The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-21
MUST BIZ SUsE or SUPPLIES
WILL PACIFY THE COUNTRY AND
RESTORE THE CURRENT
OF TRADE
DEALING WITH THE POWERS
President Mckinley Considering
Replies to Be Made to the
Foreign Governments
Interested.

PEKIN. Sept Is (via Taku, Sept. 49,
Active military operations are about %
be resumed with view of insuring coal
and food supplies. opening the northern
passes and restoring trade
I Gen. Chaffee and Gen Barrow, second
in command of the British troops. held a
conference today and decided to dispatch
an Angle-American column. 1900 strong,
to Sal Hal Tien. under Gen. j. II. Will
SON, to capture the arsenal there and
disperse the Boxers.
The column, which will leave tomorrow.
will Include two battalions of the Ninth
United States infantry, detachment oi
the Fourteenth United States infantry,
500 British and four guns.
AT the conference it was decided to ask
the Germans to send a column westward
to disperse the Boxers and to restore
normal conditions
The Japanese and French are operating
to the northeast Of Pel1in.
The sale of loot belonging to the Amer
leans has begun. Gen. Chaffee at first
proposed to burn it, but finally decided
that it would be better TO feed the hun
CRY Chinese
BERLIN. Sept 2O.-The Lokal An
zgier's Shanghai correspondent cables
that the allies today captured the pein
Tang and L.u Tai forts, with great
losses.
SITUATION AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2o.--The status
of the Chinese situation at the close of
the day, according to q high authority,
is as follows:
There are now before the department of
state number of notes awaiting an
swers. These include the German nots
concerning the surrender Of Chinese ring
leaders, the original Russian proposition
for the withdrawal of troops from Pekin.
which has not yet been acted upon as
a finality; memorandum from the Rus
! san governments asking as to the pur-
poses of this government, and a request
by Prince, Ching that instructions be
sent to Minister Conger to proceed with
peace negotiations at once. In addition
there Is verbal Inquiry from tie
French government as to the programme
of the United States
AneSe various communications have ac-
eumulated and an understanding has
been reached by the administration that
there shall be a general clearance of the
entire subject This may be expected
| lowing day. 1t WILL clearly enunciate
| the programme of the United States on
! the various questions presented.
REPLIES TO@THE POWERS.
! There will be separate notes, according
to the character of the communicate tioHs
addressed TO this government that is, the
| recent German note will be answered
! by note, and the memorandum OF in
| Quiry from Russia will be answered by
a memorandum, while the French verbal
! inquiry will receive verbal response.
As to the contents of these several
communications the authorities are not
willing to give any positive intimations,
hut as far as the German note is concern
ed the belief Is almost general here that
! the response OF our government will
! amount to q decIInation to make the
| surrender of the offending Chinese u
| condition precedent to negotiations Of
any kind Concerning the Russian prop
osition for withdrawal, it is stated Off
cialIy that 1t stands today the same
first presented. there having been no
notifications whatever on the part OF
| Russia up to the present time.
PEACE COMMISSION.
Minister Wu has not received the edict
reported from Shanghai appointing the
| Yiceroys of Nankin and Wu Chang as
part OF the Chinese peace commission.
| But in view OF the dispatch received
from these yiceroys today the minister
has little doubt that they will serve
on the commission. He says, however
| that IL will not be necessary for them
| to leave their present posts and go to
| Pekin, as the vice royalties are of too
much Importance to permit their depar-
| ture They will be consulted by teie-
graph and their concurrence will be Sc
cured in all settlements and their sigma
tureS priVaY1 t0 th0 final O4dCa agreement.
Mr.. WI says he IS loss to account for
the published reports that his colleague,
| the Chinese minister at London, denies
| that Yung Lu has been appointed with
Ii Hung Chang and Prince Ching as
| peace envoys. Mr.. WI says there can ba
no doubt about the matter, as he has
received the imperial edict appointing
Yung Lu.
Ii HUNG AT TAKU.
Admiral Crowinsnield. chief Of the nav
igation bureau, and acting secretary of
the navy, has received the following ca
blegram from Admiral Remey:
"Taku, Sept. 19.-I have called upon
Ii Hung Chang officially. Arrived Sept.
18 in a merchant vessel. He will proceed
at once to Pektn. He desires that ten
der his sincere thanks for the considera-
ton he has. received from the United
States government. -Remey.
Authentic accounts have been received
here" says the Moscow correspondent OF
the Standard ''ef horrible massacre at
BIagovestchensk, " hich was undoubted-
ly carried out under direct orders from
the Russian authorities. and whIeh then
let loose the tide of slaughter through
Amur Many Chinese wers shot OF
stabbed. The river banks for miles were
strewn with corpses.'