The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-29
MISSING MISSIONARIES.

MISSING MISSIONARIES.
CHICAGO, August PA special to the
Tribune from Bycyrus, Ohio, says:
The news of the safety of DR.. Roberts
has just reached here in cablegram from
Shanghai. The message states that DR..
Roberts and several missing missionaries
who had been stationed on farm at Koo-
fan have been located with the Legation
az Picking and are now with the allied
forces, having been liberated on August
10 Two other women who We're members
of the party are missing. They are Mrs.
Charles Roberts and Mrs. Nellie Parker.
Mrs. Parker is known to have been kill
ej by the Boxers who surrounded the
koofan farm early in July and grave
fears are entertained as to the safety OF
Mrs. Roberts, who is almost certain to
have been captured by the Boxers.
WHEREABOUTS OF THE EMPEROR
NEW YORK, August 21-A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
News with reference to Picking contin-
ues both scanty and contradictory. There
is still confusion as to the precise date OF
the allied forces entry. whether it hap
pened on the 18th or 18th. What is more
important for practical purposes, the I'M
certainty continues to prevail as to the
proceedings of the Empress Dowager.
The Chinese Minister states that ne has
received telegram from Picking which
shows that the Empress, together with
the Emperor, left the capital .some days
before the arrival of the allied forces. Nc
of1cial news, however, has reached the
Chinese Legation here since the receipt
of the telegram from Picking announcing
the entry of the foreign troops on the
18TH. Berlin. like London and Washing
ton, is supplied with both versions of the
Imperial movements, while a dispatch
has been received from Ii Hung Chans
announcing that the Court has gone west
The German Consul at Chefoo telegraph,
that the bombardment Of the palace Il
still going on, and that the Empress /:
believed to be within the walls of the for
hidden city.
With regard to the suggested peace ne
gotiations, nothing is at present decided
"a the Foreign Office.
Ii Hung Changes application to Wash
lngton has not yet been officially commu
nicated TO Downing street, which has onI,
just dispatched to the British Consul a
shanghai Lord Salisbury'S reply to Lii
previous suggestion of an armistice. II
this message the British Foreign Score
tary says that no negotiations can be mi
tiated till the Legation STATS and othe
Ioreigners are safely delivered at Tien
Isin without opposition from the Chimes
troops. The opinion of those qualified t
express an opinion is that Great Britain
would very readily support the PROPOSE
ton for opening negotiations for a def
mite settlement as soon as possible es
peclally If made to the United States
England herself has nothing to gain b,
the chinese imbroglio, not even iii tn
yang Use region, where it is clear tina
| she might easily drift into difficultie
with other European Powers.
But Russia had already obtained a foot
held in Manchuria and the longer hostili
ties, real or nominal. last, the easier will
| it be for her to secure her position there
This is scarcely more to the interest O
reat~Britain than it is to that Of Japan