The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-04
ADVANCINGCOLUMN
A Shanghai Dispatch Says II Is Thirty.
five Miles from Tlen Tsln.
REPORT ISNOT cORRoBORA7ED
Americans and Germans Ordered to
Advance Regardless Of British.
WHOLESALE MASSACRES CONFIRMED.
The Number Killed Outside OF Pekin Given
at 10000 10 $4,000.
IMPERIAL TROOPS DID CHASTITY WORK
A Former Chinese Minister to Russia
Was Beheaded by order OF the
Empress Downger.
Americans and Germans Ordered to
Advance Regardless Of British.
WHOLESALE MASSACRES CONFIRMED.
The Number Killed Outside Of PekIn Given
at 10000 10 $4,000.
IMPERIAL TROOPS DID CHASTITY WORK
A Former Chinese Minister to Russia
Was Beheaded by Order OF the
Empress Downger. N

London. August 4. 1850 a. n.--Accorting
to special dispatch from Shanghai. dated
August 3, the advancing column of the
allied forces were reported there yester-
day 10 have reached point thlrty-ays
miles beyond Tien Tsln.
Nothing from any other point corrob-
crates this statement. In fact. the Stand
ard goes SO far as to say that it fears tho
real advance, apart from preliminary
measures has not yet begun.
Ten Tsin dispatches, dated July 81,
tell of an action which is termed re
connaissance" betweea the Japanese and
Chinese two miles beyond the Hsi Ku ar
seual in which the japanese withdrew
after suffering thirty casualties.
The Tien Tsln correspondent OF the
Standard. under date of July ~. declares
that the Americans and Germans have
been ordered to move forward without
waiting for the British
The Shanghai correspondent OF the Dafly
News says "The consuls there regret the
Independent action taken by the Amer-
can association and The China association
on the ground that 1t rs injudicioas," He
says: THE settlements being interna-
tional, petty jealousies must disappear.
The China association is OF little local
influence"
Presumably he refers TO tho Americana
Asiatic association.
The Hong Kong correspondent OF tho
! Daily Express announces the arrival there
from San Francisco of Homer Lea. for
some time resident agent in the United
States OF the Society for the Reformation
OF the Chinese Empire, with 100000,
which will probably be utilized In the
movement agailst the empress dowager.
/ a movement quiet since 1898 until within
! the last few weeks"
! Nearly all the correspondents confirm
1 the reports OF a wholesale massacre OF
{ Christians outside pekin, corresponding
of the Daily News giving the number.1-f
killed as between 10000 and $4,000, all de.
| fencelcss converts. Imperial troops--so 10
/ is stdted--dd the ghastly work.
/ According TO ;hc Shanghai correspondent
! OK the lImeS, one OF tne lsnng il yamen
I mentioned by United STATES Consul Good
now as having been bcheaded for pro- for
/ egn tendencies, was iTsu Ching Cheng.
former minister TO Russia. The corre-
/ spondent says che empress dowager or
( dered his execution on the advice of LII
/ Ping Heng,
| ii Hung Chang has been informed from
rekln thst Prince Ch!rg's only prominent
supporters in his peace policy are General
. m Yen
/ Of the board OF revenue. whose influence
/ is small
Shanghai, August alt is stated that
only Russians and Japanese. $4,000 strong.
are starting for PelSin.
Another Chinese exodus from Shanghai
has commenced. 1t was caused by disquiet-
ing rumors published In the native and
come foreign neyspapers