The age-herald., 1900-07-27
SAME APPEAL WAS
 SENT ALL POWERS
Great Britain Has Not Seen Fit
 to Reply.
WANTS NEWS OF MINISTERS
Chang Are Regarded With Ever Increasing Suspicion-Situa-
 tion in South Worse

London, July 27 (4 a. m,)-All the powers appear to have received an identical Chi nese appeal for mediation but in the ab- sence of definite news regarding the fate of the ministers and of any reliable indi- cations of the real origin of the appeal, it seems that Lord Salisbury, the premier, considered it was not even necessary to publish the fact that the appeal had been received to do anythiny beyond form ally acknowledging it, with perhaps an in timation that nothing could be done until news from Pekin had arrived.
 If it could be ascertained beyond doubt that the reports of a massacre at Pekin were unfounded, and there is disposi- ton here to believe that the ministers may after all be held as hostages, Lord Sails bury's policy would probably incline more toward the conciliation attributed to Washington than to the revenge attributed to Berlin But while there is no cessation Of the deluge of rumors, it is beginning to be believed at Shanghai, Canton and other points that the viceroys are as completely in the dark as to affairs in Pekin as the Europeans themselvees
 Meanwhile, the doings of Ii Hung Chang are regarded with ever increasing sus-- picion, while the situation in the southern provinces daily grows worse
 With the report that the allies will be- gin to advance upon Pekin in a fortnight, and in view of Admiral Seymour's visit of inspection to the Yang Tse Kiang, the feel ing is that no great time will elapse before matters assume more definite shape
 Able 10 Keep Order
 The Viceroy of Nankin professes to be able, with the aid of the othf Ysng Tse Vlceroys, to keep order, bu. he declares that if Europe sends warships it will as- suredly lead to an anti-foreign outbreak IT 1t be true that the Japanese have started campaign from Shan Hai Kwan that will also precipitate matters, out the report to this effect lacks confirmation
 It is reported from Tien Tsn that the Chinese forces are concentrating at the village of Getsang, ten miles north es Tien Tsin, where it is said large quantities of rice are stored.
 The Russians and Japanese cavalry are keeping in close touch with the enemy. The river is still low and water transport would be difficult. With reference to the control of the railway it is understood that MT. Kinder, the British engineer, has arranged with the ChineseS general for the protection of the line beyond Pei Tang Therefore Russian control could only apply to the Tien Tsin-Taku and Pei Tang sec tions. If this arrangement is disturbed it is understood that the destruction of the line is inevitable
 There is an unconfirmed Chinese report that sixty Protestant and Catholic mis- sionaries have been massacred in Xxi Yum Flu and vicinity
 The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail, describing the massacre, at Mukden says:
 1.-The Bishop has armed 200 converts to defend the Cathedral, and a body of Chin ese troops has been sent to defend the con- verts but the soldiers were leagued with the Boxers. While the Christians were holding a service, believing themselves safe under the protection of the troops, the signal was given and soldiers and Boxers surrounded and set fire to the church, put ting the escaping worshippers to the sword. The Bishop was captured and taken to the Viceroy Yamen,' where he was dabolically tortured and decapltated His head now hangs in front of the Yamen."
 Most of Them Were Dead
 The Daily Mail explains that the Chinese employe of the British legation, who, ac- cording to it's advices yesterday, escaped from Pekin to Niu Chwang and reported there that when he left PelSin most of the members of the legations were dead and the conditions of the others were hope less. did not actually leave Pelsin until July Sth, and this goes to show, if his statement is to be relied upon, that general massa-