Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-07-27
AGAIN REPORTED SAFE.
FOREIGN Ministers, According to Chi--
ncse Adviccs, Were Alive on
July 1S.

London, July 24.-The Chinese min
lister, Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh. has.
communicated to the press the follow-i
ing dispatch from Sheng, director gem
erai of Chinese railways and telegraphs
and taotai of Shanghai, dated Shanghai,
July 90:
Information from Peklng, dated July
lS. says that the tsung-li-yamen deputed
| won Jul, an under secretary of the de-
| rartment, to the foreign minister's,
| and he found every one well. without any
| missing, the German excepted. Gen.
| fung Lu is going to memoralize the.
throne to send them all under escort to-
Tientsln in the hope that the military
operations will then be stopped"
London, July 2l.-Sir Halliday Ma
cartney, counselor and English seGre-
tary to the Chinese legation in London,
asserted Monday evening that the Pc
King legations were safe and about to.
proceed TO Tientsin.
Paris, July 24.-M. Delcasse, minis
ter of foreign affairs, has received n.
telegram from the French consul at
Chefoo, dated July 81, saying: The
| governor informs me that. according
TO reliable news from Peking, all the
foreign ministers are safe, and the gov
ernment is taking all necessary steps,
to deliver and protect them"
Antwerp. July 24-M. de Favereau.,
minister of foreign affairs, telegraphed
Monday to Antwerp to the family of
the Belgian minister to China that NJ.
Joostens, the minister, and the other
European ministers at Peking are safe,
according to an official telegram from
Picking.
London. July 24.-The Figaro states
that "A private message has been re-
ceived from Toxic which states that
the japanese minister at Peking has
given news of himself in terms anal
ogous to those of Mr.. Conger.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Daily Mail asserts that there are
differences of opisiion in the Russian
council of war. The minister of war,
Gen. Kouopatkin. wishes to send l0O.O 600
men to clear the rebels out of Man
churia. On the other hand. according
10 this correspondent. Emperor Nicho-
las wishes the operations limited TO the
defense and pacitication of the frontier
districts. Let two strong armies. one
| Of the allies in the south and the other
of the Russians in the north. confront
the Chinese. and the rising-so the czar
is said to argue-would be bound TO
collapse. I'VE want no conquests," he
is reported TO have declared at the con-
| clusion of sitting of the council.
What we desire is TO protect our from
tiers and to steer into smooth waters
the Chinese ship of state. now buffeted
by the waves of civil war;
Berlin, July 24.-The Berlin govern
ment and press continue to disbelieve
| the assurances of the Chinese authori-
ties that the Picking legations are safe.
| The foreign Office surmises that the
Conger dispatch was either sent about
simultaneously with the dispatches OF
DR.. Won Bergen, secretary of the Ger
man legation, and Sir Robert Hart, bur
suppressed, or was captured from the
messenger to whom il was intrusted,
and is now produced to create the de-
sired effect in Washington, or, on the
other hand, that the whole dispatch
was conceived for purposes of decep-
tion, with the aid OF cipher key some.
how obtained. United States Ambas-
sador White said that the latter theory
was quite plausible; for, if the Ameri-
can legation had been captured and the
records there seized, the cipher key
would likewise be secured, and that
then it would be an easy matter for
anybody to do the rest. At all events,
the German foreign office will con ntinue
to regard the repo> that the legations
still exist as a myth until communion
ton, now cut off for nearly month,
| shall have been reestablished in the
most indubtabl fashion.
New York, July pa dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Che.
foo, July 20, says the Chinese army is
now retreating toward Peking from,
! rientsin.
| A brilliant dash against large force
of Chinese at Tientsin was made Mon
day morning by detachment of Amer
lean troops, assisted by some English
fusileers.
The object was to capture battery
of large caliber cannon which had been
doing great damage.
The Anglo-American troops charged
4 large fort across an open space, and
were exposed to hot but poorly di-
rected fire from the enemy.
They dashed into the fort and, after
Engaging the Chinese in n sharp hand
to-hand fight, put them to flight and
remained masters of the fort.
Eight large modern guns were cap
tured, together with carts and all the
accessories. The battery was imme-
1iately turned upon the fleeing ene<ty,.
who under the well-directed fire suf-
fered heavy losses.
The victory was won in an incredibly
short time against an overwhelming.
ly superior force, and, despite rshe
charge under fire and the fight in the
fort. neither the Americans nor the
British lost a single man.
ST. Petersburg, July 24.-Three hun
dred thousand soldiers from the vari-.
Gus military districts are en- route TO
China. While no informa tion is given