Show EDICT SAYS MINISTERS ARE RE HELD AS HOST AGES tA i i iI I Imperial Statement Declares They Will be Kept P Pending Negotiations for Peace With Powers L i ij j Fuh Slang Siang Threatens to Kill Kill Them if 1 Allies I Advance on Pekin I London Sh Shanghai correspondent of the Express I 1 ing y yesterday says saysA j uA A new imperIal edict promulgated this evening urgently orders aU all vice viceroys viceroys roys and provincial governors to endeavor to negotiate peace with the pow powers t tem ers em whose ministers are held as hostages pending the result of the over overtures tures for the abandonment gf hostilities against China The viceroys s are also commanded to guard their territories vigilantly I against attack and to prevent by all means in their power Dower the advance of the foreign troops esp along the Yang Tse Kiang The decree s says ys the officials will answer with their lives for any failure to execute these orders Commands are also given that t a single foreigner shall be to escape from the interior where there are still fully 2000 Europeans con connected wi with h missionary work in Isolated situations Then the governor of Shan Tung communicated to the the Im fin penal decree of of July 24 4 he omitted important passages addressed to LI Hun Hung hang 1 It is ad admittedly inadvisable to kill all the ministers but iti it is uI unwise wise to send them to Ti TiOn n Tsin It will be much wiser to keep the sur survivors survivors at Pekin as host hostages es You are commanded to hasten to Pekin You are incurring imperial displeasure by delay You have been appointed viceroy oL of Chi ChiLi Li becane e with your military experience you OU will successfully lead the imperial armies against the foreigners in Chi Li which Yu Lu the present vIceroy is I to do oWing to his ignorance of military affairs Li Hung Chang replied to this edict asking to be allowed to on cm account of his age P I Berlin July Chinese legation in Berlin bas ban received a message from Sheng director general of railways and telegraphs saying that he hs bes received a dispatch Pekin announcing that General Tung Pith Fuh Slang Siang threatens to kill all the members of the legations if the international forces advance upon Pekin Evidently the legation is embarrassed by the receipt of this dispatch as a athe the Chinese has not communicated it to the German government The legation h has s cabled the viceroy of Nankin requesting hm bun to try to get information as to whether the widow of Baron v n Ketteler the murdered German ambassador is still alive BRITISH ASSAULT ON AMERICANS i London July o orre of the I IAn An astounding AmeriCan intrigue has hes been d to the b lie re rein in the shape of a skillful attempt to maritime customs placed lit in the hands hanas of an American missionary named Ferguson who although he was Yas an active ally of Sheng in the endeavors to hoodwink the world with regard to events in Pekin was support supported ed b by the American officials in the claim to the appointment of inspector general CRISIS APPEARS TO BE London July 30 a Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says he is still firmly con convinced convinced vinced that the ministers are safe but with the exception n of an alleged men mes mesSage Sage from the Japanese legation in Pekin dated July 19 9 brought by a run runner ncr ner saying that the legation was still defending itself nothing has yet et been published having anything in the na nature nature ture of proof On the other hand the dail daily incoming reports of massacres of missionaries and foreigners leaven only the most slender thread upon which to hang a aho ho hope e eThe The general situation is steadily be darker and a crisis is said to be fast approaching It is rumored in Shanghai that Chinese troops have b en secretly moved into that vi vicinity vicinity and that the commander of the Kiang Yu forts has hIlS been ordered to fire if any further addition is made to the number of foreign ships ascending the river Rioting has already occurred at Kiu Kiang the mobs threatening death to foreigners I 1 With the arrival of the second Ja 1 i I division the forces at t Taku and TIen Thin Tsin will number Dumber 71 The river floods near Tien T Tala Ta are diminishing It is reported that Rus from Harbin hare haye arrived at a poL lit lii tidies miles north of Pekin after ht tog ing The Shanghai of aC the Times wiring ye says r I learn that li Ping p aDd ad l Chuan Lin governor of Kiang Su Sit Nth both rabidly are advancing d toward Pekin with large bodies of troops Their advent must seriously affect the situation there Today the consular body decided that the situation demands the presence presen of ofa ofa a military militar force in Shanghai and the consuls have notified their governments accordingly l MANy HEADS ARE BROUGHT TO TUAN if London July Canton C ne spon ent of the Daily Telegraph in a dispatch dated Saturday says Chinese newspapers assert that Prince Tuan offered rewards for aU all heads of foreigners brought to his 3 men in Pekin The Boxers finding it difficult to get enough of these be headed all Chinese with high and deep eyes and in this way they pro pre presented so many pretended foreigners heads that Prince exchequer suffered a 8 p painful strain The Triads have become numerous and threatening in HaiNan The Tao Tai Tal and the local mandarins are terror stricken and decline to protect foreign foreigners ers era AU All the missionaries except three have left with their wives and 00 fain fam The natives of the Nodes die dis district dietrict of the island were so f frightened that they joined the ranks of the Triads Serious disturbances are re expected between Aug Land Aug 15 during the festival to be held to appease appes the shades of the d dead ad The Boxers are charging larz lame e sums to the Chinese for passports from Pekin to TieD Tien Tela Lao Yuu Yun Pu Fu the Black Flag chief l t 4 i h ha ref refused s d unless i Viceroy wl will t The iTh Cl av just 4 A 4 a a BO Boxer xer Diot devised by soon 1 i I Mun to blow bloy un the Mals t temple I i and to lh the e s sf I f while in honor honorof f i t of t en es a the plot plott t 4 had d te the Boxer Boxers would have hae t I a the city and andi i 1 In I ners and al all peron persona I t frIend O |