Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-23

| prepared to send in the food supplies for
| the army before the port is closed. The
department expects to have information
| soon concerning the railroad from Lin Yu
| to Taku 1t is informed that the winter
| conditions at Taku, Tien Tsin and Pekin
are about the same as at ST Paul, Mimi.
Action of German Government.
Official cable dispatches were received
here this morning stating that the German
government today had taken action SUBJ
stantially similar to that of the United
States in rejecting China's peace proposal.
The German foreign office delivered the
answer to the Chinese minister at Berlin
this morning. Germany insists that no ne
gotiatOns can be conducted with Ii Hung
Chang until his credentials make plain that
he has authority from the responsible heads
Of the Chinese government
The Conditions Chaotic.
The State Department announced late
yesterday afternoon the receipt at an early
hour Wednesday morning, through the con-
sui at Chefoo, of telegram from Mr.. Con-
ger in the department cipher to the fol-
lowing effect:
"PEKIN, August 10.
"Secretary of State, Washington:
"The entire city, with the exception Of
the imperial palace, is occupied by Japan
ese, Russians, British, Americans and
French 1t is being apportioned into dis
tricts for police supervision The Chinese
| army fled. The imperial family and the
court have gone westward, probably to
Si-an-fu, in the province of Shen-si. No
representatives of the Chinese government
are in sight in Pekin, and the conditions
are chaotic. The palace is expected to be
| taken Immediately. Many missionaries
have started for home, while others re-
main in charge of the Christian refugees,
numbering about 1000. CONGER."
From Japanese Sources.
The Japanese legation has received a
| telegram dated August q, from the for
eign office at Toxic. giving the following
dispatch, received Monday, from the Jap
anese acting consul general at Shanghai
"A dispatch received here from a Chinese
official at Paoting-Fu says that, by the
empress dowagers orders, Hsui- Yung- VI,
Li-Shan and Lien-Yuen were executed on
the 11th and Yun-Lu, who was to have
shared the same fate, is i'm a jail of
the judicial department, and that the
emperor and the empress dowager left
Pekin on the 18th, escorted by Tung-Fu-
Shang troops, for Wu-Taishan via Chu-
chow and Tse-Ching-Kwan. Kang-Yi, 1t
IS further stated, has been appointed COM
| mander-in-chief of the Wu-Wei army
while Princes Tuan and Chwang and
Tsong-Chi. kangYi and Hsui-Tung have
been ordered to remain at Pekin.
Another telegram, dated the 10th, has
been received here from Paoting- Flu, to the
effect that, though the empress dowager
has left Pekin, the emperor has decided
to remain behind"
The New Orleans at Shanghai.
The cruiser New Orleans was reported
at the Navy Department as having arrived
at Woo-Sung, the port of Shanghai, yes
terday.
Tribute to Capt Reilly.
Col Lee, military attache of the British
embassy, called at the War Department
yesterday to obtain authentic news of Capt.
Reilly. He was grieved to learn that the
brave artilleryman was dead. He paid
high tribute to Capt. Reilly as soldier
and man. He said that Reilly came to
| Cuba with his battery at time when there
was considerable gloom among the Ameri-
cans and those who sympathize with
them and he was most welcome He said
he never knew a man who was so willing
to fight and so fearless of danger as the
gallant Reilly.
Siege Batteries VIII Not Go.
The batteries of siege guns which were
to be sent to China will not go, but will
remain for the present at San Francisco.
The necessity for these guns has passed.
In order to have siege guns for early use,
in case they were wanted. a battery was
sent over from Manila to Nagasaki This
battery. however. was not equipped, hav-
ing neither horses nor mules to transport
1t after 1t reached Taku The battery
which was to be sent from San Francisco
was fully equipped for service
a