The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-08-24
FIRE RACES IN P[K|NG.
Fighting and Discord Follow in
Wake of Relief Column.

Wake of Relief Column.
WORRY OVER LACK OF NEWS.
Anxiety at Shanghai Because Peking Has
Been Silent Since Monday Last on Situa-
tion--Russians Decline to Cease Hostile
ties and Attack Imperial City.
London, Aug. 24.-Fires, fighting
and dissensions are apparently follow
ing in the wake of the relief of Peking
The Daily Mail publishes dispatches
from the Chinese capital, dated as late
as Aug. ~, declaring that a great fire
was then raging in the imperial city.
The Russian commander had declined
to accept the decision of the other gen
erals not to violate the imperial pre-
cincts and street fighting was going on.
General Chaffee, so it is asserted,
maintained that the Chinese had been
adequately punished already and that
it would be unwise to take the palace.
This explains the withdrawal of the
Americans after preaching three
gates, as cabled by the special CORE
spondent of the Associated Press. The
Russian general, however, maintained
that his government had declared war
against China and that, therefore,
there was no reason to prevent his
carrying hostilities into the sacred
precincts.
CriJl or fvrr,N vyo, ;,,
cases contradictory, dispatches that
have reached Europe this morning
from Pekipg, the commanders eventu-
ally adopted a middle course, for a
Peuter telegram asserts that the SEN
tries We're placed to prevent looting.
Hence it is presumed that the impe-
rial buildings will not be destroyed.
The fires appear to be incendiary and
to be put out by the Chinese them
selves, All the dispatches point to the
fact that when the last messengers
left Peking the commanders were
somewhat at sea regarding their fut-
Z ure action, all waiting instructions
from their governments.
The foreign residents appear to have
been sent to Tien Tsin. although the
st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Daily Mail says the ministers will not
leave Peking until negotiations for in
demnity are under way Il. S.s-
Neither the commanders nor the dip
lomats We're in communication with
the Chinese government Aug. II.
They We're then searching for Prince
Tuan. Among the puzzling reports as
to the whereabouts of the empress
dowager is one from St. Petersburg
that she is in the vicinity of Pc
king, but surrounded. The emperor
seems to have disappeared completely.
1t is officially reported that the minis
ter of the Netherlands, DR.. F. M.
Knobel, was slightly wounded during
the siege.
St Petersburg dispatches announce
good progress in the Manchurian cam
paign. The town of Mergen was cap
tured Aug. IS, with trifing Russian
loss. while the Chinese suffered severe
", leaving ten guns, 500 rifles and
large quantities of ammunition in the
lanuS OF the Russians.
The reports of risings in northern
Korea are confirmed. 1t is believed
that these are not due to ill will to-
ward foreigners, but to local dissatis-
faction. The Korean government is
sending troops to the disatfected dis
tricts.
According to kilograms from Shang-
hal considerable uneasiness is felt
there over the fact that no dispatches
have been received from Peking since
Aug. 20.
Other Shanghai correspondents To-
Gated Emperor Kwang Hsu as under
the protection of the allies and the
empress dowager as already captured
by the Japanese.
Powers Must Act Quickly.
The Daily Chronicle publishes an in
terview with the Japanese minister in
London, Kato Takaki. which repre-
sents him as having said: "The en-
press is the heart and soul of China,
So long as she lives, so long as she re-.
mains in China, whether the su-
plcIuc )ONSl ID ldASI lIOlu VI HOL size
will always be the greatest force, the
one above all others.
"The difficulty will be to get any one
who will speak for her. l fear that
the influence of Ii Hung Chang is now
of extremely little weight.
"The powers must come to final
understanding quickly. Roits, anarchy,
bloodshed and misery throughout Chi
ma will be the inevitable result of pol
icy that does not Immediately disclose
itself. The government must be re-
established
The Japanese envoy expressed his
approval of the approved American
suggestion regarding conference of
the powers, and said he believed that
satisfactory pecuniary compensation
could be secured if the resources of
China were properly developed, des-
pite the fact that her present revenues
are pledged