Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-27
ESCORT TO THE SEA
China Promises to Deliver Pc.
kin Ministers Safely.
NOTHING PROVES THEM ALIVE
Another Account Comes Through Of
T'1eir Massacre-Ru About -
Ii Hung Chang's Mission.

London, July 25.-The Chinese min
lister. Sir Chi Chen Leh Feng Lob, has
communicated to the press the follow
ing dispatch from Sheng, director of
the Chinese railways and telegraphs,
and Tao Tai, of Shanghai, dated Shang-
hal, July %:
Information from Pekin. dated July
18, says that the Tsung Ii Yamun de-
puted Won Jul, an under secretary of
the department, to see the foreign min
listers, and he found every one well,
without any missing, the German ex-
cepted. General Yung Lu is going to
memorialize the throne to send them
all under escort to Tien Tsin, in the
hope that the military operations will
then be stopped"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing July %, says:
''A letter from a Chinese official in
Shang Tung has been received by an
active functionary here, containing the
following passage:
AT the beginning of the month
the foreign missionaries made several
attempts to send messages out of Pekin,
but, thanks to the strict watch kept ON
the city, the bearers We're all caught
and executed. On the 4th inst. onlv
400 foreigners were left alive in Pekin,
and one night, when the big guns were
necessarily fired, it was known that all
the legations and foreigners were fin
ished, although pretended teleglams
contradicted these facts -
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Daily Mail asserts that there are
differences of opinion in the Russian
council of war. The minister of war,
General Kuropatkin, wishes to send
100, 900 men to clear the rebels out Of
Manchuria. On the other hand, ae-
cording to this correspondent, Emperor
Nicholas wishes the operations limited
to the defense and pacifcation of the
frontier districts. Let two strong
armies. one of the allies in the south
and the other of Russians in the north,
confront the Chinese, and the rising
so the czar is said to argue-would
be bound to collapse. "We want 10
conquests,' he is reported to have de-
clared at the conclusion Lof the sitting,
of the council. "What we desire is to
pTOL0cb our ITOuGl0TS auu LO SG00r luGO
smooth waters the Chinese ship OF
state, now buffeted by the waves o:
civil war;
There is nothing further this morn
ing that throws any light upon the mys-
ferrous situation. Two urgent dis
patches were addressed yesterday by
the Chinese minister to the Pekin gov
ernment and the administration of tel
egraphs, strongly recommending the
restoration of telegraphic communica
tion, SO as to enable the powers to
learn of the safety of the foreign min.
listers. Until such proofs are secured,
no one here is inclined to alter the
opinion that the Chinese are merely
juggling to gain time.
Rumor circulates briskly around the
personality of Lii Hung Chang. He is
credited with mission to offer to cede
to the allied powers two provinces as
indemnity for the Pekin outrages and
also to offer to restore order and give
facilities for trade with the outside
world, on condition of the surrender of
Kiao Chou, Wei Hal Wei and Man
churia by the powers and the with.
irawal of all missionaries. g..