Show W A TCUJNA SHOULD DO I J i r Fiance Makes Pointed Answer to Offer of j K jj j Chinese Government to Send Lega i I i f i tions t Tien T sin t Yellow Men Told that No Order Would ISSUE to French Envoy to Leave Peking So ongas Route l is Uiua feMong ian Authorities Au-thorities if Unable to Protect Envoys Should Open the Way I for Allies to Capital i L II I I Paris Aug 121030 p mThe Tsung I LlYamen forwarded through the Chinese Minister In Paris Yu Kong a I message to the French Government 1 complaining the tardiness of the foreign Ministers In Peking In replyIng iI reply-Ing to the offer of the Chinese Government Gov-ernment to conduct their escort Tho message proceeded to say that I I the TsungLlYamen declined to be responsible for any casualties which I might follow these delays and Insisted U5j In-sisted that the European Governments J1i order their representatives to leave f Peking To this communication M Delcasse Minister of Foreign Affairs S cent the following reply NO MISTAKING THIS No order to depart from Peking willS I will-S be given to our Minister so long as the I route Is unsafe If a casualty occurs the responsibility will be entirely with 19 the Chinese Government Its strict duty is to protect foreign Ministers even more than its own If It be true that the Chinese Government I Gov-ernment has great difficulty In defending I de-fending them and In defending Itself I r against rebels it should order its an < troops to stand aside before the allied J I forces This would render free theI I road from Tien Tsin to the capital I m IP and would accomplish work of protection e1 protec-tion which Is encumbered The Chinese Government should jI Understand that the only means of rgei l proving the sincerity of Its I designs and Ii of limiting Its responsibility Is I a cessation cessa-tion In the placing of obstacles In theE the-E S way of such an arrangement iJ LEGATIONS BOMBARDED of The French Foreign office received I q ff this irjorning from M PIchon French Minister at Peking what Is evidently the delayed dispatch which he referred to In the first message received from him published here last Thursday as my cipher No 1 dated August 3rdu S It is as follows S From June 20th to July 17th Chinese 1jJ1 Chin-ese troops besieged fired upon and bombarded us Four legations have i been burned and that of France three quarters destroyed We still hold out thanks to the heroic defence of the FrancoAustrian detachment Our 1 loss Is sixteen The general loss Is sixty more and 110 wounded ALL MISSIONS BURNED E All the missions In Peking have been burned save the Pel Tang mls Blon which Is standing but Its condition ii con-dition is uncertain Despite anguish r and privations the personnel of the legation are In good health The bombardment ceased on July 17th Offensive works Chinese barricades bar-ricades and intermittently shots continue I 9ii con-tinue without victims JlE d The Government It attempting indirectly s In-directly negotiate with us for our departure but we cannot leave with K out some protection other than that ji of the Government of China SUPPLIES NEARLY EXHAUSTED I Our forces ammunition and provisions pro-visions are almost exhausted The Interrupted I i In-terrupted attacks may recommence and 5 place us at the mercy of the Chinese Government On July 29th I received a telegram which I was not allowed to reply to in oi cipher ARE IN GREAT DANGER According to advices received today from Admiral Lourrcjels of the French MT t naval command native Christians and missionaries on the line to Hankow b COO kilometres from Peking are in great danger the point being entirely outside the sphere of the allied operations opera-tions S I He has also received bad news regarding sfj re-garding New Chwang captured AugustS S 4th which as he Is advised has since been evacuated 4 According to his advices from the i French colony In Peking eight marines I one cadet and one customs employee t have been killed He says a Danish 3ii company has laid a cable from Che lfO Taku j S LOUBET TALKS TO SOLDIERS o s President of Trance Addresses Chinese Chi-nese Expeditionary Forces Force-s Marseilles Aug 12 President Lou bet accompanied by M Delcasse L Gen Andre Minister of War and M iT Delanassnn Minister of Marine arrived here this morning and proceeded immediately ilT im-mediately to the reviewing grounds Where they discussed the Chinese expeditionary iT ex-peditionary corps There was much iI enthusiasm with cries of Vive Lou i bet Vive la icpubllque and Vivo la armee The cheers were contlnu t ous After the review M Loubet taking I jj his position on the reviewing stand i 1d to present the flag to the corps said I In the name of the republic I deliver c uL r de-liver to you the flags of the expeditionary I In 5 expedition-ary corps They nro confided to your loyalty and patriotism which I guar i y7ilcp Honor and fatherland IB your 4 f motto Soon you will Inscribe upon their folds the name of a campaign f Pi rendered necessary by the violation of J p our rights the disregard of our legitimate t tra legiti-mate Interests and the brutal assault J l I made upon those who represent us In I j China 0 Olllcers noncommissioned officers I S and soldiers let these flags be to you Fj a sacred gift They recall the lofty I mission of France a mission confided > to your courage to exact from a country coun-try where the essential laws of civilized countries have been odiously violated II 5 chasilscment of the guilty and lo Impose some vivid indemnities for the past with necessary guaraiitcc for the c future They tell you that the heritage 1 of honor the care of which your elders confided to you cannot grow less at your hands and In this International army > which is formed for the defense of clvlllzallon these wearing the French uniform must not yield In discipline dis-cipline endurance or courage to any They will also recall to you your families your children and friends and all thqjifrectloijs which a soldier leaves without hesitation when the service of his country calls him They will be the symbol of your country in your I I very midst of your country attentive to your sufferings and watchful the dangers from which I wisn you may soon be relieved Wo will await with Impatience but not alarm the time which will permit us to share with you and your comrades com-rades of the fleet under Admiral Pot tier your satisfaction and gratitude At the luncheon following the ceremony cere-mony M Loubet replying to a toast to his health said I came here as I went to Cherbourg In order to dispel I the criminal equivocation which party spirit attempts to create and which it wishes to perpetuate by trying to dig I a ditch between the army and the nation I This monstrous s effort will fall It I has already failed I am certain Is not the army a part of the nation Itself It-self When military service Is completed com-pleted will not the army return to their own firesides The army and the nation make one and are only Inspired with the same devotion to France and the republic The transport Melbourne with 1000 troopsot the China expeditionary corps left at midnight SHOTS EXCHANGED Chinese Again Attack the Legations on August5th Rome Aug 12Thc Italian Foreign office has received the following dispatch dis-patch from the Italian Minister In1 Peking Marquis Rcggl dated August I Au-gust 5th I 1 Shot exchanged between the defenders de-fenders of the legation and the Chinese Chi-nese one killed and two wounded We have no news from the allies I since July SOUl We hope they will not delay advance to Peking |