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protect its interests in China by its own method,
and we think that this would make a general
withdrawal expedient. As to the time and manner
of withdrawal think that, in view of the i'm
perfect knowledge of the military situation result
ng from the Interruptions of telegraphic COM
municaion, the several military commanders at
Peling should be instructed to confer and agree
together upon the Withdrawal as a concerted
movement, as they agreed upon the advance.
The result of these considerations is that, unless
there is such general expression by the powers
in favor of continued occupation as to modify the
views expressed by the government of Russia and
lead to general agreement for continued occupa-
tion we shall give instructions to the commander
of the American forces in China to withdraw our
troops from Picking after due conference with the
other commanders to the time and manner Of
withdrawal.
The government of the United States is much
gratifed by the assurance given by Russia that
the occupation of Newchwang is for military pur-
poses incidental to the military steps for the se-
curity of the Russian border provinces menaced
by the Chinese and that order shall be
re-established Russia will retire her troops from
those places if the action OF the other powers be
not an obstacle thereto No obstacle in this
gard can arise thsough any action Of the United
States, whose pojry is fixed and has been re-
peatedly procla./ed.
ALVEY A. ADEE, Acting Secretary.
You viii communicate the foregoing to the
minister Of foreign affairs and invite early con-
sideration and response.
Dissension In PelSing.
A press dispatch from Taku, dated
Aug. 2S, via Shanghai Aug. 81, says;
"1'here is much recrimination between
the foreigners who were besieged in Pc
king and the members of the relieving
force. Officers say that the besieged for
eigners sent out alarmist reports and that
the condition of the foreigners was never
one of such extremities as the official dis
patches represented. The foreigners, they
assert, could have resisted indefinitely.
The besieged accuse the general of timid-
ity and of exaggerating the Chinese oppo-
sition. They think much smaller army
might have made the march and relieved
them months sooner.
THE looting at Peking proceeds indus
triously and openly. The officers of every
nation except the Americans ignore the
repressive order, and all the allies ridi-
cule the Americans for their abstention.
Missionary Green of the China inland
mission, his sister, wife and their two
children, who were for some time held as
prisoners by the Boxers at Hsing- Han
Sien, near Pao-Ting-Fu, were well treat
ed.
"a company of Chinese Catholics have
held a town near Pao-TingFu for three
months against the Boxers and imperial
troops. The Chinese officers have offered
large sums for their capture.
"An intercepted letter written by the
viceroy at Pao-Ting- Flu, who commanded
at Tien-tsin during the fighting there,
complains that the Boxers are overrun-
ming the country southwest of Tien-tsin,
particularly the cities ON the Grand ca
nal, despising the Chinese officers, who at
first countenanced them, and looting and
killing the enemies of their organization
and fighting the imperial troops. The
gates of Pao-Ting-Fu are kept closed,
and the people inside are suffering, the
Boxers practically besieging the place.
"The viceroy reports that the taotai of
the city of Tsang-Chow, on the canal, in
yited 1000 Boxers to feast and that
while the Boxers were eating and their
weapons were stacked the imperial sol
diers, by his orders, fell upon them and
slaughtered all of them"
Hardships of Relief Corps.
A dispatch from peking by post, via
Tien-tsin. Aug. 81, says:
"One disadvantage that the Americans
experienced during the hard march to the
relief of Peking was that their transpor
tation wagons were late in arriving The
Ninth infantry possessed the only outfit
which reached Tien-tsin up to the time
of starting. The supplies were divided
among the soldiers of the Ninth and
Fourteenth infantry regiments and the
battery. The Americans, with haversacks
blankets and tent rolls, started under the
heaviest loads, but they soon stripped 10
fighting trim, preferrins to forego their
blankets rather than to sweat under
them. During the last two nights Of the
march they slept. tired and worn out, in
the rain without shelter or cover
"One night the wagon train lost the
road and passed the American camp
The drivers plodded along four miles in
the darkness and rain. They might have
driven into the Chinese camp, but fortu-
nately the Russians stopped them just in
time.
1.-THE Americans often bivouacked sup
PEERLESS and breakfastless, and toward
the end the officers kept the men at
work only by appealing to their national
pride. Don't let the Britishers beat
you Don't let the Russians get aheadp
they urged constantly.
"The army transport. when it reached
Peking, was a unique spectacle. Miles
of animals, vehicles and coolies trailed
behind. Everything on wheels, from
farm wagons to fashionable traps, was
impressed, and every horse, mule and
Chinaman in the path was commander
ed. The Japanese had cows bearing
packs, and the Russians had camels.
Cinnamon pulled the carts and stagger-
ed under heavy packs, the soldiers ours
ing and beating them. Several dropped
dead. Two hundred junks and scows
bearing munitions were towed up the
river by coolies. Had the Chinese taken
the offensive most of the transportation
might easily have been captured and cut
to pieces by small fanking parties.
"After it was apparent that the enemy
was demoralized the generals trusted the
transport to luck and bent their efforts
toward getting ahead. Only such an
emergency as existed could have justified
such hardships as were imposed upon the
troops
The News From Picking.
London, Aug. 31.-A dispatch from St.
Petersburg says:
General Linevitch, commanding the
Russian troops at the Chinese capital, re-
ports from Peking, under date of Aug.
20, that the Russian detachment on the
nreyious day caDtured without loss the