The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-18
, Ii HUNG CHANG is APPOINTED
PLENIPoTENTIARY.
But America VIII Receive no Nego-
Complied with-Japan and Britain.

SHANGHAI, August 10.-An impe-
rial decree names Ii Hung Chang as
Minister Plenipotentiary to negotiate
peace"
LONDON, August IL, A. M.-The
morning papers express satisfaction at
the latest developments in China. The
average comment is that China is now
genuinely suing for peace through Ii
Hung Chang. The Belgian Foreign
Office has received the following mess
age, signed De Cartier (E. de Cartier
de MarChienne), first secretary of the
Belgian Legation at Peking:
WASHINGTON Aug. 10.-The United
States Government will accept no over
lures for peace from China unless she
has complied with the ultimatum con-
tanned in the memorandum of terms ad-
dressed yesterday to China through
Minister Wu. This definition of the at
titude of the United States was given
. to THE Examiner" today by a repre-
sentative of the President here. To this
official had been referred the report
that China was about to sue for peace
through Ii Hung Chang as her pleni-
potentiary.
"rhe Government" said this official,
'has no official proof as yet that Ii
Hung Chang has been invested with au-
thority to treat with us for peace.
you can be assured, however, that
the United States, having laid down GER
\ tain conditions precedent, these condi-
Mons will be adhered to by the United
States and will be eXacted from China" "
"Our position is that if any overtures
for peace be made Ii Hung Chang will
be referred to the memorandum of yes
terday and will be interrogated as to
whether those terms have been COM
piled with If they have not been ac-
quiesced in, there can be only one res
ponse to Earl Ii, and that is:
wi "a
tes has demanded"
This official is of the opinion that the
action of Japan in taking common
ground with the United States, which
was received today as to the justifica-
tion of the American demands, may
have a powerful effect on China and
cause her to yield sooner than was eX-
pected up to the receipt of Japan's ap-
Proval.
The opinion was expressed chat China
when pushed to the wall by the advan-
cling relief column, might meet the allies
.outside of Peking and surrender the
Ministers and all Europeans at the Chi
nese capital.
Dispatches printed. this morning give
further details of the taking of Yang
tsun. According to the Daily Mails
correspondent, the attack was led by
the Americans and British. The Chi
-nese position consisted of seven lines of
until, driven to the last line, they fled
to Picking completely demoralized. The
Chinese say that they retreated because
the British poured poison" into their
troops. This refers to the lyddite shells,
which the Chinese then experienced for
the first time.
- The correspondent adds that the Brit
ish casualties were 200 and the Ameri-
cans $50, but this latter estimate, it
will be noticed, is four times greater
than that of General Chaffee's report.
A st. Petersburg special says the
Chinese Minister there, Yang Yu, has
received a telegram announcing that Ii
Hung Chang is dangerosuly i'll and con-
fined to his bed and that he has been
granted a months leave.
Another st. Petersburg dispatch as
serts that the Russian general staff has
been notified that Chinese $4,000 strong
are moving from Human and Hupei to-
ward Peking and Tientsin.
The correspondents at Yokohama
again send the statement that a Russo
Japanese force is moving on Peking
from the north. The movements and
number of this force are, it is further
asserted, kept secret in order to pre-
vent the facts from reaching Peking.