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VICEROYS COMMANDED TO CONCIL.-
late MINISTER'S HELD AS
HOSTAGES
SHEEG ADMITS THE NASSLCRBS
EVERY FOREIGNER IN PAO TING
Flu HAS BEEN SLAUGH-
TERED
PRIESTS HORRIBLY TORTURED
Wrapped In KerOsene-SOaked Cot
ton and Then Slowly Roasted
ReinfOrcements Hurry
ing to Taku.

| RetnfOrcements Hurry
ing to Taku.
LONDON, July SO.-The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express tele-
| graphing yesterday says:
"a new imperial edict promulgated this
evening urgently orders all viceroys and
provincial governments to endeavor to
negotiate peace with the powers, whose
ministers are held as hostages pending
result Of overtures for the abandonment
of hostilities against China.
THE vtceroys are also comma nded TO
| guard their territories vigilantly against
| attack and to prevent, by all means in
! their power, the advance of the foreign
! troops, and especially along the Yang Use
Kiang. The decree says that the officials
will answer with their lives for any fail
ure to execute these orders.
| Commands are also given that not a
single foreigner should be allowed to
| escape from the interior, where there are
| still fully 1000 Europeans connected with
missionary work, in isolated situations"
IMPORTANT OMISSIONS.
When the governor of Shan Tung com
municated to the consuls the imperial de-
cree of July "a, he omitted important
passages addressed to LII Hung Chang
| among them being the following:
1T IS admittedly inadvisable to kill all
! the ministers but it is equally unWise to
! send them to Tien Tsin. It will be much
| hostages.
You are commanded to hasten to Pc
Kin. You are mourning imperial displeas-
ure by delay. You have been appointed
viceroy to Chi Ii because with Your
| military experience, you will successfully
lead the imperial armies against the for
| eigners in Chill, which Yu Lu, the pres
| ent Viceroy. is unable to do, owing to his
| ignorance Of military affairs.
Lii Hung Chang replied to this edict
asking TO be allowed to retire on account
Of his age.
sHENG CONFIRMS RUMORs.
"Sheng now admits that he has tele-
grams since July 10, announcing that
every foreigner in Pao Ting Flu was
murdered, including forty British, French
and American missionaries, and announc,
Ing also that two French Jesuits and 1000
| converts have been massacred at KWang
Ping Flu, on the borders of Shan Tung
and Chi Ii. A majority Of the consuls
favor strong measures against Sheng's
duplicity.
HORRIBLE TORTURE.
Local officials assert that Italian
! priests murdered in HUI Nan Wen were
wrapped in cotton which had been soaked
with kerosene, and were slowly roasted
to death. 1t is believed that all foreign
ers in Chi Lii have by this time been
! massacred; and the wave of massacre
is spreading toward Ming Pc and Hong
Chow from which point thirty English
and American missionaries are endeavor-
ing to escape in boats down the river to
hiang Su Officials here anticipate a gen.
eral rising along the Yang Use Kiang
about Aug 1.
AN ALLEGED INTRIGUE.
IAN astounding American intrigue has
! been revealed to the consuIs here in the
shape of a slillful attempt to get the
! maritime customs placed in the hands; Of
| an American missionary named Fergus
! son, who, although he was an active ally
| of Sherg in the latter's endeavors to
hcodwink the world with regard to events
| in Pekin, was supported by the American
! officials in his claim to the appointment
| Of inspector general
A SANGUINE CORRESPONDENT
The Shanghai correspondent of the Dali
! ly Telegraph says he is Still firmly con-
! WINGED that the ministers are safe. but
|
! from the Japanese legation in Pekin, dat
! ed July 10, brought by a runner, saving
| that the legation was still defending it.
! self, nothing has yet been published Civ
! Ing anything in the nature of proof On
the other hand, the daily incoming re-
| ports CT the massacre of missionaries and
foreigners leaves only the most slender
| thread upon which to hang a hope
The general situation Is steadily becom-
ing darker, and a crisis is said to be
! fast approa ching. 1t is rumored in Shan
ghai that 10000 Chinese troops have been
! secretly moved into that vicinity, and
that the commander of the Kiang Yu
forts has been ordered to fire if any fur
| Their addition is made to the number of
foreign ships ascending the river Rioting
already has occurred at Kiu Kiang, the
mobs threatening death to foreigners.
With the arrival Of the second Japan
csc division the allied forces at Taku and
Tien Tsin will number 10000 The river
floods near Tien Tsin are diminishing
1t is reported that Russians from Har-
bin have arrived al a point $50 miles
north of Pekin, after severe fighting.
MORE CHINESE THREATS.
BERLIN, July 29-The Chinese legation
in Berlin has received message from
| Sheng, director general of railways and
! telegraphs, saying that he has received a.
dispatch from Pekin announcing that
Gen. Tung Fun Slang threatens to kill
| all the members of the legations If the
international forces advance upon
! Picking.
Evidently the legation is embarrassed
! by the receipt of this dispatch, as the
! Chinese minister has not communicated
it to the German government The Iega-
ton has cabled the viceroy of Nankfn
requesting him to try and get informa-
ton as to whether the widow of Baron
! Won Ketteler, the murdered German
minister, is still alive.
STILL AFTER MISSIONARIES.
TOXIC, Saturday, July 2S-It is re-
ported from Shanghai that the Boxers
| attacked the missionaries and native
Christians at Pao Ting Flu on July g. A
foreign physician and two thousand con-
Yerts We're massacred. The Chinese gen
eral, Ii Ho KEN, is now marching on
! Picking. He ordered his troops to ex-
terminate all Christians Already one
French priest and from two thousand to
three thousand natives have been slaugh-
| tered
DANGER AT PAO TING FU.
NEW YORK, July 29.-The American
Bible society has received letter from
Charles Cannon, its agent in China.
dated June 4. Mr. Cannon, after de-
failing the events up to the date of the