New-York tribune., 1900-08-21

other sources yesterday, including the one re-
iatng TO an attack the Imperial eits by the
international forces on August lb Lieutenant
Latimer's report also agrees with all the dis
patches except Admiral Remey's of yesterday
regarding the escape of the Emperor and Em-
press and their official retinue from PeRlhs pe
fore the city was entered by the international
troops. If this report be correct, and 1t seems
to be, the Chinese forces left behind would
probably not be able to offer a prolonged re-
sistance to the capture and occupation ot ths
Forbidden City by the disciplined troops "hicIi
compose the expedtienary force The walls OF
the inner city comparatively weak oeiHs
composed of mud or sunburned prleK' Whioh
would offer slight resistance to modern artllery'
One of the dispatches received by the jap
anese Minister to-day says that the Japanese
troops penetrated the Imperial city ana sur
rounded the Palace. 1t appears from dispatch
of this date received at the State Department
from Consul Goodnow, of Shanghai that the
Powers will have to deal with Prince Tuan' 10
whose malgn influence is aserfbed, In great
measure the anti-foreign attitude of the Chinese
Government. According to this dispatch the
Governor of Shan-Tung had made q statement
that the Empress left Peking on August ID for
Hsian-Fu, in the province OF Shen-Se and that
Princes Ching and Yuan and Viceroy Kang VI
We're still In Peking. The State Department eX-
plain that Sinan-Fu. as the name appears In the
dispatch, is probably another version of the name
of the capital of Shen-9e, where there is an I'm
perial palace. 1t is otherwise spelled Hsi-An. ST.
An and Si-Ngan. the sufflx Flu" denoting
seat of administration.
JAPAN'S FORCE IN ACTION.
The dispatch Of Consul Goodnow was con-
frmed in part by two official dispatches received
by the Japanese Minister here to-day from the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs at Toxic. One Of
these dispatches reads as follows;
After entry into Peking was effected by
the allied troops, the Chinese troops befOok
themselves to and remained in the Imperial
Palace, August 15. A body OF Japanese sol
diers told OF TO guard the Palace, and
there they met with obstinate resistance by
the Chinese troops and fighting is still going
on. The headquarters of the Japanese army
is I'm the Legation, and the division is mainly
quartered in the villages outside of An
Tng-Men.
The other dispatch was a copy of one received
at Toxic from the japanese Acting Consul at
Shanghai. and was as follows:
From Sheng's statements to am in
cIined to think there is truth in the rumOr
that the Empress DowageF at least, If not
the Emperor also, has left PeIing for W.
Tai-Hsien, In Shen-Se Province, via Pao-
Ting-Fu, for he told me that some of the
Secretaries OF the Privy Council crossed the
Lukon Bridge the12th with banners hear
ing the inscriptions de1oting that they
formed "a part of the Imperial cOrtege, and
Lu Chunn Lin. Governor of hiang-su, sent a
telegram on the 1Ath, to the southern Vice
rOys and Governors, directing them to for
ward all funds to Shen-Se. but as an
Imperial decree was issued on the 18th, the
departure, II 1t took place at all. must have
been subsequent TO that date. 1 have also
gathered from another reliable source that
Prince Ching, Yuns Lu and kans vi are still
in Picking, though Prince Tuan has followed
the Empress DOwager.
1t is impossible to reconcile all the statements
In tba of
Goodnow with those in the dispatches to the
Japanese Minister. but two of them agree. that
Prince Ching and Viceroy Kang vi remained in
Peking. The former has always been considered
strongly pro-foregn in his sympathies, and he
was once reported defeated and killed by Tuans
troops while making an effort 10 protect the
legations early last month. According to one Of
the Japanese dispatches Prince Tuan escaped
with the Empress
EAGER TOTO HEAR FROM MIR. CONGER.
A careful comparison Of all the dispatches
fails to reconcile them with one another in some
important respects, and at the end OF business
hours to-day the officials still waiting for
report from General Chaffee or Minister Con-
ger. or both, to give an intelligent idea of the
situation.
The interruption of telegraphic communication
between Taku and Picking at this critical time
is regarded as serious and most unfortunate.
One report has 1t that the break is between
Yang-Tsun and Peking, where the line is prob
ably not protected by troops. and If the
trouble may be pretty safely ascribed to the
Boxers or other small bands of Chinese ir-
regulars. It is believed that the cable was in
tured or cut before the international forces oc-
cupied Tung- Chow on August II, as General
Chafee's last dispatch, received by wire at
Taku. was dated August II at Ma-Tow. All
the dispatches received from Peking have
cupied four five days in transmission to Taku.
| distance of about one hundred and ten miles