The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-07-06
THE ADVANCE WARNINGS.
Observation-Disclosures,


THE ADVANCE WARNINGS
PHILADELPHIA, June 27.-Mrs. oliver
Clifford, who with her husband, is con-
nected with the Presbyterian mission at
Tien-Tsin writes under date of May 10Th
to her brother in tnis city as follows:
we sleep now with our firearms close
at hand. Oliver and each have a brace
of pistols under our heads. / always
have two valses packed, ready to flee at
any moment, and the entire foreign pop
ulation is anXiousy watching for the first
sign of an uprising. Last Monday morn
ing, when the people awoke in the city,
huge placards were found posted on the
walls and fences, reading as follows:
The heavens are displeased at the pres
ence of the foreign dogs in China. The
gods have decreed that there shall be no
more rain in whole kingdom until
they are all expened."
MISSION BOARDS BEWILDERED.
NEW YORK, June 27.-The secretaries
of the foreign mission boards in this city
and the friends of the missionaries now
in China are getting more and more be-
wildered as rumors multiply and cable
messages more depressing than cheering,
come to headquarters.
A letter from Dr. Edna G. Terry to her
mother. dated April 18th, said she would
sail for home at the earliest possible date.
Mrs. Terry hopes that her daughter is
already on her way to the United States.
The report from Che Foo, giving a list
of missionaries safe there, caused the
Presbyterians some worry. Mr.. Garrison
of the secretary's office said:
mot one of our missionaries is men
toned in the list unless it is Rev. Mr..
Lowry. Our Mr.. Lowry Is with the
Rev. Walter, and he has been at Pao
Ting Flu, shut off by the Boxers, we
thought We do not see why our mis-
orta Ip..L-i tar,
as well as those of the other denomina-
lions. Nor is 1t easy to explain how the
missionaries in Peking escaped all the
way to Chez Foo, over 200 miles, without
an escort of troops, at time when Sey-
mour and the allies are hard pressed in
the same region. The only way they
could have done 1t was by the help of the
native Christians. Perhaps these mission
aries who are mentioned were outside of
the city at the time they started for Che
Foo. Then. too, all our missionaries in
Shan Tung province were ordered to port,
which must DE Chez Foo. From the fact
that they were not mentioned we conclude
that they have not yet reached that city,
Rev. DIR. G. c. CroSan of the American
Board of Foreign Missions said of the
Congregational missionaries who are re-
ported to be safe in Che Foo: +.
"Dr. w. s. Ament Is the superintendent
OF the mission at Peking, and when last
heard from he was in Inat city. His wife
and family are in this country. Miss Fran
els b. Patterson is of the Picking miss on
and the last we knew of her she was
there. Rev. James II. Roberts was sta
toned at Kangan IN the far north of Chi
ma, close to the great wall We have had
great fears for him and his associates,
Rev. Z. Sprague and wife and Rev Mark
Williams"
Rev. Charles f. Ewing of Pao Ting Flu
has sent cable d,spa,... to his father-in
n W he.
Mass. 1t said siI.ply Safe"
After giving this information Dr. Gro
gan said:
I'VE are getting more and more confus-
ed as these dispatches come in. But so
far as we have any knowledge, no Ameri-
can missionary has suffered bodily injury
and there is nothing to destroy our hope
that the life of eacn of them will be
spared. Our Government seems to be do
ing all IL can and we trust that the Lord
will deliver our brelnren out of the fiery
furnace in which they are placed. We
assume that all our missionaries are
safe
At the office of the Christian and Mis-
slonary Alliance in this city II was said
that there were thirty-two missionaries
north OF Picking who could be reached
only through leklng or iIen-Tsin. None
OF them could be In Che Foo, for upon
their arrival the headquarters here would
he notified
BRITISH OPTIMISTS.
NEW YORK, June ga dispatch to
the Tribune from London, dated June
nth, says;
The optimlsts who have been In the
background for n week have turned out In
force at the House of Commons and the
political clubs are talking cheerfully about
China.
SO marked was the reaction from de-
preston last night that men OF influence
did not hesitate to say that they believed
that the public had been deceived by sem
satlonRl newsmongers and Chinese liars.
and that as soon AN communications were
reopened would be known that the for
oignerh had not been murdered at Tlen-
TsiK. that Admiral Seymour's force had
been blocked. but not cut 10 pieces, ana
that the legations had not been attacked
one view which found considerable sup |
port NAa that the Empress, by avoiding
an open conflict with the Boxers and In
strueling the Generals "a make common |
cause with them had reRnined control OF
tho situation and mat the legations had
escaped httAek Ia this way and that the
ministers had been escorted out of PEE
King ann thai Beymouf'H force had been
shut out 81 the capital, but not been ~
aerioua danger. Tnera was little evidence
ia support Ut lbla theory, yet many men
NJ seed Judgment SeFe disposed 70 credit