The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05
In CHINA,

LONDON, Aug. 20. Scenes Of APP
palling desolation and wanton destruc-
ton are reported from Legation street
in Pekin. All the houses OF foreigners
are riddled with shells, burned or blown
up. An attempt was made TO mine the
legation. A shaft was sunk from the
t, p of the wall fifteen feet deep and was
the continued as q tunnel with sharp
slope in the direction of the legation.
Apparently the Chinese did not have
time to finish it. The Secle's report
OF defeat suffered by the allies at
Pekin is everywhere discredited.
WASHINGTON, Aug. pa confer
ence upon the Chinese situation be-
twee n the President and Secretaries
Root. Gage, Hitchcock and Smith began
before ten o'clock this morning. II is
believed there have been important de-
velopments to cause this conference so
close on the heels of last nights meet
ing.
TAKU Aug. 28.-Three Russian, two
japanese, one British aud one Ameri-
can battalion searched the imperial
miles out today for Boxers. No armed
force was found. A single Chinese
scout was killed. The japanese are in
possession OF the imperial summer pal
ace today. The winter palace here is
still closely guarded. The Russians
wish TO destroy it but the japanese
wish to save it. A southwark move
ment began today and will continue,
but several (detachments2) will remain
to protect converts.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 29.-"The war
is over. The Chinese situation has
simmered down to patient waiting up
on the Diplomats. All sensation has
departed from Chinese affairs" This
is The latest statement from Secretary
Root. Diplomatic methods were dis
cussed by conference of the Presi-
dent, acting Secretary Adee and Sec
rotary Root at the Whitehouse lasting
from early yesterday evening until sf-
ter midnight. AT it's close Secretary
Root intimsted that note to the pow
ers had been agreed upon.
Later Acting Secretary Adee and
Secretary Wilson joined the meeting
which was still in session at 1l:30. 1t
is minated that replies have been re-
ceived from all the powers as to their
intents in regard to China and that, be-
ing unsatisfactory, has caused the con-
ference.
HONG KoNK, Aug. 20, 12:45 P. M
The situation at Annoy is liable to in
duCe serious complications. The Chi
nese are absolutely quiet, but two Jap
anese cruisers are petrolling the coast
and large force of japanese are in the
city. To-day 1900 japanese reinforce
ments left Lai Totei Formosa for
Annoy. 1t is believed that Japan,
convinced that partition Of China is
.minenC, is now occupying Annoy for
the purpose of Selling the province, Flo
Ken, which is opposite Formosa, and
which has long been claimed by the
Japanese as Sphere" Annoy,
though on the mainland, is the chief
port of Formosa which the Japanese
captured and subdued in 1895.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-Amid the grow
ing difficulties of the Chinese en-
broglio, Mr.. Broderick's emphatic dec
laration at Thorncombe last evening
proves that the British government
does not yet see any cause to depart
from the line of policy originally de.
cided upon, namely to take no respon-
sibility for the administration of China.
Mr.. Broderick said he hoped it would
not be supposed that the government
was pussilaEimous in this respect. Its
object was to maintain British inter
ests. 1t was quite ready to take its
share of the white mans burden, but
could not admit that the nature of that
burden should be dictated to it by the
yellow man.
The Daily Ne,oS publishes dispatch
from Tsku which says the country
around Taku and Pekln is devastated,
with the result that the Boxers are
most unpopular and are being attacked
by the peasantry. The boxers who
were moving north from Shang Tung
are now returning hastily to their
homes.
Belated dispatches and the stories of
refugees arriving at Che Foo con-
tinue to describe the terrible conditions
in Pekin. One of the worst incidents
is the shocking desecration of the for
eign cemetery outside the west wall.
The details are too revolving to be de-
scribed Hundreds Of bodies of Chi
nese are found in the streets of Pekin