The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-13
PEKlN UNSAFE, SAYS HART.
Sheng Says There Is Danger From
Defeated Chinese Troops-Amer-
ica's LogicnI Attitude.


London, Aug IS, $3.50 a. m.-''The soon
er we can be got out of this the better.
for It is inconvenient for the Chinese
government and unsafe for ourselves"
This is a message received last even
ing from Sir Robert Hart dated Pekln.
Aug 3, and sent In cipher TO the Chi
nesc maritime customs office in London.
Commenting upon it, the Morning Post
says:
1T would seem to Indicate that the
Chinese government is anxious for the
safety of the foreigners. or. at any rate,
anxious to get them safely out of Pekin,
and Sir Robert Hart evidently expects
that they viii get out sooner or later"
Sheng, director general OF railroads
and telegraphs. according to a Shanghai
dispatch to the Standard, expresses grave
fears for the safety of the members of
the legations when the defeated Chinese
troops return to the capital.
The Austrian naval commander reports
to Vienna that the allies decided to rest
for three days after the taking of Yang
Tsun.
Opposing the Allies.
dispatch to news agency from Tien
Tsin says:
"Junks and stones block the river beyond
the advanced posts of the allies for con-
siderable distance, but the dryness con-
tinues and the country is in good march
Ing order. subsidiary dykes having made
the enemys dammlng ineffective.
1T is believed that some 800 have been
added to the expedition by the increase
in the numbers of the British naval brig
ade"
The Daily Mail publishes an interview
with the Chinese minister in London, Sir
Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh, and quotes him
Pekin.
Some people say" remarked Sir Chih
Chen that the Europeans are still be-
seged 1t is not So When you are be-
sieged you are not allowed communica-
ton with the outside world but here you
are receiving messages. cipher messages,
from Sir Claude Macdonald
China's Yelled Threat.
Commenting upon the various PROPOSE
tions made by China to the Powers, the
Daily News well expresses the predomi-
mating British opinions as follows:
What the Chinese authorities say. in
effect is this:
Stop your advance on Pekin. and we
will give your ministers safe conduct 20
Tien Tsin. II you do not at once in
struct them to leave Pekin. we cannot
answer for the consequences
ITO this abominable and not very thick
ly vciled threat, there can be only one
answer and NJ. Delcasse has given 1t in
very cogent terms. The ministers can
not leave except under absolutely con-
vIncing guarantees of safety. In the
speedy advance OF the allies lies the only
real hope of saving the minister's"
In the same vein the Daily Telegraph
says:
American statesmen take up what
seems the only logical attitude when they
tell Mr.. Conger that they have never, for
moment, entertained the idea of his
placing himself at the mercy of a Chi
nese official pledge"
Cheng Yin Huan, the Cantonese, who
was the special ambassador of China at
Queen Victoria's jubilee, and who is now
in Punishment at Iii. has been ordered,
according to Shanghai dispatch, to COM
NIT suicide, an imperial edlct having been
issued to this effect
The Shsng hsi correspondent of the
Times, referring to the fate of Cheng Yin
Huan, says he was executed, and that
no reason is given for this barbarous act.
The same correspondent understands that
Ii Shan. vice president of the Board
of Revenue, has been imprisoned on a
charge of rendering assistance to the
member Of the foreiRn laeaIinns