The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-30
SHEEG ADMITS THE MlSSACRBS
EVERY FOREIGNER IN PAO TING
FU HAS BEEN SLAUGH-
TERED
PRIESTS HORRIBLY TORTURED
Wrapped in Kerosene-soaked Cot
ton and Then Slowly Roasted
ReinfOrcements Hurry
ing to Taku.

| LSSPOnuSul OIL CIS Od1Iy I1AQT0SS lOlE~
| graphing yesterday says:
"a new imperial edict promulgated this
evening urgently orders all viceroys and
provincial governments to endeavor to
negotiate peace with the powers, whose
ministers are held as hostages. pending
result Of overtures for the abandonment
Of hostilities against China.
| THE viceroys are also comma nded to
! guard their territories vigilantly against
attack and to prevent, by all means in
their power, the advance of the foreign
| troops, and especially along the Yang Use
Kiang. The decree says that the officials
will answer with their lives for any fail
ure to execute these orders.
Commands are also given that not a
single foreigner should be allowed to
escape from the interior, where there are
still fully 1000 Europeans connected with
missionary work, in isolated situations"
IMPORTANT OMISSIONS.
When the governor of Shan Tung com
municated to the consuls the imperial de-
cree of July "a, he omitted important
! passages addressed to Ii Hung Chang,
among them being the following:
ut is admittedly inadvisable to kill all
! the ministers, but 1t is equally unWise to
send them to Tien Tsin. It will be much
wiser to keep the survivors at Pekin as
| hostages.
you are commanded to hasten to Pc
KIN. You are incurr1ng imperial displeas-
ure by delay; You have been appointed
military experience, you will successfully
| lead the imperial armies against the for
eigners in Chilli, which Yu Lu, the pres
| ent Viceroy, is unable to do, owing to his
| ignorance of military affairs.
| Lii Hung Chang replied to. this edict
asking to be allowed to retire on account
| Of his age.
SHENG CONFIRMS RUMORS.
"sheng now admits that he has tele-
grams since July 49, announcing that
! every foreigner in Pao Ting Flu was
murdered, including forty British, French
| and American missionaries, and announc,
! Ing also that two French Jesuits and 1, 900
converts have been massacred at kWang
Ping Flu, on the borders of Shan Tung
and Chi Ii. A majority of the consuls
! favor strong measures against Sheng's
| duplicity.
HORRIBLE TORTURE.
Local officials assert that Italian
! priests murdered in Hu Nan Wen were
wrapped in cotton which had been soaked
! with kerosene, and were slowly roasted
to death 1t is believed that all foreign
ers in Chi Lii have by this time been
massacred; and the wave of massacre
is spreading toward Ming Po and Hong
| Chow, from which point thirty English
and American missionaries are endeavor-
ing to escape in boats down the river to
Kiang Su. Officials here anticipate gem
eral rising along the Yang Use Kiang
about Aug 1.
AN ALLEGED INTRIGUE.
"An astounding American intrigue has
been revealed to the consuls here in the
shape of a skillful attempt to get the
| maritime customs placed in the hands of
an American missionary named Fergus
son, who, although he was an active ally
| of Sherg in the latter's endeavors to
hCodwink the world with regard to events
| in Pekin, was supported by the American
officials in his claim to the appointment
Of inspector general"
A SANGUINE CORRESPONDENT.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Dali
| ly Telegraph says he is still firmly con-
| vinced that the ministers are safe, but
with the exception of an alleged message
| from the Japanese legation in Pekin dat
ed July 10, brought by a runner saving
that the legation was still defending it.
self, nothing has yet been published Civ
Ing anything in the nature of proof On
the other hand, the daily incoming re-
ports CT the massacre of missionaries and
foreigners leaves only the most slender
thread upon which to hang a hope
! The general situation Is steadily becom-
ing darker, and crisis is said to be
fast approa ching. 1t is rumored in Shan
gha1 that 10000 Chinese troops have been
secretly moved into that vicinity, and
that the commander of the Kiang Yu
forts has been ordered to fire if any fur
ther addition is made to the number Of
foreign ships ascending the river Rioting
/ already has occurred at Kiu Kiang the
mobs threatening death to foreigners
With the arrival Of the second Japan
csc division the allied forces at Taku and
Tien TSin will number TO- 600. The river
floods near Tien Tsin are diminishing.
1t is reported that Russians from Har-
bin have arrived at point $50 miles
north of Pekin, after severe fighting.
MORE CHINESE THREATS.
BERLIN, July 29.-The Chinese legation
in Berlin has received message from
Sheng, director general of railways and
telegraphs, saying that he has received a
dispatch from Pekin announcing that
| Gen. Tung Fuh Slang threatens to kill
all the members of the legations If the
international forces advance upon
Peking.
Evidently the legation is embarrassed
by the receipt of this dispatch, as the
ChlneSe minister has not communicated
it to the German government. The Iega-
ton has cabled the viceroy of Nankin
requesting him to try and get informa-
ton as to whether the widow of Baron
Won Ketteler, the murdered German
minister, is still alive.
STILL AFTER MISSIONARIES.
TOXIC. Saturday, July 2S.-It is re-
ported from Shanghai that the Boxers
attacked the missionaries and native
Christians at Pao Ting Flu on July 8. A
foreign physician and two thousand con-
verts were massacred. The Chinese gen
eral, Ii Ho Keh, is now marching on
Peking. He ordered his troops to ex-
terminate all Christians. Already one
French priest and from two thousand to
three thousand natives have been slaugh-
tered
DANGER AT PAo TING FU.
NEW YORK, July 2s.-The American
Bible society has received a letter from
Charles Cannon its agent in China
dated June 4. Mr.. Cannon, after de.
failing the events up to the date of tn,