Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-03
FLO WING WIYHBLOOD
Anarchy Reigns at Pekin Where the
Chinese Are Bitterly Fighting
among Themselves.
MISSIONARIES ARE RESCUED
They We're Driven with Their Families into
the Desert of Gobe-Some More Chinese
Assurances Chinese Troops Are
Advancing.

New York, August 3.-A dispatch tt
the Herald from Shanghai says: Trust
worthy information reaches me tina
: Chinese troops are steadily advancing
northward from the Yang Use valley
also toward the south, and may attacl
and flank the European armies.
SUFFERING OF CHRISTIANS.
New York, August "a dispatch t.
the Journal and Advertiser from Troit
zkosawsk, Transbaikalai, Siberia, says
Seven American missionaries from Pc.
kin, with their families, arrived here
They escaped from Pekin, were chased
across the sand and mountains of the
Cobb desert 400 miles, suffering fearful
tortures. The Russian governor OF
Transbaikalia sent out 500 Cossacks
who galloped south 400 miles into the
desert and rescued them. Thousands OF
Christians. they say, have been massa-
cred, and thousands more will die al
the hands of the Boxers unless the
powers send large re-enforcements The
Chinese troops have been ordered to kill
all Christians and to burn all their
property.
RUSSIANS DEFEATED.
London, August 3.-Sixteen hundred
Americans and 1900 British are coop
Grating. 1t is purposed to follow the
river, using boats to carry food, am
munition and artillery. The telegraph
Office at Che Foo appears to be blocked,
newspapers and official kilograms being
subject to indefinite delays. Shanghai's g
correspondents learn that the Russians
were defeated north Of New Chwang,
and a body 5000 strong is endeavoring
to relieve the force besieged at Toshi
Chow by 10000 Chinese and numerous
guns. Four Russian steamers on the
Amur river are said to have been sunk
or damaged by the Chinese. The Chi
nese military commanders at Shanghai
have formally notified the foreign con-
suls that the enlistments now proceed
ing are to provide large forces for the
protection of foreigners, and expressed
the hope that they will not entertain
groundless fears or suspicious. AS the
target practice at the Chinese forts
alarms the foreigners at Shanghai, the
commanders announce that it viii be
abandoned.
A FEROCIOUS CHINAMAN.
News agency dispatches, dated
Shanghai August 2. say that ferocious
Ii Ping Heng, formerly governor of
Shan Tung, arrived at Pekin with a
large following of troops. On the way
north he killed two French priests and
many hundred converts. Ii Hung
Chang Is alleged to have sent mes
sage to Pekin to keep Ii Ping quiet.
THE CONGER DISPATCH GENUINE
Washington, August 3.-The state de-
partment received dispatch from Mr..
Fowler, the consul at Che Foo, dated
on the night of the I'd Of August, stat
ing that when he learned from the
Shanghai papers that doubts were en-
tertained of the genuineness of the
Conger cipher telegram, he wired on
the 9th to the governor of Shan Tung
to send him the original by courier. The
governor at once complied, sending q
special postman, who by travelling night
and day for five days, made the journey
which in ordinary times would have re-
quired twelve days. He delivered to
Fowler the original of the COnger dis
patch. 1t Is signed Conger, dated the
18th of July. 1t is precisely the same as
the message received at the state de-
partment with several words prefixed
which came in unintelligible form to
the Chinese legation here. The dis
patch in complete form says that the
members of the American legation have
been besieged for month at the Brit
ish legation. Fowler has no doubt OF
the genuineness of the dispatch.
MINISTER'S SAFE.
"Che Foo, August 2.--Just received a
telegram from the governor of Shan
Tung requesting me to transmit to you
the following: Have just received a
telegram. dated July 80, from the Tsung
Ii Yamen, stating that the various
ministers, the German legation, and
others (foreigners) are all we'll and not
in distress. Provisions are repeatedly
sent. The relations are most friendly.
They are now comforting as to the prop
er measures to protect the various min
listers to Tien Tsin for temporary shell
ter, which conference will soon be end
ed
(Signed) FOWLER"
IMPATIENT TO ADVANCE.
Tien Tsin. July 25, via Shanghai, Au-
gust 2.-(Copyright, 1900, by the Asso-
ciated Press,)-Pending an order 10 ad-
vance for the relief of Pekin, the events
in the Chinese capital are seemingly
but slightly regarded. High officers are
entertaining nightly at elaborate din
ners, with military bands playing oper'
attic airs. Foreign residents and friends
Of the besieged in Pekin who came te
Tien Tsin to await news or to accom-.
pany the expedition are intensely dis.
satisfied with the progress of opera.
>tions. They accuse the army of indif.
ference, and of magnifying the Difficult.
ties to be encountered before reaching
Pekin. President Tenney, Of Tien Tsir
university, who volunteered to guido
the army to Pekin, said to-day: "Thii
business Is not progressing in accord
ance with Anglo-Saxon traditions
Twenty thousand soldiers are staying
here, while women and children Of theil
own race are starving and awaiting
their massacre eighty miles away. TIT
military and naval officers meanwhile
wasting time in pickering over pett,
politics, Is q sorry spectacle. It viii b
dark blot on the reputation Of ever,
commanding officer here II the whit