The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-21
MESSAGE RECEIVED
FROM Mr. CONCER
Under Shot aad Shell From
Chinese Troops."
A MASSACRE FEARED
The Baptist Missionaries Are Safe
Though Fearfully Prosecuted.
MINISTER WI RECEIVES C0NGRATULATlON
MINISTER WI RECEIVES CONCENTRATION
The Authenticity of the Telegram is Doubted
in London, But Washington 0fficiaIs
Give Themselves Up to
Rejoicing.
tBy the Associated Press.)

London, July 2lst, Saturday a.
m.)-The Conger dispatch fails to
carry conviction to either the British
press or public. It's genuineness is
not disputed, as it is pointed out here,
the Chinese must posses quite Il sheaf
fruitless endeavored to get transmit
ed, from which they could easily
select non-committal dispatch to
serve the required purpose.
a slight ray of hope is admitted in
the fact that both Mr.. and Mrs. Conger.
are know to have been on very friend
~ terms with the Empress Dowager,
but the universal opinion here is that
If the dispatch is genuine. the date is
falsified
Sir Halliday Mccartney, counsellor
and English Secretary to toe Chinese
legation in London, who was inter
viewed yesterday, admitte that the
legation was in receipt of news il was
not yet able to disclose. He added:
You may take it that on July 18th,
the date of the Conger message, all the
legations and Europeans in i'ekin
were safe"
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Mail asserts that Emperor
Kwang Su telegraphed TO the Mikado
-:,aI eXnression of regret for the iatir-
der of the Japanese chancellor Of le-
cation, Sugiyama AIira and pointed
out that the coRmunity of interests
between China and Japan in the East
against the ambitions of the Western
powers should lead the japanese En-
CerOr to make common cause with
China and to assist in the restoration
of peace. The Mikado, according 10
this correspondent, replied that the
action of the insurgents was in com
plete violation of International law
and that the murder of Baron Won
Ketteler was a grievious offense. The
Mikado added that the Chinese Gov
ernment should suppress the disorders
and rescue the Ministers, thds dsarn-
ing the hostility of Europe. His
Majesty's dispatch concluding thus:
Japan is cordially friendly and is
only sending troops to rescue the for
eigners in Pellin and restore order.
She has no Interior objects hostile to
China; and, if proper measures are
taken she is prepared to use her in
fiuence to converse the interests of the
Celestial Empire
ST. Petersburg dispatches show that
the situation in Manchuria is iniproy-
ing. General Gribski, after relieving
BlagovesaSchensk, capital of Ihe Alnur
government, received further rein
forcements and bombarded the Chi
nese village of Sakhalin, which vas
set on fire. The Chinese. however,
continued to receive reinfOrcementS
and maintained such an obstinate re-
sistance as to convince General Crib
ski of the necessity of occupying
Aigun, where seven thousand Chinese
with artillery were in position.
The Russian troops advanced from
the direction of the town of Nismen-
naia. The Chinese massed their troops
in large bodies at various points and
made a stout resistance: but they
were finally overcome. The town of
Aigun was partly destroyed; and the
Russians occupied all the important
defensive positions on the right Of the
river. driving the Chinese out of tEem.
The Russian operations were car
ried out with great brilliancy and
slight loss The Russians captured II
guns and killed 1000 Chinese.
WI HEARS FROM CONGER.
Washington, July 20.-Like a flash Of
sunlight out of the dark sky came the
intelligence at an early hour today that
United States Minister Conger had sent
a cipher cable dispatch fro Pekin to the
State Department at Washington, making
known that two days ago he was alive and
that the foreigners were fighting for their
lives. The message was received by the
Chinese Minister. Wu Ting Fang at $50
a. m. The dispatch was in reply to Sec
retary Hays cable inquiry to Minister
Conger on July 18th and as both mes
sages were in the American cipher code |
they were regarded by the officials as