The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-08-10
A FIRM STAND TAKEN,
administration Laid Down the Law
to China.

Administration Laid Down the Law
to China.
Washington, Aug.-The state depart
ment has made public the following cor
respondeuce between Ii Hung Chang and
the department regarding the abandon
ment OF the campaign on Pekin
: kilograms sent to the United States
embassies in Berlin, London, Paris,
Rome, and st. Petersburg, and to the
United States minister to Toxic:
"DepaTtment OF State, Washington,
Aug. lin reply to suggestion of Ii
Hung Chang that the ministers might
be sent under safe escort to Tientsin,
providing the powers would engage not
to march on Pekin, the secretary of
state replied on the 30th Of July:
The government will not enter into
any arrangement regarding the DISPOSE
ton or treatment OF legations without
frst having free communication with
Minister COnger. Responsibility for
their protection rests upon the Chinese
government. Power to deliver at Tien-
tsin presuppOses power to protect and
to open communication This is insisted
on
"This message was delivered by Mr..
GOOdnOW on July 81 to the vicer0y, who
then inquired whether if free cOmmuni
cation was established between the min
listers and their governments it could be
arranged that the powers should not
advance on Pekin. pending negotia-
tiOns.'
To this inquiry the following reply
was sent on the first of August:
Absolute Right, Noe a Favor.
"GOOdnOw, Consul General, Shanghai:
| do not think it expedient to submit
the proposition of Earl Ii to the pow
eTs. Free communication with our rep
resentatives in Pekin is demanded as
matter of absolute right and not as
favor. Since the Chinese government
admits that it possesses the power to
give communication, it puts itself in an
unfriendly attitude by denying it. No
negotiations seem advisable until the
Chinese government shall have put the
Diplomatic representatives OF the powers
in full and free communication with their
respective governments and removed all
danger to their lives and liberty. We
would urge Earl Ii earnestly to advise
the imperial authorities of China to
place themselves in friendly communica-
tiOn and cooperation with the relief ex-
petition. They are assuming a heavy
responsibility by acting otherwise.
ebay"
"0Ou will communicate this informa-
tiOn to the minister OF foreign affairs. ;"
Killed All Foreigners.
Chefoo, July 26, via Shanghai, Aug. 3.
The latest reports from Pekin were
brought by disaffected officers of the
Chinese army. They are considered re-
liable. The officers left Pekin July 15
They say anarchy had reigned in Pekin
for months, and the streets ran with
blood, the Cinnamon fighting among
themselves. Jung Lu, cOmmander-in-
chief OF the Chinese forces, and Prince
Ching, espOused the cause of the foreign
ers and endeavOred with that part of
the army loyal to them to expel the Box
ers. Later, with the majority of the i'm
perial troops under anti-fOreign leaders,
General TuDg Flu Slang and Prince Tuan
we're victorious, and Jung Lu and Prince
Ching, with their followers, were prison
ers in their yamens when the bearers of
these reports left Pekin.
Prince Tuan and General Tung Flu
according to the officers, and issued
edicts, printed in the Gazette, exhorting
the Chinese to kill all foreigners and ma
tive Christians. One of the officers says
there are 10000 troops in Pekin, includ-
ing Tung's army, and 5000 more at
Yung Tsun. The soIdiery hold all the
streets within a mile of the legations.
The foreign troops when the officers left
Pekin, had burned and abandoned the
Chemnen gate. Their ammunition ap-
peared to be failing and their quick-fire
guns had been siIenced some days before
July Is, and they were using their rifles
only when hard pressed. The officers
said every foreign bullet kills a China
man. The reports state the American
and English troops defeated General Ma
in night battle on July 10. The re-
ports from Chinese sources are to the
effect that all of the legation forces were
killed. Cinnamon caught a messenger
who was trying to leave the legations on
July 10 with the following message:
TO Any Foreign Commander: Make
all haste if you intend to save us. We
can hold out but few days"
Tried 1t on the Shah
Paris Aug. 2.-Muzaffer Ed Din, shah
of Persia, who has been a visitor at the
exposition since Saturday as a guest oil
France, narrowly escaped an assassin'e
bullet this morning. 1t had been ar.
ranged for him today to visit Sevres and
see the national pottery works, going
afterwards to Versailles, and it was Just
after he had left the sovereigns' palace
on his way to the Seine to go on board
a yacht placed at his disposal for the
trip, that the attempt upon his life was
made. Only five minutes before the pis
tol was presented at his breast he was
the recipient OF letter which warne5
him that his life was in danger Nc
serious thought, however. was given tC
the contents, so numerous had beer
former warnings OF the same character
AS he was seated in the landau before
leaving the court of the palace his secre
tary brought letter dated Naples but
posted in Paris last night, signed with E