Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-08-10

publish statement by an influential bank
er, residing in Pekin, near the British le-
CATION, who arrived in Shanghai July %,
having left Pekin July Z. He states that
the legations were then destroyed All
the foreigners had disappeared and he
could not say positively if they had been
murdered, as he was too frightened to in
quire."
The Mails correspondent proceeds:
investigations prove that this Informal
ton is reliable. The banker in question
has gone to Ting Pc. His friends will not
disclose his name, fearing that to do so
would cause him to lose his head"
Lii Hung Wants "a Warship.
st. Petersburg, July pa dispatch
has been received from Lii Hung Chang,
dated July 26, which says that the Chi
nese government telegraphs him under
date OF July % that the ministers are all
well. Lii Hung Chang also complains that
none of the powers has consented TO
place warship at his disposal for his
Journey north, and he added that he
would be compelled to encounter many
Nbstacles by land journey.
Nine Killed at Chang Chow.
Shanghai, July 29.-lt is reported here
that nine members of the China inland
mission have been massacred near Chang
Chow. Three additional warships ar,
rived today. There are now $500 troops
at Woo Sung forts, II miles from Shang-
han, ON the Yang Use. Three thousand
troops are now at the arsenal. Small
detaehments are arriving daily. Canton
Is reported quiet.
In France.
Paris, July 29.-Yu Keng, the Chinese
minister here, says he Is convinced the
legations III Pekin are safe and sound, al
though some buildings have been ue.
stroyed.
w ME this conviction is not shared by
the ,olncial and political world here, dis
patches from the tar east during the past
week have raised renewed hope that some
ii not all-ot the members of the lega-
tons are still alive Minister lu keng
thinks the silence of the MINISTERS at Pc
kin not SO omnous as 1t Is considered
abroad, and he asks that China be given
another i've days credit to produce au-
thentic and satisfactory news OF the Ie-
cations, or perhaps of the ministers them
serves. He himself is still i'll ignorance OF
the actual situation in Pekin, but con-
cludes from dispatches he has received
from the provincial viceroys and from
telegrams asking for mediation OF France
that emperor Awang Hsu and the en-
press dowager have the upper hand and
Ihat Prince Iuan has been definitely mas
tered.
Happily for my country and for the
foreigners, he said, "Yung Lu and Prince
Cning are, believe, now in power and
tins leaves me hopeful-even though the
presumption of the ministers may prove
correct-that the legationers are still
alive"
Ex-COpsuI Reeds Statement.
New York, July 30 Sheridan P. Reed
eX-consul at Tientsin, says:
when the allied reher forces reach Pc
kin l think they may find the capital de-
serted by the court and the ENJOYS gone
IL is not unlikely that the empress, and
possibly the emperor, have fled with their
court under the escort OF Alanchu banner
men from Pekin to Sinan Flu, taking with
them the ministers at least as hostages and
leaving the other foreigners in FeKm to
horrible fate. If the ministers are be-
ing held as hostages and are beng re-
moved to the remote inland city OF slnan
tu, place more difficult to reach, it is
necessary that the Chinese should put
forth all their fnesse and cunning to con-
ceal tnis move until they are sale across
the mountains.
,y.nan Flu was a capital of China in
ancient times. 1t is situated on the So
called 'Marcopolo' road. The only way
il could be reached would be by way OF
the Yang Use from Hankow up the Han
river and Tan river valleys. This would
be most herculean task. Sinan Flu is
larger and cleaner than Pekin. Like all
Cnlnese cities it is massively vailed