The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-18

LONDON, June II a a m.).-There is
not a cabinet in Europe apparently that
knows what has been transpiring in Pc
kin for five days, or In Tien Tsin for
three days. Nor is there any. that knows
with what difficulties the small and in
adequately equipped international column
Is contending between those cities. The
German foreign office, upon learning the
report of the murder of Baron Won Kettle
Ter the German minister at Pekin, sent
telegraphic inquiry to st. Petersburg,
the Russian government, because of its
wires to Manchuria, being supposedly in
better position than the other govern
ments to obtain direct news. In reply
the German foreign office was informed
that nothing whatever was known on
the subject, as communication with Pc
kin was interrupted The report spread
widely from Shanghai that the delega-
uons had been attacked, and that one
minister, probably the German, had been
murdered has been traced to Ia Tai
Sheng, who, for a few days, as the en-
press dowager's agent, has been censor of
kilograms from. Shanghai.
HAS SHENG SKIPPED?
The Daily Mail correspondent at Shang-
hal says:
"Sheng, as the government agent, con-
tended that the wires between Tien Tsin
and Pehin had been down since June IS,
and that they were cut on June Is, new
ertheless, 1t is notorious that constant
communications have been passing from
Shanghai to Pekin over the northern and
western routes, although Sheng has re-
fused both ministers and consuls the
privilege of using the lines. 1t is known
that last Friday Sheng received a mes
sage from either Pel1in or Tien Tsin.
This dispatch said that Gen. Fung Tuh
Siang's troops aided the Boxers in an
organized attack upon the legations and
that in the course of the attack some of
the legation buildings were reduced to
ashes and one foreign minister was sliced
to pieces
Why in the cables it should have been
added that the murdered minister was
Baron Won Ketteler is not explained.
According to another telegram from
Shanghai, dated June Is, 7:25 p. m, Sheng
has fled, fearing that the foreign authori-
ties We're about to arrest him because of
the stoppage of kilograms.
A third cable asserts that the reports
OF the murder of the German minister,
emanating from London, are quite uncon-
firmed, and are discredited at Shanghai
LATEST FROM PEKIN.
The German minister has not been
captured, is the announcement to the
morning Post from Pekin in a dispatch
dated June 49, p. m, via Tien Tsin, June
Is. This is the latest press message
known to have left Pekin. IT continues
as follows:
"a crowd Of Boxers occupies Legation
street cutting off communication between
the buildings. A few Boxers are parad-
ing in the city. Their superstition in
regard to foreign arms is pitiable. The
Boxers hold the officials of Tung Chau
for redemption. Anarchy reigns at that
place The Americans in the interior of
the two neighboring provinces have been
advised to leave, but several have no
means of doing so. Unless a relief force
is sent there is danger of a massacre of
Christians. large native army is ready
to oppose the relief column on the way
here. The Chinese government cannot
decide whether to adopt the policy of
rigidly suppressing the <pOxers, or that Of
defying the world. The decision rests
with the dOwager empress
CRoWDs AT THE CAPITAL
During the isolation of Pekin and Tien
Isln, Shanghai is supplying a bewilder-
most of them picturesque and threaten
Ing. Here Is one: Miscellaneous crowds
have been in progress northward for
some weeks and the hordes around Pc
Kin are being constantly swelled by these
arrivals Well informed Chinese here.
who are not unfriendly toward forelg.
ers, declare that there must now pe more
than 10000 men outside the city gates.
all of them armed, though some in a
more or less crude fashion. The proba
bility is that there are not more than
5,OM Chinese troops among them. ali
told"
Information from Pekin, brought
hither by refugees, says that the CITY is
In a state of panic. Incendiary fires are
nightly occurrences, and scores of out
RACES are reported
WOMEN ARE FLEEING.
Women and children from Tien Tsin
are pouring into Shanghai. The chief
danger here is the fact that the native
town, behind the EuroDean - settlement