Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-14
ALL HOPE GONE.
The Most Discouraging News
Received From Pekin.
Chinese lombard the Legations, July
7, for a Final Attack.
Three thousand Chinese Killed In The Fjsht.
ing al rien Tsin.

Washington, July 13-The depart
| ment of state has received a dispatch
| from Consul General Goodnow at
| Shanghai, saying that the governor of
Shan Tung wired that the Boxers and
soldiers We're bombarding the legations
for final attack upon the eth of July.
He il extremely anxious for the safe
ty of the ministers and friendly Chi
nese in Pekin. The consul adds that
fears of the worst are generally enter
tanned.
The state department has also re-
ceived dispatch from Consul Nc
Wade. at Canton, saying that the vice.
roy, Ii Hung Chang. has engaged
quarters upon the Chinese steamer
Anping. but that the date OF his de-
parture for the north is as yet unde-
cided
The short cablegram received at the
state department, today. from Consul
General Goodnow, at Shanghai. an
nouncing the beginning Of the final at
tack on the legations at Pekin, terribly
depressed the officials here All along
they have suspected that the various
communications received from Chinese
sources in Shanghai, have been pre-
pairing the way for the announcement
of the determination of the foreign
ministers and their wives, children, at
taches, dependents and guards
The consul generals message, it is
understood, is but repetition of the
latest press reports from Shanghai, but
the state department has come to place
a high estimate on Mr.. Goodnow's ad-
vices. 1t appreciates the fact that he
does not send every piece of unreliable
gossip afloat in the sensational news
center, where he is stationed, but uses
good judgment in sitting out the prob
able from the other kind of news.
Moreover, his advice. this time, is
from the Chinese governor of the prov
ince wherein Shanghai is situated, and
it is hard to conceive of an adequate
reason for the Justification Of the facts
by that official in the direction Of this
particular report. Therefore. the state
department. which has all along been
hopeful of the intimate rescue Of the
ministers at Pekin, has now Joined
European chancellories in the belief
that they have all been killed
The department officials find 1t hard to
estimate the value of the statement of
the consul at Canton that Ii Hung Chang
has again engaged passage northward,
owing to the lack of date on the cable
message, and it is suspected that the
press dispatch stating that he has aban-
doncd the trip to Pekin is of later date
than Mr.. McWades notice. Should the
great viceroy go nOrthward, his coming
To Taku and Tien Tsin would at once
raise a question as to the conditions un-
der which he undertakes to go to Pekin,
and incidentally the decision as to
whether or not he should be permitted to
pass the lines would involve the decision
of the other question as to whether or
not a state of war exists.
London. July 1.-THE scanty cable
dispatches received, today. add moth
Chinese situation.
1t is stated positively from Canton
that Lii Hung Chang will remain there
until the allied troops have defeated
Prince Tuan's forces and will then 60
north to lend his powerful aid in ar
terms of peace, cooperating
with Prince Ching. Yung Lu and the
other pro-foreign viceroys. For the
'4NStAit IL 1HdIlS tndL
he can best control and direct the vice
roys from Canton and also keep in
heck the turbulent province Of Kwang
Tung.
All the foreigners and missionaries
have evacuated Wen Chau and have
arrived at Ming Pc. Large bodies of
Boxers appeared at Wen Chau and
threatened to eXterminate the foreign
RS and Christians They also distribu-
ed banners badges and infammatory
appeals.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
express, telegraphing under date of
July Q. asserts that the Chinese are
laily driving in the allies They have
mounted. says the correspondent. IL
resh guns in advantageous positions.
With which they are sweeping the
streets of the foreign settlement, the
ncessant fire rendering position after
'Dsition quite untenable.
The Daily Mails st. Petersburg corre-
pondent says that in the last six
lours' battle outside Of Tien Tsin the
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