Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26
NEWS In GENERAL
CABLE FROM CONGER.
All Doubts as to Our Minister
Safety DlspelIed.

| Safety DtSpeIled.
Washington, July 21.-The Chinese
minister has received cipher cable
dispatch from United States Minister
Conger. 1t is in the state department
cipher, transmitted through the tsung
Ii yamen and the Shanghai taotai. 1t
contains about fifty words and is
signed in English with the name
"Conger."
Conger's telegram in part is as fol-
lows:
''In British legation. Under con-
;tinued shot and shell from Chinese
troops. Quick relief only can prevent
general massacre"
Washington, July 21.-Like a fash
OF sunlight out of the dark sky came
the intelligence, at an early hour yes
| terday that United States Minister
| Conger had sent a cipher cablegram
| from Picking to the state department.
at Washington, making known that
two days ago he was alive, and that
the foreigners were fighting for their
safety. The Chinese minister, WI
Ting Fang, received the message.
Within an hour the welcome intelli-
gence that Mr.. Conger had been
heard from after weeks of silence and
evil report, was flashed throughout
the country and, indeed, throughout
the world, dispelling the gloom which
had prevailed everywhere, and bring
inG to officials and to the public gen.
erally a sense of profound relief.
The dispatch was in reply to Secre-
tary Hays cable inquiry to Minister
Nnnf Inr1N h@f
saes were in the American cipher
code they were regarded by the Off
Gals as above the suspicion of having
been tempered with in the course of
transmission through Chinese chan
nels. Mr.. WI promptly communicate
ed the dispatch to the state depart.
ment, where the translation was made
from the cipher figures, and soon all
Washington was astir with the intel
HGence. 1t was telegraphed by Secre-
tary Hay to the president, who re-
sponded with wholesome expression
of qualification and word of it was
sent to the various cabinet officers.
Paris, July 21.-The foreign Office
has receievd information from Chinese
source, in which it is certain reii-
ance may be placed on the statement
that the foreign ministers at PEEK
have not beeen maSSaCred. According
to information on the 9TH, tn. miuis-
ters were attacked and the legations
burned, but the foreigners succeeded
in crossing the city to Prince Ching's
palace, which was then barricaded,
and the Europeans were holding their
own up to the time the news left,
July 9. Since then nothing has been
heard from Picking.
London, July 21.-Conger's message
ito the state department at Washing
ton is not regarded here as justifying
overmuch optimism. 1t is generally
accepted as a further Chinese at
tempt at mystification. The skeptical
are confirmed in the suspicious by the
fact that a message was received by
the French minister of foreign affairs,
through the Chinese minister at Paris,
purporting to be coming from the
emperor, asking France to mediate
with the powers, which, it is alleged,
dated Juy 10, and makes no mention
of the foreign legations at Picking.
London, July 21.-To add to the
gloom occasioned by the extreme SER
ious import of the news showing daily
the developing strength of the anti
foreign movement in South
China comes from Shanghai a re-
port that sixty missionaries and one
hundred native converts have been
massacred at Tai Yuan. Though the
report is not yet cOrrobOrated it
tends to confirm the belief that the
central southern viceroyalties hold
aloof from the Boxers uprising never
had much foundation. If this massa-
ere occurred in the province of Shan
hA 10
that an intense anxiety for the safety
OF the international colonies at river
ports and even Shanghai are fully JUS
tilted, for the Chinese gathering in
and about the international conces-
sions would mean horrors compared
with which the massacre at Picking
would be insignificant.
Washington, July 21.-The state de-
partment has issued the following
bulletin:
THE secretary of state received
| dispatch from Consul Fowler of Che
| Foo, dated at midnight of the 10th,
saying a Shanghai paper of July 16
said that eleven foreigners had been
murdered. Fowler wired the COVER
| nor demanding the truth. The gov
ernor replied that his courier left Pc
| king on the 18th, and all were then
safe, but the Picking east city had
been carried by the rebels with in
| tent to kill"
Berlin, July 2o.-Speaking about the
Chinese ornaments, the Kreuz Zeit-
ung says: British manufacturers of
arms are now engaged in selling
weapons to the Chinese and they will
continue to do SO until the Indignation
of the world stops them. Germany,
Immediately after the outbreak of
hostilities, issued a prohibition of the
export of arms to China, but Mr.
Chamberlain and the entire British
cabinet favor such export even now,
and we may point for the proof to
the recent debate in the British par
lament on the subject"
| Forward Movement ON Pekinp PromIsed