Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-08-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK
rAe CRISIS IN CHINA

defeating 1000 Chinese.
Admiral Alexieff has gone to New
Chwang, where the position OF the Rus
slams is regarded as serious.
The Chinese are reported to have
broken the canal bank at Tien Tsin,
i flooding the country between there and
Pekin.
Ii Hung Chang is preparing procla-
nation granting virtual amnesty to
Boxers on condition that they cease dis
turbances.
According to dispatch from lien
Tsin the Japanese vanguard has been
repulsed with less Of $50 killed and
| wounded.
In a message from Pekin dated July
81. Sir Claude Macdonald reports that
on the goth he refused to leave Pekin
for Tien Tsin.
A member of the Chinese legation in
| London says if the allies push on to
Pekin general uprising and slaughter
Of foreigners will result.
Ii Hung Chung told the French con-
sui at Shanghai no messages would be
delivered to ministers because foreign
ers are advancing on Pekin.
In battle at Pei Tsang Sunday the
allied forces advancing on Pekin de-
feated the Chinese after severe fight
The allies lost /, 200 killed and wounded.
The Japanese consul at Shanghai has
received q message from Pekin saying
that General Tung Fun Slang has
stopped all provisions going to the lega-
tons.
General Chaffee reports that 800
Japanese scouting towards Pei Tang
lost 8 men killed. 25 wounded. The
enemy were in trenches and loopholed
A message has been received from
Minister Conger, via Tien Tsin July 81,
saving: "Since the 10th, by agree
ment, no firing. Have provisions for
several weeks; little ammunition; all
safe and we'll"
Two pro-foreign members Of the
tsung Ii yamen were beheaded on July
81 for urging the preservation OF the
ministers by Ii Ping Han, now COM
manding troops in Pekin. He ordered
the Pao Ting massacres.
General Grodekof telegraphs from
Khabrovsk, Aug. /, that IA Hotchkiss
and 10 other guns were captured at
Hung Hun by the Russians, who, storm
ing the fortress Monday, July 30, drove
1900 Chinese before them.
The destruction of foreign property
In China continues. United States
Consul Fowler estimates that the losses
Of the American missions amount to
81, 100000. The trade losses through
the suspension of trade are enormous.
:, According to the London Daily Ex-
press cables from Che Foo announce [
that the imperial troops advancing to
meet the foreign relief force wiped out
q Christian town near Pekin, killing
5 foreign priests and 10000 native
Christians.
Ii Hung Chang has officially in
formed the consuls at Shanghai that
the ministers left Pekin for Tien Tsin
Friday, Aug. 3, with General Yung Lu
in command of the escort. The consuls
are by no means disposed to credit Earl
LIS statement.
Liu Kun vi, viceroy Of Marking, and
Sheng, administrator of telegraphs and
and tao-tai of Shanghai, have
both Declared officially that the foreign
ministers are held by the Chinese gov
as hostages, and that if the
allies march to Pekin they will be
killed
Nearly all the correspondents con-
firm the report of wholesale massacre
of Christians outside of Pekin, a CORE
spondent of the London Daily NeYs
giving the number of killed as between
10000 and $1,000, all defenseless con-
verts. Imperial troops-so it is said
did the CHASTITY work. i
Cheng, Chinese general director Of
Selegraphs, has just communicated to
the consuls at Shanghai, according to.
The correspondent of the Paris Temps, IL
IN imperial decree permitting. the for-I
eign ministers at Pekin to communicate
without restriction with their govern I
ments and ordering their departure for
Ten Tsin under good escort
A London Times special from Pekin
shows that the Chinese government is
guilty Of the blacklist perfidy. It says:
'The force besieging the legation con-
sists Of imperial troops under Gen
sral Tung Lu and General Tung1 Flu
Slang, whose gallantry is applauded in
imperial DEGREES, although it has con-
sisted in bombarding for one month de-
fenseless women and children cooped up i
in the legation compound, using shell,
shrapnel, round shot and expanding {,
bullets. The Chinese throughout, with
characteristic treachery, posted procla-
nations assuring US Of protection, and
The same night they made general ate
tack in the hope Of surprising as.
FOREIGN NEWS.