Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-28
NEWS FROM PEKIN
Additional Assurances Have Been
Received That the Foreigners at
Pekin Are Alive.
RUSSIA And CHINA CLASH
The Chinese Are Pouring into Russian Man
ohuria and Are Threatening the Rail-
road Guards Chinese Ooncentrat-
ing around Shanghai.

New York, July 2S.-A dispatch to tn
Herald from Shanghai says: Twenty
five thousand armed Chinese are con
centrated some distance from hert
Competent military authority says tina
the precautions taken for defendin
Shanghai are insufficient.
RUSSIAN GUARDS IN DANGER.
Moscow, July 2S.-News reaching
Vladivostock shows that General Ger
ingross Manchurian railway guard
are in daily increasing danger. At ba,
in their position between Kolina ant
Hardin, the little band Is still awaitnf
General Tschitschagoff's relief force
The Chinese are overflowng from Mon
golia into northern Manchuria, IL, the
neighborhood of Hargn and Burdl
Tsun. In Mongolia $1,000 natives sur.
rounded the Russian railway corps, but
the Cossack column attacked the tribes
men, and after a fierce battle routed
them, killing 167. Daily skirmishes are
reported between the restless tribesmen
In Manchuria and Russian railway
guards.
ANOTHER PEKIN MESSAGE.
Washington, July 2S-The secretary
of state received the following dispatch
from Mr.. Fowler, the American consul
at Che Foo, dated midnight July 26
This morning, by request of the allies,
l wired the governor (supposed to be
the governor of Shan Tung) their wish
to get news from the ministers them
selves. The governor now replies:
Have received to-day an edict from
the emperor saying that the ministers
are we'll. They are sending provisions
to the legations. am confident that
the ministers are out of distress and
request you (Fowler) to transmit this
preliminary announcement to the ad-
mirals.
(SignedD YUAN, Governor
Secretary Hay also received a cable
gram from United States Consul Nc
Wade, at Canton stating that Viceroy
TAX assures him that the ministers
were alive and we'll on July a.
A RUSSIAN TALE.
A|ouuoI July lo.-lHc Ddlly Mall
Shanghai correspondent telegraphs that
a Russian banker, who left Pekin on
July Z, arrived at Shanghai on Wednes-
day. July rs, and says that when he left
Pekin that all the legations had been
destroyed and all the foreigners mur-
dered. The ministers, seeing that death
was inevitable, shot their families Sir
Robert Hart, the banker adds, commit |
ted suicide in despair.
THE MINISTER'S ARE ALIVE.
New York, July 2S.-The Tribune pub
fishes the following dispatch from Ii
Hung Chang, dated Shanghai, July 27,
received at 1:15 this morning: "Fekin
reports the ministers alive. Their safe
ty is assured, and the allied forces en-
trance into Pekin is unnecessary" The
dispatch was in answer to a message
sent three days ago to the viceroy ask
ing for a statement as to the safety of
the foreigners at Pekin.
CHINESE ATTACK THE JAPANESE.
London, July 2S.-Through Yokoha-
ma dispatch the government received
information that the Chinese attacked
the Japanese and Coreans in the vicin-
ity of An Tong, north side of the Yalu
river. Refugees have arrived at Wiju.
Japanese re-enforcements were pro-
ceeding to the scene of the conflict.
THE RUSSIANS HOLDING OUT.
The latest news received at St. Pc
tersburg from Blagovestchensk was {
dated July %. The Russian garrison
had been resupplied with ammunition,
and would be able to hold out until re-
enforced The Chinese legation here re-
iterates the assertion that the minis
ters are en- route to Tien Tsin. Il
CHINESE COURTESY. 6
Paris, July 2S-The Chinese minister
at Paris, Yu Keng, received the follow
ing imperial decree, dated July "a: :
THE ministers are happily at present
safe and sound except Ketteler We are
having the foreign legations supplied
with provisions and fruits as token Of {
interest we feel in Them" (
MINISTER'S KILLED THEIR FAMI-
LIES.
London, July 28.-The full text Jf the y
Daily Nails telegram is as follows II
Shanghai, July 2S-Newspapers
here publish statement by an infiuen-
tial banker residing at Pekin, near the
British legation, who arrived at
Shanghai on July 25, having left Pekin
on July z. He states that the legations
were then destroyed. All foreigners had n
and he could not say pos \
itively II they had been murdered, as
he was too frightened to inquire"
The Nails correspondent proceeds: a
Investigations prove this information q
is reliable. The banker in question has 4
gone to Ting Pc. His friends will not "
disclose his name, fearing to do so
would cause him to lose his head. The
of the Russian bank at Shang-
hal received a letter from the banks G.
New Chwang branch, stating that one
OF their Chinese representatives from
Pekin who had Just arrived confirmed r
the report Of the Pekin massacre. He :,
states that all foreign ministers were :
Seeing that death was inevl- :
table, as the Chinese swarmed into the ;,
legation the ministers killed their FAM :,
lies at the last moment. Sir RobertI
Hart, in despair, committed suicide"
MISSIONARIES MAssACRED.
New York, July 2S.-Cable messages 81
were received to-day by both the Pres 81
byterian board Of foreign missions and 81
the American Bible Society, corrobo- d
rative Of the report that the mission CT
aries at Pao Ting Flu had been massa- 81
,red. 81