Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-08-03
WILL DESTROY PEK|N
The Foreign Troops Will Tear Down the Chinese
Capital as an Object Lesson
CHINA WAS THE INST|cAToR
1t is the Universal Belief That Ii Hung Chang is the Most
Corrupt Leader Of All.

San Francisco, Aug. 3.-Mai. Rock
hill, who was recently appointed a
special commissioner of the United
States to China, sailed for the Orient
today. Rockhill's s mission in China is
a very important one at this time and
may be looked upon as being attended
with great deal of danger. He sails
by this route to save time.
Shanghai, Aug. 3.-The viceroys at
Nanking and Shanghai have both de-
clared officially that the foreign
ministers will be held as hostages. If
the allies march to Pekin they will be
killed. 1t is stated that only the
Russian and japanese, twenty three
thousand strong are starting for
Pekin.
Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 3.-There
is great activity about the League
Island Navy yard today and prepara-
tions are under way for sending fight
ing ships and fighting marines to the
scene of hostilities in China at once.
Out of commission and mOOrcd to the
League Island docks are the swift
cruisers, Minneapolis and Columbia,
the ponderous monitor, Mantonomah
and the little gunboat Panther, while
at tl.l,s'ead of the procession lies the
auxiliary cruiser Yankee, alive with
marines of all stages, from the embryo
to the finished product of Uncle Sans
naval soldiery.
Nearby, the monster steel golfers,
Pompey and Leonidas, recently ac-
quired by purchase, lie at anchor.
The water boat Arethusa is also of
the fleet and will be the first to leave,
orders to that effect being expected
at any moment. Her destination will
be Chinese port. She will be loaded
with mixed cargo of stores and
placed in charge of naval officer with
crew of thirty-tive men from the
merchant marine. Upon the dis
charge Of her cargo she will act as a
water boat, having capacity of more
than million gallons. The colliers
Pompey and Leonidas, with carry
ing capacity OF $500 and $500 tons
respectively, are being loaded with
coal for the Chinese service.
Che Foo, Aug. 3.-It is believed
by the foreigners that Pekin should
be destroyed as an object lesson, and
if the dynasty continues it should be
forced to establish it's capita in some
accessible city, the Americans sug
gesting Nankin.
All the foreigners believe that the
Chinese government engineered the
outbreaks and are now trying to call
off their troops after the downfall of
Tien Tsin. There is an intensely Bit
ter feeling against Ii Hung Chang
who is called the most corrupt anti
foreign official in China. Consul
Fowler estimates the loss in American
missions as a million and half.
Washington, Aug. 3.-Fowler at
Che Foo cables that he has obtained
a'copy Of cipher dispatch from Con-
ger sent through Minister WI to the
department here. 1t is dated July II
and signed by Conger. Fowler has
no doubt Of its genuiness.
Paris, Aug. 3.-The French Consul
General at Shanghai cables that many
missionaries were murdered in the
Province of Shan 81 were of different
nationalities.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 3.--General
Grodegoff telegraphs from Khagnovski
aug. L IIldU ~ IIotChklSS anu lo
other guns were captured at Hung
Hun by the Russians who in storming
u fortress Monday drove four thousand
Chinese before them.
Victoria, Aug. 3.-The Nagasaki
Press says that Admiral Scymour's
force was obligde to eat mules and drink
from wells filed with putrid corpses.
The allies lost their field guns and
were in junks sunk by the Chinese
regulars. Plague is feared at Tien
Tsin. Forty dead bodies have been
found in the water supply. Hundreds
Of corpses are ON the tield,