The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-05
Chinese Authorities Want Allies
to Leave Peking.
Their Idea IL That should Foreign
Ministers he Allowed Free Conn
municasion with Their Respec-
tive Governments Full Extent
OF the Completely OF the Chinese
Government In Anti-Foreign out
raSes Might BE Revealed and
Lead TO Exaction of Retributfon
-Hussia stiIl Worries Europe.

LONDON, Sept 8, l:l5 a m.-Tossv,s
uispatches from Shanghai and Tientsin
reier to the hopeless confusion and mis-
management OF the Chinese telegraph
system. which may probably account In
par, Tor the delay In getting news from
reking. Another reason for the delay.
oouptiess, Is the anxiety OF the Chinese
authorities TO procure the evacuation Of
tue capital No EFFORT is being spared by
them 10 bring this about. Their idea is
tnat should the foreign ministers In Pc
KING De allowed free communication with
their governments. the full extent of the
completely OF the Chinese government In
the anti-foreign outrages would be re-
yealed. and would compel the allies to de-
eide to remain until retrihution had been
exacted.
All kilograms have to be conveyed bv
courier from Tsinanfu to Picking. and
probably all cipher dispatches have been
stopped. According to Shanghai advices,
Ia Hung Chang wired the Chinese min
lister in London, Sir Chih Yen Feng Iuh,
as follows:
''our st. Petersburg minister has per-
X
useless II you cannot persuade England"
1t Is asserted that Earl IA has promised
Russia three Manchurian provinces II she
secures the withdrawal OF the powers
Both the empress dowager and IA Hung
Chang are said to be iavishing money to
attain these objects.
There Is no sign yet OF any decision on
the part of the powers regarding the Rus
stan proposals. The Japanese papers un-
reservedly condemn the idea OF evacuat-
ing Peking. and hint that there IL a secret
compact between Germany and Russia.
to the detriment OF Great Britain and
Japan.
Russian brutality.
The Moscow correspondent Of the
Standard. referring to the horrible ac-
counts of Russian brutality at Blagovess-
chensk. after the bomhardment. says:
1T II rumored that the Cossaeks mcr-
cilessly hutehered men. women and chill
dren In the villages on the Amur river.
and flung their corpses into the stream
These stories are confirmed by an official
order Just issued, couched In a mild note.
admitting the massacre. which they de-
scribea as caused by evaporation against
the Chinese for beginning hostilities. ard
threatening the utmost severity OF mar
tiai law for any future violence TO un-
armed peaceful Cinnamon. at the same
time ordering the police throughout the
Amur district 20 compel the town and
country populations 10 drag the Chinese
corpses ont ~ the river and bury or burn
them. IN order TO present an outbreak OF
Infection"
The correspondent adds:
This order fcads like a free warrant
- -
the cassacks may provoke Into n quarrel
or prove to he In possession OF arms"
sim sways the Emperor.
Proof that Emperor Kwang Hsu Is rtili
under the thumb Of the empress sowaEar
Is supplied BY the Shanghai correspondent
Of the Times. who wires;
IAN imperial edict, dated August ~.
while On route for Taiyuenfu. addressed
10 IA Hung Chang, IN the ernperors
name. explains that in view ~ the dan
rafs ~ foreign assault on PekinE, ta9
emperor felt h hts duty 20 comply with
,he wishes AZ the empress. and % accom-
many her westward. after inetratting
Yang III. Hru Tune ard TEgrg sbi 20
yeaain IN the capital and 20 carry on the
government.
.xew. fearing that the powers are in-
ressea and uswiilsuG % propose peace
fi4i settlement. thF NiNFfteh HHaFfF -
HANG chang 70 use every erdeaver %
open negotiations lie praises Earl t<'s
faithful service TO the dynasty, and as
sarcs him of imperial gratitude.
Another imperial s6tef, issued from
shMnxd. August ~. ard more conciiiatary
,srrea provincial yicerays and governors
10 safeguard their territory and naa The
Yanxste v4cergys 20 continue the policy
az seeuYlaw protection for missionaries
ara merchants ana - maintaining the
general sense 81 security"
anti-Toreixa utsing fesr~d.
Haneksnx dispatches rspert persistent
run,ess os "a Approaching anti-f9reisn
rising. ard there IS much aneasiness
there
II Hang CyAarg's rrotege. Ma ~
Chung. dsea AZ Shanghai Ssnaay
The Russian forces ia AanehaFia ars
nsw moving on Kiran. an isuportan'
strategiral position. where there q =
large arsenal when Karar hss eeen
captured fheT VIII occupy Mnkdcn.
''sgH months FasioBs for the RT'flsh
force" says the TsErts3n correspondent
az the Standard. wiring August =. ARE
being. forwarded q FektnS Nnws spapeE
correspondents are seriously handicappea
hv the bad Arrangements of tbe Chinese
selexFaphs Messages have been fBfn'
persd wlih. snG upfhlnE = SAFE uait
mailed 10 Shanghai A good deal - euFi-
csstv IS feit here regarding faa fate 81
the mail bag containing official and press
dtsuatches describing the entry into
pakiux which was sent By az admiral e