The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-13

Commission, Because Innocent
Heads Will Be Offered as Substitutes
for Actual Criminals, and High Off
ciaIs are Implicated.
copyrighted by the Associated Press.l
TEN TsIN, China, Aug. IA meet
ing of the foreign residents Of this city
was held here to day. 1t was decided
to communicate by cable the necessity
of immediate Intervention in China
upon behalf of the United States and
British governments and the following
telegram, was according to a resolution
by the meeting, adopted as an ex-
preston of the sentiments ofMthe
foreign residents of Tien Tsin and as
an appeal to the people of the United
States for assistance:
"The foreign community of Tien Tsin
express sympathy with the friends of
Ku-Cheng victims. They consider the
Chinese officials guilty and the British
and Americans to blame for continued
apathy of their governments over the
situation. They regard England's de-
mand for an inquiry into the KuCheng
massacre to be useless, for before then
the officials will buy innocent heads as
substitutes for the actual criminals.
They protest against the Szechuen Com
mission because there are officials Of the
province implicated in the charges which
are to be investigated. England and
America must send an ultimatum,
threatening reprisals.
Diplomacy is useless. We implore at
tention.
"(Signed) DICKINSON, Chm'n."
The Signer of the Appeal.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 Enquiries made
by a representive of the Associated Press
at the offices of the Hong Kong and
Shanghai banking corporation in this
city as to the identity of the chairman of
the meeting which cabled an appeal to
the United States through the Associated
Press, regarding the recent massacres in
China, show that the signer Of the ap-
peal is probably W. W. Dickinson, Chair
man Of the Municipal Council of Tien
Tsin, and q Partnor in the firm of Col
Inns & Co., well known merchants of
Tien Tsin.
Secretary McAdOO Happy.
ZWAsHINGToN, D. O.. Aug. 12.--Acting
Secretary McAdoo, of the State Depart
ment, was very happy to-day. He has
lately scanned the Associated Press
cable from Tien Tsin and, after saying
nothing of the kind had been received at
the Department, announced that he had
nothing to say further than was con-
tanned in the following statement which
was furnished the Press:
"The State Department has received
reply from Minister DENLY to the in
struction cabled him on the 18th. inst,
relative to the reported looting of Ameri-
can missionary property at Yung. Fuh
near Foo-Chow. Mr.. Denby urgently
represented the facts to the Yamen on
the 10th, and obtained instant promise
of protection and redress.
Yung Fuh is believed by the officers
of the State Department to be the same
as Sung Fuh, and Inghok, mentioned in
the press kilograms, the variations in
the name being doubtless due to errone
GUS transmissions over the trans Siberian
cable, in the course of which many
transcriptions and repetitions are neces-
sary."
War Ships on Their Way.
Acting Secretary McAdoo read the
dispatch with a great deal of interest,
and to show that the Navy Department
was doing all it possibly could to CO.
operate with the State Department and
to place the American warships in China
waters where they would be available for
the protection of American interests, he
dictated the following:
''The Navy Department received this
morning from Admiral Carpenter, ca
blegram, announcing that he had dis
patched the Detroit to Foo Chow, which
is the nearest point for that vessel to
reach the scene of the recent disturban-
ces. A cable was received this morning
from Captain Newell, commanding the
Detroit, announcing his arrival to-day
at Pagoda, which is at anchorage about
miles below the city of Foo Chow.
"Another cable was received from
Admiral Carpenter announcing his de-
parture from Nagasaki for Chefoo,
China. Chefoo is the nearest and best
port for communication with the Amer
lean Minister at Pekin. The department
has again today cabled Admiral Carpen-
ter regarding matters in China, and ad
vising him to keep in close and constant
communication with Minister DENLY"
Denbg Not Alarmed.
The dispatch from Minister DENLY is
of very little Importance in the way of
furnishing information, but indicates
that the American Minister does not
share the views of other citizens in China
who think that reprisals should be made.
1t is claimed that all that could be
done by the department has been done
unless the policy of the department
and the government should be ready to
begin hostilitles every time there was
any trouble with American citizens in
any foreign land. 1t is said that the
only way possible for this government to
proceed is through its diplomatic officers,
the manner in which we should require
foreign government to proceed in case