Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-08-09
THE CHINESE WAR.

over J. A Hill (Quayite).
THE CHINESE WAR.
Thursday last, our State Dept. inform
ed the United States embassies at Lon
don, Paris, Berlin, Rome and St Peters
burg and the minister at Toxic, Japan,
that Secretary Hay had sent the follow
ing dispatch on Monday to Ii Hung
Chang:
This government will not enter into
any agreement regarding disposition or
treatment of legations without first hav-
ing free communication with Minister
Conger. Responsibility for their protec-
ton rests upon Chinese government.
Power to deliver at Tien Tsin presup-
poses power to protect and to open com
munication This is insisted upon.
The message was delivered by Mr..
Goodnow on the 31st to Viceroy Lii who
then enquired whether, IF free COM
munications were established between
ministers and their governments, it
could be arranged that the powers
would not advance on Pekin pending
negotiations.
To this inquiry the following reply
was sent on August by Secretary Hay
to Consul General Goodnow at Shang-
hal:
Il do not think it expedient to submit
the proposition of Earl Ii to the other
powers. Free communication with our
representatives.in Pekin is demanded as
matter of absolute right, and not as a
favor Since the Chinese government
admits that it possesses the power to
give communication, it puts itself in an
unfriendly attitude by denying it. No
negotiations seem advisable until the
Chinese government shall have put the
diplomatic representatives of the powers
in full and free communication with
their respective governments, and re-
moved all danger to their lives and lib
erty We would urge Earl Ii earnest
ly to advise the imperial authorities of
China to place themselves in friendly
communications and cooperation with
the relief expedition. They are assum-
ing heavy responsibility in acting
otherwise.
The United States representatives III
Europe and Japan were instructed to
communicate these dispatches to the
ministers of foreign affairs at the
respective capitals.
The allied force advancing upon
Pekin from Tien Tsin was said to num-
Der, but twenty thousand, with 10
guns.
Emperor Williams delivered a ser
mon on his yacht on the righteousness of
smashing the Chinese.
Rear Admiral Remey cabled from
Taku, under date of Thursday, as
follows;
"Chaffee reports that 800 japanese
scouting toward Pietang, lost three men
killed, 25 wounded. Enemy in trenches
and loopholed houses"
This affair was said to have taken
place 10 miles beyond Tien Tsin.
Gen. Chaffees message as to the
unexpected resistance offered to the
Japenese reconnaissance was regarded
degree of opposition to the international
advance than had been anticipated.
Nearly all the London correspondents
confirmed the reports of wholesale
massacre of Christians outside Pekin,
correspondent of the Daily News" Civ
ing the number of killed as between TO-,
900 and Is, ,000 all defenseless converts
Imperial troops, so it is stated, did the
CHASTITY work.
According to the Shanghai correspond
ent of the London Times, one of the
members of the Tsung Ii Yamen men,
toned by the United States Consul
Goodnow as having been beheaded for
pro- foreign tendencies was Hsu Ching
Cheng, former minister to Russia The
correspondent says the Empress Dowager
ordered his execution on the advice of
Lii Hing Hen
Lii Hung Chang was informed from
Pekin that Prince Chings only promi-
nent supporters in his peace policy are
Generals Yung Lu and Wang Wsn Shao,
president of the board of revenue, whose
influence is small.
Sundays dispatches brought word that
the Imperial troops were massed about
twenty miles west of Tien Tsin, with
extensive barriers, and distractions in
the river, and that the Chinese had
broken the canal lock, which would
food the country between them and the
allies. China gave notice that no more
cipher messages would be forwarded to
Pekin, and no details of the movements
of the allied forces are now allowed.
On Monday of last week the natives
of Tien Tsin took advantage of the alb
sence of the foreign troops and made
some trouble, but were defeated.
On Monday an engagement was report
ed between the Allies and Chinese at
Pehtsang, in which the allies numbering
10000, lost /, 1000 men; the Chinese put
ting up hard fight and then retreating
Lii Hung Chang, in an interview, de
Tended the Boxers and Prince Tuan.
On Tuesday the number lost in the
fight of Sunday was changed TO 400
The State Dept. received cipher