The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-09
consuls at Shanghai Officially An
nounce That Foreigners We're
Alive on the Fourth Of July.
THEY NAY YET Be SAVED.
Chinese Armies springing Up il
Every Proviuce-six Warships
Lie at Che Foo.

foregoing statement. read with Consul
Warren's dispatch to the foreign office
on Saturday. makes 1t possible to be-
lleve that the legations will hold out for
O number of days yet. Having fought
to a standstill the first outbursts of ia
natical fury. 1t is believable that some
thing may intervene to save them. The
news. after the sinister rumors of the
last ten days is enough upon which to
build up hopes.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing on Sunday at
$40 p. m, however, throws doubt upon
Consul warren's information He
says:
.Taotai Sheng now admits that there
was an error In his communication to
General Warren. the date OF the cour-
ier's arrival at chinen Flu was July 3,
which does not apply to his departure
from Peskin. The journey from Pskin
to Chlnen Flu occupies five days. The
courier therefore could not have left
Pekin later than June IS. The date OF
the massacre there. as given by Chi
rese reports, was June 90 or July l."
Tien Tsin Still Hard Pressed.
Tien Ts!n is still hard pressed. a
Chinese force numbering from se,O00 to
100000 men. as estimated by inconclu-
sive reconnaissance, floods the country
roundabout Tien Tsin. communication
between which place and Taku is ep-
pureuay possible BY rive: only.
A Che Foo dispatch 10 the Express
says the Russians have landed 5000
men at Takr and the japanese have
discharged several transports. The
japanese pusted on to Tien Ts!n lead
ing into the subsequent assault upon
the native city In which their eomman-
der was killed. Ten more transports
are engaged at Japanese ports. With
the ten thousand British India troops
ahoat and fresh Japanese continsents,
It is quite probable that the allirs will
have $4,000 men ashore.
Disorder Increasing in Violence.
The disorders IN the provinces ap-
pear to be increasing IN violence. a
Chinese army is within forty miles of
New Chwaug and the foreigners are
preparing 10 abandon their homes. The
southern part OF the province Is swept
by raiders. destroying all works OF the
white man, except in spots garrtsoned
by Russians. Proclamations have been
posted in all villages near Che Foo,
calling upon the loyal Chinese to rise
and expel the foreiG :Gr tos introducing
among the pIous e:;1.:-ss4 - immoral
relisia:, every goo5 buddhist /: ex-
p-c:-f. {: Sneel three ho1t- daily. knock
his head upon the floor thrice and pray
earnestly that sudden, cruel death may
overtake all aliens.
The foreign settlement at Che Foo Is
at the mercy Of two Chinese forts
equipped with Krupp guns, which COM
mand two sides OF the city. Six war
ships, including the United States gun
boat Nashville. are constantly cleared
for action.
The provisional government at Pek!n
appears to have designs upon the
southern provinces. Beside having or
dered Kwan shIkai to advance upon
Naukin. which Kwan shikai says he
will not do. Prince Tuan has sent AZ
army along the route OF the Grand ca
nal.
Foreigners at Shanghai Uneasy.
Nankin Is on the south bank OF
river nearly mile wide. The British
cruisers Hermlone and Pique will as
sIst In repellIng attempts to cross. Six
Chinese cruisers are there and 1900
Chinese troops are at the disposal OF
viceroy I.lu Kun II. The forts mount
thirty-four high power modern guns.
The foreigners In shansha! are be-
coming uneasy. Everything depends
they feel, on vice Liu Kun VI.
Refugees from TIen TsIn, arriving a:
Shanghai, say that only Eve civilian
foreigners were killed during the lonS
Chinese bombardment. The foreign
women became so Indifferent that they
walked through the streets, not needing
the shells. Most OF the civilians were
deporsed to Taku. thence to be conveyed
TO Shanghai.
How Life Jostles Death.
The courier mentioned in Consul War
rrn's dispatch gives a strange picture,
says the Daily Mails Shanghai cores
pondent OF how life jostlcs death In
PeKIn. Business apparently goes on rs
usual. The shops and theatres are
open and the streets arc full of people.
No Imperial troops excep; those OF Gen.
eral Tung Fuh Slang took part IN the
lshtIrs. The courier even assen,s pos
Itiveiy that provisions are being sup
piled to the legations, but by whom he
does not say. The boxers and General
Tuns Fuh Slang do no, get along well.
The boxers assert that they do all the
fighting and the latter oil the ioo.lng
and nothing else.
General Kwau shi Kat. governor OF
Shan Tuug, n correspondent OF the
Daily Mall AYERS. predicts that by July
Il, the boxers viii dlseand and neSu.