El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-13
Amid Contradictory Reports
There Is No Clean Of
Real Hope.
THE POLICY OF JAPAN
Is In Direct Accord With
That Of the United States
and Is Just and
Liberal.

LONDON, July 13.-BIack rumor
are again current regarding Pekin
A confirmation of them may be re
ceived at any moment, and ia general
ly expected. The Japanese embass,
aud Central News are both responsible
for the statement that this confirma
tion has already been received by tn
British government.
The date given for the murder of tbe
foreigners in Pekin in the latest dis
patch Ia July 6. This date does no
conflict with any of the reports OF the
foreigners safety, July 5 being the
latest date on which the "British
legation and one other' were reported
standing.
One Shanghai dispatch describes the
destruction of the legations and the
massacre of foreigners with come
oircumssantiality, which increased the
feeling of conviction that all is over in
Pekin.
The present reversion to the earlier
stories of the destruction of the Pekin
legations show how unreliable were
the reassuriDg reports of the frat part
of the week. The massacre may have
: taken place on June 80, as originally
reported, or earlier. The only CLEAN
of hope is that since the reassuring
reports are believed to have been false
It is possible that today's dark sugges-
tions are unfourded too.
1t is doubtful If the world, since the
telegraph was invented, has ever been
subjected to such series of cOntradic-
tory statements as the Chinese crisis
has furnished. The Japanese emb. ssy
asserts that Prince Chang, who was
believed to have been defending for
= eigners, Is not a pro-foreigner at all,
b but tool of Prince Tusn. A Shang-
hal dispatch, on the other hand, states
that General Mich, who was under
stood to be one CT the leading anti
foreign officials. is pro-foreign, and has
reached Pekin and defeated the army
of Prince Tuap.
:, With such contradictions as these
being received, the futility of predic.
tion in and even speculation on the
Chinese situation is evident.
EXPLICITLY DENIED
LONDON, July 13.-The foreign Office
explicitly denies that any message has
been received of the destruction of the
Pekin legations.
INFORMATION INDEFINITE.
WASHINGTON, July lathe state
department at 10:15 received a bulletin |
from Consul Goodnow at Shanghai |
indicating that the worst has hap
pened at Pekip. His inform alton is
indefinite and comes through the 60
vernor of Shan Tung.
LIHUNG CHANG
WASHINGTON, July 13-The de-
partment OF state received q dispatch
from Consul McWade at Canton saw
ing that Viceroy Ii Hung Chang has
engagedquarters upon Chinese steamer
An Ping, but that the date of his de-
parture for the north ia as yet un-
decided. l.
A:MONTH'S SILENCE
WASHINGTON, July 13.-It is a I
month since the state department re-
ceived word from U. 8. Minister Con.
ger, our representative at Pekin. The
latest dispatches from him were dated
June II.
CAPTURE TAKU FIRST.
LONDON, July 13 -Broderick in the =
house of commons today said it is g
necessary that the Taku !
forts be captured. in proceeding to the g
relief of Tien Tsin.
JAPAN'S POLICY
LONDON, July 13.-The Japanese
embassy here learns positively that
Prince Chang, instead of protecting
foreigners in Pekin, is merely the tool t
)f Prince Tuan. \
An official of the embassy said that \
Japan had Informed the powers that all Il
he compensation she would demand .