The age-herald., 1900-08-05
Would Not be Palatable to For
 eign Governments.
THE OFFICIALS WILL NOT TALK
General Chaffee Has Gone Forward With the British and Japanese
 Forces-Other Troops Did s..ss Not Join Them

a Washington, August 4.-some features of the dispatch received from General Chaf- fee yesterday, and which the War Depart ment refused to make public became known today. The first dispatch received ? by the War Department from General . Chaffee contained very little information, but closed with the statement that he was going forward to Tien Tsin and would j give. his views. That Is what he has done. His views, as cabled yesterday, will be far from palatable to several foreign gov ernments, and that is one reason why the dispatch was not made public
 This much is ascertained General Chaf- fee and the United tSates forces availa- ble under his command have gone forward toward Pekin with the British and Japan .ese forces, The troops of the other na- tions assembled at Tien Tsin did not join in the movement, but the reasons given by General Chaffee could not be learned.
 It is understood that the crisicism con- tained in the Associated Press dispatch received yesterday of the sanitary condi- tion existing at Tien Tsin is borne out III General Chaffees dispatch, but in discuss ing the matter he has been more specific and the names of the commanders are given which failed to take proper precau- tion of the health of the international forces,
 OHciaIs Won't Talk
 War Department officials generally re- fuse to discuss the contents of the dispatch, and Secretary Root announced emphati- cally that 1t would not be given to the pub lie. and, further, that additional dispatches had been received from General Chaffee t.@o 1t impossible on account of diplomatic re- lations to give the dispatch to the public and 1t is further desired that the proposed movement of troops should not be hsralded to the world for the advantage of the Chin ese forces which are opposing the advance of the rescue of the besieged ministers.
 The steady prosecution of the military movements undoubtedly has frightened the Chinese yioeroys, who have been sparrine for time and endeavoring to use the dip lcmatic corps at Pekin as protection. The Tsung-li- Yamen dispatch received today through Yuan and Wu fairly illustrate this condition and made it plain that the Imperial Government again is trying to force suspension of the advance on Pekin by menacfng the foreign Ministers.
 ChiDa's Next Move
 Having formally refused to put them in communication with their governments, and rnis having been proven intellectual to stop the advance, 1t would not be surprising If the Chinese next do one of two things either come forward with a threat to re- new the attack on the legations If the ad. vance is not stopped or resort to the plan of delivering the ministers safely at Tien Tsin, or at least to the commanders of the international column. trusting In that way to abate the force of he invasion and in- duce the powers to consent to negotiations for the settlement of the trouble.
 It Is learned here that Viceroy Li Hung Chang actually undertook to do this but sought to make the condition for the safe delivery of the ministers that the imperial government should be held blameless for what had occurred at Pekin. This condition having been rejected absolutely by the terms of President McKinley's reply to the Chinese government 1t may be that Lii is trying to arrange for the delivery of the ministers without conditions, trusting tc the gratitude of the powers to secure the desired dissolution.