The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
STREETS RAN BLOOD.

as an object lesson, and that if the
dynasty is continued it should be forced
to establish the capital at some acceSSi-
BILE city, the Americans suggesting Nan
kim This is considered important, as
the Chinese always believed that China
had defeated in 1860, because the capital
remained intact. 1t is also thought that
guarantees to prevent excessive arma-
ment should be demanded and that
China should be compelled, publicly and
definitely, to renounce the fiction that
the foreign ministers are representatives
of tributary powers. There IS a strong
demand that unusual punishment, like
the destruction of the kings tombs, be
inflicted.
The American and English mission
aries advocate a programme similar to
the foregoing.
All foreigners believe that the Chinese
government engineered the outbreaks
and is trying to call off its troops after
the downfall of Tien Tsin and the re-
ceipt of Eeports that the powers are
sending armies to China. AGerman lega-
tiOn telegram saying that the lombard
ment of the legations ceased July II
supports this theory. The foreigners
think that the ministers who suffered
should, If rescued, conduct the settle
ment of the government Tor the erect
it would have on the populace.
An intensely bitter feeling prevails
against Lii Hung Chang. The papers de-
nounced the honor paid him at Hong
Kong and Shanghai and call him the
most corrupt anti-fOreign official in
China and express the belief that he
proposes to save China from the penalty
of her acts by embroiling the powers.
The destruction of foreign property
continues United States Consul Fowler
estimates that the losses of the Ameri-
can missions amount to $1,500,000. The
trade losses through the suspension OF
trade are enormous
Chinese bring many stories of horri-
BILE outrages upon native Christians,
who have been murdered, tortured, or
compelled to renounce their religion.
Several have been skinned alive Two
French nuns at New Chwang were de-
iberately burned alive Dr. Ting, a
graduate of the American college, re-
fused to renounce Christianity after re-
ceiving 1900 lashes.
A cable is being laid between Che Foo
and Taku. The land line between Che
Foo and Shanghai is managed and Op
Grated by Cinnamon and is inefficient.
The line is overcrowded with work and
business is in hopeless confusion Mes
sages over the line are public property
There should be a cable between Che
Foo and Shanghai SO managed by for
eigners as to give satisfactory service
INPATIENT FOR ORDER TO AID
VANCE.
copyright, 1900, by Associated Press.l
Tien Tsin, Wednesday. July %, via
Shanghai Thursday Aug 2-"Pending
the order to advance for the relief of the
legationeers at Peldn, the events at the
Chinese capital are seemingly but slight
ly regarded High officers are enter
tanning nightly at elaborate dinner with
military bands playing operatic airs
Foreign residents and friends of the be-
sieged in Pekin who come to Tien Tsin
to await news or to accompany the eX-
pedition are intensely dissatisfied with
the progress of preparations They ac-
cuse the army with Indifference and of
magnifying the difficulties to be encoun-
tered in reaching Pekin.
President Tenny, of the Tien Tsin uni
versity, who has volunteered to guide
the army to Pekin. said today:
This business is not progressing in
accordance with Anglo-Saxon traditions
Twenty thousand soldiers are staying
here while women and children of their
own race are starving and awaiting
massacre 80 miles away. Military and
naval officers meanwhile wasting time in
pickering over petty politics, is a sorry
spectacle. 1t will be a dark blot on the
reputation of every commanding officer
here if the white people in Pekin are al
lowed to perish without a desperate eff
fort to save them"
President Tenny and many others who
are acquainted with the condition think
there We're sufficient troops here to push
forward and pursue the Chinese after the
fall of the native city of Tien Tsin- That
the position of the legation demanded
that the army take traordinary risks
by securing the surrounding country and
communicating animals and wagons and