The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-14
FEEL CERTAIN OF A
TERRIBLE MASSACRE

Washington, July 13.-The short ca
blegram received at the state depart
ment today from Consul General Good
now, at Shanghai, announcing the be-
ginning of the final attack on the Iega-
tions at Pekin terribly depresses Of
ficials here. All along they have sus-
pected that various communications re-
ceived from various Chinese sources
have been preparing the way for the
announcement Of the determination of
the foreign ministers, their wives, chill
dren, dependents, attaches and guards
The consul generals message, it is
understood, is but repetition of the
latest press reports from Shanghai, but
the state department has come to place
high estimate on GoodnOW's adVices.
It appreciates the fact that he does not
send every piece of unreliable gossip
afoat IN teh sensational news center
at which he is stationed, but uses good
judgment in sitting out the probable
from the other kind of news More
over, his advice this time is from the
Chinese governor OF the province in
which Shanghai is situated and it is
hard to conceive of an adequate rea-
son for the Justification of the facts
by that official in the direction of this
particular report.
Doubt Ii Will Go North.
The department officials find it hard
to estimate the value of the statement
of the consul at Canton that Ii Hung
Chang has again engaged passage
nOrthWard, owing TO the lack of a date
on the cable message and it is sus-
pected that the press dispatches stating
a no hos IA ha fri. 70 Dnt IN,
is of later date than Mr.. McQuade's
notice. Should the great viceroy go
northward. his coming to Taku and
Tien Tsin would raise at once the Ques-
ton as to the conditions under which
he undertakes to go to Pekin. and in
cidentally as to whether he will be per
mitted to pass the lines would involve
the decision of the other question as to
whether or not state of war exists.
Like German Stand
The department is much gratified at
the statements attributed to Count Won
BueIow in the outline of his note to
the German states, published in the As
sociated Press dispatches this morn
ing.
= In the absence Of the full text of the
note the officials here read in the alb
stract complete re-affirmatiOn of the
principles laid own by Secretary Hay
as guiding the policy of the United
States toward China. Some of the dec
larations might be regarded as al
most paTaphrases Of the United States
note on the subject.
The state department anticipates no
difficulty in effecting trans-shipment of
troops and animals intended for the
army n China at the Japanese port
of Nagasaki. The point raised in some
quarters that the use of NagaSaki as
a base in this fashion would be a VIC
lation Of International law, constitute
ing hostile act against China in the
absence of a declaration of war, is de-
clared by the officials here TO be absO-
lutely frivolous. AS a matter of fact,
the war department has been freely
availing itself of Nagasaki as a point
OF trans-shipment and a port of rest
eyer since the end of the war with
Spain, and the japanese government.
having made no objection, is scarcely
likely either TO make a protest itself or
to entertain one from any other nation
under present conditions.
Nodzu to Lead Japs.
japanese officials here expect that
Marshall Nodzu will accompany the
japanese expedition about to sail for
China. The rank OF marshal probably
will be superior to that of any other
foreign commander, military or naval.
in China. Under the Japanese system.
the rank of marshal corresponds with
that of field marshal in the French
system. AS q result of the China
Japanese war three marshals were Gre
ated by Japan, namely: Yamagata,
who made the remarkable march into
China from the north; Emaya Oyama.
who entered China further south and
seized Port Arthur. and General Nod
zu, who had the honor of being the
first JaDanese officer to score an i'm
portant triumph on Chinese soil.
Lamagata is now prime minister, and
Yamagata is now prime minister, and
Marshal Nodzu as the available che of
the first distinguished tribe of soldiers.
He is beyond middle age, a sterling
dlsciplinarian, and has the reputation
Of being an impetuous fighter. He is
SfrDT1er hoIsaN-av- II,