Evening journal., 1900-06-09
FULLY -FOUR MILLION
BOXERS MENACE
FOREIGN RESIDENTS
(cont'nued From First Page).


may turn ultimately against the
dynasty This seems to be the reason
why It has thus far been treated with
n gentle hand. The legations at Pekin
have wired for reinforements.
A dispatch to The Daily Mail from
Yokohama, dated Friday. describing
the effect upon Japan Of the refusal Of
the Korean emperor to give an audi
ence to the Japanese minister regard
ing the torture and execution of po-
litical suspects. says:
"The feeling here Is exceedingly ex-
cited. 1t may not be possible for the
government to keep Il in check. as the
officials were able to do at the end Of
March, when Russia made her de-
mands. particularly on the question
Of Masampho. II is thought here that
Russian influence is behind the affront
given by Korea to Japan. The tone
of the Japanese press is very bitter,
and grave developments are possible" !"
The Pekin correspondent Of The
Times telegraphs:
Particulars received here show that
Messrs. Norman and Robinson, the
missionaries, were hacked to pieces in
circumstances of revolving barbarity
The Chinese government cannot beck
onerated from the charges of COM
plicity in these murders. From the
beginning it's action will bear only one
Interpretation, namely, that of ap-
proval of the anti-foreign movement,
which has had these results.
1.-THE government has delegated as
a commissioner to Cho Chau and PaO
Ting Flu, the chief centers of the Box
ers, to investigate the report, a no
torious anti-foreign official who is
known to be in sympathy with the
Boxers and who was the director of a
mining and railway bureau that was
founded to thwart all railway and min
ing developments.
"The news that Gen. Nieh's foreign
drilled soldiers had fired upon the
Boxers who were 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 Nieh's troops have been ordered
TO return to camp at Lu Tai and that
their action has been condemned. The
tsung-li-yamen, however, denies the
truth of the latter statement. But the
denials of the tsung-li-yamen are
never convincing. If it be true. the
news must be regarded as serious.
"The American missionary confer
ence yesterday sent a dispatch TO
President Mckinley appealing for pro-
lection and asserting that the mission
aries at Pao-Ting-Fu and other places
are in extreme danger that the Tung
Chau mission station has been aban-
doned, that chapels have everywhere
been burned and that hundreds of ma
tive Christians have been massacred.
"The serious conditions of affairs in
| Pekln is reacting upon the provinces
| The French minister here has received
a telegram saying that the French
consul at Mong-Tszo and the French
agent at Yum Nan Flu have both beer
compelled to retire from their posts
as the viceroy announced that he was
unable to guarantee their safety.
The Boxers yesterday burned a Rus.
sian chapel at Tung Tingan, 35 miles
north Of Pellin.
Indemnity claims TO a very large
amount have already been filed by th'
European ministers at Pekin with the
tsung-li-yamen. The Belgian minister
claims 25O, 1000 900 francs.
AS regards the grouping of the pow
ers at Pekin II is remarked that thu
United States goes with Great Britain
and France goes with Russia, German!
and Japan maintaining strict reserves