Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-21
AGAIN SUES.
Ii ImpIores That Hos
ti|ities Be Suspended.
Our Answer Will Be That Con-
ditiOns Have Not Been Met.
Chinese Forces in Imperial City
and Surrounded by Allies.
Emperor and Empress Dowage' Have
Undoubtedly Made Escape.
Believed 10 Be Allies Purpose to Cap
ture the Inner City.
What Shall Be Dore With Emperor ard
Believed TO Be Allies Purpose to Cap
ture the Inner City.
What Shall Be Dore With Emperor ard
Empress If Taken?

Washington. Aug 20.-The American
reply to China's latest appeal for a
cessation Of hostiiities received, today,
from Ii Hung Chang. has not vet been
made known ana il is likely that the
matter will be one Of the main subjects
Of consideration at the cabinet meet
ing. tomorrow. But there is reason
to believe that the ovcrtures will. in
effect. he rejected. on the ground that
the conditions laid down in the Amer
lean note of Aug. u. have not been
complied with and until complied with
the government must proceed without
reference to Chna's appeal for a halt
in the proceedings.
The dispatch of Aug. Il said spe-
officially that the United States was
ready TO enter into an agreement be
tween the powers and the Chinese gov
eminent for cessation of hostilities on
condition that the relief forces should
be permitted to enter Pekin unmolested
and escort the legationers therefrom
under such circumstances as the com
manding general might lay down But
up to the present time, there is not
evidence that the allied forces are I'M
molested at Pekin, or have received
the sanction of the imperial govern
ment to convey the legationers to Tien
Tsin. without further trouble and under
the conditions laid down by the COM
handing general On the contrary. all
Of the dispatches indicate that the all
lies are meeting stubborn resistance
and there is an entire lack Of compli-
ance with the conditions laid down by
Aug. II.
China's latest application for peace
negotiations was received early today.
at the Chinese legation and was trans
mitted by Mr. WI to the state de-
partment Secretaries Hay and Root
We're out of the city but Acting Secre-
tary of State Adee went over the sub
ject with the President. Earl Lis re-
quest is that the United States shall
name Minister Conger, or some other
official to act as peace envoy for the
cessation of hOstilities The Chinese
envoy proposed no terms as To the
withdrawal of troops and made no
other suggestion as to what TO come
before the commission, his sole anxiety
being to secure the cessation of hos
tilities. The application is understood
also to have been made to the powers
in the hone that, if all would name
commissioner. there would be a general
council of peace between Ii Hung
Chang on the one hand and the sew
eral representatives Of the nations on
the other.
The situation at Pekin was made
more clear. today. from many sources.
The latest advices appears to be that
from Consul Fowler. at Che Foo. re-
peating a dispatch received from Con-
sui Eagsdale at Tien Tsin. The latter
reports the Chinese troops surround
"a in palace grounds.
The japanese legation received a dis
patch Of the same general tenor. but
more in detail. saying that the Chinese
troops retreated on the 18th within the
imperial palace and that they We're
surrounded there. with the japanese
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