The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-18
RUMoRs FROM CHINA
An Communication With Pc
king Out OF.
REPORTS OF MURDER UNCONFIRMED.
One Story IL That German Minister
Has Been Murdered-AnotherT That
He Has Been Captured and Box
ers Occupy Legation street,

ers Occupy Legation Street.
LONDON, June 1S.-There is not a
cabinet In Europe apparently that knows
what has been transpiring in Peking fol
live days or In Ten-tsin for three days.
Nor Is there any that knows with what
difficulties the small and inadeQuately
equipped international column IL con.
tending between those cities. The Ger.
man foreign Office, upon learning the re-
port of the murder OF Baron Won Kettle
Ter, the German minister at Peking, sent
Geographic inquiry to st. Petersburg,
the Russian government, because Of ita
wires to Manchuria. being supposedly in
q better position than the other govern.
ments to obtain direct news. In reply
the German foreign Office was informed
that nothing whatever was known on the
subject, as communication with Pekins
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 Tao-tai Sheng. who for few
days. as the dowaser empress agent, has
been censorins kilograms from Shanghai
The Shanghai correspondent Of The Dsir
ly Express says:
"sheng, as head of the telegraph ad
ministration, pretended that the line con.
Meeting Shanghai with Pskins had been
down since June 0 and that the wires Il
Tien-tsn were cut on June IL. Never
theless it is notorious that constant COM
munications have been passing from
Shanghai to Picking over the northern
nd ali ~h koa
refused both ministers and consuls the
privilege of using the lines. II 10 known
that last Friday Sheng received mes
sage from either Picking or Tientsin.
This dispatch said that General Tuns
Fuh Siang's troops aided the Boxers in
an organized attack on the foreign lesa.
tions and that in the course Of the attack
some Of the legation buildings were re-.
duced to ruins and one foreign minister
sliced to pieces"
Why In the cables It should have been
added that the murdered minister was
Baron Won Kettsler is not explained.
According to another telegram from
Shanghai, dated June II, at 7:25 D. M,
Sheng has fed, fearing that the foreign
authorities were about to arrest him be-
cause of his stoppage Of kilograms. A
third cablegram asserts that the reports
of the murder of the German minister
cmanated from London, are quite uncon'
firmed and are discredited at Shanghai.
1.-THE German minister has been cap
tured" is the announcement to The
Morning Post from Picking In dispatch
dated June 10, at p. M, via Nen-tsln,
June 10. This Is the latest press message
known to have left Picking. 1t continues
as follows;
"A crowd Of Boxers occupies Legation
street, cutting off Communication be.
tween the buildings. A few Boxers are
parading IN the city. Their superstition
in regard to foreign arms is pitiable.
"The Boxers hold the officials Of Tung.
chau for redemption. Anarchy reigns al
that place. The Americans In the in.
terror Of the two nsishborins provinces
have been advised to leave, but several
have no means Of doing 20.
UNLESS a relief force IL sent there IL
danger Of a massacre Of native Chris.
tians. A large Chinese army is ready
to oppose the relief column on the way
here. The Chinese government cannot
decide whether to adopt the policy Of
rigidly suppressing the Boxers or that
of defying the world. The decision resta
with the dowager empress"
During the isolation Of Picking and
flemish Shanghai IL supplying a be-
wildering bunch Of reports and con.
lectures, most of them picturesque and
u fouinn