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| the flesh. the general public and govern
ments Interested will not attach any
credence to further Chinese statements
or consent to stay preparations for the
advance Of the relief force towards Pc
kin. The latest story originating in other
than Chinese sources is a special dis
patch from Che Foo, dated July q, ac-
cording to which Missionary Wilder, who
started for Pekih a fortnight ago. has
/ just returned, and reports that he found
| the imperial Chinese forces completely
| surrounding the Tartar city. He was
unable to deliver a message to the lega-
ton, and in reply to his inquiries the
Chinese said they could not allow any
one a pass to the foreigners. According
to reports the attack on the legation
ceased on the afternoon of July "a.
Everything was quiet during the re-
mainder of Wilder's stay. When he LETT
cn July IS a decree had been issued,
commanding all persons to protect the
foreigners in China. Returning he saw
10 troops for sixty miles south, but he
learned that 10000 men were in the neigh
borhood of YantsUm and Peitsung.
KAISER misunderstood
According to this mornn's Berlin dis
patches the Conservative government
organs agree that the emperor's words
at Bremerf1aVen have been misinteFprated
]
it was never intended to convey the
idea that the troops could not make pris-
Oners, but that the German emperor
! merely alluded to the Chinese w no
neither pardoner~ nor made prisoners.
CHANG COMPLAINS.
ST PETERSBCRG, July pa dis
patch has been received here from Ii
Hung Chang, dated July %, which says
that the Chinese government telegraphs
him. under date of July %, that the min
listers are all well. Ii Hung Chang also
complains that none of the powers have
consented 10 place Warship at his dis
posal for his journey north. and he adds
that he would be compelled to encounter
many obstacles by Il land journey.
CHINESE Establishment.
PARIS. July 2S-The Chinese minister
at Paris, Yu Keng, has received the fol-
lowing imperial decree, dated July "a:
The foreign ministers are happily at
present safe and sound, except Ketteler
We are having the foreign legations sup
piled with provisions and fruits as a token
of the interest we feel in them"
MORE BATTERIES.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-It is the plan
of the war department to purchase sew
eral additional batteries of mountain
guns for service in China. The board of
ordnance and fertilization some time ago
recommended the acquisition of a number
of such batteries, with a view to their
use in the Philippines The situation in
China has since developed and has in
creased the necessity for this type of
equipment for troops destined for service
in that country.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The war de-
partment has received the following
cablegram:
Nagasaki, July 27.-Adiutant General,
Washington: Relief arrived at Nagasaki,
July 26, Claude r. Leslie Company l.
tracted in line of duty-dysentery His re
mains will be shipped San Francisco Civ
Than Empleye Arthur Hennessy drowned
July p; was buried at Nagasaki. -
Harry O. PeFley,.
Major Medical Department
MESSAGE FROM YUAN. >i,,sAi
WASHINGTON, July 2&~The secre4aly:
of state has received a dispatch from Nj.
Fowler, the American consul at Che Foo.
dated at midnight on the 26th: -.
This morning, by request of the allied
admirals. l wired the governor Supposed
to be the governor of Shan Tun) their
wish to get news from ministers them
selves. The governor now replies:
" Have received today edict from en-
peror, saying that the ministers are well.
They are sending provisions to the lega-
tons. Am confident ministers out of dis
tress and request you tFOwler1 transmit
this preliminary announcement to ad-
mrals
Yuan, Governor
MISSIONARIES KILLED.
NEW YORK. July zS.-Cabie messages
were receiI ed today by both the Presby-
terrain board. of foreign missionaries and
the American Bible society, Corroboratiye
of the report that the missionaries at
Pao Tirg Flu had been massacred The
message received by the Presbyterian
board came from Shanghai and was sup
posed tc have becl sent BY Rev George
F. Fitch, 1t read as follows:
''Slmcoxes, Hodges, Taylor, Macley,
other mission seven, massacred Pao Ting
Flu, July 3. Nc1.king. Human mission
aries, all Shanghai, Japan"
The American bible society today re-
ceived a cablegram from Shanghai, as
follows:
All npassaered Tao Ting Flu. Foreign
ers interior ordered Shanghai. Wire
So 0O9"
This was sent by the Rev. Dr. John n.
Nokes, to whom the ;3GO9 was at once
cab,ed.
VILLAGE BURNED.
ST PETERSBURG. July .2S.-An af-
! fetal dispatch from Preietensk. dated
! Friday, July p, says ScherwIn's detacE-
ment en- l"nte Ia reinforce Blagovest-
chenk, captured and burned the village
of Moche. opposite the Russian, port of
lgnaschina, CT the Amur river. The liz
habitants fled.
FOREIGNERS -AT SHANGHAI. 81.
WASHINGTON july Is Consul Gen
eral Goodrow, at Shanghai under Gate
of June ~, has transmitted a statement
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