The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-08-28


hy the London Missionary nocistiee irdii
cate that missionaries and other foreinn.
sp arr striving safely R CHINESE treaty
potts, some 81 them from places hundfrsit
Of miles IN the Interior and frvm Rrsehu.
ar moro than 100 foreigners have arrived
At Shanghai The heads Of the misaions
believe that nearly all the missionaries
are alive and arr safe on the coaft OF
China. The international missions chief
anxiety Ia for their Shan ~ missionaries
who arc returning through the hostile
~ ovince of Hu Nan. Mr. and Mrs. olov.
err have been robbed and arrrsted al Shan
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A MANGLED MESSAGE.
WASHINGTON. August ia dispatch
received yesterday by the state Depart
mcnt from Consul Fowler at Chefoo was
so badly mangled In transmission M to
almost be indeciphcrablo Tho cipher cx.
ports OF the Department worked on II
last night and today. So far as made out
the dispatch appears to contain message
from Minister Conger transmitted TO Che
foo by courier. Inc glst OF tne Conger
message contained in the cablcgram Is
that the situation IN Picking is more crit
zeal and that the Chinese Government IL
cndeayoring TO force the Ministers to
leave the Imperial city under Chinese es-
cort before the arrival of the relief col
umn. Beyond this point the dispatch Is
unlntelliRible.
GOOD CHEER FOR MACDONALD.
LONDON, August 15.-The British For
eign Office, replying to the latest cipher
dispatch from the British Minister at Pc
king, Sir Claude Macdonald, the wording
OF which was almost Identical with the
message from Sir Claude reccivedrby the
Canton correspondent OF the Daily Tele-
graph and published August IL, and which
1 una FRS pof cd tn no Enreipn
the Chinese Minister here, bids the Brit
ism Minister to be of good cheer and gives
the progress made by the relief column.
The message of Sir Claude Macdonald
to the Daily Telegraph was dated Picking
August 6 and read:
our situation here is desperate. In ten
days our food supply ends Unless we
are relieved a general massacre Is prob
able. The Chinese offered to escort us
to Tien-Tsin, but, remembering Cawnpoor,
we refuse the offer. There are over 200
European women and children in this Le-
CATION"
MISSIONARIES KILLED.
BOSTON, August 15.-The American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions today received a cablegram dated
August 18th from Consul Fowler at Che
foo, in which he says that a messenger
sent to Pao Ting Flu has returned and re-
ports that the Presbyterian missionaries
were killed June 30th and the Congrega-
tional missionaries July 81. The mission
aries of the American board stationed at
Pao Ting Flu were Rev. Horace 7. Pit
kin, Miss Mary s. Morrill, and Miss Annie
A. Could both of Portland, Maine. The
character of the messenger sent to Pao
Ting Flu is wholly unknown to the officers
of the board, but the message indicates
that Consul Fowler and Rev. Dr. Henry
ID. Porter credit the report.
CAPTURE OF Ho ST WI.
BERLIN, August ia dispatch re-
ceived here from Tien-Tsin under date of
August 18th, says the allies captured Ho
81 WI after a fight with troops under
General Tung Flu Siang's personal COM
mand. The fleeing enemy, 1t added, were
Immediately pursued in order to prevent
them from making n further stand, the
cavalry pushing southwark to cut off the
Chinese line of retreat upon Pao Ting
Flu.
In Picking, the dispatch says, Prince
Tung is having every one executed who
sy mpa thizes with or provisions the for
eigners. ....
The newspapers OF Peking announced
that France had accepted Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee as commander in
chief of the allied forces In China.
An official dispatch from Taku, dated
August 18th, announces that Captain
Pohl, commanding the German warship
Hansa, and Captain HEIGHT, of the Ger
man warship Bertha have started for
Picking with $50 men. 1t is added that 100
Austrians have also gone in the same d.
rection.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 15.-The or
fetal Messenger declares that, recogniz-
Ing Germany's motive, in view OF the
murder of Baron Won Ketteler German
at Peking), the Gear accepted
Emperor Williams proposal to appoint
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee to
the command of the allied forces, but
that the Gear has not the slightest inten- |
ton of receding from his political pro- |
gram, the fundamental principle of which |
Is a complete understanding with France
and the other Powers, the pursuance of |
no selfish aims and striving only for the
restoration of order and the best rela-
tions in China.
THE KAISER SPEAKS.
the Tribune from London says: The Ger /
man Emperor addressing several officers !
on their departure for China, exhorted |
them not to rest until the enemy begged |
FOR quarter. He was strongly opposed to |
the partition of the Chinese Empire,
which was not to be thought of for the
present. German officers, His Majesty
said, must not .underrate their oppo-
lents, as Admiral Seymour had done in
,is advance on Peking.
M'CALLA'S VIEWS.
CHICAGO, August 15.-Capt II. b. Me-
Gala of the cruiser Newark. who was in
OF the American marines in Ad-
niral Seymour's unsuccessful expedition
q the relief OF Picking. believes that the
Chinese situation Is more serious and
raught with more dangers to the United
states and the allies, than any one mag
ned before the capture of the Taku forts.
Writing to Mrs. Edward Roby of this city
rom Yokohama. whittier he had been in
aided by three wounds which he had re-
eived during the ill-starred Seymour adj
ance on July 20. Captain McCalla says:
Certainly no foreigner In our column OF
900 officers and men believed that the
'hinese would do 80 well and no one ex-
ept the agents who have been selling !
rms and munitions OF war to China