Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-01

LONDON, July 31-A special dis
patch from Tien Tsin to-day says: A
Picking message, dated July q, reports
that the first outside news reached
there July 49, The failure of the relief
expedition made the siege far more
perilous. On June 10 the tsung-liya-
men broke off relations. June 20 China
declared war. Baron Won Ketteler and
francis James, an English professor,
were murdered. Over 400 non-combat-
tants occupied the British legation.
understand converts are holding the
North Cathedral. A thousand refugees
occupied the palace of Prince Lu. A
truce began July II after &c days of
fierce assault. One night the Smelling
was uninterrupted for six hours.
Four attempts were made to fire tae
British legation. Two attacks resulted
In the ruin of Han-Lin college .(the
Chinese national college,. The coward
ice of the Chinese prevented a success
full rushing.
''The total killed or died is: Ger
mans, 10; Japanese, 10; French, IL;
British, s. Russians, 4; Americans, Z;
Italians, Z; converts, 8; total, with
wounded, SO.
.'The correspondents, Morrison, Reid
and Tementy are i'll.
AT least 1000 Chinese have been
killed.
The Americans occupy a strong 20
sition on the city wall.
Provisions are still sufficient. The
hospital arrangements are excellent
Everybody is much exhausted by con-
tinuous work.
imperial edicts have commended
the Boxers and ordered missionaries
to leave the interior, and commanded
all viceroys to help Peking but an edict
dated July IS enjoins protection and
promises compensation. The report
that large relief force was coming
produced this change.
Foreign governments should beware
of being hoodwinked"
WASHINGTON, July 31.-The Navy
Department to-day received the fol-
lowing cablegram from Admiral
Remey under date of Taku, July %,
and Che Foo, July 81:
''The Japanese military attache at
Picking, in a letter dated July %, re-
ports that the legations have been be-
sieged since July 13, and were contin-
ually attacked from June 20 until July
II. The attacks then ceased and the
Chinese soldiers apparently were
diminishing. Sixty Europeans have
been killed.
"a cablegram from the government
of Shantung, addressed to the con-
sular body at Che Foo, says an i'm
perial edict states that the various
ministers, except the German, are we'll
and supplied with provisions"
The receipt of the letter from Sir
Claude Macdonald, the British min
lister at Peking, indicating that the
diplomats, with the women and child
rem, are still alive, coming, as it does,
so closely on the heels of dispatches
from Consul Fowler and Admiral
Remey quoting similar letters from
members of the German and japanese
legations, removes the last doubt that
has existed, and is taken as definite
proof that up to a week ago the lega-
tioners were still defending them
selves.
The effect of this evidence will be
important and far reaching. 1t makes
it certain that now the influence of
England, Germany and Japan will be
thrown on the side of the United
States proposition for an advance on
Peking at the earliest possible mo-
ment 1t is regarded as assuring the
start of the movement this week, if it
has not already begun.
According to all accounts. the Chi
nese attacks on the legations have been
repulsed with great slaughter by the
gallant little body OF picked men who
have constituted the legation guards.
This has naturally taught the Chinese
caution, and the armistice which Sir
Claude describes is likely to be brok-
en- as soon as the attacking party has
recovered its courage Further attacks
on the legations are therefore to be
expected, and the speedy relief for
which the ministers have been calling
for is even more necessary now than
in the early stages of the conflict
when their ammunition and capacity
for defense was greater. These con-
siderations, 1t is believed here. furnish
a spur to the operations of the allies.
which was lacking, while the United
State government alone, among all the
nations of the world, entertained the
belief that the reports of the massacre
were untrue. News of the move on
Picking, 1t is now said, may be expected
at any movement. The threats of va
rious Chinese officials that il this adj
vance is started it will be taken as the
signal for the killing of all the sminis-