Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-08-23
Want MORE TROOPS.
The Allies at Pekin in Need Of
Reinforcements.
TROUBLE THREATENED At CANTON.
Americans Apply for Wsrship In Conse-
Queuce 0fsKiOting-T me foe Peace Ne
gotiatiOns Not Arrived Chinese
Officials Dscapitnted.


to the Pekin wire being cut little
news of conditions in the Chinese
capital has come through this morn
ing What has reached London ipdi-
Gates that the allies are in need OF
reinforcements. The commander of
the italian second-class cruiser Fer
amosa telegraphs from Talsu, accord
ing to the Rome correspondent of the
Daily Mail, that very urgent requests
were coming from Pekin on Saturday
for the immediate dispatch of further
troops and that in answer to these
400 Italian marines were sent off post
haste.
The japanese minister in London is
said to have received telegram last
evening announcing that subsequent
to the entry into Peliin japanese de-
tachment went to the imperial palace
to afford whatever protection was
necessary. The enemy were in
strength and fighting was still pro-
ceeding when the message was sent
to Toxic. The main body of the Jap
anese was then at An-Ting-Men gate,
the Tartar city, with headquarters
at the Japanese legation.
Reports of the presence of the EN-
press dowager are still contradictory,
but Gen. Yung Lu, on the authority
of the Shanghai correspondent Of the
Standard, is definitely announced to
be prisoner by orders Of the en-
press in the imperial palace. "This,
perhaps says the correspondent, lis
good thing, as detention in the capt.
tai will enable him to negotiate with
the allies commander, which he would
do as Prince Tuan's enemy"
The Chinese minister in London,
Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh, on being
asked as to the whereabouts of the
emperor and empress dowager, re-
piled: "They have gone westward to
the old capital, Hsian Flu, and I think
they are quite safe there"
Serious trouble is now threatened
in the neighborhood of Canton. The
Americans at Swallow, according to
the Daily Chronicles Shanghai cor
respondent, have applied for a war
ship in consequence of serious riot
ing, and the Hong Kong correspond
ent of the Daily Mail says that war
ship is on the way there now.
Queen Victoria sent the following
message to the commandant of ma
rines at Pekin: 81 thank God that
you and those under your command
have been rescued from your perilous
situation. With my people | have
waited with the deepest anxiety for
good news of your safety and the
happy termination of your heroic
and prolonged defense. grieve for
the losses and sufferings experienced
by the besieged.'
A japanese warship has left Yoko-
hama for Shanghai, according to the
Daily Mail, to land troops and to pro-
tect japanese subjects. The Daily
Mail also announces that Germany
will land q detachment at Shanghai.
Further Yokohama advices to the
same paper declare that Germany and
Russia are objects of distrust to the
japanese press, which urges that
Japan, having borne the chief bur-
den of the operations, must see to it
that the future of China is not de-
termined merely by the pleasure of
the western powers. at is felt" says
the correspondent, shat determined
action on the part of Great Britain,
the United States and Japan will
avert any danger arising from the
ambition Of continental Europe"
Time for Negotiations Not Arrived.
London, Aug. 21.--The Times, deal
ing with the dispatches from Wash
ington, says: "This proposal Of Ii
Hung Chang, as it is reported, does
not afford possible basis of negotia-
tions of any kind. Until we have
definite information as to the politi-
cal situation in Pekin we cannot be
sure that the first duty Of the powers
may not be to set up government
with which they can subsequently
treat. The time for negotiations has
not yet arrived. When it does arrive
they must be opened on different
basis from that suggested in the
Washington kilograms and must be
conducted by a different negotiator
than Ii Hung Chang if they are to
have any good results"
Chinese Oficials Decapitated.
Shanghai, Aug. 21.--Oflicial Chinese
advices from Pekin say that Hsu Tung
and vi Lien Yuan of the anti-foreign
party, and Ii Shan, pro-foreigner,
have been decapitated and that Yung
Lu has been imprisoned by Prince
Ching. Hsu Tung was a member of
the imperial secretariate and presi-
dent of the civil board. Ii Shan was
a member of the ministry of the i'm
perial household. The identity of VI
Lien Yuan cannot be traced.
Russians Defeat 1000 Chinese.
st. Petersburg, Aug. Eileen. Or
loft, chief of staff to the Russian
forces in China, reports to the Rus
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