The Springfield herald., 1900-07-20

dispatches We're received today to add
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation.
The Tien-Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegraphipg under date of
July 0, asserts that the Chinese are
daily driving in the allies. They have
mounted, says the correspondent
twelve fresh guns in advantageous po-
sitions, with which they are sweeping
the streets of the foreign settlement
the incessant fire rendering position af-
ter position quite untenable.
The Mails st. Petersburg CORE
spondent says that in the last six
hours battle outside of Tien-Tsin the
Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and
killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The
Chinese lost 1900 killed, including
Gen. Kek.
Washington, July 13.-rhe short ca
blegram received to-day from Consul
General GoOdnow at Shanghai. an
nouncing the beginning of the final at
tack on the legations at Pekin, terri
bly, depresses officials here. All along
they have suspected that the cQmmunl'
cations received from various Chinese
sources have been preparing the way
for the announcement of the eXtermi-
nation of the foreign ministers, their
wives and children, dependents, at
taches and guards. The consul gen
/ erals message, it is understood is but
Il repetition of the latest press reports
from Shanghai, but the State Depart
ment has come TO place high estimate
on Mr.. Goodnow'S advices.
1t appreciates the fact that he does
not send every piece of unreliable gos
sip ailoat in the sensational news cen
ter at which he is stationed, but uses
good Judgment in sitting out the prob
able from the other kind of news.
Moreover, his advice this time is from
the Chinese governor of the province
wherein Shanghai is situated and ii
is hard to conceive of an adequate
reason for the falsiiication of the facts
by that official
Therefore the State Department
which has all along been hopeful of
the ultimate rescue of the ministers
at Peliin. has now joined European
chancellores in the belief that they
have all been killed.
Berlin, July 13.-According to n semi
official telegram from Canton, dated
July II, Iii Hung Chang, July re-
ceived written imperial edict, dated
June IL, and sent overland, in which
all the governors We're urged TO dis
patch troops with the utmost speed to
help against the rebels, among whom
Prince Tuan was clearly Indicated
Acting ON this edict, which is said TO
be undoubtedly genuine. Ii Hung
Chang is sending some thousands of
troops to Pekin. and the other gov
ernors are probably doing the same.
San Francisco. July 13.-Consul Gen
eral Ho Vow of China has sent 10 the
Chamber of Commerce n communica-
| ton expressive OF his regret at the out
breaks in China which have broken
! the cordial relations of the two peo-
pies. He says;
Happening rs the occurrence has at
n time when the United States showed
| itself to be recovering from past re-
verses in the trade of China, and when
/ the future was big with promise for an
| immense business between this coast
and China. 1t is exceedingly unfortu-
nate that these conditions of growing
favorableness should be in any way
menaced by anything transpiring in
| China.
This rapid and vicious onslaught in
discriminately made by the mobs of
! certain districts of north China upon
the western peoples must for the mo-
ment stultify and stagger the trade
with those particular localities, but in
the turmoil it is comforting to know
that the imperial government has at
all times been earnest in its desire to
suppress the assailants has shown ut
| terly no sympathy with the mobs, its
views and its purposes, and will un-
doubtedly. when order is again re-
stored, punish the offenders with the
severity which is their due.
THE government of China, as much
as it may be misrepresentcd in the
West, is favorable to progress, and it
| is DESTROYS of extending throughout the
empire the light of western knowledge
and of adopting and applying TO the
industrial and stratcgical advantages
of the country those marvellous bcne-
| fits which western thought Las wrested
from nature and brought under the
! control of man.
Let not our minds be diverted from
| the great scheme of commercial acQui-
| sition and exchange by any acts which
| ignorant mobs may commit in any part
of China. That which concerns us
here is the commerce of what is prac-
tically the Orient. No band of robbers,
of marauders, of anti-Caucasians or of
fanatics should swerve us in this great
project. We are dealing not with the
moment. but with the ages. We are
dealing not with units, but with popu-
| lations.
1T is my devoted hope that when the
atmosphere of north China is again
cleared it shall be found that no in
| juries have been inflicted upon Amer
| lean citizens"