Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
NEWS In GENERAL
CABLE FROM CONGER.
All Doubts as to Our Minister
Safety DispeIled.


Washington, July 21.-The Chinese
minister has received a cipher cable
dispatch from United States Minister
Conger. 1t is in the state department
cipher, transmitted through the tsung
Ii yamen and the Shanghai taotai. 1t
contains about fifty words and is
signed in English with the name
'Conger."
Conger's telegram in part is as fol-
lows:
''In British legation. Under con-
,tinued shot and shell from Chinese
troops. Quick relief only can prevent
general massacre"
Washington, July 21.-Like a flash
of sunlight out of the dark sky came
the intelligence, at an early hour yes.
terday that. United States Minister
Conger had sent cipher cablegram
from Peking to the state department.
at Washington, making known that
| two days ago he was alive, and that
the foreigners were fighting for their
safety. The Chinese minister, WI
Ting Fang, received the message.
Within an hour the welcome intelli.
gence that Mr.. Conger had been
heard from after weeks of silence and
evil report, was flashed throughout
the country and, indeed, throughout
the world, dispelling the gloom which
had prevailed everywhere, and bring.
ing to officials and to the public gen.
orally a sense of profound relief.
The dispatch was in reply to Secre-
tary Hays cable inquiry to Minister
I,.l L
saes were in the American cipher
code they were regarded by the Off
Gals as above the suspicion of having
been tempered with in the course OF
transmission through Chinese chan
nels. Mr.. WI promptly communicat-
ed the dispatch to the state depart.
ment, where the translation was made
from the cipher figures, and soon all
Washington was astir with the intel
ligence. 1t was telegraphed by Secrei
tary Hay to the president, who re-
sponded with wholesome expression
of qualification and word of it was
sent to the various cabinet officers.
Paris, July 21.-Ths foreign Office
has receievd information from Chinese
source, in which it is certain reii-
ance may be placed on the statement
have not beeen massacred. According
to information on the 7Ih, the MUS
ters were attacked and the legations
| burned, but the foreigners succeeded
in crossing the city to Prince Ching's
palace, which was then barricaded,
| and the Europeans were holding their
| own up to the time the news left,
July Q. Since then nothing has been
heard from Picking.
London, July 21.-Conger's message
TO the state department at Washing
ton is not regarded here as justifying
overmuch optimism. 1t is generally
accepted as a further Chinese at
tempt at mystification. The skeptical
are confirmed in the suspicious by the
fact that n message was received by
the French minister of foreign affairs,
through the Chinese minister at Paris,
purporting to be coming from the
| emperor, asking France to mediate
with the powers, which, it is alleged,
| dated Juy 10, and makes no mention
of the foreign legations at Picking.
London, July 21.-To add to the
gloom occasioned by the extreme SER
ious import of the news showing daily
the developing strength of the anti
| foreign movement in South
China comes from Shanghai re-
port that sixty missionaries and one
hundred native converts have been
massacred at Tai Yuan. Though the
| report is not yet corroborated il
tends to confirm the belief that the
| central southern viceroyslties hold
| aloof from the Boxers uprising never
had much foundation. If this massa-
ere occurred in the province of Shan
See, there can be but little question
| that an intense anxiety for the safety
| of the international colonies at river
ports and even Shanghai are fully jus.
| tilted, for the Chinese gathering in
| and about the international conces-
sions would mean horrors compared
with which the massacre at Picking
would be insignificant.
Washington, July 21.-The state de-
partment has issued the following
| bulletins:
1.-The secretary of state received
dispatch from Consul Fowler of Che
Foo, dated at midnight of the 10Th,
| saying Shanghai paper of July IS
said that eleven foreigners had been
murdered. Fowler wired the COVER
nor demanding the truth. The gov
| ernor replied that his courier left Pc
king on the 18th, and all were then
safe, but the Picking east city had
been carried by the rebels with in
| tent 10 kill"
Berlin, July 20.-Speaking about the
Chinese ornaments, the Kreuz Zeit-
| ung says: British manufacturers of
arms are now engaged in selling
weapons to the Chinese and they will
continue to do so until the indignation
of the world stops them. Germany,
Immediately after the outbreak of
hostilities, issued a prohibition of the
export of arms to China, but Mr.
Chamberlain and the entire British
cabinet favor such export even now,
and we may point for the proof to
the recent debate in the British par
| lament on the subject"
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