The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-21
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The Message From Conger.
". NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

the horror and excitement of situation,
while there news tdings CT hope there is
Also responsibility immediate There
longer blind conjecture would avail Their
positive proof haste viii the legations
Pekin the legations held for month, the
can hold out for several days longer they ho
out for another month.
Conger is alive All those believed dead save the Ger
minister Ketteler alive They are' battling,
mere handful against mob presumably unde
Tuan
.Congers message reads: In British legation. unde
CD nued and the Chinese troops. ouicl
relief only can prevent general massacre"
Quick" means immediate. It means that unwilling
willing Japan over-cautious Britain ans
jealous Germany prefer quarrel
itiative the United States of one will take
ground those arrive from
the Philippines way through Pekin. Under
the stimulating impulse Americans troops
will probably follow.
But all It is prediction that the first fae
miserable beleaguered ones the legation
will be the old Stars Stripes coming to he,
rescue
United States sphere influence in
China. obtain message from the blunder-
ing Tsung Ii Yamen. given the it received
world. The is a cry help. The demand OF
situation a whole less international jealousy
little military strategy lineup march tc
Pekn.
The few days will be fraught with excitement
such this world has rarely felt before.
Our troops in China and en- route and under orders
amount to a little than 1000 men, as follows:
Troops in Chna-Ninth United States infantry, 1850
men; two battalions of marines 500 men,
Troops bound to China from Mania-Fourteenth United
States infantry men; one battery Of artillery 2S
Troops on ships bound from San Francisco to China
Sixth United cavalry, men, Fifteenth United
States infantry 1000 men; marine battalion $50 men,
Troops in the United States under orders-Frst cavalry
men; cavalry men, battalion
airy men; engineer company officers $50 men;
artillery More marines
Troops in Cuba under orders to China-second Fifth
Eighth United States infantry. 1900 men.
total, 1197
wording of part Conger's message there
interpretations by Chinese troops
under the Of the emperor. China really
war with the better reading is that he
means Boxers mutinous Chinese regulars who
Joined him. the case the
Chinese situation have understood days is
completely changed China is at war with world.
the meaning.
The action the vceroys Of the southern provinces
refusing obedience the the usurpers
protect foreigners within jurisdc-
tons the rumored intervention Prince Ching Yung
Lu viceroy Pe-ch-n favor of the beeaguered
ENJOYS report the lsgationers
safe July IS bear the theory grand
empire emperor and possibly the en-
press regent opposed (and opposing ito the
ability ruthless anti-foreign policy Of
Prince his faction
premises being granted the situation would be
greatly simpfed assumption of the powers Gncud-
government Sates) they are not
a China would be unimpeachably correct The
against the advance Of the inter-
national who laying siege to the
legations are enemies not manufactures Of the
Chinese government To engage these mutineers in battle
is war on China nor would the crushing Of
insurgents by foreigners be unwelcome to the i'm
periled loyaiss quite possible that some
Of those who supporters of law order
mainaners international obligations at Pekn originally
connived the antoreign movement; they did not
contemplate possibility e1nuete developing into an
instruction which, if unchecked in revolution
substitution King storb' Tuan for King Los"
Kwang Hsu- The cabal of high officials and Manchu
princes who have hitherto ruled the fail
take alarm however at the prospect of being deprived
and pef by virie despot who would emperor in
fact wei in No matter how severe might be
the punishment inflicted by the Of the cooperating
powers the nsurgent Chinese the would not be
regarded prOvOcatiOn by the ruling
clique Pekin
Under the circumstances the magnitude Of forces
employed to accomplish the relief Of Pekin if they
should consist OF 100000 five times that number
would not change the relative powers and
China. The official relations Of the western governments
with the Ceectial Empire would continue be nomlnaiy
peaceful although the soil Pe-chi should be soaked