The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-07-26
Affairs In China.

The Daily Telegraph, London, pub
fishes story from its correspondent at
ST. Petersburg, dated July 20, giving
further details of the battle on the
Amur. THE Chinese who attacked
Blagovetchensk,n says the dispatch,
concentrated on the right bank of the
Amur river. They have been severely
routed at the village of Sakhalim, which
was burned by the shells from the Rus
sian guns. The Chinese town of Aigun
has been practically destroyed. The
Russians have occupied all the impor
tant defensible positions on the right
bank of the river, driving the Chinese
out of them.
An advance on Pekin cannot be start
ed earlier than Aug. u. This is the
opinion of the senior commanders at
Taku, according to information received
at Washington, Monday, presumably
from Admiral Remey, part of dispatch
from which was made public.
The Chinese minister at London, Sir
Chin Chen Lo Feng Luh, has communi-
Gated to the press the following dis
patch from Sheng, director general of
hinese railways and telegraphs and
taotai of Shanghai, dated Shanghai,
July 30
Conformation from Pekin, dated July
Is, says that the Tsung Ii Yamen de-
puted Won Jul, an under secretary of
the department, to see the foreign min
listers, and he found every one well
without any missing, the German minis.
ter excepted. Gen. Yung Lu is going
to the throne to send them all under
escort TO Tien Tsin, in the hope that the
military operations will then be stop
ped"
The ST. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Daily Mail asserts that
there are differences of opinion in the
Russian council OF war The minister
of war, Gen Kouropatkin, wishes to
send 100000 men to clear the rebels out
of Manchuria. On the other hand ac-
cording to this correspondent, Emperor
Nicholas wishes the operation limited to
the defence and pacfication of the
frontier districts.
M. Delcasse, minister of foreign af-
fairs at Paris, July 49, received tele-
gram from the French consul at Che
Fee, dated July 81, saying: 1.-THE gov
ernor informs me that according to re-
liable news from Pekin, all the foreign
ministers are safe and the government
is taking all necessary steps to deliver
and protect them"
The Chinese minister received a dis
patch Tuesday morning, from Sheng,
the director of railroads ana telegraphs
at Shanghai, stating that the foreign
ministers are to be sent from Pekin TO
Tien Tsin under escorts also that the
imperial government has not only been
protecting them, but has supplied them
with food.
In view of the persistent report that
Russia is sending an army agains Pekin
from the the north it is well to RENE I'm Der
that not only does she seem to have her
hands full just at present in defending
her own territory on the Amur, but also
that it is good thousand miles from
the Amur to Pekin, while the distance
from Tien Tsin to Pekin is only eighty
miles, and from Taku only los or Tic
miles. Moreover there is railway con.
Meeting Pekin with Tien Tsin and Taku
Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs,
has received telegram from the French
consul in Shanghai, dated July 20, which
says ali Hung Chang has just assured
me that NJ. Pichon French minister to
China) is living, and he has agreed to
transmit to him message from me
requesting reply within five days"
Authorities at London, July "a, were
firm in the belief that massacre of the
ministers at Pekin, took place about
July 9th. This was also the opinion OF
the Japanese minister at London.