New-York tribune., 1900-08-01
CRY FOR HELP IN PEKING
CONDITIONS ON JULY % DESCRIBED BY
JAPANESE ATTACHE.

Washington. July 31.-Adjutant- General Cor
bin to-day received dispatch from Lieutenant
Colonel Coolidge. commanding the 9th Infantry
at Tien-Tsin. It came by way of Che-Foo, and
is as follows:
Tien-Tsln, July o.
Following letter Of Lieutenant Colonel Shiba
Mlntary Attache at the Legation of Pekng.
dated July %. arrived Tien-Tsin 25th, at 8
o'clock in the evening:
Picking, July %, evening.-we are all
awaiting impafientIy arrival of reinforcing
army. When You cOming9
All legations have been bIOcIxnded since
18th last month, and since the Goth we have
been attacked continually night and day
by the Chinese soldiers from moro than ten
encampmenfs. By supreme effort
still defending.
We daily awaiting with the greatest
anxiety arrival of reinforcing army, and if
you can't reach here in less than weeks
time 1t is probable that we will Ne unable
10 hold ont any longer.
Emperor and Empress Dowager appear to
be still at PekinG. Were reinfOrcements
10 arrive it is probable that they would fee
to Wan-ShOshan.
Killed and wounded up to dates Eight
killed, n captain of infantry and an
Ambassadors attache, seven seriously
wounded. the First Secretary of the Legation
being one of twenty slightly wounded. The
number of Europeans killed is sixty in all.
COOLIDGE.
WORD FROM MINISTER CONGER.
The War Department this evening received
two cable dispatches from China The first
read:
Che-Foo (undated).
To Corbin, Washington:
Tlen-Tsin, 9th
Message just received from Conger saws since
10th by agreement no firing. Have provisions
several weeks; little ammunition; ali safe: well.
(Daggett) report allied forces soon advance.
Practically no looting by Americans; no un-
necessary kiUins. Indiana arrived 26th. Order
MacCann, Sladen both Aliens, Mitchell y.ryce
join regiment here. DAGGEIF.
The second read:
Che-Foo.
To Corbin, Washington:
Tien-Tsin, Both.
Flintshire arrived 9th. Two hundred and
ffty-seven 9th Infantry sick: ten DOCTORS one
hundred hospital corps men, twenty signal men
needed. Unavoidable delay unloading trans
ports. Foreign troops arriving. DAGGETT.
The following dispatch from Admiral Remey
was received by the Navy Department this
morning:
Che-Foo July 81.
Bureau of Navigation Washington.
Taku, July 2S.-Japanese military attache
Peking, letter July y, reports legations be-
sleged since June IL. Continually attacked
from June 20 until July II. Attack then ceased,
and Chinese soldiers apparently diminishing
Sixty Europeans killed.
Telegram from Governor Of Shan-Tung ad-
dressed to consular body, Che-Foo, says: I'm
perial edict states that various Ministers ex-
cept German are well ana provisions have been
supplied" REMEY.
The japanese Consul at Tien-Tsin telegraphed
on the 9th inst. dispatch dated the 18th
from the Japanese Minister at Peking to the
Foreign Office at Toxic, which had reached
Tien-Tsin by special courier on the 25th. The
Minister says:
The japanese marines and others continue,
under the command OF the military attache,
Lieutenant-C Colonel Shiba, TO resist the repeated
attacks Of Tung Fuh Siang's II oops. 1 think
can hold out, though the task is by means
easy one, until relieved by the division
of Japanese troops which, I hear through
special messenger, will arrive at Tien-Tsin by
the end Of this month. The Chinese have
stopped firing since the 18th, and the Chinese
authorities apparently disposed to open ne
gotiatons.
Attache Kojima. Captain Ando, of the I'M
perial army; H. Nakamura, and five marines
have been killed. while Narabara, second secre-
taTy Of the Legation; student and six
rines have been wounded, though not mOrtally.
Many others have also been slightly wounded.