The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-10
PEACE OVERTURES
Chinese Government Has Is
sued an Edict
Authorizing Lii Hung Chang to
Open Negotiations.
MOVING ON PEKIN.
Combined Russian and japanese
Force From the North
Is Marching Toward the Chin
ese Capital.
CABLE FROM CONGER
Minister WI Ting Fang Has
Received Another Message.

London, Aug. 1O.-An edict emanatlnS
from Pekin and authorizing Ii Hung
Chang to negotiate with the powers for
peace has it is reported from Shanghai,
been received there.
The correspondents at Yokohama
again send the statement that Russo
japanese force is moving on Pelzfn from
the north. The movements and number
of this force are, it is further asserted,
kept secret in order to prevent the facts
from reaching Pekin-
The French consul at Shanghai says
5000 Annamite troops will arrive there
next week for the protection of the
French settlement
The Chinese merchants of Shanghai
have petitiOned the foreign consuls there
to prevent the landing of troops, declar-
ing that it will create panic among the
Chinese.
Ii Ping Heng, the former governor of
Shan Tun, personally commanded 15,OO0
Chinese at Yang Tsun.
A Chinese official at Shanghai, says IL
pirates and brigands were beheaded at
Canton August s.
Dispatches received here from Berlin
say that Emperor Francis Joseph and
King Victor Emmanuel III have tele-
graphed to Field Marshal Count Won
Waldersee congratulating him on his ap
pointment to the chief command of the
allied troops in China
Field Marshal Won Waldersee. it is an
nounced here, will sail August p. or
august from an ltal1an port ana t0aI
he will go to Shanghai first.
MESSAGE FROM CONGER
Washington, Aug 10-The Chinese
minister this morning received a lengthy
cipher cable dispatch containing over 100
words from Minister Conger. at Pekir,
addressed to the state department. Il
is in the American code throughout but
its contents are not known. Mr.. Wu
visited the, state department to- deliver
the message
The cablegram from Minister Conger
was deciphered at the state department
after considerable time owing to it's
length. The text has not been given out
but has been forwarded to the president
at Canton. 1t is substantially a dupli-
cation of the message from NJ PichOn,
the French envoy in Pekin and indi-
Gates that the eight foreign ministers at
the Chinese capital agreed to send an
identical message to their several gov
ernments-
The only new feature in Minister Con-
gers message, from that of M Pichon.
Is the list OF American casualties. He
reports seven killed and 16 wounded
Captain Myers and Surgeon Lippitt who
We're among the wounded. are doing
we'll
No action will be taken on the Coneer
message until President Mckinley has
been heard from. 1t is said at the state
department that under present condi-
tions Minister Conger and the other
Americans in Pekin viii not be advised
to leave the Chinese capital with a Chi
nese escort as all of the ministers seem
to agree that such a departure would be
very dangerous
NEW CHWANG DESTROYED
New York Aug 1O-A dispatch to the
Herald from Che Foo saws:
1t IS reported that the Russians have
DESTROYED the native city of New
CHINA's DETERMINATION.
New York. Aug. 1O-A dispatch to the
Herald from Tien Tsin. August , via
enc roo. August 9, says Major Biddell
ana two companies of American
have arrived.
Taku. NU al
A gale at Taku DELAYED the landine, of
the American artillery and cavalry
Wo pattalions of the Ninth and one
OF the Fourteenth infantry and the
In the advance - 't
Twenty-Five men of the Ninth infan-
try are on the sick list The American
AOIces laek signal corps and surgeons
prominent American officer is an
thority for the statement that the re-
lhiorceInents were required to make the
advance successful
me Brltlsh men ordered to advance
consist of 1850 Indian and 500 Welsh
troops. o0O "elsH
The boxers are in strong force fen
nIiles 10 .he south of Tien Tsin. They
are numbering, pillaging and commit
ing atrocities 1t is reported that
Prince Iuan has left Pelxin and ioined
General Sung in his position tvveDtI
IIffieS norJhwaTd, the tiOyya Ger. eror,rac.
having issued an Imperative COMMEND
Taku. Ism ana
This step shows determination 70
stop the advance, but it may he prince
4uahs scheme to escape
A native colonel who fought aera;,,+
the boxers and protected Christjans
sixty miles south of here has bee1, tIis
missed by imperial order.
1t Is reported that friendly C,bira-a
are alulng the Pekin residents with food
ana ammunition, and that a new marty
OF progreSslonistS is deveIopinsr in F5el[ir
Refugees are returning in a starvine,
condition. i 'AiiS
FIGHTING IN THE NORTH
St Petersburg. Aug. 1O.-The Russi.r
admiralty has received the foIlox..i1-
dispatch from Admiral Alexieff-
New Chwang. Sunday. Aug 5--rba
Chinese town of New Chwang on ~
gulf of Lao Tung. was canfTred A.
gust 4, two warships taking parf in 4i1a
bombardment- The inha bitants vvsre
disarmed." were
The Russian war office has raoai,,aa
the following dispatch from Gena,ssi
Grodekoff: a
'kharbarovsk. Aug s-Genera1 Te,,-
nenkampf, August Z overlook ana A.
Teated the enemy beyond the Ano,1-
river, capturing two guns The ha4tia
was continued as far as Jgest Dnrine
the evening of August = the C1hiaase
assumed the offensive on both o1r