The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-29
STILL AT PEKING.


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STILL AT PEKING.
A telegram from Jardine. Mattheson
Co. dated Shanghai. yesterday afternoon.
suggests that the ministers are still at Pc
king. but admits that there is no news from
the capital. The telegram adds: Seymour
arrived at Tien-Tsin with Sl2 of his force.
wounded, besides sixty-two killed. The
damage done to Tien-Tsin has been much
exaggerated. Shanghai is quiet"
The Shanghai correspondent OF the Daily
Telegraph, wiring at 9:05 p. m. yesterday.
says: 1T is reported good Chinese au-
thority that the government, alarmed by
the foreign military preparations. has is
| sued an edict ordering the peremptory sup
preston of the Boxers and announcing
decision to protect the legations at all haz-
ards"
However this may be. the British con-
sulate at Shanghai received definite infor-
nation yesterday. the Daily Express corre-
spondent says. that, while solemnly prom
| ising complete abstention from warlike
preparations. the Chinese are mounting
several new six-inch guns at the Woo
Sung forts.
Three British warships have sailed from
Il
| at Shanghai The southern provinces are
sending troops toward Peking and the ex-
| odus of Chinese of all classes from Shang-
| hal continues at the rate of from 10000 to
| 5000 a day.
| Russian prestige has been injured during
the recent fighting, and an anti-Russian
rising in the Liao-Tong peninsula. Russian
Manchuria, is predicted.
According to the Shanghai correspondent
of the Times a dispatch from Shan-Tung
| says that Governor Yuan Shik Kai main
| tains cordial relations with the foreigners
| and has sent numerous couriers to Peking,
/ but none of them has returned
| Other dispatches from Shanghai reiterate
| the announcement of the massacre of ma
| tive Christians in the inland districts
| which rival the Armenian horrors. The
! officials at the places watched by gunboats
make show of protecting the missionar-
| les but there is not even pretense of pro-
| lection for the converts in the interior, who
have been butchered by wholesale.
IMPERIAL PALACE BURNED.
| An imperial decree published in Shanghai
yesterday Thursday, says a correspond
/ ent of the Daily Express, asserts that the
| imperial palace in Peking was burned on
| June is and that the attack on the palace
was made by revolving Chinese troops.
| Admiral Bruce. in command of the Brit
| ish forces at Taku. reports to the British
Admiralty the following casualties: At
| Taku. June "a, one seaman wounded; at
| Tien-Tsin. up to forenoon, June %. four
seamen killed and Lieutenants Stirling.
Powell and Wright. Commander Beatty
and forty-four midshipmen and seamen
| wounded"
A Che-Foo dispatch says: 1.-THE American
mission at wuh-Si-En. Shan-Tung prov
ince. has been destroyed. The missionaries
escaped. The governor has notified for
| eigners inland that he is unable to protect
| them"
| AT Shanghai 1t is asserted that Liu, the
| viceroy of Nan-Kin. has received instruc-
| tions from Peking to inform the foreign
consuls here Immediately that the legations
at Peking have been arranging peace
terms"
A representative of the Associated Press
| was informed at the Foreign Office last
| evening that the viceroy of Nan-Kin had
| telegraphe to the British consul general at
Shanghai that he had received, June 25, an
imperial rescript. as follows: "The foreign
| legations at Peking continue as usual to
receive every protection from the imperial
government" On the other hand, the off,
cials of the Chinese embassy say they have
| reason to believe the foreign ministers at
| Peking were given their passports June Is.
| The Foreign Office is much concerned at
the latter report and hopes it will not be
confirmed, as it would be an Unexpectedly
adverse development. which would possibly
| mean a declaration of war.
The Daily News of Shanghai has a dis
patch from Wei-Hai-Wei, dated June II.
| saying: 1.-THE railway terminus, which is
| eight miles north of Tien-Tsin, is destroyed.
Captain Bailey wishes IL published that it is
| due to the Russians that any one is alive at
Tien-Tsin. The American consul telegraphs
| that the American mission at Wei-Hai-Wei
has been completely destroyed"