The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-08-01
REPORTS ARE DEMANDED.
Chinese Emperor Issues an Edict
that They Are All Safe.
STORY is DOUBTED.
Information at Washington that
Chinese Have Key to the
Secret Code.

London, July 2S-The Daily Mails
Shanghai correspondent telegraphs that a
Russian banker who left Pekin July &,
and arrived at Shanghai Wednesday,
July %, says that when he left Pekin all
the legations had been destroyed and all
the foreigners murdered. The ministers,
seeing death was inevitable, shot their
families.
Sir Robert Hart, the banker adds.
committed suicide in despair.
The full text of the Daily Mails tele-
gram from Shanghai is as follows:
Newspapers here publish statement
by an influential banker residing in Pc
kin, near the British legation, who ar
rived in Shanghai July 25, having left
Pekin July Z. He states that the lega-
tons We're then destroyed. All the for
eigners had disappeared, and he could not
say positively if they had been murdered,
as he was too frightened to inquire"
The Mails correspondent proceeds:
investigations prove this infOrmatio
is reliable. The banker in question has
gone to Wing Pc. His friends will not
disclose his name, fearing that to do so
would cause him to lose his head.
The manager of the Russian Bank of
Shanghai has received a letter from the
that one Of their Chinese representatives
from Pekin, who had just arrived, con-
firmed the report of the Pekin massacre
He states that all the foreign ministers
were murdered. Seeing death was inev-
liable, as the Chinese swarmed into the
legations, the ministers killed their fami-
lies at the last moment. Sir Robert Hart
in despair committed suicide"
Washington, d. c., July 2S.-The sec
rotary of state has received dispatch
from Mr.. Fowler, the American consul
at Chefoo, dated at midnight on the
10Th:
This morning, by request of the al
lied admirals, | wired the governor (sup-
posed to be the governor of Shantung)
their wish to get news from ministers
themselves. The governor now replies:
Have received today edict from Emperor
saying that the ministers are well. They
are sending provisions to the legations. Am
confident ministers out of distress, and &c
quest you (Fowler) transmit this preIim-
mary announcement to admirals
(Signed) YUAN, Governor.
A later dispatch from Fowler, dated 1
a. M, 9th, to the state department, is
as follows:
Another telegram from governor:
Have just received imperial edict oath
saying various ministers, excepting German,
are WE'LL and some days ago had supplied
listers out of distress.
(Signed) YUAN, Governor.
Secretary Hay also has received Il ca
blegram from United States Consul Nc
Wade, at Canton, stating that Niceroy
TAX assures him that the ministers were
all alive and well on July n.
New York, July 2S.-The Tribune pub
fishes the following dispatch from Ii
Hung Chang, dated Shanghai, July -,
and received at 10 this morning:
''Pekin reports ministers alive. Safety
assured. Allied forces entrance Pekin
unnecessary"
This dispatch was in answer to a mes
sage sent three days ago to the viceroy
asking for statement as to the safety
of foreigners in Pekin.
Paris, July 2S.-The Chinese minister
at Paris, lu neng, has received the fol-
lowing imperial decree, dated July "a
1.-The foreign ministers are, happily, at
present safe and sound, except Ketteler.
We are having the foreign legations sup
piled with provisions and fruits as a tok-
en- of the interest we feel in them