Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-20
WORD FROM CONGBR
The State Department Received
Dispatch from the United States
Minister at Pekin.
MISSIONARIES MASSACREl
The French Foreign Office Received Iufor-
nation That the Foreign Ministers Are
Safe at the Palace Of Prince
Ching at Pskin.

nation That the Foreign Ministers Are
Safe at the Palace Of Prince
Ching at Pskin.
Washington, July 20.-The Chinese
minister has just received a cipher ca.
Bile from United States Minister Conger
1t is In the state department cipher, and
Is transmitted through the Tsung Il
Yamen and the Shanghai Taotai. II
contains about fifty words. and ia sign
ed in English with the name "Conger.'
The minister has just taken 1t to the
state department.
MORE MISSIONARIES MASSACRED
London. July 2O.-A dispatch from
Shanghai, received this morning, re-
ports sixty missionaries and 100 native
converts massacred by the Boxers at
Tai Yuan.
A MESSAGE FROM CONGER.
Washington, July 20.-Conger's tele-
gram is as follows: I'm the British le-
cation. Under continued shot and shell
from the Chinese troops. Quick relief
only can prevent general massacre"
The message Is not dated, but it Is un-
derstood that it was sent from Pekin
on July 49,
MINISTER'S REPORTED SAFE.
Paris. July 20.-The foreign Office re-
ceived information from Chinese
source that the foreign ministers at Pc
kin have not been massacred. Accord
ing to this information, on July the
ministers were attacked and the lega-
tions burned, but the foreigners sue
ceeded in crossing the city to Prince
Ching's palace, which was then barri-
caded, and the Europeans were holding
their own up to the time the news left
on July 9. Since then nothing has been
heard from Pekin.
REBELS CARRY EAST PEKIN.
Washington, July 2O.-The state de-
partment issued the following bulletin:
The secretary of state received this
morning dispatch from Consul Fow-
Ter, at Che Foo. dated midnight, July
10. saying that a Shanghai paper on
been murdered. Fowler wired the gov
ernor demanding the truth. The gov
ernor replied that his courier left Pekin
on the 11th, and that all then were safe,
but that the east city Of Pekin had been
carried by the rebels with intent to kill.
CONGER'S MESSAGE.
Washington, July 20.-The following
statement has been given out by the
state department: "On the nth of this
month the state department commune
Gated brief message asking for tidings
from Minister Conger in the state de-
partment cipher. Minister Wu under
took to get this into Minister Conger's
hands IL he were alive He succeeded in
doing this. This morning the state de-
partment received telegram from
Consul General Goodnow at Shanghai
saying: The governor of Shan Tung
informs me that he received to-day a
cipher message from Conger of July IS.
A few minutes later Minister WI ap-
peared at the state department with
the telegram from Taotai Shang, dated
July 20. which had been received by
Minister Wu at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ing, reading as follows: Your telegram
was forwarded. and, as requested, I
send the reply from the Tsung Ii va
men as follows: "Your telegram of the
18th day of this moon (11th Of july
has been received. The state depart
ment telegram has been handed Minis
ter Conger. Herewith Is Minister Con-
gers reply to the state department"
This reply was in the state depart
ment cipher. 1t is regarded by the state
department as genuine, inasmuch as a
forgery seems, under the circumstances,
to be impossible
As soon as Minister Conger's cable
gram had been translated the cabinet
council was called into the Office of the
secretary of state.
In reply to a question, Adjutant Gen.
eral Corbin said that it Is impossible to
say now what effect the receipt of Min
lister Conger's message would have or
our military operations in China or or
n our preparations here. He did not know
but that an increased military haste
might precipitate matters in China.
URGING RELIEF.
Washington, July 20.-Secretary Lonl
sent the following cablegram to Ad
miral Remey: "Conger telegraphs HI
is under fire at the British legation, Pc
kin. Use and urge every means possi
BILE for immediate relief"
HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
Shanghai, July 2O.-A Chinese mer
chant who has just arrived from Pekil
!. gives the horrible details Of the massa
ere. He says he saw European womel
hauled into the street by shrieking Box
ers, who stripped them naked, outraget
them and hacked them to pieces. Thei
discovered limbs were tossed to tn
crowd and carried. of with howls Of tri
umph. He says he saw Chinese soldier
carrying the bodies of white children
aloft on spears while their companion
shot at the bodies. He gives other de
tails too horrible to be particularixe
here.
RECEIVED WITH SUSPICION.
London, July 2O.-Minister Conger'
message is not regarded here as 1usti
flying optimism, but, on the contrary.
generally accepted as further Chimes
attempt to mystiacation. Some thin
the fact that the message is undated
and the airnila ritv Of ita c0ntAnta IN ri
Robert Hart's message Of June a, SUI