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Show PR0RLE3I OF A GOVERNMENT London, Aug. 23, 4 a. m. Describing even the relief of Pekin the Daily Mail's correspondent cables: "On Aug. 12, the tsung li yamen requested re-quested a conference with a view to peace. No armistice was granted, how ever, and that night wo endured the longest fusillade of the whole siege. It lasted twelve hours. "Aug. 13, the tsung li yamen begged to be excused from any conference, saying that the members were too busy. Later they wrote that they had forbidden firing on us, and would court martial any who disobeyed. During Dur-ing the evening many shells fell in the legation ground." The Daily Chronicle publishes an interview in-terview with the Japanese minister in London, Takai, which represents him as having said: "The empress is the heart and soul of China. As long as she lives, so long as she remains in China, whether the supreme power is taken from her or not. she will always be the greatest force, the one above ail others to be reckoned with. The difficulty will be to get any one who can speak for her. I fear that the influence of Li Hung Chang is now of extremely little weight. "The powers must come to a final understanding quickly. Riots, anarchy, j bloodshed and misery throughout China will be the inevitable result of the j policy that does not immediately dis- close itself. The government must be j re-established." The Japanese envoy expressed his approval of the reported American sug- ' I gestion regarding a conference of the i powers and said he believed that satis- I factory pecuniary compensation could ' be served if officials of China were properly developed, despite the fact that her revenues are pledged. Field Marshal Von Waldersee, according ac-cording to the Daily Mail's correspondent, correspon-dent, expresses the opinion that his labors in China will be of long dura- I tion, "as pacification will be a difficult undertaking. j Three hundred and seventy-five I thousand Russian troops are already I in the far east or already there by land and sea and under orders to embark. This statement is made by the Moscow-correspondent Moscow-correspondent of the Daily Graphic, who adds that mobilization is in progress pro-gress and that there are now at Odessa fourteen steamers chartered to take troops. According to a St. Petersburg special a telegram has been received at the Russian capital from Shanghai announcing an-nouncing the departure of Li Hung Chang for Pekin. |