, 1900-07-19

dispatches We're received to-day to add
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation.
The Tien-Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegrapEing under date OF
July o, asserts that the Chinese are
daily driving in the allies. They have
mounted, says the correspondent,
twelve fresh guns in advantageous po-
sitions, with which they are sweeping
h streets of the foreign settlement,
the incessant fire rendering position af-
ter position quite untenable.
The Nails st. Petersburg CORE
spondent says that in the last six
hours battle outside of Tien-Tsin the
Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and
killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The
Chinese lost 5000 killed, including
Gen. Kek.
Washington. July 13.-The short ca
blegram received to-day from Consul
General Goodnow at Shanghai, an
nouncing the beginning of the final at
tack on he legations at Pekin.' terri
bly, depresses officials here. All along
they have suspected that the communi-
cations received from various Chinese
sources have been preparing the way
for the announcement of the eXtermi-
nation of the foreign ministers, their
wives and children, dependents, at
taches and guards. The consul gen.
erals message, 1t is understood, is but
a repetition of the latest press reports
from Shanghai, but the State Depart
ment has come to place a high estimate
on Mr.. Goodnow's advices.
1t appreciates the fact that he does
not send every piece Of unreliable Cos
sip atloat in the sensational news cen
ter at which he is stationed. but uses
good Judgment in Sitting out the prob
able from the other kind of news.
Moreover, his advice this time Is from
Ii Chinese governor of the province
wherein Shanghai is situated, and 1t
Is hard to conceive of an adequate
reason for the Justification of the facts
by that official.
Therefore the State Department,
which has all along been hopeful of
the ultimate rescue of the ministers
ut Pekin. has now Joined European
cliancellOries in the belief thai they
have all been killed.
Berlin, July l3.-According to n semi
official telegram from Canton, dated
July II, Ii Hung Chang, July 6 re-
ceived n written imperial edict, dated
June II, and sent overland, in which
all the governors We're urged to dis
patch troops with the utmost speed to
help against the rebels, among whom
Prince Tuan was clearly indicated.
Acting on this edict, which is said to
he undoubtedly genuine, Ii Hung
Chang Is sending some thousands of
troops to Pekin. and the other gov
ernors are probably doing the same.
San Francisco, July 13.-Consul Gen
eral He Vow of China has sent to the
Chamber of Commerce n communica-
ton expressive of his regret Mt the out
breaks in China which have broken
the cordial relations of the two peo-
pies. He says:
Happening ms the occurrence has at
n time when the United States showed
itself to be recovering from past re
verses in the trade of China, and when
the future was big with promise for an
immense business between this coast
and China, 1t is exceedingly unfortu-
nate that these conditions of growing
favorableness should be in any way
by anything t~ranspiring in
China.
"This rapid and vicious onslaught in
discriminatory made by the mobs of
certain districts of north China upon
the western peoples must for the mo-
ment stultify and stagger the trade
with those particular localities, hut in
the turmoil 1t is comforting to know
that the Imperial government has mt
all times been earnest in its desire to
suppress the assailants, has shown ut
terly no sympathy with the mobs. its
views and its purposes, and will I'M
doubleday, when order is again re-
stored, punish the offenders with the
severity which is their due.
1.-The government of China. MS much
ms 1t may be misrepresented in the
West, is favorable to progress, and it
Is DESTROYS of extending throughout the
empire the light of western knowledge
and of adopting M applying to the
Industrial and strategical advantages
OF the country those marvellous bpne-
fits which western thought Las wrested
from nature and brought under the
control of man
Let not our minds be diverted from
the great scheme of commercial acuui-
sition and exchange by any acts which
ignorant mobs may commit in any mart
of China That which concerns us
here is the of what is prac-
tically the Orient. No band of robbers.
of marauders, of t~i-Caucnsians or of
fanatics should swerve us in this great
project. We are dealing not with the
moment, but with the ages. We are
dealing not with units, but with popu-
lations.
1T Is my devoted hope that when the
atmosphere of north China is again
cleared 1t shall be found that no in
iuries have been inflicted upon Amer.
lean citizens