New-York tribune., 1900-07-11
SAYS TIEN-TsIN AMERICANS ARE SAFE
Y. NJ. C. A. RECEIVES MESSAGE CONTAINING
TELEGRAM FROM CHE-Foo.


The only cable message received by the mis-
sionary organizations in this city yesterday was
that received at the office Of the International
Committee Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, No. West Twenty -ninth-st It was dated
Shanghai, July 9, and read:
cdhsT aayg TefeisS s fhs following tTsgram Grom
safe. Nothing has been heard Gaileys personally
18th Of June.
The message was unsigned It is believed that it
was sent by Robert E. Lewis secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association at Shanghai to
whom message sent time ago asking
Tor information about Robert B. Galley, secretary
OF the Young Mems Christian Association at Tien-
Isln, and his family. On June % Mr. Lewis replied
saying that he believed the Gaileys had escaped
and that he had asked the Consul at Che-Foo TO
obtain further particulars. The reference to the
Gaileys in the dispatch received yesterday means
that Mr.. Lewis personally had heard nothing from
them since June II. The International Committee
has not heard directly from Mr.. Galley since it
received letter from him dated May 25. He was
then at Tien-Tsn.
No news was received at the Offices of the Pres
byterian Board yesterday. All Of the missionaries
OF the Board In Northern China except those at
Pao-Ting-Fu and Pekng have been reported safe
The officers Of the Methodist Missionary Society
received no dispatches but the Rev Dr. A b.
Leonard sent the following message to the Rev
DR.. John H. Hykes at Shanghai and to the Rev
William II. Lacy, at Foo Chow:
Call in missionaries. if in peril"
These messages authorize the missionaries sta
toned in Central and Southern China TO leave their
stations if IN peril DR.. Leonard said
There appears to he some unrest there and we
thought 1t prudential 10 call them in if in any
danger.
The Methodist Society has missions in the Yang
tse-Kiang Valley $50 miles inland and in the Prov
ince Of Foo-Kien, South China. The stations are
at Nanking, Kin-Kiang, Nan-Chang and Wu-Hu
Centra! China, and FoO-Chow and Hing-Hua
South China. Twenty-six missionaries are al
those points. The Rev. Dr. Hykes is the general
agent of the American Bible Society for China and
the Rev. Mr. Lacy is one Of the society's mission
aries at Foo-Chow.
The Rev DR.. Creegan. Of the American BOARD
received a letter from c. H. Daniels, of the Boston
office, which contained the following:
1t is difficult to understand just how Messrs
Ament Roberts and c. e Ewing could have made
annual meeting Chu4g-Chow and Peking, and it
y y dquPTui 40 4i II any could have reached the coast.
has cabled us twice, but no mention was made Of
reply as yet None of those whom we know have
escaped were at the annual meeting far as we
late May %. Roberts then intended TO go i'm
'r heqlateIy c 10 haIs9a ~ a and Amen was talking of
Miss Gould was at the annual meeting Her name
the others outside seem to have been named and nd
letters to her father from Pao-Ting- Flu, dated as
tegtnn 70 @ 60 ' Mr. P fage ba no ant & OF any In
not going Because he ala not fbpF II sF s' 10 ne was
PaO-Ting-Fu. Mr.. Ptkin and Miss Morrill, and
Miss Gould, we understand, have been reported as
at Peking We do not quite understand why, as
we have no information TO that effect.
The letter corrected error in the translation
OF cipher message received at the Boston office
on Saturday, and printed in The Tribune on sun
day. The translation had been given out as
"Kalgan might have made escape into Mongolia"
As corrected il gives the information that Professor
Q. Frederick Wright. Of Qberlin College and his
son who are making trip through North China
and Siberia for scientific purposes, had escaped.
Professor Wright is the editor of "Bibotheca
Sacra" and the author of The Ice Age"
The annual meeting referred TO is the annual
gathering of the missionaries of North China. The
persons referred to are the Rev w. S. Ament and
the Rev c. T. Ewing, Of the Peking station; the
Rev. James H. Roberts: OF the Kalgan station. and
the Rev. Horace T. Pitkn, Miss Mary S. Morrill,
and Miss Annie A. Gould. OF the station at Pao-
Ttng-Fu.