Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-07-26
An Official Dispatch Says the For"
eign Ministers Are All Well
COy1RADICTED BY 4 CORRESPONDENT
Ii Hung Chang's Characterization In Man
chnria serious-Beriin ,tlli Ssept.eai
About Foreigners Being Alive IN PEI
Washington Omen S Hopeful

of the Chinese railways and telegraphs
and taotai of Shanghai, dated Shang-
hal, July 30: Information from Pc
kin, dated July Is, says that the
tsung Ii yamen deputed Won Jul, an
under secretary of the department, to
see the foreign ministers and he
found every one well, without any
missing, the German excepted. Gen.
Yung lu is going to memorabilia the
throne to send them all under escort
to Tien Tsin in the hope that the mil
itary operations will then be stopped"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing July 80, says:
"a letter from a Chinese official in
Shan Tung has been received by an
active functionary here, containing
the following passage: AT the be-
ginning of the month the foreign mis-
sionaries (?) made several attempts
to send messages out of Pekin, but,
thanks to the strict watch kept on
the city, the bearers were all caught
and executed. On the 4th instant
only 400 foreigners, much exhausted,
were left alive in Pekin, and one
night, when the big guns were inees-
sanity fired, it was known that all
the legations and foreigners were fin
ished, although pretended kilograms
contradicted these facts"
Ii Hung Chang's Game.
London, July 24.-There Is nothing
further this morning that throws any
light upon the mysterious situation
Two urgent dispatches were addressed
yesterday by the Chinese minister to
the Pekin government and to the di-
rector of telegraph administration
strongly advocating the necessity of
restoring Geographic communication,
with view of enabling the powers to
obtain proof of the safety Of the for
eign ministers. Until such proofs are
secured, no one here is inclined to
alter the opinion that the Chinese are
merely juggling to gain time. Ru-
NOR circulates briskly around the
personality of Ii Hung Chang. He
/ Is credited with mission to offer to
cede to the allied powers two prov
inces as indemnity for the Pekin out
RACES and also to offer to restore or
der and give facilities for trade with
the outside world on condition of the
surrender of Kiao-Chou, Wei-Hai-Wei
and Manchuria by the powers and
the withdrawal of all missionaries.
Little attention, however, need be
paid to any of these rumors.
The Times editorially suggests that
Ii Hung Chang is playing the old
game of the sublime porte by putting
forward proposals which will appear
in different degrees and ways to diff
ferent powers. It says. president
Mckinley has been asked to mediate
and the request is facilitated by the
care which has been taken in Wash
ington not to commit the United
States to any very thoroughgoing
policy"
The Berlin Government Still skeptical.
Berlin, July 24.-The Berlin gov
eminent and press continue to disbe-
lieve the assurance of the Chinese au-
thorities that the Pekin legations are
safe. The foreign Office surmises that
the Conger dispatch was either sent
about simultaneously with the dis
patches of DR.. Won Bergen, secretary
of the German legation, and Sir Rob-
ert Hart, but suppressed, or was cap
tured from the messenger to whom
1t was entrusted and is now pro-
duced to create the desired effect in
Washington, or, on the other hand,
that the whole dispatch was con-
cocted for purposes of deception with
the aid of key somehow obtained.
United States Minister White said that
the latter theory was quite plausible,
for, after the American legation had
been captured and the records there
seized, the cipher key would be Sc
cured and that cipher would likewise
be secured and be an easy matter for
anybody to do the rest. At all events
the German foreign Office will con-
tinue to regard the report that the le-
cations should exist as myth, until
communication now cut off for nearly
a month should have been re-estab-
lished in the most indubitable fashion.
Washington Officials Hopeful.
Washington, July 24.-Administra-
ton officials are more hopeful over
the situation in China as q result Of
a dispatch which has come in the last
few days and more particularly the
European advices of last night as
serting that ministers are safe. If an
answer Is received to the second tele-
gram which has been sent through
the Chinese minister here to Mr.. Con-
ger, and that answer should bear In
ternal evidence of genuineness, the
situation will be materially improved
and the government, with the add.
tional information which MIR. Cohger
may transmit, will be able to move
intelligently toward the rescue of the
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