New-York tribune., 1900-08-03
MORE CHRISTIANS KILLED
TEN THOUSAND CONVERTS SAID TO
HAVE BEEN MASSACRED.
Ry The Associated rress0

CBy The Associated Press)
London, Aug. 3.-No word comes this morning
regarding the fortunes of the comparatively
small body Of troops believed to be forging their
way toward Peking. The silence is probably
due to diigent censorship rather than to any
lack of developments.
A Shanghai dispatch announces the receipt
of an official telegram from the Tsung-n-
Yamen, asserting that the Ministers all
well July 80 and that vegetables. fruits and
other supplies had ben sent to the legations on
several occasions. Friendly intercourse" the
official telegram says, "is now being carried on
between the Ministers and the Imperial Gov
ernment"
According to 1.-The Daily Express however,
dispatches from Che-Foo announce that the I'm
periaI troops. advancing to oppose the relief
force. have completely wiped out a Christian
town near Peking, killing five foreign priests
and ten thousand native Christians.
GASELEE REPORTED OVERRULED
General Gaselee. so says this correspondent.
was opposed to an immediate advance but he
was overruled by the other commanders, and in
fiuenced by Washingtons order to General
Chaffee to proceed without an instant's delay
From Shanghai 1.-The Daily Express" has re-
ceived confirmation of the reported murder of
fifty missionaries in the province Of Shen-Se.
with the additional information that eight Eng
nshwomen were dragged out of the mission
buildings by Chinese mob who beheaded them
in the streets of Choo-Chow.
French troops are reported to have occupied
Meng-Tsze. in the province of Yu-Nan.
JAPANESE ENJOYS HARD PRESSED.
The Tien-Tsin correspondent Of "The Stan
dard' says:
A heartrending letter has been received from
the Japanese Legation, dated July %, stating
that the casualties number 60 per cent that
only twenty-five cartridges a left with
ratons sufficient for five days and that 1t is
feared the Legation will succumb within week,
Mr.. Brodricks statement in the House of
Commons yesterday placing Great Britain on
record as unalterably opposed to the partition
Of China is well received by all the morning
papers, which, for lack of other news. chiefly
devote their comments to DR.. Morrison's re-
markable message to 1.-The Times"
THE KAISERS CALL TO ARMS
The Berlin correspondent of The Daily
Chronicle" who reports Emperor Williams
extraordinary sermon of Monday on board the
Hohenzollern, says that some of the most strik-
ing sentences attributed to the Kaiser are the
following:
Once again has the heather spirit of the
Amalekites been raised in distant Asia, with
great power and much cunning. With destruc-
ton and murder 1t will dispute the way to Eu-
ropean trade and European culture. It Will
dispute the victorious march OF Christian GUS
toms and Christian faith. Again is heard Gods
command, Choose us out and go out to
fight with Amalek' A hot and sanguinary
struggle has begun. Already a number of our
brethren over there under fire. Many more
are travelling along hostile coasts.
You have seen them, the thousands who. to the
call of volunteers to the front who will guard
the Empire have assembled themselves to bat
tie with victorious banners We who remain at
home are bound by other sacred duties. Woe
unto US if we remain slOthful and sluggish while
they are engaged in their difficult and bloody
work and IL from place of security, only
curiously look on while they wrestle in battle.
PRAYERS FOR THOSE IN BATTLE.
troops, but we should also. and SHALL set in
motion an army of trained people to beg and
entreat for our brethren that they may strike
into the wild chaos with sword in hand May
would pray that God, the Lord, may make
heroes of our men, and lead those heroes TO vic
tory, and that then. with laurels on their he'll
NETS and orders on their breasts, He may lead
them home to the land of their fathers.
Our fight will not be finished in one day; but
let not our hands grow weary or sink until
victory is secured. Let prayers be as
wall of fire around the camp Of our brethren
Eternity will reveal the fulhlment of old
promise, cali upon Me IN trouble. and 1 will
deliver thee" Therefore, pray continuously.