New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-24
SAID TO BE SAFE AND DEAD.
SHENG SENDS FORMER REPORT-AN-
OTHER RUMOR OF MASSACRE.
CBy The Associated Press.0


London, July "a, 4 a. m.-The Chinese Min
lister, Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh, has COM
municated TO -he press the following dispatch
from Sheng. Director-GeneraI of Chinese Rail-
ways and Telegraphs, and Taotai of Shanghai.
dared Shanghai. July %:
Information from Pe1ing dated July IS, says
that the Tsung-li- Yamen deputed Won Jul, an
Under Secretary Of the Department, to see the
foreign Minister'S and he found every we'll,
without any missing, the German Minister
ceDted.
General Yung Lu is going to memoriallze the
Throne TO send them all under escort to Tfen-
Tsin, in the hope that the military operations
will then be stopped.
The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily
Mail" tcIegraphing on July %, says;
A letter from Chinese official in shan-Tung
has been received by native functionary here
containing the following passage:
AT the beginning of the month the foreign
missionaries 90 made several attempts to send
messages out of Peking, but thanks to the strict
watch kept the city the bearers were all
caught and executed. On July only four hun
dred foreigners. much exhausted were left alive
in Peking, and night, when the big guns
were necessarily fired, it known that all the
legations and the foreigners were finished al
though pretended kilograms contradict these
facts"
RUSSIAN COUNCIL AT ODDS.
The ST Petersburg correspondent Of THE
Daily MALI asserts that there are differences Of
opinion in the Russian Council Of War The
Minister of War General Kouropatkin, wishes
TO send 100000 men TO clear the rebels out of
Manchuria. On the other hand. according to
this correspondent, Emperor Nicholas wishes
the operations limited to the defence and pacif-
cation of the frontier districts Let two strong
armies, one Of the allies In the south and the
other of the Russians in the north confront the
Chinese, and the rising-so the Car is said TO
argue-would be bound to collapse I'VE want
no conquests," he is reported to have declared
at the conclusion of sitting of the Council.
What we desire is to protect our frontiers and
10 steer into smooth waters the Chinese Ship of
State now buffeted by the waves of civil war"
MYSTERIOUS SITUATION.
There is nothing further this morning that
throws any light upon the mysterious situation
TWO urgent dispatches were addressed yesterday
by the Chinese Minister to the Peking Govern
ment and to the Director of Telegraph Admin
istration, strongly advocating the necessity of
restoring telegraphic communication with a
view Of enabling the Powers TO obtain proof of
the safety of the foreign Ministers. Until such
proofs are secured no one here is inclined to
alter the opinion that the Chinese are merely
juggling TO gain time.
Rumor circuates briskly around the person
ality of Ii Hung Chang. To him is credited
mission 20 offer to cede TO the allied Powers two
provinces as indemnity for the Peking outrages
and also to offer TO restore order and to give
facilities for trade with the outside world on
condition of the surrender Of Kiao-Chau, Wei
Hai-Wei and Manchur!a by the Powers and the
withdrawal of all missionaries. Little atten-
ton however. need be paid to any of these
rumors