The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-24
WAITING FOR
INSTRUCTIONS.
Commanders of Allied Forces
Occupying Pekin.
Don't Know What They Should
Do Next.
REPAIRING RAILWAYS
And Moving Up of Supplies Are
in Progress.
A Mob Burns the Japanese
Temple at Annoy.

London, Aug. 24.-While the COM
manders of the allied forces are wait
ing for instructions from their govern
ments as to what to do next, which in
the present condition of the telegraph
service will probably take ten days, the
work of repairing the railway beyond
Yang Tsun is progressing slowly, and
the transportation of supplies by boats
on the Pei Ho is improving.
A dispatch from Che Foo, dated
Thursday, August %, says that there
has been further fighting near Tien
Tsin- The Chinese sought to cut the
line of communication, but were driven
back with small loss to the present
allied forces.
Official advices from Pekin received at
Toxic say the allies burned Prince
Tuan's residence.
According to a dispatch from Hong
Kong, dated August "a, turbulent mobs
are devastating portions of the prov
inces of Flu Kien and Khan Su. 1t is
added that a mandarin with 800 Chinese
soldiers left Annoy, August %, to re-
store order.
Japanse bluecoats were landed at
Annoy, August %.
Marines from the French cruiser
Comet have cleared the streets of Swat
ow and freed the besieged priests.
A dispatch to a news agency from
survivors of the fourteen English mis-
sionaries who started together from
Shan 81 have reached Hankow after
suffering frightful barbarities.
JAPANESE TEMPLE BURNED.
Washington, Aug 24-United States
Consul johnson, at Annoy, China, cables
the state department under date of to-
day that a mob burned the Japanse
temple at that place today Marines
were landed to protect japanese off1-
The marines alluded to must belong
to some other nation, as the United
States has no warship at Annoy
BATTERY DIVERTED
San Francisco, Cal, Aug. Blowing
to the recent change in the aspect of
the Chinese situation. siege battery o,
of the Seventh artillery, now at the
Presidio, will not sail for China on the
Belgian King as originally intended 1t
will probably be assigned to Honolulu
or Fit. Mason. The balance of light bat
terry c, Seventh artillery, commanded by
Captain W. P. Stone and Lieutenants
Berry and Newbold, has arrived from
Fit. Adams and encamped at the Pre-
sidio.
Twenty-Five patients were sent yester-
day from the general military hospital
to eastern pointss for further treatment.
The consumptives go to FIT. Bayard,
N. M. and rheumaticS to Hot Springs,
Ark, where every effort is made to
store the sufferers to perfect health
INCIDENTS ABOUT PEKIN.
copyright, 1900. by Associated Press.1
Pekin, Thursday, Aug. 16, via Shang
hal, Thursday, Aug 23.-The allied
troops have surrounded the imperial city
and stationed sentries at the gates. They
refrain from entering, pending instruc
tiOns from their governments. General
Chaffee says the fighting is ended.
The japanese troops have relieved the
Pei Tang cathedral where fifteen French
nuns and 40 French and Italian soldiers
have been isolated and besieged two
months. They found that five had been
killed. Captain Reilley of battery F,
Fifth United States artillery, who was
killed before the imperial palace was
buried in the legation grounds. General
Chafee, the British and japanese gen.
erals and many civilians were present at
the interment.
The American trops are encamped on
the grounds of the Temple of Heaven.
The Chinese are supposed to have fled
northward.
CABLE OPEN TO TAKU.
Washington, Aug 2z.-The following
cablegram was received this morning at
the navy department from Admiral
Remey:
+Taku. Aug. %. Bureau of Navigation,
Washington: Cable open now Taku. Ali
troops from Hancock landed. Marines
gone Tien Tsin. Private Arthur A.
Woods marine corps accidentally drown
ed Tong ku night 21st.
"REMEY."
BRITAIN'S REPDY TO II.
New York. Aug PA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The reply of the British foreign Office
to Ii Hung Chang. conveyed through the
Chinese minister here, has not vet been
delivered The delay is sufficiently ex-
planned by the distance of Lord Sails
bury from London and the fact that all
Official communications have to be
transmitted to a remote village on the
F'ranco-German frontier, where the
foreign secretary is now residing The
reply, however, is settled in principle IT'S
general tenor will be similar to that Of
the German government which has lust
been handed to the Chinese legation at
Berlin Great Britain will declare that II
cannot enter into negotiations owing IN
the lack OF a properly accredited repre-
sentative on the Chinese side.
Sir Ch1h Chen Luh, Chinese minister
here, persists in the assertion that III
Hung Chang has received fun authori+x
to negotiate from the emperor He alSa
maintains that he is still in cornn,uni
cation, though not directly, with the en-
peror by means OF the vicerovs of fba
Southern provinces. No official news
from emma mas however. been received
at the legation for the last three davs
Minister Conger's statements as ~ -, :,
hostile attitude of the Chinese collrf ana
their direct completely in the boxer at-
tackS nave made considerable fmnressio,,
here but it is also thought that Mr. Cor
gers health and nervous system are f--
ceedingly likely to have Suffered 49,,
the STRAIN through which he has passed
is i'll. ~ l'sAiu
The absence of direct news from Pe,x;~,
Tor the last few days continues To cansa
some anxiety in military circles brf ~
a4axnlst rumors from Shanghai are dis