The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-27
APPEALS TO ENGLAND.
All the Powers Are Included in
China's Mediation Party.
SALISBURY WILL NOT RESPOND.

SALISBURY WILL NOT RESPOND.
Chinese Are Concentrating About Tien
Tsin-It Is Now Believed Allies viii
Begin Advance on Peking in About
Two Weeks.
LONDON, July 27.-All the powers ap-
pear to have received an identical
Chinese appeal for mediation, but in
the absence of definite news regarding
the fate of the ministers and Of any re-
liable indications of the real origin of
the appeal it seems that Lord Salisbury,
the premier, considered it was not even
necessary to publish the fact that the
appeal had been received or to do any
thing beyond formally acknowledg
1T, with perhaps an intimation that
nothing could be done until news from
Peking had arrived If it could be
ascertained beyond doubt that the re-
ports OF a massacre at Peking were un-
founded-and there is disposition
here to believe that the ministers may,
after all, be held as hostages-Lord
Salisbury's policy would probably in
cline more toward lthe conciliation at
trlbuted to Washington than to the
revenge attributed to Berlin. But
while there is no cessation of the deluge
OF rumors. it is beginning to be believed
at Shanghai, Canton and other points
that the viceroys are as completely in
the dark as to affairs in Peking as the
Europeans themselves.
Meanwhile the doings of Ii Hung
Chang are regarded with ever increas-
ing suspicion, while the situation in the
southern provinces daily grows worse.
With the report that the allies will
begin to advance on Peking in a fort
night and in view of Admiral Sey-
mour's visit of inspection to the
Yang-tse-Kiang. the feeling is that
no great time will elapse before things
assume definite shape.
The viceroy of Nankin still processes
to be able, with the aid of the Yang-tse
viceroys to keep order, but he declares
that If the powers send warships it will
assuredly lead to all anti-foreign out
break. If it be true that the Japanese
have started campaign from Shan
Hal kwan, that also will precipitate
matters, but the report to this effect
lacks confirmation.
1t is reported from Tien Tsin that the
Chinese forces are concentrating at the
village of Getsang, ten miles north of
lien Isln, where it is said large uuan-
titles OF rice re stored.
There is little fresh news regarding
the situation i'll Manchuria. The Rus
slams inflicted another serious defeat on
the Chinese at Fort Echo on July 90.
From Kobe comes report that eight
battallons OF Russians have been com
PEELED to leave Vladivostock and Tien
Tsln on account of Manchuria trouble.
The Daily Mail explains that the Chi
nese employe of the British legation.
according to its advices yesterday, es-
capped from Peking to New Chwang and
reported there that when he left Pc
KING most OF the members of the lega-
tlons We're dead and the condition of
the others was hopless, did not actually
leave Peking until July s, and this goes
to show, if his statement is to be relied
upon, that a general massacre had not
occurred OH July 6, as has been re-
ported.
The Russian and japanese cavalry
are keeping in close touch with the
enemy. The river is still low and water
transport would be difficult
Massacre ut Hi Yuan Flu.
fi'hnra iS
port that go Protestant and Catholic
missionaries have been massacred in HI
Yuan Fu and the vicinity. The Shang-
hal correspondent on the Daily Mail
describing the massacre at Kukden,
says: The bishop had armed 200 na.
tlves to defend the cathedral and a
number OF Chinese troops had been sent
to defend the converts, but the soldiers
We're ieagued with the Boxers While
the Christians We're holding a service,
believing themselves safe under the pro.
lection OF the troops, the signal was
given and soldiers and Boxers sur
rounded and set fire to the church. put.
ting the escaping worshipers to the
sword. The bishop was captured and
taken to the vlceroy's yamen where he
was diabolically tortured and decapi.
tated. His head now hangs in front of
the yamen'
The Hong Kong correspondent of the
Daily Express wires as follows, under
yesterdays date: San Italian priest has
just arrived here from Hen Sien Flu. in
southern Huan, where the Italian
bishop and three priests have been mas
sacred, after revolving torture. This
took place on July 4. Six hundred con-
verts We're massacred after the women
had been subjected to hideous brutal.
tiles. Six other priests fled to the hills,
where they We're probably killed. The
priest who escaped had perilous Jour
ney to Hong Kong. He hid in coffin
on board a river boat for II DAYS.
RGMEY GIVES LIE TO CHINA.
American Admiral Declares Throne Was
in Sympathy With Boxers.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-There were
no developments to warrant the as.
sumption that there will be the slight