The age-herald., 1900-07-12
Made a Desperate Attempt to
 Stab Prince Tuan.
GERMANY SENDS ANNOUNCEMENTS
From 3o,Ooo to 10000 Troops Are Needed Before an Advance Can be Made on Pekin-Chinese
 Work Well Together


 situation again bears most ominous as pect. Eighteen days ago Sir Robert Hart dispatched his last message, declaring that the situation was desperate, and since then no word has come from the Europeans in Pekin.
 According to the Daily Mails Shanghai correspondent, Li Hung Chang has received an imperial decree ordering immediate de- parture for Pekin, presumably to break the news of the Pekin tragedy to the European powers, and in his usual role of negotiator with Europe in different matters, to en- deavor to act as mediator and to avert the vengeance of the powers. To add to the grimness of this suggestion, all advices from Tien Tsin tend to confirm the reports of the perilous condition of the allied forces and belle the optimistic Chinese rumors. Unless endorsements speedily reach Tien Tsin another disaster may be expected.
 Situation is Desperate
 The Daily Mails Tien Tsn correspond ent, telegraphing on July 5, says:
 '"The situation is about as bad as it can well be. I only trust that we shall not soon want relieving ourselves. A forward movement is impossible. From 10000 to 4O,- O0O troops are wanted and there are only ten thousand here. The Chinese troops are working well together, but it is inconven- lent that there Is no supreme commander In some quarters the feeling is let us res- cue Pekin and then clear out in favor of Russia" "
 Other Tien Tsin correspondents say that ic and explanations are being asked by the papers here of the tardy action of Japan In sending troops since it is known that she was ready and willing to send them and that Russia raised no objection to her doing so. It is hinted that a difficulty as to the manner in which Japan was to be recouped for her heavy outlay. Rumors are current that Japan demanded the cession of a Chinese port.
 The Russian papers report that the Box CTS are ravaging Manchuria and have darnaged sixty miles of the railway, threat enl Iein and kirin, while Port Arthur ana Nlu ChWang are said to be endan- gered Russia, therefore, has notified the powers of her intention to dispatch a large military force to Manchuria
 Many Ramors Heard
 All kinds of stories come from Shanghai. which 1t is impossible to verify. It is stated that the Boxers have murdered the Chancellor. of Pekin University and sixty members of his family and relations A confidential officer of General Yung Lu, disguised as a Boxer, is reported to have crept into Prince Tuan's tent while the prince was sleeping, with the intention of stabbing him. He was caught by the sen- tries, so the story goes, and decapitated on the spot. His head was sent, with Prince Tuan's. compliments to Yung Lu as warning to him to beware.
 '' Catholic Bishop Murdered
 The French consul at Shanghai has news that the Chinese prefect at Moukden him. self murdered the Catholic Archbishop Guillon in his yamen. Besides Archbishop Guillon, Fathers Crunoet, Corbet, Bourgeois and Vueillinot and two sisters of the French mission, and numerous native Christians, were massacred
 Riotous German Soldiers
 From Canton comes report of large assertions from a German Chinese regi- ment at Kiao Chou and of a riot between German troops and Boxers, many of the latter being killed.
 Both at Shanghai and Canton apprehen- sion exists that these evidences of a wide spread native rebellion indicate the neces- sity for immediate measures on the part of the powers.
 It Is stated that Germany intends to send to China 10000 to 5000 men, well equipped with guns.