h him on bis arrival
at Nagasaki. These iostrocuoas are of
a diplomatic as well as a military na
ture aod indicate the lice-of policy to
be pursued by the commander of the
United States forces in China The
exact mature of the instructions was not
disclosed, but it cao be stated on good
authority tbat they follow the same line
of policy that already bas been outlined
io statemeots from tbe state depart
ment, i
SAID TO BE SAFE AND SOUND.
Paris, July 19 ?Ao official telegram
df Shanghai dated Wednesday, July
28tb, states ihat, according to tbe
governor of Shan Tung, tbe foreign
ministers aod their .families a?* Pekin
are safe aod e a a, but tbat the
danger is still very great Tbe viceroy,
according to this dispatch, i o for oo ed toe
coosuUr corps that he had telegraphed
to Pekin urging the protection of tbe
foreign legatioo
CHINA AT WAR WITH THE
WORLD
London, July 19 ?Tiie action of
Count von Buelow. the Gorman minis
ter of foreign affaire, in informing the
Chites^ iegatioD at Bert-a that ail tele
graphic merecges mus; bs in plain
language aod eabaaitted for approval
by the censor, aod the suggestion of M.
Deleave, tbe French mioiscer of foreign
affairs, tbat exportations from China be
prohibited, wbich are generally regard
ed bere a* long steps in tno righe
direction of treating China as a state
engaged io war. bave been supplement
ed today by tbe officiai announcement
from St. Petersburg that certain por
tion* of the Amar territory, including
partei of Khabarovsk district and (be
coaer territory as well as the 'owns of
Biagovestcbeosb. Khabarovsk aod
Nikolsku-suri. bave been declared in a
state of war *ioce Joly 17
Kassia'e aooouncetnent is regarded
in Lindem as at least foreshadowing a
speedy a accodi trouai recognition of the ; f
fact tbat a condition of war exists j .
between Cbioa aod the civilized world, j (
aod tbe general opioion seems to favor j ,
such recogoition as the bes: means of
meeting tbe barbarian upheaval while
at the (?atee tine endeavoring to isolate
the icdepeodeot viceroys from the
general conflict.
MORE THAN THREE THOU
8 AND.
A dispatch from Shanghai received
here today reports tbat tbe losses of the
Chinese io the fighting at Tien Tsin
was upwards of 3,000.
It is understood that Lieut Geo Sir
Francis Grenfell will have command of
the British forces ia China.
HORRORS OF THE MASSACRE.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Express says : "A Chinese
merchant who has just arrived from j
Pekin gives horrible details of the j
massacre. He says be saw European
! women hauled into the street by
> shrieking Boxers who stripped them
and hacked them to pieces Their
dissevered limbs were tossed to the
crowd and carried off with bowls of
triumph Some were already dead
having been shot by foreign
civilians "
He says he saw Chineso soldiers
carrying the bodies of white children
aloft on their epears, while their com
panions shot at the bodies He
gives other details too horrible to be
particularized here.
Conflicting Stories Continue;
Coming.
London, July 20, 4 a. m.?"The
Washington idea of sending Mr
Rockhill to China is an excellent one,
and might advantageously be imitated
by the British and other govern
ments," says Tbe Standard editorial
ly this morning
The Cabinet council convened by
Lord Salisbury, it is expected, will
be followed by a statement in parlia
ment throwing light upon tbe situa
tion. Tbe Chinese assertions that
the members of the foreign legations
ara el?l safe have been ec often re
peated that they are again beginning
to raise hopes in some quarters
According to tbe Daily Telegraph's
St Petersburg correspondent, how
ever, the Russian government is al
ready in possession of definite news
that all the foreigners in Pekin were
maseacred on July 6.
Very little further news is availa
ble ?hi3 morniug The Yokohama
correspondent of the Daily Mail who
repeats hi?? statements regarding the . ,
jealousy felt among the allies on the I -
subject of a Japanese commacder in- !1
chief, adds : "The Japanese corres- | j
pondeuts charge the Russian soldiers
with appalling barbarity toward the
Chinese They declare that the Pei
Ho 13 fall of the corpses of women
and children and that the Russians
loaded 300 bodies on a junk and
burned them '*
Shanghai reports that three mis
sion stations on Po Yank Lake have
been destroyed, but it is believed
that the missionaries escaped All
tbe missionaries at A She Ho, Kerin
ind Kuan Cheng Tzu, in Chinese
Manchuria, have arrived in safety at
Vladivostock
It is rumored that Yu Lu, the miss
ng viceroy of tbe province of Chili,
)ae committed suicide.
