The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-10
CONGER IS HEARD FROM
LEGATIONS WERE SAFE JULY
TWENTY ONE.
The Advance of the Allies on Picking
Has Begun-Are Eighteen Miles on
The Way.

SUANG Hal, July 31.-A telegram
| from Tientsin states that courier has
just arrived there bringing advices from
! Picking up to July u. MESSAGES from
the British, German, Japanese and
American Ministers We're brought be-
sides private letters. In substance these
messages contain the following infor-
nation:
The Chinese declared a truce on July
is and stopped firing on the legations.
The defenders have very little ammun-
ition, and IL the Smelling should be re-
sumed they will not be able to hold out
| long. Europeans hoped for speedy re-
lief when they heard of the Tientsin
victory.
The American Minister states that his
family are all safe and well. Sir Rob-
ert Hart notifies Commissioner Drew
that Bredon of the Customs staff and
his family are well.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-The War
! Department this afternoon received two
cablegrams from China. The first
reads:
"CHEFU Cundated). -Corbin. Wash
ington: Tientsin, July 27.-NIessage
! Just received from Conger says since
! 10th by agreement no firing. Have pro-
visions several weeks; little ammuni-
/ ton. All safe, well.
| Il DaggetO report allied forces soon
advance. Practically no looting by
/ ~
India arrived 2Gth. Order Mccain, Sla-
den, both Aliens, Mitchell, Brice join
regiment here. DAGGETT."
| The second reads:
"CHEFU. - Corbin, Washington:
Tientsin, July 3O.-Flintshire arrived
9th. Two hundred and fifty-seven
| Ninth Infantry sick, two doctors, one
hundred Hospital Corps men, twenty
/ signal men needed Unavoidable de-
lay unloading transports. Foreign
troops arriving. DAGGETT"
! Adjutant General Corbin today re-
ceived dispatch from Lieutenant Col
onel Coolidge commanding the Ninth
Infantry at Tientsin. 1t came by way
of Chefu, and is as follows:
"TIENTSIN, July 27-Following let
ter of Lieutenant Colonel Shiba, mill
tary attache at the legation of Picking,
dated July %, arrived at Tientsin on
July 20, at o'clock in the evening:
" PICKING, July %, evening.-We
are all awaiting impatiently arrival of
reinforcing army. When are you COM
ing? All legations have been blockad-
ed since the 18th of last month, and
since the goth we have been attacked
continually night and day by the Chi
nese soldiers from more than ten en-
campments. BY supreme efforts we are
still defending. We are daily waiting
with the greatest anxiety the arrival
of reinforcing army, and if you can't
reach here in less than a weeks time
it is probable that we will be unable to
hold out any longer The Emperor and
Empress Dowager appear to be still at
Picking. Were our reinforcements to
arrive it is very probable that they
would flee to Wan Shoshan. Killed and
wounded up to date--Eight killed, one a
captain of infantry and an Embassa-
doris attache; seven seriously wounded
the first secretary of legation being one
Der of Europeans killed is sixty in all.
COOLIDGE"
ROME, July 31.-The commander of
the Italian cruiser Elbe at Tientsin re-
ceived the following telegram today
from the Japanese military attache at
Picking, dated July %:
THE legations are eagerly awaiting
relief. Cannot hold out long. Sixty
Europeans killed."
WASHINGTON, August 9.-What is
believed to be an authentic message
from Minister Conger has been received.
1t shows that the legations We're safe up
to July n, though they had been con-
tinually fired on up to July 16. when
truce had been declared. 1t is stated
that ammunition and provisions were
short and unless relief arrived soon all
hope was gone.
Later news indicates that the Chinese |
Government begins to realize the situa-
ton it is i'm and has removed the lega- /.
lions from the legation compound to |
within the forbidden city for safety.
LONDON, Aug. 3, 3:45 a. m.-Accord- |
ing to the Daily Express cablegrams |
from Chefu announce that imperial !
troops advancing to oppose relief force |
have wiped out a christian town near
Picking, killing five foreign priests and |
10000 native christians.
LONDON Aug. 3.-These adVices |
form from IFS Spapia1 col,raSnonHapf no
published by the Daily Mall
SHANGHAI, Aug. IA courier who |
left Picking on July p explains there is |
great danger of treachery on the part |
of the Chinese. They We're strengthen
ing the barbados around the legations |
and placing artillery on the walls of the
Imperial city commanding the legations !
Should they make another attack the |
Europeans could hardly expect to hold |
out, since their ammunition was almost |
The Chinese in Picking are kept in
formed of the weakness of the foreign |
forces now gathering at the coast by
Shanghai officials. If Peking reports
are correct, Europeans there are by no |
means out of danger for should the de-
feated Chinese forces after an en-
counter with the relief force fall back
on Picking it is very probable that they
would wreak vengeance on the practi-
cally defenseless foreigners
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The special cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph
sends this dispatch:
SHANGHAI, Aug. 3.-Trustworthy
Information reaches me that the Chi
nese troops are steadily advancing
northward from the Yangtse. Valley and
also toward the south, and may attack
and flank the European army.
NEW YORK, August IA cable to
the Sun, dated Tien Tsin, July 20 tn,
says: 1t is reported that the japanese
vanguard has been been repulsed in
the march on Picking, and $50 of them
killed or wounded.
The Russians are reported to have
captured some forts ten miles from
Tien-tsin, in the direction of Picking.
Ten thousand Chinese who were garri-
Oning the forts fled.
BRUSSELS, Aug. IN. de Fareeau,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, has recei-
we'd the following dispatch dated Shan
ghai, August J. from NJ de Cartiar de