The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-08-17
The Allies Are Reported to Have
Arrived at That City on
Monday.
JEWS CONFIRMED BUT NO DETAILS
Extreme Anxiety Exists Among Wash
ingtOn Officials as to What the
Next News Will Be.
BCssages Received From Minister
COnger Do Not Indicate That He
Has Received Any of the Dis
patches Sent to Him.

patches sent TO Him.
London, Aug. 16.-"The allies are
reported to have reached Picking Mon
Eay," says the Shanghai correspond
mt of the Daily Express. He adds:
Chinese official news confirms this
itatement, but without details"
A Paris message repeats this, but
she statement, especially as it ema-
bated from Shanghai, must be ac-
:epted with considerable reserve.
Other London morning papers, bas-
ing their remarks upon Washington
Dispatches which, with the exception
Of the foregoing from Shanghai, form
The latest news regarding the adj
Iance, are divided in opinion, some
believing that the allies must have
already reached Picking and others
preferring to believe that the relief
viii not be accomplished until the
End of the week.
Ngan Ping was occupied without
firing a shot, according to a dispatch
to the Daily Express from that place
dated August II. ut is believed"
the message adds, that Gems. Tung
Fuh Slang, Ma and Chung are in
irenching, 100000 strong, at Tung
Chau. The allies may avoid Tung
Uhau, pursuing the route northwest
from Chang Kai Wan"
Tung Ckau appears to be about II
miles from Picking.
A dispatch to the same paper from
Shanghai says that the officials pro-
fess to be willing to hand over the
foreign ministers, their families AMI
servants but will not permit the de-
parture of native Christians.
"The Russian government" contin-
ues the telegram, ''has notified ii
Hung Chang of its willingness to re-
ceive NJ. Degiers outside the walls Of
Picking, thus avoiding the entrance
of the Russian force. This independ-
ent action is calculated to embarrass
the allies seriously. Japan demands
that Gen. Yung Lu shall meet the al
lies outside the city gates and deliver
the ministers and all the native Chris
tians"
The Chinese minister in London, Sir
Chih Chen Lo Feng Lu, is quoted as
saying: The powers must not press
too hard on Peking. If you defeat
the Chinese soldiers it would not be
possible to control the soldiery. They
may turn and rend the legations.
do not believe the legation food sup
ply will be stopped as long as the
powers refrain from attacking Pc
king and negotiate for the surrender
of the ministers"
Washington, Aug. 16.-The tension
on the Chinese situation is intense,
for it is appreciated by officials that
the crisis has reached an acute stage
which can not be continued many
hours without bringing word of mo-
mentous import determining either
for good or evil the entire course of
events. 1t is day of extremist anx-
iety, of watching and waiting, with
only meager and fragmentary infor.
nation as to the military and diplo-
matte phases.
One of the new developments was
the statement that messages are be-
ing received from Minister Conger
which are not being transmitted
through any of our officials in China,
or through the Chinese minister here
hut directly at the state department.
These messages come by the way of
Tsi-Nan. Some of them can not be
fully deciphered, and for this reason
the statement can not be definitely
made that the dispatches sent by the
government to Minister Conger are
received by him. So far as the mes
sages have been deciphered there is
no indication that Minister Conger
received any information or dis
patches from our state department.
Nothing could be learned of the con-
tents of the dispatches received al
though it was stated that there were
quite q number from Minister Conger,
some coming from the consular Of
ficers and Gen. Chaffee, besides those
which came direct. The message
transmitted through Minister WI
was entirely deciphered in the depart
ment.
Word came early in the day to the
navy department that Gen. Chaffee
had reached Matow, about ten miles
from Picking. This occurred Friday
or Saturday, though the dispatch
from Gen. Chaffee, sent through Adm
Remey, was not sufficiently definite
to locate the exact time of reaching
Matow. But in any event, three OF
four days have elapsed since then
end there has been time for still
further advance toward the imperial
city.
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