It was stated that when the allies
entered the native city of Tien Tsin
bey found tbe Chinese dead piled
ligh, and it was feared that this
voold result in an outbreak of pesti
enee. Sixteen of tbe captured guns
\re quite modern weapons.
The Times understands that the
?hief representatives of the Moham
nedan clergy in Constantinople have
seued a strong protest based upon
Coran, against palace sympathy with
he Chinese massacres.
According to the Canton corres
tondeut of the Daily Telegraph six
/b?nese soldiers have been beheaded
or assaulting an American medical
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5ryan?8 attention was called today to
be fact that some anti imperialists
i?d announced they would be oppoe
id to him on account of the silver
>lank in the platform, and he was
isked as to whether this fact would
leriously affect the anti imperialist
rote. He said :
* Several gold standard opponents
>f imperialism have already announc
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)emocratic ticket, although the anti
mperialietic league has not acted
officially. In such a matter each
ndividua! is governed by his own
new3 as to the relative importance
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because he considers the money j 1
question more important than the ! *
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even though they do not endorse the '(
B?iver plank A large majority of
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Dispatch Received
From Minister Conger.
HE WAS STILL ALIVE ON
LAST WEDNESDAY.
Washington, July 20 ?Like a
flash of sunlight out of the dark sky
came the intelligence at an early
hour today that United States Minis
ter Conger had sent a cipher cable
dispatch from Pekin to the state de
partment at Washington, making
known that two days ago he was
alive and that the foreigners were
fighting for their lives The message
was received by the Chinese minis
ter, Wu Ting Fang, at 8 30 a m.
Within an hour the welcome intelli
gence that Conger had been heard
from, after weeks of silence and evil
report, was flashed through the coun
try and indeed throughout the world,
dispelling the gloom which had pre
vailed everywhere and bringing to
officials and to the public generally a
eense of profound relief
The dispatch was in reply to Sec
retary Hay's cable inquiry to Min
ister Conger on Jaly 11. and as both |
messages were in the American 1
cipher code they were regarded by
the officials as above the suspicion of
baving been tampered with in the
course of transmission through Chi
nese channels
Mr Wu promptly communicated
:he dispatch to the statt* department, I
?vhere the translation was made from
:he cipher figures and soon ail V?'ash j
ngton was astir with the inielli j
^ence It was telegraphed by Sec |
etary Hay to the president, who j
esponded with a hearty expression
)f gratification, and word of it was
lent to the various cabinet officers
They gathered in Secretary Hay's
>ffice and au impromptu cabinet con
?ronce was held in the diplomatic
ihamber, mainly for tbe purpose of
ixchanging congratulations and of
aking a survey of the situation to
ee if it had been materially changed
>y this important development.
First of all, from tbe standpoint of
he administration officially the most
welcome feature of the message was
te assurance that tbe American min
ster himself was alive two days ago
tat with this cheeriug news came
he ominous statement of Minister
longer that the besieged foreigners
rere in tbe British legation under
ontinued shot and shell from Chinese
roope and that only quick relief
ouid avert a general massacre,
ifter tbe first flush of thankfulness
ais graver feature of the message be
an to impress itself upon cabinet
fficials most deeply As one of
sem remarked : "There are the
oor creatures, penned up under fire
f shot and shell appealing to us for
elp 99
The consultation brought about no
ronounced change of policy, for it
ras felt ihat already every energy
ad been bent toward meeting tbe
ituation and that there was absolute
f nothing more that couid be done
ifter all, the cabinet officials felt, and
o stated, that the message was an
vidence of the friendliness and good
r"th of the pro foreign element of
ae Chinese and that wisdom dictated
course which would continue to
tilize this friendship. The govern
lent accepted the message as authen
?C and Secretary Hay transmitted it
ali our ambassadors and ministers
broad with instructions to lay it before
ae respective governments to which
bey are accredited and to urge upon
bem the necessity of cooperation for
be immediate relief of the foreigners
t Pekin
ORDERS TO REM A Y
A message was sent by Secretary
long to Admiral Remey couveying
bo intelligence of the desperate
ituation in Pekin and instructing him
"use and urge every possible en
eavor for relief This message,
iecsetary Long explained, meant for I
Ldmiral Remey himself to "use" and |
i> "urge" upon the commanding
fficers of the other powers the nee
f every endeavor for the relief of
'ekin Secretary Root senta similar
otificatiou to Col Coolidge the senior
Lmerican officer ashore at Tien Tein,
ut without injunction This action
788 tbe result of the conference of
ecretaries Hay, Long and Root. It
ras realized that the land and naval
orces of tbe United States now in I
Jhina could not s?Dglehauded push!
m to Pekio and the othor powers ac I
?ordingiy were appealed to, on the ? "
lasis of Minister Conger's message to ! L
?ooperate for inetaut relict ! a
Secretary Hay explained hi? rea- 1
ons for placing reliance in the au '
henticity of Minister Conger's die \ ?
