The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
QUICK ACTION.
Powers Must Come to an Under
standing at Once
In the Chinese Matter or Leave
1t to Russia.
JOINT DEMAND MADE
By Foreign Ministers at Pekin
on the Empress.
To Suppress Boxers or Take
the Consequences.


says:
The situation in China has become so
critical that military action must be
taken at once. The powers must come
to an understanding without an in
stants delay and take common action.
The longer they hesitate the greater
becomes the probability that one power
that is to say, Russia-will do the
work alone
Such a possibility, however danger
Gus it might be for the peace Of the
world. would be always preferable to
doing nothing which can only end in
bringing about chaos.
A JOINT DEMAND.
New York, June "a special to the
Herald from Washington says:
"A dispatch from Minister Conger
which the authorities declined to make
public is said to have referred to a
meeting of diplomats in Pel1in, at which
an agreement was reached to make a
joint demand on the empress dowager
for the suppression of the boxers under
pain of action by the powers. Accord
ing to officials here, Minister Conger is
making some plain statements to the
TSung-L Yamen threatening them
with the enmity of the United States
and heavy claims for indemnity should
the life of an American citizen be taken.
1t is hoped, as a result of these repre-
SentationS, that the Chinese government
has put guards around the American
missions. 1t is plainly impossible for
missionaries now to reach the coast,
as the railroad connection between
| Pekin and Tien Tsin is cut, other roads
are interrupted, and a journey on foot
or horseback to the sea would involve
greater danger than there will be if
I they remain where they are
HACKED TO PIECES.
London, June 9.-The Pekin CORE
| spondent of the Times in d dispatch
dated June z, says:
! Particulars received here show that
Messrs. Norman and Robinson, the mis-
! sionaries, were hacked to pieces in cir
! cumstances of revolving barbarity. The
| Chinese government can not be exon
I Grated from the charge OF completely IN
these murders. From the beginning its
action will bear only one Interpretation,
namely that of approval of the anti
foreign movement which has had these
| results.
THE government has delegated as a
! commissioner to ChO Khau and PaC
Ting Flu, the chief centers of the boxers,
| to investigate and report a notorious
anti-fOreign official who is known to be
| in sympathy with the boxers and who
| was the director of a mining and rail
| way bureau that was founded to thwart
all railway and mining developments D
| The Pekin correspondent of the Times
| telegraphing June s, says:
THE news that General Neih's for
| eign drilled soldiers had fired upon the
boxers who We're destroying the rail-
! way near Tien Tsin was favorably re-
ceived, as giving some ground for hope
| that the government would change its
policy.
Now arrives the intelligence that
| Neih's troops have been ordered to re-
turn to camp at Lu Tai and that theiI
/ action has been condemned. The
Tsung Ii Yamen. however, denies the
truth of the latter statement
But the denials of the Tsung l.
Yamen are never convincing. If it be
true the news must be regarded as Sc
riouS-
THE American missionary confer
ence today sent a dispatch to Presi-
dent Mckinley appealing for protection
and asserting that the missionaries a
Pao Ting Flu and other places are il
extreme danger, that the Tung Chl
mission station has been abandoned
that the chapels have everywhere beer
burned and that hundreds Of native
Christians have been massacred.
THE serious condition of affairs il
Pelzin is reacting upon the provinces
The French minister here has received
a telegram saying that the French con
sui at Montazo and the French agen
| at Yum Han Flu have both been com
PEELED to retire from their posts, as th
viceroy announced that he was unabl
to guarantee their safety.
THE boxers yesterday burned a Rus
sian chapel at Tung Tingan, thirty -fiv
miles north of Pekfn. Halt Ching Chanl
director of railways, admits that tn
| destruction of the Pelkin Tien TSin rail
way is continuing, the Tsung Ii yamel
being powerless to prevent it, and tina
it is useless to expect the early restora
tion of communication"
BOXERS STRENGTH.
Apparently the legation guards hav
not yet taken hand in the fighting
but they are ready to do so at a mo
ment's notice. The boxer movemen
affects some hundreds of square miles
Official dispatches to Vienna fron
I1ekin aver that that the sect is NOR
powerful than any political party i
China, embracing no less than four mil
| lion. and manipulated by Jealous an
adrOit men.
The representatives of the powers ar
still acting in perfect concert, whic
appears for the present to give the Chi
: nese government ample chance to pu
: down the disturbances alone. The Tie
Tsin correspondent Of the Daily Mai
I telegraphing June Z, says.
; For the last three days the Who'll
community of Tien Tsin has been pre-
, pairing to defend itself against an ex
. pected attack by the boxers. There
! a continual influx OF refugees from tn
7 | surrounding country, who are croWdin
? the city. This increases the excite
, ment Nearly all the villages surround
= | ing Tien TSin are Joining the boXe
D movement, which is taking more an
r more a fanatical character.
: Parties of foreigners when approach
ing the villages are driven back b
armed bands Yesterday the Chimes
\ | troops were ordered to Machang, on til
I Grand canal, within 20 miles of which
large body of boxers is reported to c
- collecting. Attempts to re-establish tic
. regular working of the Pelxin Tien Isl
railway have hitherto proved fulfil
Every night tie boxers set fire to tn
sleepers and the woodwork of til