The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-18
Latest Report Has Ii That the Gernar
Minister Was Not Killed,
but Is a Prisoner.
DANGER PRESENT AT sHANHAl
OUTBREAK OF THE NATIVES
FEARED AT THAT POINT.
Position Of Relieving Force said tc
BE Desperate-Burning Of the
Foreign Section at Peking.

MANILA, June Is, 10 a. H.
The Ninth Regiment has been
ordered to Manila, whence it will
proceed to China. The gunboat
Concord, with marines aboard, has
sailed under sealed orders, sup
posedly for China.
The British cruiser Buenaven-
tura has sailed for Hong-Kong
with troops and stores for Hong
Kong and Tieu-Tsin.
LONDON, June IS, 3 a. m.-There Is not q
Cabinet in Europe apparently that knows
what has been transpiring in Peking for
Ave days or in Tien-Tsin for three days.
Nor is there any that knows with what
difficulties the small and inadequately
equipped international column is contend
Ing between those cities. The German For
eign Office. upon Tearing the report Of the
murder of Baron Won Ketteler. the German
minister at Peking. sent teiegraphic in
quiry to st. Petersburg TO the Russian
government. because of its wires to Man
churia being supposedly in a better posi-
ton than the other governments 70 obtain
direct news In reply the German Foreign
Office was informed that nothing whatever
was known on the subject, as communica-
tion with Peking was interrupted.
The report. spread worldwide from
Shanghai, that the legations had been at
tackled and that one minister, probably the
German, had been murdered. has been
traced to Toa Tai Sheng. who for a few
days, as the Empress dowager's agent. has
been censoring kilograms from Shanghai.
The Shanghai correspondent OF the Daily
Express says:
sheng as head of the telegraph admin
istration, pretended the line connecting
Shanghai with Peking had been down since
June 8, and that the wires to Tien-Tsin
were cut on June Is Nevertheless, IL lie
notorious that constant communications
have been passing from Shanghai to Pc
king over the northern and western routes,
although Sheng has refused both ministers
and consuis the privilege Of using the lines.
1t is known that last Friday Sheng re-
ceived message from either Peking or
Tien-Tsin. This dispatch said that General
Tung Fuh Siang's troops aided The Boxers
in organized attack on the foreign lega-
tions. and that IN the course Of the attack
some legation buildings were reduced TO
ruins. and one foreign minister sliced TO
pieces.
why in the cables IL should have been
added that the murdered minister vas
Baron Won Ketteler is not explained.
According to another telegram from
ha hat dafa Irna af -.9S
has fed. fearing that the foreign suthori-
ties were about to arrest him because OF
his stoppage of kilograms.
NOT KILLED. BUT CAPTURED.
A third cablegram asserts that the re-
ports of the murder Of the German minis
ter emanated from London. are quite un-
confirmed. and are discredited at Shang-
hal.
1.-THE German minister has been captured
is the announcement TO the Morning Post
from Peking I'm a dispatch dated June Is.
5 p. m. via Tien-Tsin. June Is. This is the
latest press message known TO have left
Peking. II continues as follows: "A crowd
of Boxers occupies Legation street. cut
ting of communication between the build
ings. A few Boxers are parading I'm the
city. Their superstition IN regard to
foreign arms Is pitiable.
THE Boxers hold the officials of Tung-
Chau for redemption. Anarchy reigns at
that place. The Americans I'm the interior
OF the neighboring provinces have been ad-
vised 10 leave. but several have no meanx
of doing so. Unless relief force Is sent
there is danger of a massacre Of native
Christians. a large native army Is ready
TO oppose the relief column on the way
here. The Chinese government cannot de-
eide whether to adopt the policy OF rigidiy
suppressing the Boxers or that Of defying
the world. The decision rests with the
dowager Empress"
During the isolation OF Peking and Tien-
Tsin. Shanghai 10 supplying bewildering
bunch OF reports and conJectures. most OF
them picturesque and threatening. Here ts
one:
Miscellaneous armed crowds have been
In progress northward for some weeks
and the hordes around Peking are being
constantly sweiied by these arrivals Well
Informed Chinese here who are not un-
friendly toward Foreigners declare that