The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-21
SURROUNDED IN
 PALACE GROUNDS
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(Continued from First Page.) ! left Tlen Tsin. The Japanese dispatch also refers to the Chinese taking refuge in the imperial palace on the 18th, but does not bring the situation beyond 1 that day So that the latest informa- tion, while showing the imperial city surrounded, does not disclose the issue of this situation, nor how long 1t has | continued.
 To-days' dispatches seem to make clear that the emperor and the empress dowager have made their escape from 1 Pekin and that about the only present service of the imperial palace and grounds is as an asylum in which the demorallzed soldiers are making a last stand. The Japanese legations advices | to-day showed that the banners of the 1 imperial cortege were seen leaving Pe kin on the 12th and that probably the | empress dowager, as we'll as the em- 1 peror had left the city. Consul Gen. eral Goodnow advised the state depart ment that he had information from Chi rese sources that the empress dowager had left Pekin.
 The attitude which the international forces will observe toward the emperor and empress dowager is unders tood to have received official consideration among the powers resulting from a re- ql est by the southern viceroy that no personal indignity be shown to China's rulers. In response to this it is quite generally understood that there will be no personal indignity to the emperor and empress dowager, not because it is felt that there is any special consider alton due them, but because China would be precipitated into a chaotic condition if the responsible heads of the empire lost their functions.
 In view of the general desire of this government and the others concerned b keep China intact and spet ely re- store quiet the disposition among of- ficials Is toward refraining from any personal indignities to the Chinese rul- CTS. It developed in this connection, that all of the powers recently rejected the proposition of the consI.ls al Tien 1'sin ot destroy the tombs of the Ming dyna":y. The proposed destruction was a threat held out to the Chinese In tao hope of bringing them to term s. But the powers rejected the proposal and Jus gave significant evidence that any thing calculated to give personal af- front or indignity to the Chinese was not a part of the present campaign.
 The state department tonight made public the following
 Che Foo, Aug. 20. Secretary of State. Washington:
 Twentieth-Ragsdale reports Chinese troops surrounded In palace grounds.
 Signed: Fowler
 Ragsdale is consul of the United States at Tien Tsin
 The state department to-day issued the following statement:
 "The acting secretary of state makes public the receipt of a telegram to-day from Consul General Goodnow dated the 20th inst, reporting statement of the governor of Shan Tung. that the em- press left Pekin on the 18th for Sinan Flu, in the province of Shensi and that Princes Ching and Tuan and Viceroy Kang VI are still in Pekin.
 "Sinan Flu appears to be another pho netic version of the name of the capital of Shensi, where there is an imperial palace. It is otherwise spelt Hsi An. Si An and Si Ngan, the suffix Flu denot- ing city, which is a seat of administra- tion.''
 Shanghai Aug. 20. - Official Chinese advices from Pekin say that Su Tung and Vi Lien Yuan of the anti-foreign party and Ii Shan, a pro-foreigner have been decapitated and that Yung Lu has been impr soned by Prince Ching It | is added that the emperor and dowager empress are sixty miles west of Pekin 1 under the constraint of Prince Tuan
 Ii Hung Chang goes north immediate ly.
 Hsu (not Su) Tung was a member of | the imperial secretariate and president | of the civil board. Ii Shan was a mem- ! Der of the ministry of the imperial | household. The identity of Vi Lien 1 Yuan cannot be traced.
 The Japanese legation to-day received ! several important dispatches giving the | fullest ard latest information of events l in Pekin. A telegram dated Tol1io, Au- gust 19, says:
 After the entry into Pehin was ef- fected by the allied troops the Chinese troops on August 15 betook themselves to and remained in the imperial palace A body of Japanese troops was told off to guard the palace and there they met | with obstinate resistance by the Chinese troops. Fighting is still going on The headquarters of the Japanese army is n thelegation and the division is main-