Salt Lake Herald | 1900-08-02 | Page 1 | Tells of Acts of War by Chinese Government

OF ACTS cis OF WARi WAR WR i BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT I pekin Correspondent Says that Several Edicts of Emperor Commended Attacks on Legations Imperial Troops Led the Ass Lippit and Captain W Still Safe k Aug 2 4 a mAt last the story of Pekin has been told Dr 4 1 rg Earnest Morrison Pekin correspondent of t th Tim Times s h holds up the hin gorl ment before the world as guilty and t tO a degree of infamy and that exceeds th tha Surmise of its worst detractors J wing are from his dispatch which is dated July 21 Tt Ill Tung Tsung Li forwarded to Sir Claude MacDonald a copy of a by the emperor to attributing aU all lI f to banditS andreq and requesting esting her assistance to extricate the fhe hP government from the difficulty The queens I reply is not stated but 1 W se f minister at telegraphs that the United States govern mon ri soul uld l gladly assist the Chinese authorities This dispatch to the queen was sent to the Tsang Ii Yamen by the grand rand council July 3 yet the day before an imperial edict had been issued calling on the Boxers to render loyal and patriotic serviceS in exterminating the Christians The edi edict t also commanded viceroys and go to expel all mis missionaries from China Other decrees Boxers speak approvingly of the their burning out and slaying converts July l 1 another decree made a complete about face due t th the victories of ih foreign troops at flen Tsin Tein The Chinese throughout with characteristic treachery posted proc proclamations assuring us ot of protection and the same night they made a general attack in the hope of us Th number g t the e Ameri American an Surgeon Lippitt sV s V l ly wounded and Captain Myers who is d dOing ing well Seven Americans hay ha p n it is remembered hoW great reliance is placed upon Dr Morrison in n England the importance of his exposure of the Chinese government can f rel overestimated 1 seems to banish all hopes entertained by Lord bury that the Chi go might yet be proved not directly responsible for the out ril tg p Jt it may result in an a entire cessation of the negotiations with Chinese If not in an open ion of war on the part of the p powers f ALLIED FORCE IS NOW EIGHTEEN MILESON MILES ON ITS WAY ViA Yi TO PEKIN l Aug 1 1 Do De Favereau minister of foreign affairs has re rei i Rii d the following dispatch dated Shanghai Aug l from M De Cartler Cartier DeMar De Dean Mar an secretary of the now acting as charge j fr 1 lium at Shanghai The allies are marching on Pekin They are eighteen miles from T Tien 1 Tsin reach T ach Pekin in fight eight days All the taken refuge in th inner of the Imperial city I AS RE CHERY IS TOLD I i DETAIL Aug 2 3 a inDr George th Pekin correspond nt n I f the th Times has been heard from d t Th Times limes this morning prints print th rh from him dated July 21 1 ili r has been a ce of hos s Pekin since July 16 but bul bult t j r fit r f treachery there has beer een n II of vigilance The Chin ts rs continue to str strengthen tho thoi thomi i mi ds around the besieged ares arcu oj aI batteries on top of the Im J ti I ty wall swall but in the meantime 1 t 1 discontinued firingS firing l rob ay they are short of am J I i j i I ITh Th main bodies of the imperial have hat left Pekin in order to tc toJ J 1 1 h forces Supplies are be o orne in and the condition n is improving The Tha Thai I i j 1 are tre doing well Our hos hospital j 1 i its are admirable and I I t 0 II d through the boa boax ho hot x t d of Chinese Falsity I Ih Th h sling Li Yamen forwarded forward ad 10 te MacDonald lac a copy of a din dis disi i r I graphed b by the emperor to tot t attributing aU all deeds ot or ott III t bandits and requesting hery her 1 y a assistance to extricate the government out of the Iii lU lUi i j L reply is not stated but butH H L minister at Washington 1 ii ls that the United States gov i would gladly assist the I to the queen was vas sent 1 h lung Tung Li Yamen by the grand 1 11 July 3 yet th ua before I ial f edict had been issued caU cali caUl l lg I hf to continue to render I In H patriotic services In r t 10 T II h Ih Th tiet kt aIo commanded viceroys nt to tf all missionaries qc i 1 and to arrest aU all Christians arri them to their hr h applauding the Boxers iak ak or of their burning out if 1 s ing converts Their leaders a S1 1 1 in a degree to be princes an nl IS Vou Voit Ketteler Was Assassinated 1 another nother de ree made a corn com I I face due to the victories I ft 11 n troops at Tien Tsin In InI InI I tw d I re Ie for the first time and one ii the occur occurrence ence an allu n II I male mafle to the death of Baron BaronI I ri 11 tIer the German m minister J h h II action of t va a attributed to the l I ands although there is no that it was premeditated and andi i sa was committed by J I officer as the survivor J Hr lir rles H cn can testify I 1 1 ri l force besieging the legation 1 lis j if the Imperial troops under pral Tung Lu and General Tung fi f lih ih whose gallantry Is applaud hi In decrees although it has hasin j ISi Ht in bombarding for one month I I s women and children hildren cooped JI ll lii In The legation compound using round Shot and expanding I h Th ih linese throughout with char charI jJ I achery posted t us of protection and the flight they made a general at 1 k j the hope of surprising us Captain Meyers Is Wounded t is still sUlI no news of Pel Pei Tan Tang I I ural j The wounded number including merilan surgeon Lippitt sev j and Captain Meyers l who hoiS I L Well weil Seven Americans have beeh 1 ll All the ministers and members of the legations and their families are in good health The general health of communitY is excellent and we are awaiting relief After enumerating the casualties al already ready reported and giving Iriving the total of deaths including the Americans as fiftysix Mr r Morrison proc proceeds eed s as fol lows levis The rhe Chinese undermined the French 1 legation which is now now a ruin but the French minister M Pichon was not present haYing having fled for protection to the British legation the first day of the siege The