The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-24

hycIS recovered
from wound, has typhoid. crisis passed,
ana now convalescing. Assistant Sur
geon Lippett was wounded in upper
LEFT leg, bone fractured. Leg saved.
now recovering.
"The following were killed during
ming; Privates c. b. King, ]. W.
Tucher, J. Kennedy, r. E. Thomas,
A. Turner n H. S. Fisher.
NOTWITHSTANDING J. Schroeder, FL
DOW, severe, now dangerously i'll from
fever; Seaman j. Mitchell, upper arm,
severe, now recovering. All other
wounded and sick returned to duty.
Reported from Chinese sources that
the royal family have escaped and are
en- route to Sian Flu.
"RENrEY."
The attitude which the International
forces will observe toward the emper-
or and empress dowager is understood
to have received official consideration
among the powers, resulting from a
request by the southern viceroys that
no personal i~ndignity be shown to Chi
mas rulers. In response to this, il is
quite generally understood that there
VIII De no personal indignity to the
emperor and empress dowager, not be-
cause it is felt that there is any special
consideration due them, but because
China would be precipYtated into a
chaotic condition if the responsible
"a Of the empire lost their func-
ions.
In view of the general desire of this
government anG the others concerned
to keep China intact and SO readily re-
stored quiet, the disposition among Off
Gals is toward refraining from any
personal indignities to the Chinese
rulers. 1t develops in this connection
that all of the powers recently rejected
the proposition of the consuls at Tien
Tsin to destroy the tombs of the Ming
dynasty. The proposed destruction was
a threat held out to the Chinese in the
hope of bringing them TO terms; but
the powers rejected the proposal and
thus gave significant evidence that
anything calculated to give personal
affront or indignity to the Chinese was
not a part of the present campaign
THE MASSACRE AT PAO TING Flu
The state department this morning
received a dispatch from Consul FOw-
Ter, dated Che Foo, August 18th. 1t re-
lates to the massacre of the mission
aries and others at Pao Ting Flu, which
has been referred to a number of times
in the press dispatches, and/has gen.
orally been conceded to have occurred
or June Both. The first part of the
dispatch is so badly mangled in trans
mission that it is impossible to make
much of it. The text is as follows:
"Cne FOO, received August 10.
Secretary of State, Washington.
Evening 18th. Reported all Pres
byterian missionaries Pao Ting Flu
killed Jun Both, premises burned same
night, Catholic mission. Rain stopped
work. July 1st attacked American
CBoard} (PekinO shot dead trying to
keep ang out. Misses Morrell, Gould.
taken Boxer head quarters. killed.
Bagnall killed near Temple. Cooper
and Belgian's fate uncertain. Officials
had sent all home from Yamen. All
natives connected with foreigners suf-
fered like fate. Authority, special
messenger sent by Tien Tsin mission
aries. FOWLER"
THE FLIGHT OF THE EMPRESS.
The state department today issued
the following statement:
The acting secretary of state makes
public the following report of a 'tele-
gram today from Consul General Good
now. dated the Goth instant, reporting
a statement of the governor of Shan
Tung, that the empress left Pekin on
the 18th for Sian Flu in the province
of Shen ST, and that Princes Ching
and Tuan and Viceroy Kang vi are still
in Pekin."
Sian Flu appears to be another pho
netic version of the name of the CAPT.
tai of Shen ST, where there is an i'm
perial palace. 1t is otherwise spelt
Hsi An, ST An and ST Ngan, the suffix
Flu denoting city which is a seat of
administration.
FIGHTING STILL GOING ON.
The Japanese legation today received
| several important dispatches giving
the fullest and latest information of
events in Pekin. A telegram dated at
Toxic, August 10Th says:
After entery of Pekin was effected
by the allied troops the Chinese troops
on August 18th betook themselves to
and remained in the imperial palace.
A body of japanese troops was told
off to guard the palace and there they
met with obstinate resistance by the
| Chinese troops. Fighting is still going
on. The headquarters of the japanese
army is in the legation and the division
is mainly quartered in the villages
outside of An Ting Men"
4 telegram dated the 10Th instant,
received from the japanese foreign Of
flee, gives the following dispatch from
the acting Japanese consul general at
Shanghai:
From Sheng's statements TO me
am inclined to think there is truth in
the rumor that the empress dowager,
at least, if not the emperor too, has
left Pekin for Wa Tai Hsien in Shen
81 province via Tao Ting Flu, for he
told me that some of the secretaries
of the privy council crossed the Lukon
bridge on the 18th with banners bear
ing inscriptions denoting that they
formed a part of the imperial escort
and hat Lu Chuan Liu, governor OF
Kiang Su, sent a telegram on the -ith
to the southern viceroys and governors
directing them to forward all wal
funds TO Shen ST; but as imperial de-
cree was issued On the 18th the depart
ure. if ii took place at all, must have
been subsequent TO that date.
Il have also learned from another
reliable source that Princes Ching
Yung Lu and Kiang vi are still in Pc
kin. though Prince Tuan has followed
the empress d~owager."
4 telegram dated the 18th from tht
Japanese foreign office says:
The Japanese consul at Annoy tel
egraphs as follows on August 18th
1t is reported from the interior tina
in Ting Crou Flu and Lung Yuen Crou
several Christian chapels were destroy.
ed by mobs. The anti-Christian move
ment pea to be spreading towarC
the district of Chang Chou Flu. There
do not, however, seem to be any foreigl
missionaries in the interior"
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