The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-30
IRE nELD is HOSTAGES
Imperial Edict That ENJOYS
Are Detained Pending
Peace 0vertureS.
INSTRUCTIONS TO YICEROYS
MUST PRETENT THE LDTANCE OF
FOREIGN TROOPS.
Officials VIII Answer With Their Lives
for Any Fnilure-No Foreigners to be
Allowed to Escape London again
Very Pessimistfc Reports Of Whole-
sale Massacres of Native Christians.


Very Pessinlistic Reports Of Whole
sale Massacres of Native Christians.
London, July 30--The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express, tele
graphing yesterday, says:
"a new imperial edict promulgated
this evening urgently orders all vice.
roys and provincial governors to en-
deavor to negotiate peace with the pow
ers, whose ministers are held as host
| ages pending the result of the ovsrtures
for the abandonment Of hostilities
against China.
The viceroys are also commanded to
guard their territories vgilantly against
attack and to prevent, by all means IN
their power, the advance of the foreign
troops, especially along the yang Use
Kiang. The decree says that the OIL
cials will answer with their lives for
any failure to execute these orders.
| Commands are also given that not a
single foreigner shall be allowed to es-
! cape from the interior, where there are
still fully two thousand Europeans,
connected with missionary works, In Is
olated situations.
when the governor Of Shang Tung
communicated to the consu1s the i'm
perial decree Of July "a he omitted i'm
portant passages addressed to Ii Hung
| Chang:
att Is admittedly inadvisable to kill
all the ministers, but 1t Is equally uf1-
wise to send them to Tlen Tsln. 1t VIII
be much wiser to keep the survivors at
Pekin at hostages.
"'You are commanded to hasten to
Pekin You are mourning imperial dis
pleasure by delay. You have been ap-
!! pointed viceroy of Chi Ii because, with
your military experience, you will suc-
cessfully lead the imperial armies
against the foreigners in Chi Ii, which
Yu Lu, the present viceroy, is unable to
do, owing to his ignorance of military
affairs
III Hung Chang replied to this edict
asking to be allowed to retire on ac-
count Of his age.
IAN astounding American intrigue
has been revealed to the consuls here In
the shape Of skilful attempt to get
the maritime customs placed In the
ed Ferguson, who. although he was an
active ally of Sheng in the latter's en-
deavors to hoodwink the world with re-
gard to events in Pekin, was supported
by the American officials In his claim
to the appointment Of inspector -gener-
al"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says he Is still firmly
convinced that the ministers are safe;
but, with the exception of an alleged
dispatch from the japanese legation In
Pekin, dated July 10, brought by rum
ner, saying. that the legation was still
defending itself, nothing has yet been
published giving anything in the ma
ture of proof. On the other hand, the
daily increasing reports of the massa-
ere of missionaries and foreigners
leave only the most slender thread up
on which to hang a hope.
The general situation is steadily be-
coming darker, and crisis Is said to
be fast approaching. 1t Is rumored in
Shanghai that 10000 Chinese troops
have been secretly moved into that vi
cinity and that the commander Nof the
Kiang-Yu forts has been ordered to
fire if any further addition Is made
to the number of foreign ships ascend
ing the river. Rioting has already oc-
Cured at Kiu-Kiang, the inobs threat
ening death to foreigners.
With the arrival of the second Japan
ese division the allied forces at TalSu
and Tien Tsin will number 100000 The
river foods near Tien Tsin are dimin-
ishing. 1t Is reported that Russians
from Harbin have arrived at point 150
miles north Of Pekin after severe fight
ing
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Times yesterday says: Il learn that Ii
Ping Hong and Lu Chuan Lin. COVER
nor of Kiang Su, both rabidly anti
foreign, are advancing toward Pekin
with large bodies of troops. Their ad-
vent must seriously affect the situa-
tion there. To-day the consular body
decided that the situation demands the
presence of a military force in Shang-
hal and the consuls have notified their
governments accordingly
The Canton correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph in dispatch dated
SAYS:
The Triads have become numerous
and threatening in Hai-Nan The tao
tai and the local Mandarins are terror
stricken and decline to protect foreign |
ers All the missionaries except three |
have left with their wives and families.
The natives Of the Nodoa district Of the |
Island were so frightened that they all |
Joined the ranks of the Triads
Serious disturbances are expected |
between August / and IS, during the ,
estival to be held to appease the shades |
If the dead. The Boxers are charging
arge sums to the Chinese for passports
rom Pakin to Tien Tsin. Lao Yum Flu,
he Black Flag chief, has refused TO
march on Pekin unless Viceroy TAX Su !
will furnish him with twenty thousand
oldiers
THE Chinese authorities have lust
disclosed It Boxer plot devised by Soon
dun to blow up the Mansato Temple
md to destroy the Cantonese officials
nc IN, |