Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-07-28
So Says Ii Hung Chang In Reply
to a Cable From the New
York Tribune"
RUSSIAN BANKERS STORY
Says Ministers Shot Their Own
Families When They Saw
Death Inevitable.
COSSACKS MEET TRIBESMEN

New York, July 2S.-A dispatch to
the Herald" from Shanghai, says:
$4,000 armed Chinese are concentrated
some distance from here. Competent
military authority says that the pre-
cautions taken for defending Shanghai
are insufficient
Moscow, July 2S.-News reaching
Vladivostock shows that General Ger
ingrosS Manchurian railway guards
are in daily increasing danger. They
are at bay in their position between
Kolin and Hardin, and the little band
is still awaiting General Tschitsha-
goff's relief force. The Chinese are
overtlowing from Mongolia into north
ern Manchuria, in the neighborhood of
Hargin and Burdo Tsun. In Mongolia,
$4,000 natives surrounded the Russian
railway corps, but the Cossack column
attacked the tribesmen, and after a
fierce battle, routed them, killing 1877.
Daily skirmishes are reported between
the restless tribesmen in Manchuria
and the Russian railway guards.
Washington, July 2S.-Secretary of
State Hay received the following dis
patch from Mr.. Fowler, the American
consul at Che Foo, dated midnight, the
Goth; This morning by request of
the allies, wired the governor, (sup-
posed to be the governor of shan
Tung) their wish to get news from
the ministers themselves. The gov
ernor now replies: Have received to-
day an edict from the emperor saying
allStie ministers are well. They are
sending provisions to the legations. |
Am confident the ministers are out of
distress, and request you, (Fowler), |
to transmit this preliminary announce.
ment to the admirals. Signed.
YUAN, Governor"
Paris, July 2S.-The Chinese minis
ter at Paris. Yu Keng. received the fol
lowing imperial decree, dated, July
Foreign ministers are happily at
present safe and sound except Kettle
Ter. We are having the foreign lega-
tions supplied with provisions, and
fruits as token of the interest we feel
in them"
New York, July 2S.-The Tribune"
publishes the following dispatch from
Ii Hung Chang. dated Shanghai, July
eth, received at lis this morning:
'Pekin reports ministers alive. Safe
ty assured. Allied forces entrance to
Pekin Unnecessary" The dispatch
was in answer to a message sent three
days ago to the viceroy asking state
msnt as to the safety of foreigners at
Pekin.
London, July 2S-The DAILY Nails"
Shanghai correspondent telegraphs
that the Russians banker, who left Pc
kin, July 7th, arrived at Shanghai
Wednesday, July 25th, says when he
left Pakin all legations had been de-
.,croyed and all foreigners murdered
Ministers seeing death inevitable shot
their families. Sir Robert Hart, the
banker, adds committed suicide in de
spair.
London, July 2S.-The full text of
the Daily Mails" telegram is as fol-
lows: Shanghai, July 2S.-Newspa-
pers here publish the statement by an
influential banker residing at Pekin,
near the British legation, who arrived
at Shanghai on July 25th, having left
Pekin July 7th,-He states the lega-
tions were then destroyed. All for
eigneFs had disappeared, he could not
say positively If they had been murder
ed as he was too frightened to inquire.
The Malls" correspondent proceeds:
investigations prove this informa-
tion is reliable. The banker in ques-
tion has gone to Ting Po. His friends
will not disclose his name fearing to
do so would cause him to lose his head.
Manager Tussian BaIk of Shanghai,
received a letter from the banks new
Chwang branch stating one of their
Chinese representatives from Pekin,
just arrived. confirmed the report Of
the Pelzin massacre. He states all
foreign ministers were murdered.
Seeing death inevitable. as the Chinese
-swarmed into the legations. the minis.
ters killed their families at the last
moment. Sir Robert Hart, in despair,
committed suicide.
London, July 2s-Through Yoko-
hama dispatch the government receiv-
ed information that the Chinese at
tackled Japanese and Coreans in the
vicinity of An Tong north side OF
Yalu river.1 Refugees are arrived at
Wiju Japanese re-inforcements were
proceeding to the scene of conflict
The latest news received at st. Peters
burg from Blagovestchensk was dated
July 2srd. The Russian garrison has
been re-supplied with ammunition and
#uld be able to hold until reinforced
Tie Chinese legation here reiterate|
the assertion that ministers are OF
route to Tien TaIa.
New York. July 2s-Cable MESSAGE.