Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-13
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
CHINA.

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probable.
The new march on Pekin, Pritchard
Morgan prophesies, will share the fate
of the first.
The ENJOYS in Pekin were awe ana
well last Monday, July 80, the Tsungll
yamen reports.
The government is providing sup
niles to last an army of II 900 men in
China one year.
A German correspondent said Ii
Hung Chang told him July mat the
boxers were not rebels.
An edict has been issued in CHINA
calling upon the governors to prepare
for the national defense.
Yuan Shin Kai, viceroy of Shan
Ting. opposed to Prince Tuan, is
said to have been killed.
The Washington government does
not believe that the allies have begun
their advance upon Pekin.
The Chinese are said to have broken
the canal banks, flooding the country
between Pekin and Tientsin.
Emperor William preached a sermon
language against the Chinese.
Ii Hung Chang prepared a procla-
nation granting the boxers amnesty II
they will cease disturbances.
A semi-official st. Petersburg paper
SAYS the advance on Pekin is danger
GUS before the end of August.
Chinese troops advancing to meet
the relief force wiped out Christian
town and killed 10000 people.
1T is estimated that 10000 men are
taking part in the advance OF the allied
troops from Tientsin toward Pekln.
China's reply to our ultimatum de-
handing free communication with
Conger was: ''No message will be de-
livered to minister's
Great Britain, it is announced IN the
house of commons, will do nothing
toward setting up anything but
Chinese administration in China.
A message from Minister Conger at
Pekin, transmitted through Colonel
Daggett at Tientsin, confirms the re-
port of an armistice at the Chinese
capital.
The Chinese ministers in Europe
united in a demand upon China that
the ENJOYS in Pekin be permitted free
telegraphic communication with their
governments.
The transport Logan, with fugitlves
from China, arrived in San Francisco,
bringing news accounting for many
persons thought to be missing or dead
in hostile districts.
The kaiser and Count Won Bulow,
minister of foreign affairs, clashed
over the Chinese situation, the kaiser's
recent speeches being held impolltic.
Hot words are said to have passed be-
tween the two.
Andrew D. White, ambassador to
Germany, at home on vacation, said
that Chinese depredations justified
both the car and kaiser in declaring
war. He believed Germany was not
seeking a partition.
Secretary Hays last message to Ii
Hung Chang demands free communica-
ton with Conger as a right and warns
China that denying it puts her in an
''unfriendly attitude, which suggests
that a declaration of war may be our
next step.
Liu Kun vi, viceroy of Marking,
and Sheng, administrator of tele-
graphs, have both declared officially
that the foreign ministers are held by
the Chinese government as hostages,
and that if the allies march to Pekin
they will be killed. 1t is stated that
only the Russians and Japanese, 3d.
900, are starting for Pekin.
A dispatch to the New York Journal
and Advertiser from Troitzkosawsk,
Transatlantic, Siberia, says: Several
American missionaries from Pekin,
with their families, have arrived here.
They escaped from Pekin and were
chased across the sand and mountains
of the Cobb desert for 400 miles, suf-
fering fearful tortures from the heat
and exposure and lack of food and
water. Thousands of Christians have
been massacred, they report, and
thousands more will die at the hands
of the boxers unless the powers send
large reinforcements. The Chinese
troops have been ordered to kill all
Christians and burn all their property.
The allies, 10000 strong, fought the
Chinesea at Peitsange on Sunday, forcing
the latter to retreat. The allies lost
1900 mostly Russians and Japanese;
the Chinese loss was much heavier.
A desperate engagement is expected
when the allies reach the walled city of
Tung Chow. Army men believe the
effect of the Peitsange fight may de-
mOralize the Chinese. The position Of
the United States is automatically I'M
changed, one instance is that cipher
messages must pass freely to and
from our ministers. It is beueved IN
Washington that the ENJOYS are still
safe and will not consent to leave
Pekin. Ii Hung Chang stated that
the ministers left Pekin on Friday
under escort, and are now on their way
to Tientsin London is informed by
the Chinese minister that the ENJOYS
are safe and we'll cared for.