The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-16

A FORMIDABLE
RESURRECTION.
Chinese Government Unable to Deal
With Boxers-Evasive Reply to
Message of Secretary hay.
THE WORST is FEARED.
Two Unimportant Cablegrams Re-
ceived by Secretary Long-Celes-
X tials in America Protected.

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as came to Washington to-day from
| China was distinctly bad. 1t consisted
of cablegram to Minister WI from
Sheng. the imperial director OF posts
and kilograms at Shanghai. and, ac-
cordlng to the minister, was In reply TO
the urgent message he himself had sent
yesterday TO that official, asking him TO
try to secure some news from the Chi
nese capital. This cablegram Mr.. WI
regarded as of sufficient Importance to
carry In person directly to Secretary
Hay, who was waiting at his home for
news. The message, as resolved from
the cipher was as follows:
"Pekln news of July says that Cen
eral Tuan Fun Slang. in disobedience of
imperial orders, was about to use guns.
Legations and the government will be
In peril"
Corroborative of React Cablegram.
This news Is corroborative Of that
contained In recent cablegram from
Consul General Goodnow. at Shanghai,
although the consul generals dispatch
gave his Pekin news the date of the
9Th. saying that the final attack upon
the legations with guns was about to
begin on the It'll of July. 1t is surmisaI
here that Mr.. Goodnow got his news
from Sheng, who is certainly In position
to secure the first news from Pekin.
Aside from the gloomy forecast given
at the end Of the terrible struggle OF the
legationers against the inevitable, the
significant feature OF the message Is the
coupling OF the fate of the imperial gov
eminent with that of the foreign minis
tiers. officials here, derive some salts
faction from this portion of the dis
patch as 1t sustains them in the POSI-
ton they have held from the first that
the Chinese government is not at war
with christendom, but Is confronting a
formidable instruction.
sheng m Adroit and Clever Man.
There still remains i suspicion that
while Mr.. WI is undoubtedly acting
with perfect sincerity. that Sheng. who
Is represented TO be 4 clever ana adroit
man. may known more of the actual
happenings at Pekin than he is willing
to reveal at once. 1t Is feared that llc
Is trying 70 prepare they way for the
disclosure. of terrible news, hoping that
by letting it come out gradually the
blow will not fall with such severity
and perhaps with such disastrous re-
suits TO his own people as might be the
case II the whole story were impaired
to the world ut once. This news, 1t
may be noted, comes entirely from Chi
nese sources. 1t Is now tw2nty-one
days since 4 word has come directly
from any of the unfortunates besiegca
In the legations at Pekln. The last
message from there was from Sir Rob-
ert Hart. the Englishman In charge Of
the Chinese customs service, and was
of undoubted authenticity. 1t reDra-
senteu the situation Of the legationers
as desperate and implored help. The
last word from Minister Conger cama
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lief column. which was even then DOOM
ed to fall, should signal Its approach
when near Pekin. That was just one
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aD0SG = .--:onld not be taken rs an
answer ~ the cipher message he for
"arued at Secretary Hays request to
emma In the effort TO get 1t through to
Minister Conger That message went
to Yonan shih kia, the governor of the
province or shan Tung. That official
has replied informally that h. has no
news himself, but 1t Is assumed that he
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beyond susn,cion. ,bourb Mr. WV r,
taIps full, contidenca IN him
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today from Chin, but bc,w,s ,nc,i,n1
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