Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-03

SHANGHAI, August 1.-The allies
advanced toward Pekin to-day. 1t Is
estimated that the expedition numbers
twenty thousand men of all arms, with
ITO guns. 1t is hoped to reach Pekln
August 18th.
LONDON, August 8, 3:45 a. m.-No
word comes this morning regarding the
fortunes Of the comparatively small
body of troops believed to be forging
their way to Pekin. The silence is
probably due to diligent censorship
rather than to any lack Of develop
ments.
A Shanghai special announces the re-
ceipt of an official telegram from the
Tsung Ii Yamen asserting that the
ministers were all well on July Both
and that vegetables, fruits and other
supplies had been sent to the legations
on several occasions. 'Friendly inter-
course" the official telegram says, ARE
now being carried on between the min
listers and the Imperial government"
According to the Daily Express, how
ever, cablegrams from Che Foo an
nounce that the imperial troops, ad-
vancing to oppose the relief force, have
completely wiped out a Christian town
near Pekin, killing five foreign priests
and 10000 native Christians.
Gen. Gaselee, SO says this cores
pondent, was strongly opposed to an
immediate advance, but he was over
ruled by the other commanders and in
fuenced by Washington's order to Gen.
Chaffee, to proceed without an in
stant's delay"
From Shanghai, the Daily Express
has received confirmation of the re-
ported murder of fifty missionaries in
the province OF Shan ST, with the adj
ditional confirmation that eight En-
glishwomen were dragged out of the
mission buildings by a Chinese mob,
who beheaded them in the streets of
Che Chou.
The French troops are reported to
have occupied Meng TIE, in the pro-
vince of Yu Nan.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
Standard says:
"a heartrendering letter has been re-
eeiyed from the Japanese legation,
dated July 22nd, stating that the cas-
ualties number sixty per cent, that only
20 cartridges per man are left, with
rations sufficient for five days, and that
it is feared the legation will succumb
within a week"
Mr.. Broderick's statement in the
House of Commons yesterday placing
Great Britain on record as unaltera'bly
opposed to the partition of China, was
we'll received by all the morning pa
pers which for lack of @her news,
chiefly devote their comments to DR..
Morrison's remarkable message to the
Times, cabled yesterday to the United
States.
Because of the fact that the Chinese
agents at the principal European cable
points are in free cipher communica-
ton with the viceroys, the foreign
commanders at Tien Tsin have SEEM
ingly put an embargo on news con-
corning the size and composition of
the forces advancing on Pekin.
Neither the English admiralty nor the
foreign Office have intelligence from
Tien Tsin later than Friday, July 27.
kilograms from Hong Kong and
Shanghai indicate that restlessness is
increasing in southern China. The
German mission at Namon has been
destroyed and the native city of WI
Chow is no longer considered safe for
foreigners. At the Bogue forts target
;-
authorities are enlisting recruits at 50
a month, twice the usual pay. Procla-
nations sent TO the recruiting stations
threaten officers who defraud the
troops.
An agency at Shanghai says that Ii
Hung Chang has asked the United
States consul general, Mr.. Goodnow, if
he were placed in communication with
ministers at Pekin the government
would suspend the advance. Mr.. Good
now, the report adds, replied that he
would ask the Washington authorities.
A third brigade was ordered to China
from India to-day. 1t consists of four
native regiments about six thousand
men.
Another Tien Tsin version of the mes
sage from the British minister at Pekin,
Sir Claude Macdonald, of July 81, de-
scribes him as saying:
1--WE have provisions for many weeks
but little ammunition
A news agency dispatch from Tien
Tsin July 25th, reports that Lieut.. Gen.
Linewitch has succeeded Admiral
Alexieff in command OF the Russian
forces there. The Russians, the dis
patch adds, are constructing armored
trains in the Tien Tsin shops and in
tend reconstructing the railway as
fast as the column advances toward
Pekin.
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