The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-13
WANTS TO GET OUT.
Sir Robert Hart Is Very DESTROYS Of
Leaving Pekin.
GRAVE FEARS FOR THE SAFETY
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OF the Pekin Ministers Is Expressed on
Return Of Chinese
TROOPS TO THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL.
Allies Decided TO Rest Three Days Alter
Taking Yang lsun.
TROOPS TO THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL
RIVER BLOCKED BY STOKES AND JuNES
Five Hundred Men Are satd 70 Have
Been Added to Expedition by In
crease in British Forces.


London. August 1850 a. m,--"rhu
sooner We can BE- got out of this, tho
better, for It Is inconventent for the Chi
nese government and unsafe for our
selves"
This Is @ message received last EVEN
Ing from Sir Robert Hart, dated Pekin.
August g. and sent in cipher to the Chi
nese maritime customs office IN London.
Commenting upon It. the Morning Post
saye; at would seem &c indicate that
the Chinese government is anxious for
tho safety Of the foreigners, or at any
rate. anxious to set them officially out
OF Pekin, while Sir Robert Hart evidently
expects that they will get out sooner or
later"
sheng, director general Of railroads ana
telegraphs, according to Shanghai dis
patch to the Standard. expresses grave
fears for the safety OF the members of
the legations when the defeated Chinese
troops return to the capital.
The Austrian naval commander reports
to Vienna that the allies decided TO rest
for three days after the taking of Yang
Tsun
A dispatch to y news agency from Tlen
Tsn says; "Junbs and stone block the
river beyond the advance posts OF tho
allies for a considerable distance, but the
dryness continues and tho country IS in
good marching order, subsidiary dykes
having made the enemy's damnaing lnef-
feotlye. 1t is believed that some 500 men
have boen added to the expedition by
the increase In the numbers Of the Britt
ish naval brigade"
| Corea. according TO a Seoul dispatch.
consents to Japan sending troops there 20
provide for emergencies.
General GrodekoIr reports 10 the Russian
war office the occupation OF San Tchau
and the passes across the Chingau noun
tains.
Orders have been issued for the forma-
ton OF two additional Siberian army corps.
A semi-ofncial Shanghai telegram
published in 81. Petersburg. describes tho
sending OF British troops TO Shanghai
as without tho least necessity"
Tho reception of tho message from the
| Italian minister in Pekn effectually dis
poses of the report that he had started
for Tien Tsin.
The Daily Mail publishes an interview
with the Chinese minister in London. Sir
Chin Chen Lo Feng Luh quoting him as
urging the foreign ministers to leave
Pekin "Somo people say" remarked Sir
Chih Cheng. that the Europeans are
| still beseiged. II Is not so, When you
are heseiged you are not allowed COM
munication with the outside world; but
here you arc receiving messages. cipher
messages. from Sir Claude Macdonald"
Commenting upon the various PROPOSE
lions made by China to the powers. the
Daily News we'll expresses the predominant
Ing British opinion as follows;
what the Chinese authorities say in
i effect IS this. stop your advance on
Pekin and we will give your minister's a
safe conduct to Tien Tsin. II you don .
at once instruct them TO leave PelSin. we
can not answer for the consequence
4 "To this very ahomlnable and not very
!, thlckly yelled threat there can be only
one answer, and NJ Del Casse has given
II in very cogent terms. The ministers
cannot leave except under absolutely con-
yinclng guarantees OF safety. In the
speedy advance OF the allies lies the only
real hope OF saving the ministers
In the same vein the Daily Telegraph
says: american statesmen take what
seems to be the only logical attitude
when they tell Mr.. Conger that they have
never for a moment entertained the idea
OF his placing himself at the mercy OF a
Chinese official pledge"
Cheng Yin Huan. the Cantonese who was
the special ambassador of China at Queen
Victoria's jubilee, and who is now in
Punishment Mt III, has been ordered, ac-
cording to a Shanghai dispatch. to COM
nit suicide. an imperial edict having been
issued 60 this effect