Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-21
BOXER UPRISING
SPREADS NORTH
Rebels Trying to Recover Lost
Ground In Shan lung,
A VOICE FROM THE TOMB.
London SIN Doubtful Of Couger Dis
patch chinese Consul Thinks
Ministers are SAFE,

New York. July I-A dispatch to the
journal ana Advertiser from shanghai
says.
The Boxer rebellion is spreading 20
The northwest to Shan ST. shen S and
Kan su provinces and southwest 20 the
province on Houln
In conjunction with Tung Fun Saug.s
troops the Boxers have enieayoreI to
recover their lost ground % Shan Tung
! province. where the Boxer movement
originated and was i1s,erai by Yup
! Sien. then governor but since trans
! ferrel Co Shou ST.
The Boxers suffered @ severe reverse
ON July sth from Yuan shiEla at Cham
go0W.
ON the southern border OF Ch.hlL ad-
] Joining shan Iung doe Boxers Intended
! Uygr-ruunuE Shan Tuug and crossing
/ the Yellow river into hIaug Sui
All provinces south OF the Yellow riY-
! er are so far uudisturbed.
Nlgeroy ID Yum Yl and Chang thi-
! tung are pr0-foreIgu. and maintain lr-
! der from the laue-Tsa valley tO the
! eastern portion 1f the yellow river
LIKE A VOICE FROM THE TOMB
New York. july PA dispatch to the
| Tribune from London SAYS
Nh DuugeLs message t1 the state de-
partmeut jHue Hhg Cd voice from
tomb. and startled Europe
one of the best informed men of the
veteran military service said tun. he
accepted the text of Mr. Conger mes-
sage as a FUN and satisfactory proof
That the ministers We're alive. Whom
! asked how Doe could explain the proc
traCted defense of the iugiOsure proc
tected boy pausadc OF moderate height
he asserted that the military guards
had probably seized "a commanding po-
sIuou on the great wall. where they had
held the m0bs at bay He also Wus cone
ndent that the ministers and tHp men
had been transferred by secret pls-
sage under the wall into the Imperial.
city and had been hidden in the palace
Another veteran Of the consular ser-
vice in China Informed me that while
he could not account for the American
minister's reputed message be could not
comprehend how 20 had been possible
for aJ weak and indefenslble "a position
as the British embassy Enclosure 20 Doe
held for weeks against persistent as-
saults OF soldiers armed with artillery
aud that Boz was reluctantly forced to
believe that che ministers and all refu-
gees had persisted
LONDON STILL DOUBTFUL
London. July a. 4 "a, m-The Conger
dispatch fails Co carry conviction TO
either the British press or public. It's
genuineness is not disputed for as IL
pointed out here. the Chinese must
possess quite a sheaf of such messages
which the minister trultessIy rnleaN-
Ored 90 get transmitted, from which
they could costly select a nou-c0mmit-
tai dispatch t0 serve the required pur-
pose
II Is supposed that Mr. Conger omit |
ted 90 destroy the cipher code. ana
that this is now in the possession ui
the Chinese, loo which event the see
lection or connection OF the dispatch
would not Dee difficult IL Is argued
that the dispatch y % We've q genuine
reply 90 an inquiry Of the American
government would go more into the
details
ONE RAY OF HOPE
A slight ray OF hope Is admitted IN
the fact thar both MT Couger and |
Mrs. Conger are known Co have been |
on very friendly terms with the EN- |
press dovagar hut the universal opln- |
ion here is that n the dispatch is gen |
uine the date is falsihed.
The bare possibility that the news OF |
the massacre was premature, now /
ever. has had its effect. and the gov |
eminent has issued % semi Official dis /
claimer OF responsibility FOR the pro- /
posed memorial service in ST. Pauls |
cathedral while the newspapers are Z
calling for the postunnement ot the !
service until AN doubts are set az rest |
AGAINST THE FOREIGNERS.
The Spectator says: at matters not |
whether the empress duWaEtr or I
Prince Tuan ls the reiening monarch. /
both are devoted fo the cNtirpat1n or |
the foreigners and NOT one 1t the
yicer0ys win dare 40 oppos the anti
foreign policy.
"The plot has covered the whole em-
pire The men who have dared 90 or
der a Russian oI,y 0u Russian ground /
10 be stormed w.ll dan. anything Win
IN a month the yIoer1ys ot the coast
towns win hove thrown w th' mask
and the only safe place Tor The EURO
peans win Doe un shiphlud
Europe has e. terrible task. Iu which /.
hurry De- out Of place. Who would have /
dreamed six ui0nrhs ago that for 10000
regulars 90 take Tion Dsu would De
difficult and glorious task
UNCLE SAM CONGRATULATED /
The Daily Telegraph. in un editorial .
c0ngraulutng the Washington tlN-
eminent upon its energy says. ln-