Show I SENDING X S TROOPS TO CHINA I Secretaries Root and Hay Confer with I President I S I Washington June 1C Unless telegraphic tele-graphic communication with Admiral j I I Kcmpff Is restored speedily a cost vessel ves-sel will be ordered fo proceed from Mai nun to Taint for news Secretaries Hay and Root held a conference with the President today regarding the sending of troops to China They left the White House at 1 oclock p m J They said they had received no official confirmation of the burning of the legations le-gations in Peking They were gelling together all the data possible they stated and would do whatever the situation situ-ation seemed to require Both gentlemen gentle-men refused to make a further state menu renl Tim conclusion reached at the confer once was mat If communication with Kcmpff Is not reesiabllshed within a reasonable time forces will be dispatched dis-patched from Manila to reinforce the American contingent Preliminary Inquiries In-quiries are being made to nee what can be done in the way of preparing an expedition An Inquiry as to what constituted a reasonable time failed to secure a de 1 finite answer but tlu impression was conveyed that unless Kemp Is heard from by Monday troops or a naval contingent con-tingent will be dispatched from Manila KILLING OF DJPLOMAl QUESTIONED QUES-TIONED Nothing has becn heard here by officials of-ficials to confirm the alarming reports of tile destruction of thq embassies and legations In Poking and In view of the fact that the Government Itself is notable not-able to open communication with the scene of the troubles the officials are Inclined lo doubt huther private enterprise en-terprise could do more In other words they do not believe the report Minister Wu of the Chinese legation here culled at the Stale department this foronoon but he declared that he wa8 without any advleo I from his own I Government and said that IIH visit to Secretary Hay had reference to n personal i per-sonal mailer NOTHING FROM CONGER Not n word of news came to the Slate I doparlrpont from Minister Conger who haa now been cut off from communication communica-tion fllnce last Tuesday Even the United States Consuls In north China porta were silent Admiral Kempff has not heen heard from since yesterday This absence of official reports has given rise to grave apprehension here It was expected that there might be delay In hearing from Mr Conger but in tho case of Admiral Kempff an early report was looked for and It Is feared that the officer of the foreign fleet at Tuku has been prevented from reachIng reach-Ing the cable station thero either by open hostility of the Boxers or by the wlnlBter orders of the Chinese Government Govern-ment tMORE MORE TROOPS NEEDED Yesterday Admiral KcmpfC was called upon by direction of the President Presi-dent for an explicit statement of the situation and his needs I was for him to flY whether he required reinforcement rein-forcement and troops If he Is cut off from reply the Government must act without waiting much longer Of course in that case It would have to proceed upon the theory that additional addi-tional force both ships and troops per hnp ill I needed The element which advocates the UKC of troops at once Is finding strong support sup-port In tho apparent Inability of the relief re-lief column to reaCh Poking Titer nr guo that sailors and marines arc well enough In operations along the sea coast but that they arc helpless In a hostile country avvny from their base I |