Evening star., 1900-06-14
twenty-five Hundred Foreign Troops
Are Marching.
ALL NATIONS REPRESEN TED
Minister Conger Has Not Asked
for More Men.
THE POSITION OF JAPAN

Secretary Long has received the following
cable message from Admiral Kempff:
"TONGKU. June IL. 1900.
Secretary Navy. Washngton:
twenty-five hundred men are on the
road 10 Pekin for the relief of the legations
ore hundred are Americans: English AMI
Russians large majority. AL nations here
represanted Viceroy Tieutsin gave perms-
IT., ., ,,o u r,;r-o,5 beinq renaired as
. IT, 80,
i'EreS advance i.rsS''hS NO" a'i's 7''
disrS from Port Arthur. with artlilerE
X kEMPFF.''
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II was said at the State Department TO-
dav that no request for 300. or. in fact
o,,,. ,,,,,ber NJ troons has been received
= ,,;.,t.. ca,ctr a. r.norted from,
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SHANGHAI All OF the Shtflshai tdpieSidi'iS
are regarded at the department as requiring
annie confirmation from other sources. As
n matter Of fact the State Department has
not heard from Minister Conger for thirty
six hours past As il is gathered that the
European foreign offices are in precisely
tn. sam. position respecting their diplo-
matte representatives at Pekin. it is as
sumsd at the State Department that tele-
unrId wbirb for tb. last three
days has dwindled away to a single line
running north into Russian Manchuria, has
al iaSt oeeh totally interrupted
Marines ana troops.
But. regardless of the accuracy of the
report relative to the call for troops, 1t
may be said that the state Department
has not In the slightest degree changed
lis ,osition resnac,inp the inexpediencv of
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rms statement is rnaue win tne snow
euSe on the part OF the department OH
cials of the current reports that other
powers Interested hotaplS Ireat britaih'
RUSSIA ana Japan el'hef nave alreaGS OF
arr ABOUT To iahd troops al laku ana lien-
tSin. Ihrre seems 10 pe disposition 10
max dlsllhctlon between tne use OF
i""pS anu marines uhuer eAls,ihs cohIl-
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,,issi',r.,rv nrn~erfy CbiI., viii ho baIH "a
a baa,.v inlewpity ''''' "-ti "' ''i'iA 1of
Japan Yn-. Russia.
The Jlpa.a~r au.hnritics here saw the
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ma pieN9 ''.7''.'''A 9'''tiiiS tii''' id
pan Is about |" Sehd Il mixed regiment :"
China is undoubtedly correct, it tallies
with what has been expected in 1iplomatic
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P'lafe eeis % tnt oli Nl1ltsF! DiNislon are 50
iai tiph 'otSt"o 'HIl II "ouu 'the con,
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