The Lamar register., 1900-07-18

London, July A. But scanty cable
dispatches We're received to-day to add
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation.
The Tien-Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing under date of
July 8, 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
the streets of the foreign settlement,
the incessant fire rendering position af-
ter position quite untenabie.
The Mails 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 Mt Shanghai, an
uouncing the beginning of the final at
tack on the legations at Pekin. terri
| bly, depresses officials here. All along
they have suspected that the communi-
/ cations received from various Chinese
7 sources have been preparing the way
for the announcement of the extermi-
nation of the foreign ministers, their
wives and children, dependents, at
inches and guards. The consul gen.
| erals message, it is understood, is but
| 1 repetition of the latest press reports
from Shanghai, but the State Depart
| ment has come TO place q high estimate
| IN Mr.. Goodnow's advices.
1t appreciates the fact that he does
not send every piece of unreliable gos-
| sip afioat 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
the Chinese governor of the province
wherein Shanghai Is situated, and 1t
Is hard TO conceive of an adequate
/ reason for the falsification of the facts
| by that official.
Therefore the State Department..
which has all along been hopeful of
the ultimate rescue of the ministers
| at Pekin. has now Joined European
chancellories in the belief that they
\ have all been killed.
| Berlin, July 13.--According to a semi
! official telegram from Canton. dated
| July 10, Ii Hung Chang, July 6 re-
| ceiyed a written imperial edict, dated
/ June II, and sent overland, in which
all the governors were urged to dis
patch troops with the utmost speed to
/ help against the rebels, among whom
1 Prince Tuan was clearly indicated.
| Acting on this edict. which is said to
| be undoubtedly genuine, Ii Hung
| Chang is sending some thousands of
| troops to Pekln. and the other gov
ernors are probably doing the same.
San Francisco, july 13.-COnsul Cen
eral Ho Vow of China has sent TO the
| Chamber of Commerce a 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 as the occurrence has at
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, II is exceedingly unfortu-
\ nate that these conditions of growing
! fayorableness should be in any way
| menaced by anything transpiring 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-
l ment stultify and stagger the trade
/ with those particular localities, but in
| the turmoil IL Is comforting to know
]
/ all times been earnest In Its desire to
1 suppress the assailants, has shown ut
| terly no sympathy with the mobs, its
| views and its purposes, and viii un-
! doubtedly, when order is again re-
| stored, punish the offenders with the
| severity which Is their due.
''The government of China, as much
as it may be misrepresented in the
West, is favorable to progress, and 1t
is desirous OF extending throughout the
| empire the light of western knowledge
| and OF adopting and applying to the
| Industrial and strategical advantages
| of the country those marvellous bene-
/ fits which western thought Eas wrested
| from nature and brought under the
| control of man.
| Let not our minds be diverted from
| the great scheme of commercial acqui-
sition and exchange by any acts which
| ignorant InObs may commit in any part
| of China. That which concerns us
here is the commerce of what is prac-
! tically the Orient No band of robbers,
of marauders, of anti -Caucasians or of
| fanatics should swerve us in this great
project We are dealing not with the
4 moment but with the ages. We are
dealing not with units, but with popu-
| lationS.