Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-25
THE WAR IN CHINA.

The war in China viewed from
the standp point of the United
States, took in new appearance
last Friday when it was annOunc-
ed from Washington that the Chi
nese minister at Washington had
received a telegraph message from
China that the American minister
-COnger-was alive at Pekin on
the 18th day of July, alive in the
British legation, that the legation
is under the fire of the Chinese.
That was satisfactory news so far
as it relates to the lifeOf the minis
ter. In the light of the previous
reports that all the foreigners and
Christians at Pekin had been muir
dered the news of their safety was
received with many degrees of
doubt. If the ministers and mis-
siOnaries in Pekin have not been
massacred who sent the reports of
their murder regularly during the
past month! The reports misled
the government into the sending of
troops post haste to China to force
the rescue of the Americans at
Pekin; The Washington govern
ment was made to believe that
American missionaries and bust
ness men at Pekin had been muir
dered and that those who had es-
capped the fury of the Chinese in
surgents had fled to the British
headquarters at Pekin where they
were beseiged by the Boxers and in
danger every minute of being cap
tured and massacred by the rebel
Chinese. Under such a belief it
was little wonder that Mckinley
sent troops to try and force a way
to Pekin to secure the Americans
from the heather mob. The re-
port now is that the Americans are
safe, but threatened on all sides by
the rebel Chinese, but the reports
are so destitute of details that
there is no possibility of stating
what the true state of affairs is in
Pekin. There is no possibility of
knowing who are keeping the mob
from numbering the civilized peO-
pie in Pekin. Some men, editors
and other public men in America
have gone so far as to guess that
the Europeans and Americans in
Pekin are are under the protection
of the regular Chinese government,
and as long as the regular govern
ment troops can hold out against
the Boxers, the Americans and Eu-
rOpeans will be safe. Other capa-
bic men claim to believe that
the kilograms received from
China are false and manufactured
from the ciphers found on the per-
son of or in the desk of the Ameri-
can minister after he was murder
ed. At this writing, Monday
morning, July %, the Mckinley
government does not understand
the true situation in China, knows
nothing about it further than
it has sent United States
troops to China to get out of Pekin
the United States minister and 9TH
er Americans, save their lives and
property from the fury of Chinese,
and that in the effort the Ameri-
cans with European troops have
been defeated and are no nearer
Pekin than when they first stepped
on Chinese soil. More information
from China is expected at every
tick of the telegraph machine.
On Wednesday, July 25 Presi-
dent Mckinley made public the
fact that the Emperor of China has
urged him to mediate and bring
about a peaceful solution of the
trouble between China and the Eu-
ropeans and Americans. The Presi-
dentexpresses the belief that if the
United States government has DOS
ltlve assurance by a reopening of
communication with her minister
and missionaries that their lives
and property are safe and will con-
unue to be rendered safe and
peaceful, that the good Office of this
government wyilI ho ;o&o.-o..l