dispatch ends as follows The greatest peril we suffered during the siege stege was from fire the I in their determination to destroy the British legation burning the adjoining I Han Lin Yuen collo e one of the most sacred colleges in China sacrificing the unique library SIR CLAUDE SCORES CHINESE OFFICIALS London Aug 2 4 a letter let lett t ter r has lias been received at Tien Tsin from the British minister SIr Claude MacDonald Mac Donald dated 24 We Va are surrounded by troops he writes who are firing on onus onus us continuously The enemy is enterprising enter enterprising hut cowardly We have pro provisions provisions visions for about a fortnight and are eating our ponies The Chinese government If there be one has done nothing whatever to help us If the Chinese ont press the at attack tack we can hold out for Say ten days So no time should be lost if a terrible massacre is to be avoided Yet a Shanghai special says Lf Li Hung Chang has received a decree dated JUly 28 23 commanding him to inform consuls that the ministers were sat on that date Evidently Sir Cl de MacDonald was as Dr r Morrison under date of July 21 announces the arrival of supplies In view of this it is quite within reason that the edict announcing announcing ing the safety of the ministers on the is Commenting upon Dr Morrisons dispatch the Times says hIt It Is now beyond doubt that the frequent assertions of the different Chi Chines Chinese nese nes for a month nast Dast that the legations have been enjoying ying the protection of the throne are one arid and all unqualified ta ThE cumulative is overwhelming that the whole affair has been through throughout out under the control and direction of I the Chin Se government It now rests with the powers to tomake make the Chinese government under understand stand that it will ivill be held ful responsible re responsible for whatever happens In AMERICANS TOOK THE LEAD Copyright 1900 by the Associated Press Tien Tam Tsin July 26 via Che Foe Foo JUly 30 and Shanghai Aug Amen Ameri can n er r received orders from Washington today not to delay the ad advance advance vance On Pekin He was also informed that heavy reinforcements are en route Great activity Is noticeable at the Japanese hea Transport preparations are ara beIng hurried It is extremely unlikely that either eithe the Japanese se intend to fo be left behind b the Americans the British 1 ns are a l ng way from completeness The Japanese or organization organization on n th the oth other r hand excites the admiration of aU all aUThe The total strength of the allies here is is 1000 Reinforcements are arriving daily AMERICANS IN v PEKIN EXPEDITION London Aug allies began the advance from Tien Tsin this morn morning morning ing announces an agency bulletin dated at Shang Shanghai ai at 1110 a rn m today It is assumed that the AmerIcans British and are taking Part vart Parti i in 1 this movement whether other nationalities are or r not An ad advance adVance vance b base se will be established twenty or or thirty miles nearer Pekin and supplies will wUl be assembled preparatory preparatory tory to a direct stroke at the capital Of the allies barked at Pe Fe FeChi Chi Li ports English military observers consider tl that at are available fo foan for an advance Tien Tsin 1 The Chinese forces according to the vague gatherings r of the allies intelli intelligent gent officers up to July 2 27 were din dis disposed posed in a great are arc thirty miles long and distant tim ten or fifteen miles The Tho numbers and exact of the sey sev several eral divisions are utterly unknown The river is d by bv s sunken Junks for tw twenty I miles mUes n Tsin and farther u up according to Chinese spies of the a alies j Ii lies S and a dam has been constructed for the purpose of flooding the low lying expanse of country The first engagement of the relief expedition will probably be at Pel Pei Tang where the viceroy of Yulu personally commands This information Was to Tien Tsin Wednesday July 25 by a Chinese missionary student who was sent by the British legation He re received received I the message entrusted to him and left July 18 He saw a few troops between en Pekin and Yang Tsu No works had been Food in Pekin was scarce and the city wo would d be quite unable to endure a siege Among the scraps of Information n brought by an ther courier who left Pekin July Jub 14 vas as the fact that G Gon Gonera n eral era Ma a notable Boxer chief had been killed b by the Shanghai telegrams of this date say the foreign consuls met yesterday and decided to invite Admiral S Semour British to take command of the Shanghai defences The United States consul Mr Goodnow on behalf of th the consuls visited Admiral SeYmour an and he promised to draw up plans and sub submit silt mit them to a council of officers The Shanghai municipal council objects to the consular action The British Second Infantry h hade eade has been ordered to debark at Hon EIon Kong Cong to forma flyIng column to serve serre anywhere In China Two more ore transports with Indian troops on board are due to arrive to Iaz 13 The customs officers at Canton have haye Continued J tg J Ji i 2 OF ACTS OF WAR AR 1 Continued ot from r page 1 4 I 8 Chines Chinese junk which had 2000 rites much ammunition abard aboard 1 Sir Alred Alfred Gaele is quoted I as saying on July 28 that he Was ready I lj I to advance though lacking In artier artillery i 4 Colonel Daggett commanding the Americans at Ti Tien n Tsin Is also credited U 1 Wih with n a similar statement on the same 1 date dato although utterly without trans t I not even hayIng having a a horse for 1 himsel himself t f 1 Reinforcement Reinforcements are reported to have ave 1 been lent erit to the Chinese at Yang Tsun Taun J where strong entrenchment entrenchments have been i I thrown un UD bar the advance of the al alU ali U i lj I I t ff The Tho BerlIn of the Daiy Daily 4 t Chronicle s says 8 that Emperor Williams d prOal of the employment of non k lone men on leave Is evidently i r to pave the wa way for a Ger GerI 1 I 1 mn man expedition on a a large scale ane and it itI I 1 js is probable when suffIciently large this a force wi will act independently