Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-10
TELEGKAMS IN BRIEF.
CHINESE WAR.

Germany has refused to accept Ii
HING Chang's credentials as peace
envoy.
It is reported from Taku that the
Americans alone refrain from looting
Pekin
Minister Conger reports military
parade of all nations through the 1m-
perial palace.
All the powers seem to be agreed
that there shall be no formal war
against China.
Commissioner Rockhill says I'M
mediate action in settling conditions
in China is necessary.
Count Won Waldersee landed at Lon
don and was received by a guard OF
honor by British troops.
Fifty foreigners were killed by the
governor of Shansi Province, who had
invited them to seek his protection.
The Washington government sug-
gests that hereafter the Chinese capt.
tai shall be maintained at seaport
town.
over 1000 boxers are said to have
been slain by the Taotai of Tsangchou
at a feast to which he had invited
them.
Pekin is being looted openly in spite
Of the prohibition of the allied generals.
Our troops are derided for not taking
part in it.
If Russia withdraws it's minister and
troops from Pekin, Mckinley will order
Conger, Chaffee, and our forces back
to Tientsin.
,Japan's action in Selling Annoy,
China, is said to have been unneces-
sary and intended for territorial ag-
grandizement.
The United States, Great Britain,
Russia, France and Japan have eX-
pressed a willingness to withdraw their
troops from Pekin.
Germans have demanded the site Of
the United States camp in Tientsin.
Conger insists that Ii Hung Chang
shall be allowed to go to Pekin.
w. w. Rockhill, the American envoy,
declares that China is to blame for the
recent outrages, the boxers being
only a help to the government.
Russia's proposition is denounced by
the London press as an attempt to get
the other powers out Of China to clear
the way for the conquest by her.
British and German public sentiment
is unfavorable to the Russo-American
proposals; Austria and Italy apparent
1y side with Germany; France is in
doubt.
Officials of the war department are
positive that the soldiers Of Gen.
Chaffees army took no part in the
extensive footing which followed the
fall of Tientsin.
Russia's declaration of intention to
withdraw from Pekin and our response
that we would prefer to stay for the
present, but will go if the others do,
were given to the public.
The French press criticises Mckinley
for making public his diplomatic
notes on the Chinese question. The
Berlin press objects to the American
notes as obscure and illogical.
German official kilograms announce
that the German forces in Pekin oc-
cupy the northwest portion of the city.
The joint proclamations of the generals
against plundering have thus far
proved Intellectual. 1t is rumored that
some 10000 armed Chinese are about
so kilometers from Pekin.
The strength of the allied forces
which took part in the relief of Pekin,
is as follows: Japanese, $500 infantry,
220 cavalry, $50 engineers and SO guns;
Russian, $500 infantry, $50 cavalry and
% guns American, 1000 infantry. 80
marines, Is cavalry and guns;
British, 1882 infantry 400 cavalry and
13 guns; French 400 marines and 1S
guns.
In answer to it's inquiries the state
department has been informed by the
Western Union Telegraph Cable COM
pany that the delays in transmission
of kilograms between Washington and
troops in China can be explained only
by the statement that all kilograms
intended for Tauk, Tientsin or Pekin
have been obliged to pass from Shang-
hal to Che Foo by overland telegraph
lines belonging to the Chinese govern
ment and operated by it's agents.