The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-04

culties to be encountered in reaching
Pekin.
That the position of the legations de-
manded that the army take extraordin-
airy risks by securing the surrounding
country and Communicating animals and
wagons, and that boats sufficient for
purposes of transportation might be i'm
provised is the prevailing opinion of
civilians and many officers, notably
Japanese and American. confirm this
view. The comment is made that Eu-
ropean officers are too attached to book
theories to utilize the resources of the
country. and that they would rather stay
in Tien Tsin, according to rules, than
start for Pekin without perfect equip
ment.
General Dorward, of the British forces,
and other high officers take an optimistic
view Of the conditions at Pekin, saying
they think the legations will manage to
hold out.
On the surface the best of feeling pre-
walls among officers and soldiers of the
various nations represented here. All
are fraternizing, but the lack OF or
eaniZation and supreme commander
handicap progress. While people at Ten
Tsn are merely ignorant of diplomatic
negotiations abroad concerning Chinese
affairs the lack of harmony here among
the representatives of the powers hinders
vigorous action.
MOVE ON PEKIN BEGAN JULY 18th.
London, August 3.-The forward move
ment for the relief Of the foreign Jega-
tions in Pekin began Sunday, July 18th.
message from Tien Tsin on that day
says the advance guard of the Russians,
occupying the Chinese camp, and the
Japanese pushed up the right bank of
the Pei Ho without opposition. 1t was
the expectation that the whole of the
allied expeditionary force, about 10000
men, would be on the march by Tuesday
July 31St. Sixteen hundred Americans
and $500 British are cooperating. 1t is
supposed to follow the river, using boats
to carry food, ammunition and artillery.
A CHINESE WEYLER ARRIVES.
London, August S.-News agency dis
patches dated at Shanghai, Thursday,
August End, say the ferocous Ii Ping
Hong, formerly Governor of Shan Tung
has arrived at Pekin with large follow
| ing of troops. On the way north he
| killed two French priests and many
hundred converts.
Lii Hung Chang is alleged to have sent
message to Pekin to keep Ii Ping quiet
RUSSIANS CAPTURE "a GUNS.
ST. Petersburg August General
Grodekoff telegraphs from Khabrovsk
August 1st that fourteen Hotchkiss and
ten other guns were captured at Hung
4bo
fortress Monday, July 30th, drove 1000
Chinese before them.
An official dispatch says Blagovest-
chensl was again bombarded Wednesday,
August list. 1t is added that the Russian
steamer Selenga while assisting in the
defense of Aigun was seriously damaged
by Chinese shells.
LATEST REPORTS FROM PEKIN.
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press
Che Foo, July 26th-(Via Shanghai,
August 2nd.) THE latest reports from
Pekin were brought by disaffected Off
GERS of the Chinese army. They are con-
sidered reliable. The officers left Pekin
on July 18th. They say anarchy had
reigned in Pekin for months, and the
streets ran with blood the Cinnamon
fighting among themselves. Yung Lu,
COMMUNICATIVE Chief of the Chinese
forces and Prince Ching espoused the
cause of the foreigners and endeavored
with the part of the army loyal to them
to expel the Boxers. Later with the
majority of the Imperial troops, under
anti-foreign leaders, Prince Tuan and
General Tung Fuh Sian were victorious,
and Yung Lu and Prince Ching, with
their followers were prisoners in their
yamens when the bearers of these re-
ports left Pekin.
Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh
Sian appear to control the Government,
according to the officers and issued
edicts, printed in the Gazette, exhorting
the Chinese to kill all foreigners and
native Christians. One officer says there
are sixteen thousand troops in Pekin, in
Guiding Tung's army and eight thousand
more at Yung Tsun. The soldiery hold
all the streets within a mile Of the le-
cations. The foreign troops, when the
officers left Pekin, had burned and
abandoned the Chenmon gate. Their
ammunition appeared to be failing and
their quick firing guns had been silenced
for some days before July 18TH and they
were using their rifles only when hard
pressed.
LET PEKIN BE DESTROYED"
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press
Che Foo, July 29.-(Via Shanghai, Au-
gust 2nd.)-Public opinion and the foreign
press at the treaty ports are already
alarmed at the possibility that the Chi
nese may prevail upon the powers to
consent TO the establishment of peace
without inflicting punishml cent beftting
the Chinese Governments crime. Off
cials, persons engaged in commercial
pursuits and missionaries of all nation
alities are remarkably united. They be-
lieve Pekin should be destroyed as an
object lesson, and that if the dynasty is
continued, it should be forced to estab-
lish the capital at some accessible city,
the Americans suggesting Marking. This
is considered important because the Chi
nese always believed that China defeat
ed the powers in 1860 because the capt.
tai remained in Pekin. 1t is thought
guarantees to prevent excessive arma-
ments should be demanded, and that
China should be compelled definitely to
renounce the fiction that the foreign Min
listers are representatives of tributary
powers. There is a strong demand for