New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-21
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES ALERT.
THE. PREPARE FOR A POSSIBLE SPREAD
OF THE BOXER UPRISING IN CHINA
MANY DISPATCHES

Officers OF some OF the missionary societies fear
that the Boxer uprising may spread TO Central
and Southern China, and taking all necessary
precautions for the safety Of their many mission
aries in those sections. II requires time TO
reach these and get them to the coast Travel is
slow and the mission stations isolated.
The officers OF the MethOdist Missionary Society
sent dispat ches last week directing mission
aries be called in If In peril. The Baptist Mission
airy Society sent from its Boston Office Thursday
dispatch DR.. J. r. Goddard at Ning-Po,
which read. Come the coast This applies
TO twenty-five missionaries in the interior of
Southern China
Acting upon the instructions given at the special
Board meeting held Thursday afternoon Dr..
Brown. Of the secretaries Of the Presbyterian
Board. yesterday sent the following cable message
I the Rev. George Cornweu. Che-Foo; the Rev.
Paul Bergen. Tsng-Taui the Rev George T. Fitch,
Shanghai; the Rev. Dr.. H. V. Noyes Canton. and
the Rev NJ Campbell Kiung-Chow, Hanan:
Warn al. all missionaries 2s TO avoid risk Keep in
stay, 90 TO Shanghai or 10 Japan
The missionary societies are receiving many in
quiries from friends of missionaries stationed in
oil parts OF China which difficult answer
satisfactorily, because the missionaries do
the cable much 5 the Boards would ike them
10 do The Rev DR.. Brown, Of hche Presbyterian
Board. Thursday TO the Rev George Cornweu
treasurer Of the Board at ths station in Che-Foo,
the following dispatch: --a-a
Cable oftener Anxiety intense II possible get
word from Pao-Ting-Fu.
Five Presbyterian missionaries were stationed al
Pao-Tng-Fu when the Boxer troubles began, and
nothing has been heard from them ao-Ting-Fu
IS a river Of same name, which ernpttes
into the Pei-HO. above Tien-Tsn. In order 20 get
the would necessary 70 pass
through the thick of the Boxer forces or take
long overland journey southwark TO the Han River.
The Rev. Dr. A 3, Leonard Of the Methodist
Society, sent q dispatch yesterday 70 the Rev.
frederick Brown. AT Che-Foo. II read:
Give location missionaries. Anxiety intense
The following dispatch received from the
Rev. ". O. Elterich, OF Che-Foo, at the office OF
the Presbyterian Board, yesterday;
6 GhFsaP 18! b 45H DsFssogs oea P5ogsms
Ku supposed TO mean Tsng-Tau). Corea, Japan,
awaiting developments Consul indorses
This is understood 10 that the native Chris
tians are being bitterly persecued that they have
been asked TO recant and that the Presbyterian
missionaries Of the East and West Shan-Tung dis
trictS, which congregated in Tsing-TaU and Che
Ter. have gone 10 Corea and Japan. There were a
large number Of these missionaries. fifty sixty,
The sum Of 500 in gold was sent by cable to the
the Board for the relief Of the native Christians.
Dispatches were published yesterday stating that
sixty missionaries and one hundred native converts
had been massacred by the Boxers at Tai-Yuan
TT5u1a two or three DAYS ago R6icb said that If
was rumored that forty foreigners and a large
number Of native converts had been uassacred at
Tai-Yuen-Fu the capital Of the Province OF Shan
Among the missionary organizations represented
in the Shan-5e Province are the American Board
the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the China
Inland Mission with eighty-six missionaries: the
English Baptist Union, the British and Foreign
Bible Society and the sheo-Yang Mission. The
Rev. Dr. c. C Creegan, the local secretary OF the
American Board, thinks il possible that some OF
the missionaries Of the Board we're in Tai-Yuen-Fu
at the time Of the reported massacre.
Two available for getting from Tai
Yuen-FU TO the coast, via Picking and Tien-Tsn
overland by chair to the Han River and down
that eighteen hundred miles to the Yang-tse-
KianE.
The report that the Government had received a
cable message from Minister Conger was variously
received Dr. Leonard, OF the Methodist Society.
placed little confidence in il. believing that it could
be only another subterfuge Of the Chinese DR..
Carroll, Of the society. thought like a
breath Of fresh air after the tension which how
ever, had an element OF sadness IN 1t, due 10 the
knowledge that those in Picking penned up
where them =