Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-20

reports of continued fighting in Pekin indi-
cate that the allied forces found a state of
anarchy in the city, with many disorderly
people and no method Of controlling them
This would especially be the case If the re-
ported flight of the empress dowager and
the emperor is true. Consequently, it has
been found necessary for the troops to re-
store order in the city and carry out the
instructions under which our forces are
acting.
Massacre of Missionaries.
The State Department this morning re-
ceived dispatch from Consul Fowler,
dated Chefoo, August Is. 1t relates to the
massacre of missionaries and others at
Paotng-fu, which has been referred to a
number of times in the press dispatches,
and has generally been conceded to have
occurred on June 80. The first part of the
dispatch is so badly mangled in transmits
sion that it is impossible to make much
of it. The text is as follows:
CHEFOO, Received August Is, 1900.
Secretary of State, Washington:
Evening thirteenth. Reported all Pres
byterian missionaries Paoting-fu killed
June 80; premises burned same
(night) Catholic mission. Rain stopped
work. July 1st attacked American
keep gang out Misses Morrell Gould taken
Boxer headquarters; killed. Bagnall0
killed near uemple0. Cooper and Belgians'
fate uncertain Officials had sent all home
from Yamen. All natives connected for
eigners suffered like fate. Authority: Spe-
cial messenger sent by Tien Tsin mission
aries FOWLER.
.JauaneSc Dispatches.
eral important dispatches giving about the
fullest and latest information of events in
Pekin. telegram received today and
dated at Toxic. August 10, says:
After entry into Pekin was effected by
the allied troops the Chinese troops, on Au-
gust Is, betook themselves to and remained
in the imperial palace. A body of Japanese
troops was told off to guard the palace,
and there they met with obstinate resist
ance by the Chinese troops. Fighting is
still ecing on. The headquarters of the
Japanese army IS in the legation, and the
division is mainly quartered in the villages
outside of An-Ting- Men
telegram dated the 10Th received from
the Japanese foreign office today gives the
following dispatch from the acting Jap
anese consul general at Shanghai:
From Shengs statements to me am in
clned to think there is truth in the rumor
that the empress dowager at least. If not
the emperor. too, has left Pekin for Wutai-
Hsien. in Shansi province, via Taoting-Fu,
for he told me that some of the secre-
taries of the Drivy council crossed the
Lukon bridge on the 18th with banners
bearing inscriptions denoting that they
formed part of the imperial escort, and
that Lu-Chuan-Liu, governor of kiang-su.
sent a telegram on the 14th to the south
ern viceroys and governors. directing them
to forward all war funds to Shansi. But
as an imperial decree was issued on the
18Th, the departure, If it took place at all.
must have been subsequent to that date.
Il have also learned from another re-
liable source that Prince Ching Yung Lu
and kargYi are still in Pekln. though
Prince Tuan has followed the empress dow
ager.''
A telegram dated the Goth from the Jap
aneSc foreign office. received at the Japan
ese legation today, says:
The japanese consul at Annoy telegraphs
as follows on August IS: 1t is reported
from the interior that in Ting-Chou-Fu and
Lung Yuen-Chou several Christian chapels
were destroyed by mobs The anti-Chris-
tian movement appears TO be spreading to-
ward the district Of Chang Chou-Fou.
There do not. however, seem to be any for
eign missionaries in the INTERIOR !"
Prince Ching referred TO as still at Pekin
is the Chinese official most friendly to the
foreigners. while Prince Tuan. who is said
to have followed the empress dowager, is
the head of the anti-foreign element. Yung
Lu is probably the Jung Lu in command of
the imperial forces.
EMPRESS Left Pekfn.
The acting secretary of state makes pub
lie the receipt of a telegram today from
Consul General Goodnow, dated the Goth
instant, reporting statement OF the gov
ernor of Shangtung, that the empress left
Pekin the 18th for Sinan-fu, in the prov
ince of Shansi. and that Princes Ching and
Tuan and Viceroy kang-yi are still in
Pekn.
''Sinan-fu' appears to be another pho
netic version of the name of the capital
of Shensi-where there is an imperial pal
ace. II is otherwise spelt Hsi-an Si-an and
Si-ngan, the suffix FLU denotng city.
which is seat of administration.
Mrs. Drew's Denial.
Mrs Anna Drew. wife of f. 3. Drew,
chief secretary of Sir Robert Hart. at Tien
Tsin, having been given authority for
story OF terrible atrocities by Russian sol
diers in China has written letter to the
Russian ambassador, in which she says:
We have been living at Tien Tsin the
past EAR, and | returned from there only
last week. Our steamer was besieged with
newspaper reporters upon arrival at
San Francisco, and although I was ex-
tremely careful in what l said to them, a
great many strange things have been put
into my mouth by some disagreeabe peo-
pie. The worst of all was an article which
attributed to me the most horrible story of
1 n
diers. / wish to deny these statements in
full. and as the account has been copied
into many eastern papers, 1t has perhaps
come to your notice. l feel that 1 at least
must tell you how false 1t all IL. In fact I
can, from my own experience during those
terrible days of the siege of Tien Tsn
speak only in the highest terms of praise
of the Russian soldiers, who undoubtedly
saved our lives on more than one occasion
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