The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-09
GROWTH OF CHINESE CRISIS
IMPORTAfT 4DVICES FROM MIN
 ISTER CONGER BY MAIL.
ernmcnt-The Collective Note of the Powers-The Ministers Aware of the Dangers of the Situation Two or Three Weeks Before the Pekin Gu break.

Washington, July 8.--The last China
 mail to reach the state department
 brought the report of Minister Conger,
 perhaps the last that will ever come to hand This bear date of Pekin, May 21.
 It is of the utmost importance disclos- | ing as it does full comprehension, on the part of the foreign ministers in Pe- kin, of the character and extent of the | Boxer uprising, even though MT, Con ger, himself by disposition optimistic, found some reason to hope that the worst was over at that date. What MT. Conger has to say as to the attitude of 1 the Chinese government toward the Boxer movement as revealed in the for maj interchange that took place be- tween himself and the Tsung II Ya- men (Chinese foreign of1lce) is not only of peculiar interest now, but probably will have a strong bearing on the final reckoning that must be had between the civilized nations and the Chinese. MT Conger makes it very clear through the publication of the French priests letter that at least one, and probably all of the European nations having interests in northern China were acquainted with the dangers of the sit uation at least two or three weeks be- fore the actual outbreak in Pekin. Te correspondence referred to follows:
 Legation of the United States of
 America.
 "Pekin, China May 21, 1900. "To the Honorable John Hay, Secre-
 tary of State. Washington, D. G.:
 "Sir-I have the honor to confirm, on the overeaf, my cipher telegram of to- day.
 Tn response to the request of the French minister the dean called a meeting of the diplomatic corps yester- day, and upon information furnished in a letter from the Catholic bishop in Pekin and verbal reports by tbe other ministers the situation was considered so grave that the corps unanimously instructed the dean to present it to the Tsung Ii Yamen and demand fmmedi- ate and effective measures, which he did to-day by the note, copy of which Is enclosed.
 II also enclose copies of the bishops letter and one from Rev. MT Kilie, an American missionary who lives in Pe- kin, but travels a circuit to the north and east.
 "On the 18th inst, during an extend- ed personal interview with the Tsung Ii Yamen, I called their attention to the fact that, notwithstanding constant ! warnings from this and other legations, | the Boxers had continually increased | and spread until now they are boldly | organizing inside the walls of Pekin, the existence of thousands is known in | the villages around Pekin, Christian i are being persecuted and | everywhere, many forced to recant their religious professions, and | some have been compelled to abandon their chapels and come to Pekin for safety.
 II said that at London mission near Chou Chow forty miles west of Pekin, two native Christians have been killed and their chapel destroyed. Near Pao Ting Flu a Catholic village has been de- stroyed and sixty-one Christians mur- lered, some of them being burned alive. The foreign governments cannot longer sit idly by and witness this persecution and murder. l can only speak for my own government. but it is becoming very impatient over China's continued
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