The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-17
Edwin Wildman, mt Che-Foo. of Opin-
ion that the LeEatiOners
Have Been SuccOred.
L0NDONERS ALSO CONFIDENT
THE MINISTER'S ARE NOW WITH
THE RELIEF EXPEDITION.
Chinese Badly Whipped at Tung-
Chow, After Which the Foreign
Army Marched to Peking.

HO~>DOANS mug - o''S os AAA'
A cablegram to Vienna from Hong
Kong announces the capture OF
Peking, but the Austrian govern
ment, like other European powers,
is still without confirmation of this
report. An official telegram dated
Taku, Aug. IA, has been received
at Rome, which asserts that the
attack on Peking began on Mon
day, that Sir Claude Macdonald,
the British minister, had opened
communication with the relieving
force, and that the allies had estab-
lished their headquarters at Tung-
Chow.
Chinese officials in Shanghai are reported
as admitting that the allies inflicted a
heavy defeat on the Chinese imperial
toops around Tung-Chow Sunday, and
then marched direct on Peking. This. if
announcing the capture of Tung-Chow
one step farther.
patch to the Daily Express from Kobe,
have accepted the proposals formulated by
Japan for arranging an armistice. depend
ent upon the immediate delivery of the
foreign legations to the allies, or the grant
ing of permission to the allied forces to
enter Peking and to guard the legations.
Upon this basis. the correspondent says,
Japan has already begun to negotiate.
The consensus of opinion expressed by
the morning papers tends to the belief that
the legationers are now safe with the al
lies.
Describing the capture of Ho-Si-Wu, a
special dispatch says that the headgear of
the Americans was quite insufficient for the
awful heat, and that the consequences were
direful
1t is reported at Hong Kong that the
Canton customs department has received
a dispatch saying that Sir Robert Hart,
director general of Chinese imperial mari
time customs, accompanied by his staff,
has left Peking under Chinese escort, and
that a cruiser will be sent to meet him on
his reaching the coast.
A news agency dispatch from the seat of
war, dated "at the front, Aug. ii, via
Che-Foo, Aug. a." reads: "The Chinese
retreat continues. They will not make a
stand. We are only twenty miles from
Peking. The entire force is straining every
nerve to reach the capital before it is too
late"
Gen. Sir Alfred Gaselee, commanding the
contingent of troops from India in China,
has wired to the government from Ma
Tow under date of Aug. IL, via Che-Foo,
Aug. Is, as follows:
Arrived here this morning early after
most trying night march. The troops Of all
nationalities are suffering severely from the
heat. Ten of our horses died yesterday
from sunstroke. The enemy is believed to
be intrenched north of Chang -Chia-Wan.
There is no further news from the lega-
tions"
General Gaselee sends two earlier dis
patches repeating advices already received
by the British government.
American negotiations looking to cessa-
ton of hostilities also receive considerable
attention, favorable and otherwise, but all
the editorials agree that too precipitate
withdrawal from Peking after the delivery
of the legationers would have a bad effect
upon the Chinese mind.
Shanghai dispatches declare that the Chi
nese had intended to make final attack
upon the legations last Sunday, but wheth-
Ell the plan was carried out is not known
there.