Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-20
GREAT INDIGNATION
At Shanghai at Honors Paid
Ii Hung Chang.
He Is There Looked Upon as Orig
inator Of Whole Trouble.
Russia Preparing 10 Overrun China With
Troops-Pekin Still Silent.

s'VVPS ottt ouCHt.
London, July Gothic Shanghai cor
respondent Of the Daily Express says:
Intense Indignation is felt here at the
honors which the British in Hong Kong
have accorded Ii Hung Chang, who is
looked upon in Shanghai as the orig
inator Of the whole fiendish anti-for-
cign plot
a Chinese merchant who has Just ar
rived from Pekin gives horrible details
of the massacre He says he saw
European women hauled into the street
by shouting Boxers, who stripped them
and hacked them To pieces. Their dis
severed limbs We're tossed to the crowd
and carried off with howls Of triumph.
Some We're already dead. having been
shot by foreign civilians.
He says he saw Chinese soldiers car
ryinS the bodies Of white children aIoft
on their spears. while their companions
shot at the bodies. lie gives other de-
tails. too horrible to he particularized
here.
1t seems that the Boxer leaders had
organized a plan including the Offering
of rewards and rich loot for the ami
hiliation Of Europeans throughout
China ana that Prince Tuan's generals
have been emphasizing the opportunity
the soldiers have Of seizing the bodies
of white women
The Washington idea Of sending
Mr.. ROckhlll to China" says the
Standard, editOrally, this morning, lis
an excellent one and might advanta-
Geously be initiated by the British and
other governments" The Standard
then proceeds to comment upon the
great ignorance prevalent in Europe.
not only Of recent events but Of chin
csc affairs generally.
The cabinet council convened by
Lord Salisbury. yesterday. came a day
earlier than usual ana it is expected
that it will be followed by n statement
in Parliament throwing light upon the
situation.
The Chinese assertion that the mem
bers Of the foreign legations are still
safe have been 50 often repeated that
they are again beginning to raise hopes
in some quarters. According TO the
Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg cor
respondent, however the Russian gov
eminent is already in possession Of
definite news that all the foreigners in
Pekin were massacred. July 6.
NJ. Delclsse's circular only goes to
prove that so far the powers have
failed to arrive at any concerted plan
OF action. Very little further news is
available this morning. The Yokoha-
ma correspondent of the Daily Mail.
who repeats his statements regarding
the jealousy felt among the allies on
the subject of a japanese commander
in-chief and the general lack uf unity
among them, adds: The japanese
correspondents charge the Russian sol
diers with appalling barbarities toward
the Chinese. They declare that the
Pc Ho is full of corpses Of women and
children and that the Russians loaded
800 bodies on a junk ana burned them"
Shanghai reports that three mission
destroyed but it is believed that the
missionaries escaped. All the mission
aries at A She Ho, KERN and Kuan
Cheng Tsu, in Chinese Manchuria
have arrived in safety at VIadivostok.
1t is rum0red that Hu Lu, the missing
viceroy of the province OF Chi Ii, has
committed suicide Various conflicting
stories are published Of the manner Of
Gen. Nieches death. 1t is stated that
when the allies entered the native city
of Tien Tsin they found the Chinese
dead piled breast high and feared that
this would result in an outbreak of pes
thence. Sixteen of the captured guns
are quite modern weapons.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Times expresses doubt that the south
ern viceroys will be able to withstand
the pressure Of the provincial officials
to join the anti-foreign movement. He
thinks that already there are signs Of
Wavering on the part of the Viceroy Of
Nankin. Liu Kun Yih. and says: 1T
is admitted at Nankin that Lis au-
thority is now insufficient to guarantee
the maintenance Of law and order
north of the river. Hence the cOnsuls
at the Yang Use ports are arranging
for the departure of the women and
1t Is inevitable that the man
darns as a body should sympathize
with Prince Tuan's movements"
This correspondent confirms the |
statement Of the correspondent of the |
Daily Express regarding the indigna-
tion caused by the British reception Of |
Ii Hung Chang at Hong Kong. He |
says it is interpreted by the natives as |
weakness on the part of the allies ana |
he asks why Ii Hung Chang could not |
had been detained until information |
had been received from Pekin.
The Times understands that the chief |
Of the Mohammedan |
clergy in Constantinople have issued |
a strong protest basel upon the Koran, |
against palace sympathy with the Chi |
nese massacres.
According to the Canton correspond |
ent of the Daily Telegraph, six Chinese
soldiers have been beheaded for as |
saulting an American medical mission
airy.
The Russians, according to the news !
from st. Petersburg, have completely |
defeated the Chinese and have occu- !
pied Blagovestchensk, capital of the .
Amur government, with u large force
Since Gen. Gribski mot GribbovskD
chief Of staff at Port Arthur. has taken
over the supreme command in Man
churi1. reinforcements have been rap
idly pushed up and the general situa-
ton has been greatly imurgyad