The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07

OF dehnltenesS the report oTten reiter-
ated is that people have been killed, ?
foreigners have been killed"
Your correspondent considers the re-
ports to be doubtful, that is IL what the
Chinese mean to convey is that all the
foreigners in Pekin have been slain,
These reports may refer solely to the
killing of Won Ketteler.
The refugees from Chu Flu have ar
rived. All the refugees got in safely,
but one man named Wells, refused to
leave the station and his fate is un-
known. Communication with Tien Tsin
is interrupted.
Bingham, Mass, July 7.-Secretary
John D. Long. shortly after his arrival
at his home from Washington in speak
ing of the situation in China, said:
THE situation is a very grave one.
There has been no official news from
there and even a message that we got
from Kempff, came by runners. The
purpose of the American government is
can property and not ACKNOWLEDGMENT" +"
He said the government would not
send any more warships to China at
present.
Washington, July IA cablegram
was received at the state department
this morning from Consul General Good
now at Shanghai, dated July Z, saying
that the legations were standing on the
3rd instant, and that the recent attack
of the boxers had been slight They
seemed disposed to adopt starvation
MORE ENCOURAGING.
London, July 7:-Jardine, Matteson &
Co., of Shanghai, have telegraphed to
their London house as follows:
Shanghai, July 1.-THE British lega-
ton was standing July 2. There are re-
assuring reports regarding the lives of
the Europeans"
TO MARCH ON NANKIN.
Shanghai, July .-Friday-Prince
T11an ordered General Shi
Kai to march on Nankin with 1900 Ger
man drilled troops 1t is doubtful If he
will obey but in any case Viceroy Lui
is believed to be able TO safely hold
Nankin. He has Is warships on the
Yang Use Kiang and Great Britain is
ready to assist this opponent of the
rebel government. The departure of
the anti-foreign Taoti, Sheng, for Nam
kin is causing anxiety.
II HUNG CHANG TO GO NORTH
WARD.
Canton, Friday, July 6.-Quiet contin-
ues here. Lii Hung Chang has stationed
troops in the streets to prevent disturb
ances- A steamer intended to convey
Ii Hung Chang northward sailed today
ostensibly bound for KIu Kuang. She
took $50 packages of Ii Hung Chang's
goods
TAKES A CHEERFUL VIEW.
Seattle, Wash, July ii. D. Clark,
editor of the Shanghai Mercury and
war correspondent of the London News,
from Shanghai. He has been a resident
of China for forty years. Speaking OF
the conditions there he said:
II see by the dispatches that hope
has been given up for the safety of the
foreigners in Pekin. I can not think
the conditions warrant this belief and
am of the opinion that they are safe and
will be for q great length of. time. The
British legation building Is a large and
strongly built place and while there
may have been discontinue on account
of the lack of sufficient food supplies, I
am convinced it could Withstand attack.
Probably 125 persons are within the
legation.
while the boxers are in control of
Pekin and the hue and cry is kill for
eignerS' they are wise enough to know
the death knell of the cause they
espouse would be sounded in a whole
sale slaughter of foreign diplomats.
II have the best hopes for the safety
of Shanghai and the cities in the ad-
jacent provinces. The viceroys are not
really in sympathy with the boxer
movement and are at least semi friend
ly toward foreigners.
1T will be necessary for the powers
to gather sufficient force not only to
take Pekin, but to capture the emperor,
empress dowager and other boxer heads.
dom there will be trouble and atroci-
ties"
GERMANY FOR HARMONY.
Berlin, July IA semi official note in
replying TO. Japanese request IOT news
of the powers attitude in China, Ger
many declared she regarded the main
tenance of harmony among the powers
as of prime Importance and would, ac-
cordingly, assent to any measures not
objected to in other quarters.
AUSTRALIA TO HELP.
Melbourne, Victoria July THE i'm
perial government has accepted Vic
toria's offer of a naval contingent for
service in China.
WU IS WORRIED.
Washington, July mo one in Wash
ingtOn is more anxious to hear of the
safety of the foreign legations in Pekin
than Mr.. WI, the Chinese minister. He
carefully reads every word of Chinese
news that appears in the papers, and
eagerly asks all the reporters who call
upon him for the latest developments
in the Chinese situation. He also keeps
in close touch with the officials in
Washington, and makes periodical v1S-
its to the state department to ascertain
if any intelligence has come to hand
His interest in what is transpiring is of
the keenest character, as he realizes
the grave dangers which threaten
Mr.. WI, while apprehensfve of what
may have happened as result of the
existing disturbances in Pekin and
other parts of north China, still cllngS
to the hope that the reports which have
come of the sacking of the legations
and the murder of the ministers have
been exaggerated and that when the
truth becomes known affairs Will not De
in the sorry plight in which they are
now represented to be-
At the same time he has no positive
on which to base his hopes,
resting them mainly on the belief that
whoever may now be at the head of the
will be able to keep the un-
rslly elements in hand and prevent any
Wholesale murder of foreigners. If the
ministers are in the British legation he
believes they can hold out for sometime;
a iS unless they have exhausted their
supplies of provisions and ammunition
A limited number safely entrenched un-
der favorable circumstances for time
he says, might hold out against a force
of Chinese ten times as large. Most of
the Chinese imperial troops, he says, are
loyal to the government, and he takes
comfort in the hope that they will up
hold it in it's efforts to put down the
boxers.
AS already stated the minister believe
there Will not be any demonstrations