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Admirals Decide to Keep Him on
Warship as Hostage.
EXTENT OF HIS POWERS is DOUBTED.
Gen. Chaffec Fails to Get Dispatches
and His Come Undated-Peking
in Ruins - Emperor and
Empress Located.

tions at Picking that it has been de
cided to hold LII Hung Chang OF
board ship until the opening Of nego
tiations between the powers and China
LIS Credentials.
Washington, Aug. 29.-The suffi.
cheney of Lii Hung Changes credentials
as plenipotentiary to conclude a
settlement with the powers on be,
half of China is now a subject for
active telegraphic negotiations among
the powers. 1t was stated positively
Tuesday that so far the issue was
still open.
Some of the powers have taken the
ground that Lii no longer represents
anything tangible; that the fleeing
Chinese emperor and empress dow
ager are powerless to carry out any
pledge; but none of them has, SO far
as can be learned upon inquiry here,
finally decided this important ques-
ton beyond recall.
Chaffee Fails to Get Dispatches.
Washington, Aug. 2e.-Adjt Gen.
Corbin has received dispatch from
Gen. Chaffee saying that he (Chaffee)
had received no dispatches from Gen.
Corbin since August IA. This was
the date on which the allied army
attacked and entered Picking. Many
dispatches have been sent by Gen.
Corbin since that date, and the delay
in their delivery is astonishing, even
with the strange conditions which
have existed in China. Like the Con-
ger dispatches, the one from Gen.
Chaffee is undated. The only explain
alton that can be made as to this
lack of dates is that the dispatches
have been butchered en- route, prob
ably on their way through China.
Will Send Wnrship to Chefoo.
The cabinet came to the conclu-
sion that if any Chinese persons have
interfered with the dispatches the
interference must have occurred on
the wires between Chefoo and Shang-
hal, and it was determined to reopen
direct communication by means of a
war vessel. Either the New Orleans
or the Princeton, now at Shanghai,
will be sent at once to Chefoo, where
the military cable system begins free
from Chinese interference.
Troops Diverted from China.
Washington, Aug. 29.-The First
United States cavalry, which arrived
at Kobe, Japan, Tuesday, en- route to
China, has been diverted to Manila.
Casualty List.
Washington, Aug. 29.-The war de-
partment Tuesday received from
Lieut.. Col. Whit, commanding the
Sixth cavalry, the casualty list of the
fight outside Tientsin, August 10. It
is as follows:
Engagement near Tientsin, China, Au-
gust 10. Sixth cavalry: Wounded-Troop
A, Trumpeter Fred Corrigan, heel, severe;
Privates Hale and Mccormick, arm and
chest, severe; Samuel E. Hartsfield, hand,
slight; John H. Van Sickle, lance, knee and
back, severe; troop G, Trumpeter Edward
3. Lyon, arm, slight; troop D. Loft I. Nc
Callister, thigh. severe; all but corrigan
on hospital ship Relief"
Hong-Kong, Aug. 29-Gen. Goto,
from the Island of Formosa Japanese
territory, commands the japanese
forces occupying Annoy. Large bodies
of troops have been landed and Nor
denfeldt guns have been mounted,
commanding the city. Many Chinese
are leaving.
Japs and Russians Advancing.
Vienna, Aug. 29.-The commander
of the Austrian armored cruiser Kais-
erin Maria Theresa, in a dispatch
from Chefoo, which is not dated, re-
ports that Russian and japanese
troops are advancing northwards
from Picking.
Empress Located.
London, Aug. ga special dispatch
from Shanghai says the Chinese Off
Gals there have informed the foreign
consuls that the emperor, dowager
empress and Prince Tuan have ar
rived in the neighborhood OF Tai
Yuan-Fu.
Tai-Yuan-Fu is the capital of the
province Of Shan-Si, adjoining the
province of Chilli, and is 24o miles
southwest of Peking.
To Look After the baroness.
Washington, Aug. 29.-The war de-
partment Monday received the follow
ing:
'"Taku, China Ono date).-Adjutant Cen
eral, Washington: Have offered assistance
to Baroness Won Ketteler; will furnish
transportation and escort Tientsin few
days; have offered transportation accom-
modations to Nagasaki also.
(signed) 'cHAFFEE."
Baroness Won Ketteler, the widow
of the murdered German minister to
China, is an American, being the
daughter Of President Ledyard, of the
Michigan Central railroad, whose
home is at Detroit, Mich.
Preparing for the Winter.
Tientsin, Aug. "a, via Talku, Aug. 20.
Officers who have arrived here from
Picking report that Gen. Chaffee, COM
manding the American forces in
China, Is making all the necessary
preparations to maintain $4,000 men
through the winter.
Americans at T1entsin.
Tientsin. Aug. 95, via Taku, Aug. 60.
Fifty Americans, including the
Misses Condit-Smith, Woodward and
Paine, have arrived here from Picking,
which city they left five days ago.
In waiting Attitude.
Washington, Aug. 29-After the
aabinst meeting Tuesday 1t was an
nounced that the government was in
a waiting attitude regarding the Chi
nese situation. The lack of late ad-
vices from Picking and the failure of
the powers to show their hands as to
future policy makes 1t necessary for
this government to await develop