Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-24
T0g|VE THEM UP
CHINESE PROPOSE TO RELEASE.
MINISTERS AT PEKIN.
THEY HOPE TO GET OFF EASY.
Authorities Seem to Be Juggling for
Time-Various Stories of Ii
Hung Chang.

London, July "a, 4 a. m.-The Chinese
minister, Sir Chin Chen Fen Luh, has
communicated to the press the follow
ing dispatch from Sheng, director Of
the Chinese railroads and ~telegraphs
and 'taotai of Shanghai. dated July %:
Information from Pekin, dated July
Is, says thai the tsung Ii yamen deputed
Won Jul, am under secretary of the de-
apartment, to see the foreign ministers,
and he found everyone we'll, without
any missing, the German excepted.
General Lung WI is going to memoir
ialize the throne Ito send them all under
an escort to Tien Tsin. in the hope that
the military operations will then be
stopped"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, ~telsgraphing July %, says:
"A letter from a Chinese official in
Shanghai has been received by an ac-
tive functionary here, containing he
following passag A the beginning of
the month the foreign missionaries made
several attempts to send messages out
of Pekin, but, thanks ITO the strict watch
kept on the city, the bearers We're all
caught and executed. On the 4th instant
only 400 foreigners We're left alive in Pc
kin, and one night, when the big runs
were necessarily fired, it was known that
all the legations and foreigners We're fin
1olSu Saf1dAod6i piSAGiidSu edAIo Aoli@
tradicted these facts"
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Daily Mail asserts that there are
differences of opinion in the Russian
council of war.
The Minister of war, General kouo-
patin, wishes to send 100, 900 men to
clear the rebels out of Mancuria. On
the other hand, according to this corre-
spondent, Emperor Nicholas wishes the
operations limited to the defense and
pacification of the frontier. Let two
strong armies, one of tine allies in the
south and the other of the Russians in
the north, confronting the Chinese, Inc
the rising-so the czar is said to argue
would be bound to collapse.
I'VE want no conquests," he is re-
ported to have declared at the conclu-
sion of a sitting of the council. what
We desire is to protect our frontiers n
ito steer into smooth waters the Chinese
waves of civil war"
There is nothing further this morning
that throws any light upon the mystic
rious situation. Two urgent dispatches
We're addressed yesterday by the Chi
nese minister to the Pekm government
and the administrator Of telegraph COM
munication recommending the restora-
ton of telegraph communication. so as
to enable the powers to learn of the
safety of the foreigners. Until such
proofs are secured no n here is in
clined to alter their opinion that the
Chinese are juggling to gain time.
Juno circulates briskly around the
personality of Ii Hung Chang. He is
credited with a mission to offer to cede
to the allied powers two provinces as
indemnity for the Pekin outrages, and
also to offer to restore order and give
facilities for trade with the outside
world ON condition of the surrender of
Kiao Chou, We Hal Wei and Manchuria
by the powers, and the withdrawal of all
missionaries. Little attention, however,
is paid to any of these rumors
In a private message from Shanghai
it is asserted that Ii Hung Chang
avows that the object of his journey is
to place the regular Chinese army in
line with the allied troops for the sup
preston of the Boxers. The Times edi-
ftorially suggests that Ii Hung Chang
is playing the Old game of the subliane
porte by putting forward proposals
which will appear in different degrees
says:
"President Mckinley a been asked
to mediate and the request is facilitate
ed by the care which has been taken in
Washington not to commit the United
States to any very thorough-going
policy"
Indian troops are daily arriving at
Hongkong. Three transports reached
here yesterday; two others have left
Hongkong for Taku. Reports from Cam
ton say the city is outwardly quiet, but
that there is a strong undercurrent of
unrest among the Chinese. Only a few
European ladies' have left, many still re-
manning.
According to the st. Petersburg corre-
spondent of the Times General Kora-
patkin, the Russian minister Of war,
will probably become commander in
chief of the Russian forces in China, and
will presumably take command of all the
allied troops.