The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-06
EVIDENCE Of DUPUC|TY
IS CONSTANTLY ACCUMULATING
FROM CHINA.
Ii Hung Changes Proposal to Escort
the Legations to Tientsin Has a
Muchiavellian and Diabolical Look

LONDON, July 27.-The Daily Mail
publishes this dispatch from it's special
correspondent:
Shanghai, July 26-The proposal
made by the Chinese Government to the
American Consul, through Taotai
Sheng, that hostilities against the Chi
nese should cease upon condition that
the foreign Ministers were sent under
escort to Tientsin, appears to be part
of a deep-laid plan to conceal the date
of the massacre and the duplicity of
officials who being in possession of the
news, suppressed it. The story will be
that the Ministers all left Picking under
a strong escort, but were set upon by
a mob of Boxers. We shall be told that,
although the Chinese soldiers fought
bravely, they were overcome and all
were massaCred.'
LONDON, July q. 4:3O A. M.-The
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Mail describing the massacre at Muk-
den, says:
THE Bishop had armed 200 converts
| to defend the cathedral and a body of
Chinese troops had been sent to defend
the converts, but the soldiers were
leagued with the Boxers. While the
Christians were holding a service the
signal was given, and the soldiers and
Boxers surrounded and set fire to the
church, putting the escaping worship
ers to the sword. The Bishop was cap
tured and taken to the NiCeroy's va
men, where he was diabolically tortured
and decapitated His head now hangs
in front of the yamen."
The Daily Mail explains that the Chi
nese emplOye of the British Legation,
who, according to it's advices yesterday,
escaped from Picking to Nieuchwang
and reported there that when he left
Peking most of the members of the le-
cations We're dead and the condition of
the others was hopeless, did not actual
| ly leave Picking until July s, and this
| goes to show, If his statement is to be
relied upon, that a general massacre
had not occurred on July 6, as has been
reported
| All the powers appear to have receiv-
! ed an identical Chinese appeal for
mediation; but in the abense of definite
news regarding the fate of the Minis
| ters and of any reliable indications of
the real origin of the appeal it seems
that Lord Salisbury, the Premier, con-
sidered it was not even necessary to
publish the fact that the appeal had
been received or to do anything beyond
| formally acknowledging it, with per-
haps an intmation that nothing could
be done until news from Picking had
arrived.
If 1t could be ascertained beyond
doubt that the reports of a massacre
at Picking were founded (and there is
disposition here to believe that the
| Ministers may after all, be held as
hostages) Lord Salisburys would prob
ably incline more toward the concili-
alton attributed to Washington than to
the revenge attributed to Berlin. But,
while there is no cessation to the del
uge of rumors, it is beginning to be be-
lieved at Shanghai, Canton and other
points that the Viceroys are as COM
pletely in the dark as to affairs in Pc
king as the Europeans themselves
Meanwhile, the doings of Ii Hung
| Chang are regarded with ever-increas-
ing suspicion, while the situation in the
southern province daily grows worse.
1t is reported from Tientsin that the
Chinese forces are concentrating at the
village of Getsang. ten miles north of
Tientsin, where, it is said, large guam
titles of rice are stored. The Russian
and japanese cavalry are keeping in
close touch with the enemy. The river
is still low and water transport would
be difficult.