Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-10
ARE BEYOND TIEN TSIN
Allied Forces Said to Have
Advanced IS Miles.
CHRISTIANS KILLED NEAR PEKIN
Prince Ching's Peace Policy Has LittI~
Support at Pekin-Hsu Ching
CHEN Beheaded.

London, August 6.-According to 8
special dispatch from Shanghai, dated
August 8, the advancing column OF
the allies was reported there yesterday
to have reached a point 35 miles be-
yond Tien Tsin. Nothing from, any
other point co1roborates this state
ment. In fact, the Standard goes so far
as to say that it fears the real advance,
apart from preliminary measures, has
not yet begun. Tien Tsin dispatches
dated July 80 tell of an action which
is termed Reconnaissance between
Japanese and Chinese two miles be-
yond the Hsi Ku arsenal, in which the
Japanese withdrew after suffering 80
casualties.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
Standard, under date of J1ly 81, de-
cIares that the Americans and Germans
have been ordered to move forward
without waiting for the British.
A Chez Foo special reports the safety
Americans in Pekin and the receipt
of letter from DR.. CheItman, dated
Pekin, July 20, saying that on the
previous day Sir Claude Macdonald, the
British minister, had agreed to truce,
providing the Chinese came no closer.
and continued: "We hope this means
relief, but, having again defeated the
Chinese, we are fearful of treachery.
All are exhausted from constant watch
ing, fighting and digging trenches.
The greatest credit is due to Mr..
Squiers, secretary of the United States
legation, whose military experience
and energy are invaluable"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily News says that the consuls there
regret the Independent action taken
by the American Association and the
Chinese Association, on the ground
that it is injudicious. He says: "The
settlements being international, petty
jealousies must disappear. The China
Association is of little local influence. +"
Presumably he refers to the American
Asiatic Association.
The Hong Kong correspondent of the
Daily Express announces the arrival
there from San Francisco of Hoer Lee,
for some time resident age1t in the
United States of the society for the ret
ormation of the Chinese empire, with
&c, 1000, which will presumably be util-
ized in connection with the movement
against the empress dowager. move
ment quiescent since 1898 until within
the last few weeks.
Nearly all the correspondents con-
firm the reports OF wholesale massa-
ere of Christians outside of Pekin, a
correspondent of the Daily News Civ
ing the number of killed as between
$1,000 and 15, 900, all defenseless con-
verts. Imperial troops-so it is stated
did the dastardly work.
According to the Shanghai corre-
spondent of the Times, one of the mem.
bers of the Tsung Ii Yamun mentioned
by United States Consul Goodnow as
having been beheaded for pro-foreign
tendencies was Captain Hsu Chen,
formerly minister to Russia. The cor
respondent says the empress dowager
ordered his execution on the advice of
Lii Hing Hong.
Lii Hung Chang has been informed
from Pekin that Prince Ching's only
prominent supporters in his peace pol
icy are General Yung Lu and Wang
Wen Shao, president of the board of
revenue, whose influence is small.