Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-02
SITUATION is
NOW DESPERATE.
Admiral Kempff's Report Today Gives Rise
to the Grayest Apprehension
News from Pekin.

Washington, July 2--Cable advices
from Admiral Kempn this morning full
~ confirm previous reports Of the muir
der OF Won Ketteler, the German min
lister at Pekin. The admiral also rep
resents the sltual IN Of the ministers
as most desperate. The shortage Of
their food supplies. reported by Adj
miral Kempff, gives rise TO the grayest
apprehension Having been taken TO
Taku by runner the dispatch repre-
sented the ministers condition at least
five days ago, and there is reason to
fear that the worst has happened in the
interim.
Admiral Kempffs favorable report Of
the condition OF the Oregon Is believed
by Secretary Long to be based on the
report Of the commander OF the Japan
csc vessel. which generously offered as
sistance.
No further renforcements have been
ordered to China. military or naval
LEGATIONS BESIEGED AND
STARVING
Washington, July 2.-The navy de-
pGftment has received the following ca
blegram from Admiral Kempff without
date.
"Che Foo.--secretary Of Navy, Wash
ington.-Runner from Pekin reports
legations are besieged; provisions
nearly exhausted situation desperate.
German minister going to Tsung-Li-
Hamen murdered by Chinese soldiers.
American, Italian and Dutch legations
burned. Twenty thousand Chinese sol
diers inside; thirty thousand outside
Pekin; three thousand reported bound
for Ten Tsin eth lighting at Tien
Tsin. Communication Tien 1sln by rail
and river Insecure.
"KEMPFF"
THE OREGON WILL BE SAVED.
Washington. July 2.-The following
cableSrams has been received at the
navy department from Admiral
Kempff;
"Che Foo. July l.-secretary OF
Navy, Washington. Oregon has run
aground, IL is not in a dangerous posi-
ton; about degrees north latitude, 20
degrees, 40 minutes east. longitude.
Have sent TO her assistance three naval
vessels II Is reported that there is
water IN one compartment. The COM
mander Of the Oregon did not request
assistance, japanese man-Of-war
having boarded the vessel.
"KEMPFF."
GERMAN MINISTER'S DEATH
Berlin. July 2.--Privy Councillor
Hammann informed the correspondent
a fha Agannfn UrVnun al. -
official dispatch announcing Baron Won
ketteler's assassination was received
here early today. IL was based upon a
direct. written message conveyed from
Pekln and signed by Won Bergen a
member of the German legation at Pc
kin, and Sir Robert Hart the inspector
general Of customs. IL was addressed
TO the commander Of the European
forces at Tien Tsin, and was forwarded
June 2sth by Consul Zimmerman TO the
German consul at Che Foo. The mes
sage contained a number Of interesting
details. Baron Won Ketteler. while
riding on horseback 10 the Tsung-Li-
Hamen foreign office. was attacked
by large numbers Of Chinese who pulled
him OFF his horse and beat him to
death
FURTHER BLOODsHED FEARED.
An interpreter, who was with him.
was seriously injured. but escaped and
subsequently reached the German lega-
ton. Herr Hammann supp0ses that
there was more bloodshed at the lega-
ton, the destruction of which he de-
clares was more alarming, because the
message adds that the condition OF the
whites In Pekin was desperate and aid
was imDeratvely needed II was also
that the ammunition was al
most exhausted.
When Herr Hammann was asked
whether the course Of Germany or that
OF the other powers toward China will
be altered by the assassination of
Baron Won ketteler he replied that he