The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-05
OUR MEN TO STAY NCHINA
GENERAL CHAFFEE PREPARING
WINTER QUARTERS.
Admirals Will Hold Ii Hung Chang
He Wants Prince Tuan Arrested to
Aid Peace Negotiations.

TEN TSIN, August 24-via Taku
August 21.-Ofticers who have arrived
here from Peking report that General
Chaffee, commanding the American
forces in China, is making all the neces-
sary preparations to maintain $1,000
men through the winter.
Fifteen of the American wounded, in
cluding the marines wounded during
| the siege of the legations, have arrived
here by boat from Peking.
Myers (possibly Captain Myres of the
| United States Marine Corps) is suffer-
ing from typhoid fever and cannot be
moved.
large batch of refugees are due
here tomorrow. The American Signal
Service Corps, cooperating with those
of the British, has completed the tele-
graph line into Peking and to Taku.
The commissary department is pre-
pairing to establish an extensive winter
base at Tong-ku.
Lieutenant Waldron of the Ninth
United "tates Infantry received a seri-
Gus sniping wound while patrolling at
Hoo Sc Woo. The Russians, Germans
and Japanese are constantly pushing
| troops on to Peking.
LONDON, August 29-3:40 q. m.-
That the inexplicable delay in forward
ing kilograms from the Chinese capital
/ still continues is illustrated by the fact
L u
the telegram describing the search for
/ Boxers in the imperial park, is dated no
| later than August 21st.
There is no confirmation from any
source of the report of an advance to-
ward the north from Peking On the
contrary, a movement southwark to
! clear the country and to insure free
communication with Taku is appar-
| emily i'm progress. The powers as late
las August 2lst were still unable to agree
as to how to deal with Pekng itself,
the Japanese and Russians being at
variance as to whether the imperial
I palace should be destroyed.
| Nor is there any further news of the
alleged detention of Ii Hung Chang by
/ the admirals. The probabilities increase
that all the members of the imperial
household have gotten safely to the in
! terror.
Reuter- dispatch dated Peking, Au-
| gust 18th, and sent by post to Shanghai,
describes scenes of appalling desolation
and wanton destruction in Legation
| street. All the houses of foreigners We're
riddled with shells, burned or blown up
| An attempt was made to mine the
American Legation. A shaft was sunk
from the top of the wall Fifteen feet and
was continued as a tunnel with a sharp
slope in the direction of the Legation
Apparently the Chinese did not have
| time to finish it.
The Siece's report of a defeat suf-
fered by the allies at Peking is every
where discredited.
The Chinese Legation in st. Peters
| burg has received news that peace
negotiations have already begun.
The Peking correspondent of the
Daily News, in a dispatch dated on
August 27th, asserts that there are
| thousands of instances going to show
that the Boxers were approved by the
imperial officers in their indescribable
ferocity.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 26-Local manda.
rims received a telegram from Paoting-
Flu stating that the allied powers have
taken the district west of Peking Il
Hung Chang sent a telegram today tC
the Empress at Sian-Fu requesting hel
to arrest Prince Tuan of the army ir
order to give him an opening to nego.
tiate with the powers.
PARIS, Aug. 2S.-Admiral Courre
jollos, the French commander in Chi
nese waters, has cabled to the Nav!
Department here that a council of tn,
admirals has notified the foreign lega
tions at Peking that it has been decided
to hold Ii Hung Chang on board shil
until the opening of negotiations be
tween the powers and China.
LONDON, Aug. 2S, $3.50 a. m.-The al
lies, resuming aggressive operations
nave taken Ine district west VI IchlhS
, This statement. based on Chinese au
thority, is cabled from Shanghai Fror
the same place comes the further state
ment that Ii Hung Chang has wire
, the Empress Dowager at Sianfu re
questing the arrest of Prince Tuan an
; the disarmament of the Boxers in on
. der to give him an opening for negotia
; tions with the powers.
The illuminations projected at Shane
hal i'm celebration of the relief of Pc
king have been abandoned, lest the
should cause a native outbreak
! evidence has been received here
says the Shanghai correspondent of IN
! Standard, going to show that Generi
: Lung Wu was the real author Of tn
anti-foreign outbreak, the Empress Dc
wager, Prince Tuan and the others a
. having been persuaded by him to TAX
= an extreme attitude, while he stoo
! aside and waited Developments
American refugee missionaries
, Annoy, according to the Hong Kon
! correspondent of the Daily Mail al
a anxious TO return to the interior, bl
q the United States has forbidden them
q do so and urges them to go to the Ph
lippines or to return to America.
LANAI SOLD,