Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-07-24

''Conger telegraphs that he is under
fire in British legation, Pekin. Use and
urge every means possible for immediate
relief
| Washington, D. c., July 2O.-The Chi
nese minister has just received a cipher
cable dispatch from United States Min
lister Conger. 1t is in the state depart
ment cipher and is transmitted through
the tsung Ii yamen and the Shanghai
taotai. 1t contains about fifty words and
Is signed III English with the name Con
ger.
The minister has just taken it to the
state department.
AT quarter of 10 Minister WI hand
ed the COnger dispatch to Secretary
Hay, who Immediately called in his as
sistant secretaries and private secretaries
and work was begun III tranSlating the
cipher. This Is now III progress, and
the message being quite brief the text
will soon be out. No doubt is expressed
by state department officials as to the
authenticity of the message. 1t is uIi-
derstood that the message is dated the
18th.
/ Mr.. Conger's telegram is as follows:
In British legation. Under continued
shot and shell from Chinese troops.
| Quick relief only can prevent genera!
| massacre"
The message is not dated, but it is IN
derstood was sent from Pekin on the
| 18th
Sent by the Tsuug Ii Yamen.
| "A few minutes later Minister WI ap-
| peared at the state department with a
telegram from Shanghai dated July 20,
which had been received by Minister WI
! at $3.50 o'clock this morning, reading as
! follows:
Your telegram was forwarded and, as
requested, send reply from the tsung Ii
yamen as follows: Your telegram of the
10Th day of this moon July III received.
The state department telegram has been
handed to Minister COnger. Herewith is
Minister Conger's reply to the state de-
Dartment.'
AS soon as Minister Conger's cable
gram had been translated d cabinet coun-
Gil was called in the office of the secre-
tary of state. The council lasted about
fifteen minutes. The postmaster general
and secretary Of the treasury did not at
tend.
Transmitted to the President.
AS soon as the cablegram from Minis
ter Conger had been translated at the
state department it was sent to the
white house and transmitted to the Pres
dent. Owing to the fact that his train
did not stop during the morning he could
not be reached before he arrived at Can
ton. He reached there at 9:3O central
time) and the message was handed him
FIVE minutes afterward.
Somebody is Lying.
The state department has just issued
the following bulletin:
The secretary of state received this
morning a dispatch from Consul Fowler
at Chefoo dated midnight 10, saying Il
Shanghai paper of the 10th SAID all for
eignerS were murdered.
Fowler wired the governor demanding
teh truth. The governor replied that ms
courier left Pekin on the 18th and all
then were safe, but Pe}lin East City had
been carried by rebels with intent to
kill"
The following statement has been given
out at the state department:
.On the 18th Of this month the state
department communicated brief mes
sage asking tidings of Minister longer
in the state department code. Minister
WI undertook to get this into Minister
Conger's hands if he was alive. He has
succeeded in doing this. This morning
the state department received tele-
gram from Consul Goodnow at Shanghai,
1.-The governor of Shantung informs
me that he has received today cipher
message from Conger of the 18TH
Apparently Corroborated.
The secretary of state today received
a telegram from Consul Fowler at Che
foo dated, on afternoon of the 10th, say
ing that he had received the following
telegram from the governor of Shantuns,
dated 10 o'clock:
Received flying express from the
tsung Ii yamen forwarding cipher tele-
gram dated July IS, from the AmericaD
minister at Pekin, which l have trans
mitted, and by which you will see that
the newspaper accounts are entirely ru-
morS."
Tho c+o+o 5oDa r+Doop+ aIeo hos roco;xod
a still later dispatch from Consul Fowler,
in which he communicates the following
message telegraphed to HIM that day by
the governor of Shantung:
Il have just received definite informa-
ton that the various ministers in Pekin
are we'll and the proper Chinese authori-
ties are devising measures for their res
cue and protection"
This message is signed by Yuan, the
governor Of Shantung.
Paris. July 2O.--The foreign office has
received information from Chinese
source in which, however. certain reli-
ance may be placed, that the foreign
ministers at Pekin have not been mas
sacred. According to this information
on July { the ministers were attacked
and the legations burned. but the forei gn-
ers succeeded in crossing the city to
Prince Ching's palace, which was then
barricaded and the Europeans were hold
ing their own up to the time the news
been heard from Pekin.
left, July 9. Since then. nothing has
London. July 20.--The Chinese asser-
tons that the members of the foreign le-
cations are still safe have been so often
repeated that they are again beginning
to raise hopes in some quarters Ae
cording to the Daily Telegraph's ST. Pc
tersburg correspondent. however. the
Russian government is already in posses
sion of definite news that all the for
eigners in Pekin were massacred on
July 6.
ANOTHER MASSACRE.