>atch by saying that it was a com
pete reply in code to the code mes
;ag"? Rent to him and that its authen
icity was vouched for by the tsueg
i yaraen
"Of course," said Secretary Hay, ;
mailing. "I am not omniscient and I j
nay be fooled, but I cannot see how ? c
he authenticity of Minister Conger's !
;able can be questioned "
CONFIRMATORY M H^SAGES.
Liter io the clay several messages (
tfcrt! received from United Crates Con-' '
ml Fowlor at Chefoo. ail Wrongly oon- : 1
irmatory of the oews that, tbe foreign- '
;rs were alive
The fact that the cablegram froai ;
VI i o i s t e r Conger was giv?o scant ere i '
iecoe in London officia! c;roice bad no j
3amp6uing effect on the optimism of;
I the administration officials. It was
i pointed oat by one of the officials most
! interested that the weight of internal
evidence in the dispatch was in favor
i of its genuineness. Besids there were
the several strongly oorroborative dis
patches from Consul General Goodnow
and Consul Fowler. The fact that
Minister Conger mentiooed the bom
bardment ef tbe British Isgatioo was
considered good evideooe that tbe dis
patob waa written subsequent to tbe
6th, as the bost information hero is
that tbe bombardment of the legations
did not begin prior to that date. It
was said at the state department that
it was not thought expedient to give
out either the text or a paraphrase of
the message sent by the state depart
ment on July 11 to Minister Conger.
MINISTER CONGER'S DISPATCH.
Washington, July 20.?Tie state
department this morning received tbe
following cablegram from Minister
Conger at Pekin :
"In British legation. Under con
tinned shot and shell from Chinese
troops. Qaiek relief only oao prevent
general massacre/'
Tbe rues-age is not dated, bue it ie
understood was sent frcm Pekin cn tbe
18.sK.
WU'S PLAN WORKED WELL.
Washington, July 20.?The follow
ing statement was given cut today at
the statement department :
"On the 11th of this month the
state department communicated a brief
message asking tidin ss of Ministor
Conger in the state department cods, j
Minister Wc undertook to gc* this in"o !
?
Minister Conger's hacd.5, if he were j
?livc He has succeeded in doing this. I
This morning the state department j
't?ceived a te legra si from Consul Gene- j
a! Goodnow a: Shanghai, saying :
'The governor of Shan Tung imfortES
ne that be has received today a cipher
nessage from Conger of tbe 18:h "
A few minutes iater Minister Wu
appeared at tbe state department with a
elegram from Tactai Sbeog, dated
luly 20, which bad been reoeived by
tfioistar Wq at 8 30 o'clock this morn
ng, reading as follows :
"Yoar telegram was forwarded and
s requested I send reply from the
sung liyamon as follows : 'Your tele
gram of tbe 15th day of this moon
11th July) received The state de
artmeot teiegram bas been banded to
Jioister Conger. Herewith is Minis
er Conger's reply to the state depart
ment ' "
Then follows Minister Conger's reply
o tbe state department cipher, signed
?itb the word ' Conger" in English.
IEPORTED SAFE AND SOUND.
Brussels. July 20?The Belgien
oosul at Sbaoghai sends the following
ispateh under date of July 19 :
'Sbeog. tbe administrator of tele -
rapbs. announces that tbe foreigners
t Peki* were safe and sound July 19.
"An imperial decree dated July 16
rdere ;be viceroy of Tien Teio to
ppraise the damage caused by the
roubles and orders tbe local militia to
epress the rebellion."
THEY HAVE NOT BEEN
MASSACRED.
Paris, July 20 ?The foreign office
as received information from a Chi
ese source in which, however, certain
eliance may be placed, that the foreign
ministers at Pekin bave not been mas
acred. Accordiog to this information
July 7 the ministers were attaoked
nd the legations burned, but tbe
areigoers succeeded in orossing tbe city
r> Prince Cbing's palace, which was
ben barricaded and the European?
?ere holding their own up to the time
he news left, July 9. Since then
othiog has been beard from Pekin.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
MASSACRED.
London, July 20.?A dispatch from
Shanghai received here this morning
eports that 60 missionaries aod 10C1
ative converts have been massacred by
??xers at Tai Y'uan.
Tai Y'uan is a fortified and populous
ity in the provicoe of Shan See, oo
he Fueo Ho, an affinent of tbe Hoang
Io, 250 miles southwest of Pekio.
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