New-York tribune., 1900-08-18
listing among the English at Shanghai opposed
TO Consul General Goodnow and the course he
has pursued
LONDON HEARS TT CALMLY
NEWS OF THE RELIEF OF THE LItGA-
TfoSS CAUSED NOT A RIPPLE
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London. Aug 49, a. m.-Perhaps II London
| had been fuller or II the weather had been
cooler or IL we had not all been stated with
| sensations of kind or another for months,
the news Of the relief of the Peking legations
might have aroused popular excitement.
| But. though the event has been very anxiously
awaited In the clubs. public offices and the West
| End-all places which more or less deserted
| by their habitues just now-the in the
| street takes the matter quietly London, which
! went raving mad the Of Baden
Powell's few hundred colonial troopers from the
Beers has not flag or cheer for the women
and children at Peking saved from Chinese cut
throats. But then the contradictory reports
about the legations have left the public in
state of complete bewidermert that they do
not know what TO believe. The Pel5ing foreign
ers have been massacred and revived so often
in the kilograms OF the newspapers and news
agencies that at length some people have begun
to doubt whether they were in danger
at all.
Up to a late hour last evening none OF the
public offices had received any official intima-
tion of the entry Of the allies into Peking or of
the rescue of the legation staffs nor had any
of the Continental governments been advised
of the event by their naval military COM
manders in North China But soon after mid
that it was in receipt of a cable dispatch from
the German Consul at Shanghai stating that the
allied troops had entered Peking without fight
ing; that the embassies were relieved and the
foreigners liberated. Similar information had
already reached firms In London trading with
China, and promptly conveyed to the For
eign Office All these reports come through
Shanghai, and 1t Is thought curious that the
news should have penetrated to that compara-
known in Che-Foo. Nevertheless, very little
doubt was entertained in any quarter that the
report was correct.
1t is not believed that the leaders of the anti
foreign movement have surrendered to the allied
commanders. More probably Prince Tuan and
his associates, accompanied by the Empress Dow
ager, have retired TO the west, under the protec-
ton OF General Tung Fuh Siang's Mahometan
troops The sen1i-of1eial German telegram from
Shanghai says that nothing is known of the
whereabouts of the Emperor.
The actual date of the entry into the capital
can hardly be put earlier than Wednesday,
since on Tuesday the British officer command
Ing the line of communications reported that
the allies that day still five miles dis
tant from Peking, with the enemy in full re-
treat before them.
The muddle made over the landing of Indian
troops at Shanghai has continued to the end.
and caused a great deal Of Indignation in mer-
camille and financial circles. where 1t was feared
that the vacillation OF the Imperial Govern
ment might do serious mischief TO British in
terests and prestige in China. After the refusal
Of Viceroy Liu, at the instgation Of the French
and Russian Consuls to countenance the land
ing Of troops the transports at Woo-Sung from
Hong-Kong were kept waiting for a couple OF
days while the British Foreign Office considered
the matter further On Thursday morning the
Admiral ordered to take the troops to Wei
HaiWei. He accordingly steamed away from
the Yangtse amid the protests of the British
and other foreign residents But no sooner had
the ships gone than a message was received or
dering them back and a torpedo boat was dis
patched in pursuit Of the squadron. Accord
ingly, the transports returned to the Yangtse,
and. 1t is now said. are to land their troops.
or portion Of them, to-day. The effect on the
Chinese cannot be good. nor has England gained
anything by the whole proceeding.
Nothing is officially known here as TO the al
legged armistice between Japan and China, or
the alleged separate negotiations by the former
Power. 1t is thought that what is meant may
be purely a military convention between the
leader Of the Japanese advanced guard and the
Pekng authorities for steps to be taken with
reference TO the release of the Ministers and
formal entry into the city. l. N.F