Evening star., 1900-08-01
NOTE FROM CONGER
Message Received by Consul Ragsdale
at Tien Tsin.
ARRIVAL OF 4 COURIER FROM PEKIN
Dispatches Brought to Major
Waller.
COL. DAGGETT'S MESSAGES

COL. DAGGETT'S MESSAGES
The New York Evening Sun yesterday
printed the following cable dispatch:
| TEN TS1N. July 274 pm. (via Chefoo.
| July 30, and Shanghai, July 81, 9:ti5 am. y
| A courier reached here from Pekin today
| with dispatches addressed to Major Waller.
| the commander of the American marines.
| These dispatches We're dated July 21 and
| were from Minister Conger and the repre-
| sentatives at Pekin OF the British, Japan
| ese and German governments. There were
| also several private messages, all of which
| corroborated previous reports. The courier
| also reiterated the statements as to the bad
condition of the roads to Pekin and the
| number of Chinese who lined the way.
Minister Conger in his note to Consul
| Ragsdale says:
| '.Since July 16 by agreement, there has
| been no firing. We have provisions for sev
| eral weeks, but little ammunition If they
| continue to shell us as they have done we
| cannot hold out long, and a complete mas
sacre will follow. l hope relief can come
| soon. We were glad to hear of the victory
| at Tien Tsin. but regret the terrible cost.
| All safe and WE'LL
| Sir Robert Hart, the imperial maritime
| commissioner of customs, sent word to
| Commissioner Drew and the customs staff
| that he and his family were still safe.
| The missionaries report that all the Pekin
and Tung Chaw Americans and also the
| Walkers, Chapins. Smiths, Wyckoffs and
| Veritys and Hobart, Terry and Muckan are
safe at Pekin. All the mission property has
| been destroyed. This Terry has previously
| been reported killed at Tsunhua.
The British authorities decline to give out
| Sir Claude Macdonald's message saying II
Is similar to that from the japanese min
| ister yesterday. The German message is OF
| the same tenor. and adds that the Chinese
| are keeping Minister Ketteler's body.
An undated private message says:
yesterday. under a flag of truce, mes
| senger brought note from Yung Lu to
| Sir Claude Macdonald, the British minister,
asking If he was willing to agree to truce.
| Sir Claude Macdonald replied that he was
| willing, provided the Chinese would cease
their shelling and not come near the lega-
| tons
The shellng has now ceased and every
| thing is quiet. There is plenty of food in
| the shape of rice and horses.
The great danger is that the defeated
Chinese army from Tien Tsin may enter the
city.
The Americans made a gallant sortie on
the night of July 3 and hit the Chinese
| hard. Captain Myers of the American ma
rnes. was slightly wounded.
Messages From Col. Daggetr.
The War Department last evening re-
ceIved two cablegrams from China The
first read
CHEFoO (undated).
To Corbn, Washington:
TEN TSIN, 27.-Message just received
from Conger says since 10th, by agreement,
no firing Have provisions several weeks.
little ammunition. All safe, we'll.
1 DaggetU report allied forces soon ad-
vance. Practically no lootins by Ameri-
cans, no unnecessary killing Indiana ar
rived 26th. Order MacCann, Gladen, both
Aliens, Mitchell, Bryce join regiment here.
(SigD DAGGETT.
The second read:
TEN TSIN. 30.-Fintshire arrived 9th.
Two hundred and fifty-seven, 9th In
fantry, sick Ten doctors. 100 hospital
corps men. twenty signal men needed. I'm
avoidable delay unloading transports. For
eiSn troops arriving.
(Sig) DAGGETT.
Anxfously Awaiting Relief.
The adjutant general has received a dis
patch from Lieutenant Colonel Coolidge.
commanding the 9th Infantry at Tien Tsn,
as follows:
"TIEN TSIN. 27.-Following letter of
Lieutenant Colonel Shiba, military attache
at the legation of Pekin dated July ., ar
rived Tien Tsin, %, at 8 o'clock in the even
ing:
awaiting impaiently arrival of reinforcing
army When you coming? All Legations
have been blockaded since 18th last month
ana since the 2Oth We nave Deen attacked
continually night and day by the Chinese
soldiers from more than ten encampments.
By supreme effort We are still defending.
We are daily awaiting with the greatest
anxiety arrival of reinforcing army, and II
you can't reach here in less than weeks
time it Is probable that We will be unable |
to hold out any longer. Emperor and en-
press dowager appear to be still at Pekin. |
Were Que reinforcements to arrive very |
probable that they would flee to Wan Sho- |
shan. Killed and wounded up to date, eight |
H., g..f..
bassador's attache: seven seriously wound |
ed. the first secretary Of the legation being |
one of twenty slightly wounded. The num- |
ber of Europeans killed is sixty IN all.
(Signed) COOLIDGE"
ResistinE Chinese Attacks.
The japanese consul at Tien Tsin tele-
graphed on the 27th ufimo a dispatch,
dated the 10th from the Japanese minister
at Pekin to the foreign office at Toxic, |
which had reached Tien Tsin by special |
courier on the 18th. The minister says: |
The japanese marines and others con- |
tinue, under the command of the military |
attache, Lieutenant Colonel Shiba, to re- |
sist the repeated attacks of Tung-fuhsiang's |
troops. l think we hold out, though |
the task is by no mean an easy one, until !
troops, which. l hear through a special /
messenger. will arrive at Tien Tsin by the |
end of this month The Chinese have |
stopped firing since the 18th, and the Chi |
nese authorities are apparently disposed 10 |
open negotiations.
"Attache kojima, Captain Ando of the |
Imperial Army, VIM. H. Nakamura and |
five marines have been killed, while Nara |
bara, second secretary Of the legation a |
student, and six marines have been wound |
ed, though not mortally. Many others have |
also been slightly wounded
Doubt Gives Way to Certainty.
Doubt has now given way to a feeling of |
certainty tina: the legationers at Pekin and |
the gallant marines who managed to reach |
the Chinese capital just in the nick of |
time are still alive and likely to remain |
so until they are released from their state
of siege. The officials here feel certain that
the attack by the Chinese on the legations
will not be renewed. They are convinced
that the counsels of the viceroys in the
great southern and central provinces and
the advice Of Ii Hung Chang have had ef-
feet, and that whoever is in power in Pekin,
whether emperor, empress. Ching, Tuan or