The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-04
RUSSIANS DEFEATED
BY THE CHINESE

LONDON, Aug. 4, a. m--ShanSndl
correspondents learn that Russians
were defeated north of New Chwang
and that body FIVE thousand strong
is endeavoring to relieve the force be-
sieged at Toshi Chow by 10000 Chi
nese and numerous guns.
Four Russian steamers on the Amur
river are said to have been sunk or
damaged by the Chinese fire.
The Chinese military commanders at
Shanghai have formally notified the
foreign consuls there that the enlist
ments now proceeding are to provide
large forces for the protection of for
eigners, and have expressed the hope
that they will not entertain groundless
fears or suspicious, adding that the
increase of the army is entirely to Sc
cure their safety. As target practice
at the Chinese forts alarms foreigners
at Shanghai, the commanders announce
it Will be abandoned.
The smuggling of arms continues. A
junk was seized at Canton on August
/, with seventy rifles and 10000 cart
ridges on board
Foreigners at Macao fear an attack.
An imperial trade authorizes the pass
ing of the Bosphorus by Russian trans
ports with war material bound for
China
News agency dispatches, dated at
Shanghai, Thursday, August 2, say the
ferocious Ii Ping Han, formerly gov
ernOr of Shantung, has arrived at Pc
kin with a large following of troops.
On the way north he killed two French
priests and many hundred converts.
Ii Hung Chang is alleged to have sent
a message to Pekin to keep Ii Ping
quiet
Praise For Mr.. Squiers.
A Che Foo special. dated August 1,
says the safety of all the Americans
in Pekin and the reception of a letter
from DR.. Cheltman, dated Pekin. July
20, saying that on the previous day Sir
Claude Macdonald, the British minis
ter, had treaty to a truce, providing
the Chinese came no closer, and con-
tinued:
I'VE hope this means relief, but. hav-
ing defeated the Chinese. we are fearful
of treachery. All are exhausted with
constant Watching fighting and dig
THE greatest credit is due Mr..
Squiers, secretary oL the United States
legation, whose military experience and
energy are invaluable"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily News says that the cOnsuls there
regret the Independent action taken by
the American association and the China
association on the ground that it is
injudiciOus. He says:
The settlements being international
petty jealousies must disappear. The
China association is Of little local in
fiuence''
Presumably he refers to the American
Asiatic association,
Reformer Reaches Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong correspondent of the
Daily Express announces the arrival
there from San Francisco of Homer
Lee, for some time resident agent in
the United States of the society for
the reformation of the Chinese empire,
with 5000 pounds sterling, which will
presumably be utilized in connection
with the movement against the En-
press DOwager, a movement quiescent
since 1898 until within the last few
weeks.
Nearly all the correspondents confirm
the reports of a wholesale massacre
OF Christians outside Pekin, a CORES
pOnGent Of the Daily News giving the
number of killed as between ten and
fifteen thousand. all defenseless con-
Verts- Imperial troops-sO it is stated
did the dastardly work.
According to the Shanghai correspon-
dent of the Times. one of the members
of the Tsung Ii Yamen. mentioned by
United States Consul GOodnow as hay
ing been beheaded for pro-foreign ten
denotes, was Hsu Ching Cheng. former
minister TO Russia. The correspondent
says the Empress Dowager ordered his
execution on the advice of Lii Hing
Heng.
Ii Hung Chang has been informed
from Pekin that Prince Ching's only
prominent supporters in his peace pol
icy are General Yung Lu and Wang
Wen ShaO. president of the board OF
revenue. whose fnfluence is small