Show CONGER IS ALL RIGHT AMERICAN MINISTER IN PEKIN SENDS ANOTHER MESSAGE still mill by chinese lilac lil nc droops and in a adrance at 0 relief fore force may precipitate alvar tile the war department has received the following dispatch from tien tsin from colonel daggett Rac gett an american officer dated august 1 message juat received from conger anys since lath by agreement no firing have provisions several weeks little ammunition all safe well kc ile 1 port allied forces soon advance practically no looting by americans no unnecessary killing the following letter of lieutenant colonel military at the legation of pekin dated july 23 arrived at tien tsin trio on tho the at 9 0 cloel clock in the evening wo are all awaiting impatiently the arrival of reinforcements cements and if 1 you can not reach batlin less than thana a necks weeks time it is probable that we will be unable to hold out any longer emperor and empress dowager appear to bo be still at pekin were our forces to arrive it is very probable that they would flee to wan Sh Sho osban killed and wounded up to date dale eight lulled killed one a captain of infantry and an ambassadors seven seri seriously wounded the first secretary of legation being one of twenty tn enty slightly wounded the number of europeans killed is sixty in all important additional confirmation I 1 of the safety of the legations has been received in london by sir duncan I 1 campbell representative in europe of tho the chinese customs service from tile the commissioner of customs cus loius at die clie four foo in the shape of a pekin dispatch not dated but believed to have been written rit on oa july 21 signed by bo loth i S sir ar robert kobert hart inspector general of customs and mr air robert breedon deputy infector general to tile the following effect staff and family still safe this has been confirmed by the commissioner of ciu customs in shanghai A sensational shanghai correspondent still hints that the chinese are ara juggling with dates but in face ot of the con constantly scantly accumulating evidence that the ministers were sac safe on july 22 and dispute the alie omission from all the dispatches of anxiously desired information re carding the he real situation political and otherwise at pekin there are very few in london who do not dot believe the dispatches genuine and reliable the allies now confront a most difficult and dangerous problem without doubt the ministers mini stets are held by the chinese as hostages and the outcome ot of the advance on pekin which in all probability has hag already begun will be awaited with intense anxiety the chinese are strongly stion gly in trenched at wang tsun from ach which position however it is ie believed they can bo be ejected without gibat difficulty the danger is that if defeated there tile the chinese will retire on pekin and put the remainder of the europeans to death it is also po pos sible tible that the advance of the allies will be the signal for the chinese authorities to compel all foreigners to quit the capital in which event they might become the prey ot of the fanatical boxers the feeling is that nothing whatever should now delay the advance and that no negotiations cotany kind should be countenanced until the allied troops reach pekin and assure themselves regarding the fate of the foreigners |