The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-24
Big Guns Turned Loose on the Lega-
lions md Fired Until the oc-
cupants Had Succumbed.
BR1ToNs STILL sKEPTICAL
PLACING NO FAITH IN STATEMENTS
MADE by CHINESE OFFICIALS.
Mr.. Broderick's Explanation In the
House OF Commons-Anxious to
Hear from Macdonald.


rnirsster. Sir chih Chen Lo Feng Luh. has
communicated to the press the following
dispatch from Sheng director general of
Chinese railways and telegraphs and taotai
of Shanghai. dated Shanghai. July %:
"Information from Peking, dated
July Is, says that the Tsung Ii
Yamen deputed Won Jul, an under
secretary of the department, to see
the foreign ministers, and he found
every one we'll, without any miss
ing, the German excepted.
General Yung Lu is going to
memorialize the throne to send
them all under escort to Tien-Tsin,
in the hope that the military opera
tions will then be stopped"
Shortly before the foregoing was made
public Sir Halliday Mccartney. counselor
and English secretary to the Chinese lega-
ton in London, asserted that the Peking
lesationers were safe and about to proceed
TO Tien-Tsin. On the other hand. the Shang-
hal correspondent of the Daily Mail. tele-
graphing July % says:
"a letter from a Chinese official
in han-Tung has been received by
a native functionary here, contain
ing the following passages: 'At
the beginning of the month the
foreign ministers made several at
tempts to send messages out of
Peking, but, thanks to the strict
watch kept on the city, the bearers
were all caught and executed. On
the 4th instant only 400 foreigners,
much exhausted, were left alive in
Peking, and one night, when the
big guns were necessarily fired, it
was known that all the legations
and foreigners were finished, al
though pretended kilograms con-
radict these facts"
RUSSIANS NOT HARMONIOUS.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Daily Mail asserts that there are differ
ences of opinion in the Russian council of
war. The minister OF war, General Kou-
opatkin. wishes to send one hundred thou
sand men TO clear the rebels out of Man.
churia. On the other hand. according to
this correspondent, Emperor Nicholas
wishes the operations limited TO the de-
fense and pacification of the frontier dis
tricts Let two strong armies. one of the
allies in the south and the Russians in the
north confront the Chinese and the rising
SO the Czsr Is said to argue. would be
bound 10 collapse. I'VE want no con-
quests" he is reported to have declared at
the conclusion OF a sitting OF the council.
What we desire is to protect our frontiers
and 50 steer into smooth waters the Chi
nese ship OF state. now buffeted by the
waves Of civil war
There Is nothing further this morning
that throws any light upon the mysterious
situation. Two urgent dispatches were
addressed yesterday by the Chinese minis
ter to the Peking government and to the
director OF telegraph administration
strongly advocating the necessity OF re-
storing telegraphic communication with a
view OF enabling the powers to obtain proof
Of the safety of the foreign ministers Uu-
I'll such proofs are secured. no one here is
inclined TO alter the opinion that the Chi
nese are merely juggling to gain time.
Rumor circulates briskly around the
personality of Ii Hung Chang. He is
credited with a mission TO offer 10 cede to
the allied powers two provinces as in
demnity for the Peking outrages and also
20 offer 10 restore order and 10 give faciii-
ties for trade with the outside world on
condition OF the surrender OF Kiao-chou
wei-Hai-wei and Manchuria by the