The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-13
DARK
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GLOOMY
Silence EnEelOps the Chinese
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LONDON, JULY 13-41O "A. ma ter
rible vein of silence enshrouds Pekin
and there is nobody but believes the
worst has happened. II is taken for
granted that all the powers have ex-
hausted their every means TO get direct
news from their legations, aud the fact
that their efforts have been vain leaves
tdt one Interpretation.
The Chinese representative I'm Berlin de-
MES the statement that III Hung chang
had sent TO him a hopeful telegram. He
says that, on the contrary, no diroc tele-
gram has been received from him Ii
Htng Chang for some time.
The days news is again restricted -
the usual crop OF untrustworthy ShHng-
hal rumors, the most serious OF which,
reported by the correspondent of the Ex-
press, is to the effect that Europeans are
directing the Chinese military operations.
The correspondent asserts that Captain
Bailey Of II. M. Orel, distinctly saw a
man in American gGrb directing the Chi
nese artillery operations outside Ticn
Tsin.
Foreign refugees from Tien Tsin openly
accuses a European official whose name
the Express correspondent suppresses and
Colonel Won Hannegen. who was former
ly employed TO drill the Chinese troop 3.
OF being parties to a plot to procure the
escape of General Ching and themselves
from Tien Tsin before the bombardment,
leaving the other foreigners to their fate.
Statements are in circulation in Shang-
hal accusing the Russians of fndi scrtnI-
nate slaughter of friendly Chinese nom
combatants, without regard to age or sex
The manager OF Chinese steamship
company who has arrived in Shanghai os
serts thatehe only escaped from Tien Tsin
by cutting off his queque and donning
European clothes. 1t is stated that the
Toatai of Shanghai protested to the DOW
ers against these Russian slaughters.
IL is asserted that the buddhist priests
throughout the empire are propagating
Prince Tuan's anti-forelgn gospel.
News is circulating throughout the
Yang Use valley that General Ma has
inflicted a crushing defeat upon :he allies
at Tien Tsn and that the foreign army
has been cut to pieces east of Pekin. The
actual impotence of the allied forces gives
color to these stories, with the worst
results
BERLIN. JULY 12-Official circles here
attach little Importance to the communi-
cation of the Chinese minister at Wash
fngton, dated June %. At best Il Is in
terpreted as an attmpt to gloss over the
rcent outrageous deeds A number of
statements made in II are declared to be
notoriously false, such as for instance.
the representations regarding Baron Won
kettler'S death and Taku seizure. The
main objection urged here Is that nobody
Knows who is the government of the do
wager empress and Kung Hsu or that of
Prince Tuan. The document bears date
OF June 30 and nobody knows what gov
eminent If any. has since succeeded.
a majority of the papers regard the
communication as a part of the Chinese
net work of lies with which both Europe
and America have lately been overrun.
The foreign office thinks that IL the com
munieation is authentic and was author
ized by the existing Chinese government
IT would mean that the Pekin government
foresees the proximate end of the rebel
lion and @iuld like 10 caect a reconcillia-
tion.
The publication tonight in the North
German Gazette of tho text of a circular
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