The silver star., 1900-07-20
FATE OF FOREIGNERS in
PEKIN STILL in DOUBT

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London, July 1i.-But scanty cabis
dispatches We're received to-day to add
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation
The Tien-Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegraphipg under date OF
| July 8. 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 ar
ter position quite untenable.
The Nails 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 5000 killed, including
Gen. Kek
Washington. July 13.-1he short ca
blegram received to-day from Consul
General Goodnow at Shanghai. an
nouncing the beginning of the final at
tack OIL the leca tons at Pekin. terri
bly, depresses officials here. All along
I they have suspected that the communi
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
a repetition of the latest press reports
from Shanghai, but the State Depart
ment has come to place a high estimate
ON Mr.. Goodnow's advices.
II appreciates the fact that he does
M sand r.is. - frrr..tf.t ff. or
sip aiioat 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 1t
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 Pekin. has now Joined European
chancellories in the belief that they
have all been killed
Berlin. July l3-According to a semi
official telegram from Canton. dated
July II. Ii Hung Chang. July q re-
ceived Il 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 Cen
eral Ho Vow of China has sent TO the
Chamber of Commerce IA 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 as the occurrence has at
a 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. ii is exceedingly unfortu-
nate that these conditions of growing
favorableness should be in any way
menaced by anything transporting in
China.
This rapid and vicious onslaught in
discriminatory 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 ii 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-
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severity which Is their due.
The government of China. as much
as 1t may be misreprcsented In the
West. is favorable to progress, and II
Is desirous of extending throughout the
empire the light OF western knowledge
and of adopting and applying to the
Industrial and strategical advantages
of the country those marvellous bene.
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 acuui
s1tion and exchange by any acts which
ignorant InObs may commit In any par,
Of China. That which concerns Ms
here Is the commerce OF what is prac.
tically the Orient. No band Of robbers
of marnuders. of anti-Caucasians or OF
fanatics should swerve us In this grea,
project. We are dealing not with the
moment. hut with the ages. We arc
dealing not with units. but with popu
lations.
ut is my devoted hope that when tho
atmosphere of north China Is again
cleared II shall he found that no In
1nrics have been inflicted upon Amer
lean citizens"