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Announced From London That They Are Safe
and Are to Proceed at Once
to Tien Ts;n
United States Asked by China to Mediate
With the Powers to Settle Disturb
ances in China.

LONDON, July 23-l1:S0 P. M.-Sir Hal
bday Mccartney, counsellor and English
yecretary to the Chinese legation in Lon
Son, asserted this evening that the Pekin
legations were safe and about to proceed
10 Tien Tsin.
LONDON, July PA A. M.-The Chi
nese minister, Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng
Luh, has communicated to the press the
Following dispatch from Sheng, director
general of Chinese railways and tele-
graphs and taota1 Of Shanghai, dated
Shanghai. July %:
Information from Pekin, dated July 1S,
says that the tsung II yamen deputed
Wong Jul, an under secretary of the de-
partment, to see the foreign minister's
and he found everyone WELL without any
missing, the German excepted.
Gen. Lung Lu is going to memorialize
the throne to send them all. under es-
cort. to Tien Tsin in the hope that mill
tary operations will then be stopped"
THIS LOOKS UGLY.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing July %, says:
"A letter from a Chinese official in
Shan Tung has been received by a ma
tive functionary here containing the fol-
lowing uaassages:
AT the beginning Of the month the
foreign ministers made several attempts
to send messages out Of Pekin, but,
thanks to the strict watch kept on the
.NA-
executed
e On the 4th inst. only 400 foreigners,
much exhausted were left alive in Pekin
and one night, when the big guns were
necessarily fired, 1T was known that all
the legations and foreigners were finished,
although pretended kilograms contradict
these facts "
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Daily Mail asserts that there are differ
ences Of opinion in the Russian council
OF war, Gen. Koupatkin wishing to send
100000 men to clear the rebels out of Man
churia. On the other hand, according to
This correspondent, Emperor Nicholas
wishes the operations limited to the de-
tense and pacification Of the frontier dis
tricts. Two strong armies, one of the al
lies in the south and the other of the
Russians in the north, confront the Chi
nese, and the rising-so the car is said
10 argue-would be bound to collapse.
WANTS NO CONQUEST.
We want no conquests,'' he is reported
TO have declared at the conclusion of q
sitting of the council What we desire
Is to protect our frontiers and to steer
into smooth waters the Chinese shin of
state now buffeted by the waves Of civil
war
Rumors circulate briskly around the
mission Of Ii Hung Chang. He Is cred
ited with a mission to offer to cede +o
the allied powers two provinces as in
demnity for the Pekin outraeas ond
HlSo oller TO restore order and to give
Facilities for trade with the outside world
on conoltlon OF the surrender of Kiao
p Chau, Wei Hal Wei and Manchurio h,,
'he powers and the withdrawal of all
missionaries. Little attention, however
need be paid to any of these rumors
IN private message from Sangbai y
Is said that Ii Hung Chang avows that
the object Of his journey is to place +bo
t reg uIar army in line with the allied
'-o0p" ior Che suppression of the Boxers
LOOKS BETTER.
MAsalNGTON, July 23.-Administra-
Hon officials are more honfnI 60 =. a.
'ueI'4'u IN emma as a result of the die-
p@eci'es which have come in the last few
oCys ana more particularly the Europear
advices of tonight. ASSERTING +ha+ ptth an
MINISTER'S are safe. If an answer &c ra
celVed TO the second telegram which 10,
Deen sent through the Chinese r,,inix.+a.
mere, TO MT Conger, and that answer
Enould bear internal evidence Of eenI,i,,o-
ACsS, the situation will be mataria11,y ~,
proved, and the government with +ba
Huoltlonal information which Mr.. Coneer
may transmit, may be able to move in
SelHgently toward the rescue of the be-
leaguered foreigners
AS TO MEDIATION
Mr. WI, the Chinese minister is bllsilv
engaged In preparing for transnission ~
ms government the reply of the secra-
1iy Oh state TO China, requesting the
CHIteu states TO mediate in the present
troubles between the Chinese c1npire and
the powers He declined to saw tonipbt
whether the reply was satisfactory to
MIN or would be to his government. nor
would he indicate ia any Way what 3ts
nature was. There is considerable worl,
TO be done on the reply before 1t can he
sent to China as 1T has to be reduced to
cipher. In addition to this the minister
Will prepare communication to accom-
pany what the president has to say. He
expects, however. to have the document
ready for transmission early tomorrow.
RUSSIANS AND CHINESE FIGHT.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 2a-Two en-
counters are reported to have taken
place between British and Chinese forces
near Wei Hal Wei. The latter, it Is re-