Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-07-28
ALLIED FORCES WILL
MOVE ON TO PEKING
AT AN EARLY DATE.
American Policy Unchanged
by the Reports From
Chinese Sources.
WILL ACT WITH POWERS

Department Officials Are Preparing
to Execute the Plans Outlined by
President Mckinley In His Reply
to the Chinese Emperor-Oregon Is
Doclxed at Kure.
WASHINGTON, July ~. - Secretary
Hay signalized his return to Washing
ton from Canton by the announcement
that under no circumstances will the
United States government accept the
Chinese offer TO turn over the foreign
ministers to the internationals at TIen
Tsin in consideration of the suspension
of the campaign against Pek1ng. A
long cablegram was sent to Rear Adm1-
raj Remey at Taku.
The state department. chains to be
pursuing an entirely consistent course in
this decision. The officials point out
that all of the bitter criticism In the
European papers directed against the
United States policy is based on total
misunderstanding of the fundamental
principles which have governed the ac-
tions Of the department.. At no time,
it is said, has the state department al
lowed the belief that the foreign min
listers at Pelzing were alive to interfere
in the slightest degree with the military
plans for reaching Picking. On the CON-
trary, the news that the ministers were
ment not as conveying absolute verify,
but as an additional reason for hasten
ing the relief column forward to Picking.
I1o opNAr.
that even though a degree of improba-
to the state of affairs in Peking, yet
every consideration of humanity and
policy demanded that it should be given
careful consideration and that 10 should
be acted upon as if true, provided that
action went toward the relief Of the for
eign ministers and did not operate to
prevent the contamination of any Of the
objects laid down in Secretary Hays
identical note. The department. is abso-
lutely satisfied that its attitude was per-
fectly correct and that even European
critics will, in time, admit that fact.
Secretary Hays decision TO decline
the latest Chinese proposition was based
upon his determination to adhere strictly
to the conditions laid down in the reply
to the Chinese emperor's appeal. The
state department. required that the min
listers to Peking be put in communities
ton with their governments and the
most significant condition of all that
the Chinese authorities co-operatd with
the relief expedition for the liberation
of the ministers. Until these things
are done, the state department. abso-
lutely refuses to be led into any arrange
ment looking to the mitigation of the
punishment of the Chinese government,
such as the abandonment of the expeG-
ton to Peking.
A special cabinet meeting was held in
Secretary Hays Office at II o'clock, the
usual hour. The secretary Of state,
fresh from his personal intercourse with
the president, was In position to advise
his colleagues of the administration s
purpose and the whole Chinese situation
was discussed. Besides Secretary Hay
there were present Secretary Gage,
Postmaster General Smith and Score
tary Root.
When the cabinet conference adj
journed it was stated that no further
definite plans concerning the action of
this government had been prepared.
Secretary Hay laid before the members
the latest information he had received,
including dispatch from Consul Gen
eral Goodnow at Shanghai.
The government has received fmfor-
nation presumably from Admiral Re-
mey that the number OF allied troops at
Tsen Tsin is 29,000 The movement of
the troops from Tien Tsin to Picking,
Secretary Root SAID, would depend on
the arrival and mobilization of troops.
All the United States troops that
could possibly be spared have been or
dered to China. There was no Official
advices from any Chinese source over
night, except q short message from the
signal service officer at Nagasaki an
nouncing that all was well with the
troops.