The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-25
GERMANY WANTS DELAY
UNTIL FIELD MARSHAL WALOERSEE
CAN GET TO THE FRONT
RUSSIA'S SUSPICIOUS CONDUCT
Her. Officers Cordial Reception OF
Prince Ii at Taku and Tien Tsin.
mfral and the Prince-Scouting Ex-
petitions Out From Pekin-Chris-
tians Are Still Being Murdered Near
Pekin.

London, September y, 4 a. NIT
seems to be generally believed through
out Europe that Germany purposeIy
proposed her demand that the anti
foreign leaders should be surrendered
before negotiations were commenced,
with a view of delaying any general
acceptance of her proposal until Field
Marshal Count Won waIdersee should
arrive at Pekin.
In IN event, with Count Won wald-
ersee ~journeying northward and Lii
Hung Chang conducting negotiations
from Tien Tsin, matters must soon
reach a crisis. The mannerl of Earl
Lis reception seems to confirm the
suspicious existing in Shanghai re-
garding his close understanding with
Russia. About 1000 Russian troops
and all the principal Russian officers
met him at Chung Liang Chen, half
way to Tien Tsin. A long conference
was held, at which no representative
of any power was present. This re-
markabIe friendship exists at a time
when two continents are ringing with
the story of maSSacreS by the Rus
SLAMS in Amur.
The Moscow correspondent of The
Standard, reverting to the subject of
the maSSacres this morning, says:
From a recent visitor to the Amur
region, l learn that maSSacreS are the
order of the day with the troops that
are overrunning Manchuria. The or
ders are issued by General Goodekoff;
but it is quite certain that Emperor
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nature. My informant has seen a Sc
r1es of kilograms from one Manchurian
commander, every one of which be-
seeches that he he flowed to spare
p~eaceable citizens; but the Russian
Indifference to the lives of the common
herd is still of a truly oriental type"
The same correspondent asserts that
troops by the wholesale continue to
pour into Manchuria.
Washington, September 21.-The fol-
lowing dispatch, r eeived at the war
department yesterday from General
Chaffee, was made public this morn
ing:
"Pekin, Saptember 10.
TO Adjutant General, Washington:
'Rockhill Wilson expedition return
ed; object successfully accomplished;
no casualties to our troops. Forsythe's
squadron secuted northeast forty miles
to relieve native Christians; returned,
III Ill IOuIltSll. ouIIOuIluluS
country daily growing less hostile and
more peaceful, so far as my expedi-
ton can determine.
'CHAFFEE."
The date of this cablegram, Pekin,
September 18th, shows that close COM
munication haS been established with
the Chinese capital.
Copyright by Associated Press,)
Pekin, Monday, September II, via
J Taku, Thursday, September 20.-Gen-
eral James III. Wilson, the American
commander, toe Pei Ia Chau this
morning. NO details of the affair have
been learned, but the British officials
have received a dispatch announcing
that the temples were taken accord
ing to arrangement"
1t is expected that General Wilson
will move on San Hal Tien and destroy
the Chinese arsenal at that place.
The Germans moved westward to-
day and it is doubtful if they co-ope-
rated in the taking of Pei Ia Chau.
Japanese scouts report hat the sur
rounding country is free of the enemy.
No word has been received from the
Sixth United States cavalry column
which is operating in the northeast.
EARL Ii REACHES TAKU.
Copyright by Associated Press.)
Tong ku, September 10, via Shang-
hal, September 20-Li Hung Chang
arrived on Tuesday at the Taku an
chorage, where he was visited by Rear
Admiral Remey and the Russian flag
captain: He proceeded to Tong Ku to-
day. He was received with no special
honors and his presence attracted lit
tie attention. Only the Russian and
Japanese officers called on him, but
later, he had a long conference with
Vice Admiral Alexieff, on board a Rus
sian warship.
Earl Lii, accompanied by a Russian
guard of sever and his own escort, the
latter unarmed, but wearing the i'm
perial uniform, will proceed by special
train to Tien Tsin where a residence
has been prepared for his
Tien Tsin, Thursday, September 20,
via Shanghai, Friday, September 81
Lii Hung Chang has arrived here and
is domiciled in his own yamen, under
a Cossack guard. His reception here
was a repetition of his reception at
Tong Ku, only the Russian and Jap
anese officers calling on him, those Of
the other nations not taking part in ii.
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KIN.
Washington, September 21.-A ca
blegram was received at the state de-
partment this morning from Minister
Conger dated Pekin, September 18th.
announcing the arrival of Special Com
missioner ROCkQlll at Hoklu on lndl
date. Mr.. Conger made no statement
as to conditions in the Chinese CAPT.
tai.
SMELLING CHINESE FORTS.
Berlin, September PA dispatch re-
cefved here from Taku dated today,
says: Yesterday evening the Pc
Bang forts opened fire on the Russian
infantry camp, wounding twenty-five
men. Since early this morning a Ger
man howitzer battery has been she'll
ing the forts and town"
London, September 21.-Dr. Morrison
the Pekin correspondent of The Times
wiring on September 18th, says:
owing to the increasing activity o.
the Boxers and to the fact hat Chris
tan families have been murdered
during the last few days in the neigh
borhood of Pekin. a general order ha
been issued forbidding parties to g
foraging without escort.
THE British forces are so reduces
that the proposed punitive expedition
to clear out the Boxers in the vicinit
of the British summer residences i
the hills a been postponed. Onl
400 foot onl 6ftu ca hraS uara avail