The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-22

| tain Crozier, Ordnance Department.
JAPANESE TROOPS.
st. Petersburg, July 21.-The Chinese
positions on the Amur have been cleared
| from Blagovestchensk as far as Khab-
erofsk
Eight thousand Japanese troops arrived
at Tien Tsin from Taku Monday, July
| 10th. Twenty-one hundred Japanese
| troops are commanding the position at
Che Foo, and Eighteen hundred at Shan
Hal Kuan.
Navigation of the Pei Ho River from
Taku to Tien Tsin is now easy and free
from maraulers.
Owing to the lack of houses, 300 tents
have been pitched for the wounded at
Tier Tsn.
CONGER'S MESSAGE.
Shanghai Friday, July 20.-According
to Sheng, the Administrator of Telegraphs
| most of the kilograms received previous
to the one from Minister Conger to the
State Department. Washington, took a
week in transmission from Pekin. The
date of Minister Congers message is
therefore regarded in the best circles here
as further proof of Chinese duplicity.
ON Ii HUNG CHANGES TRAIL.
Shanghai, July 90 Friday)-The Brit
ish cruiser Bonaventure left Woo Sung
early this morning, it is reported, to
seize the Au Ping with Ii Hung Chang
on board. A triumphal arch erected in
Ii Hung Changes honor has been ordered
by the council to be removed.
WANTS FRANCE TO MEDIATE.
Paris. July 21.-At the Council of Min
listers today the Minister of Foreign At
fairs, M. Delcasse, read a telegram from
the Emperor of China asking the media
tion of France with the foreign powers.
The telegram was signed by Kwang Su,
and not by Pu Chan, the son of Prince
Tuan. The reply given by M. Delcasse
was that the request would be considered
only upon absolute knowledge that the
| following acts had been accomplished:
First, that efficacious protection and
absolute freedom of communication had
| been assured between the French Minister
| at Pekin and his colleagues of the diplo-
matte corps and their respective Gov
| ernments.
Second, when Prince Tuan and the
high functionaries responsible for the
actual events had been dismissed by the
Government to await inevitable punish
| ment.
Third when the authorities and bodies
| of troops throughout the entire empire
| shall have received an order to cease hos
| tilities against foreigners.
Fourth, when measures have been
| taken for the rigorous repression of the
| Boxers.
b. $50 Tong as these necessary guarantees
| are not furnished there is room only
] for military action
| M. Delcasse notified the Cabinet that
| all the powers had responded favoraby
to. the proposition to prevent the exporta-
tion of arms to China.
TEN TSIN EVACUATED.
London, July 21.-The Admiralty this
| afternoon received the following telegram
| from Admiral Seymour:
"Tien Tsin and neighborhood entirely
evacuated by Chinese
HAY BELIEVES DISPATCH GENUINE.
| Washington, July 21.-After mature de-
| liberation and after giving the considera-
| ton of the incredulous criticisms of the
| European authorities as to the Conger
| message, the State Department remains
| mistaken in its first conclusion, that
| the message was authentic and that Mr..
| COnger was alive on July 18TH Corro-
| borative evidence came to the Department
| this morning through Minister WI from
| two widely removed sources, the one
| from Sheng at Shanghai and the other
| from the Viceroy of Nankin. They make
| it clear that an edict certainly has been
| issued relative to the condition of the
| foreign ministers and certain other mat
| ters Of information of the greatest value
and interest, if they be true. 1t may
| however, be mentioned, and that consid-
| Grafton was duly discussed by Secretaries
| Hay, Root and Long this morning, that
all of these communications from Pekin,
at two points passed through the same
channel. At Shanghai, Sheng receives
everything; in Washington, Mr.. WI is
the medium. The point of this is that
| this additional evidence is deprived of
a great deal of it's corroborative value.
Notwithstanding this fact, our Gov
eminent is proceeding upon the presump-
| tion that these communications are au
| thentic. 1t has not been Influenced in
| this attitude by European criticism, but
convinced that it had everything to gain
| and nothing to lose by reposing confidence
| in the Chinese Minister here the State
| Department has felt it to be, not only
| good policy, but a duty to make use of
| the friendly disposition of the pro foreign
| Chinese officials, to alleviate the condi-
| ton of the legationers, if they are still
| alive. The Shanghai report that Ii Hung
| Chang is to be detained, and prevented
| from going to Pekin is received here with
| foreboding of evil. 1t cannot be doubted
| that to interfere forcibly with his free
| dom of movement would preciptate a
| crisis in the Southern provinces of China,
and certainly would prevent him from
doing anything for the foreign ministers,
| if he is acting in good faith. Feeling that
| the powers themselves are now willing to
| admit the error made by their naval
commanders in not following Admiral
| Kempff's advice at Taku, the officials
| here deprecate the adoption by many of
the powers Of further measures in the
same wrong direction Possibly this sub
ject may form the basis of some rapid
| diplomatic exchanges.
| GERMANY ASKS FOR INFORMATION.
Berlin, July 21.-The following telegram
| has been received from the German Con-
| sui at Che Foo:
Il have asked the Governor of the
Shan Tung Province to forward by the