Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-30
Held AS HOSTAGES.
Chinese Assertion as to Minis.
tiers In an Edict.
TO OPPOSE FOREIGN ADVANCE
viceroys Ordered to Prevent Operations
of Troops, Especially Along the Yang
Use Kiang Passage. Addressed TO ii
Hung Chang In Another Edict.

LONDON, July 30.--The Shanghai cor
respondent of The Daily Express, tele-
graphing july 20, said;
"a new imperial edict promulgated
this evening urgently orders all vice.
roys and provincial governors to en-
deayor to negotiate peace with the
powers whose ministers are held as hos
tages pending the result Of the over
lures fee the Abandonment Of HOSTILE
tics again st China.
1.-THE yiceroys are also commanded to
guard their territories vigiiaRtly gainst
attack and to prevent, by all means IN
their power, the advance of foreign
troops, especially along the Yang Csc
Kiang. The decree SAYS that the oft
Gals will answer with their lives for
any failure to execute these orders.
Commands are also given that not
single foreigner shall be allowed to es-
cape from the interior, where there are
still fully 1900 Europeans, connected
with missionary work in isolated situa-
tions.
when the governor of Shantung
communicated to the consuls the iul-
perial decree of July "a he omitted ina
portant passages addressed to Lii Hung
Chang;
cit is admittedly inadvisable to kill
all the ministers, but it is equally UNI
wise to send them to Tien Tsin. 1t will
be much wiser to keep the survivors at
Pekin IS hostages,
lou are commanded TO hasten to
Pekin. You are mourning imperial dis
pleasure by delay You have been APP
pointed viceroy of Chi Ii because, with
cessfully lead the imperial armies
against the foreigners in Chi Lii, which
You Lu, the present v1ceroy, is unable
to do owing to his ignoronce of military
affairs.
Iii Hung Chang replied to this edict,
asking to be allowed to retire on account
of his age.
''Sheng now admits that he has tele-
grams since July announcing that every
foreigner in Pao Ting Flu was murder
ed, including 40 British, French and
American missionaries and announcing
also that two French jesuits and 900
converts have been massacred at Kwang
Ping Flu, on the borders of Shan Tung
and Chi Lii. A majority of the consuls
favor strong measures against Sheng's
duplieity.
Local officials assert that the Italian
priests murdered in HUI Nan were
wrapped i'll cotton, which had been
soaked in kerosene, and were slowly
roasted to death. 1t is believed that all
foreigners i'll Chi Lii have by this time
been massacred, and the wave of mas
acre is spreading toward Ming Pc and
Hong Chow, from which point 30 Eng
llsh and American missioners are en-
deayoring to escape in boats down the
river to Kiang Su. Officials here an
ticipate a general rising along the Yang
Use Kiang about Aug, |.
can astounding American intrigue
has been revealed to the consuls here in
the shape of skillful attempt to get
the maritime customs placed in the
hands of an American missionary
namd FERGUSON who, although he was
an active ally of Sheng in the latter's
endeavors to hoodwink the world with
regard to events i'll Pellin, was sup
ported by the American officials in his
claim to the appointment of inspector
general.