Show LEGATIONS ARE WELL Official of TstmgLiYamen So Reports After Galling on Diplomats in eking on July ISth 4 1 r Chinese Minister to Great Britain is AdvisedHe isAIso Informed that Throne Will be Memorialized to Send Ministers Under Escort to Tien Tsin in Hope that Military Operations Will Then be Stopped I P London July 24 4 a mTh > Chinese Minister Sir Chlh Chen Lo F nS Lull has communlqated to the press the following fol-lowing dlspalch from Shenp Director i of the Chinese Railways and Telegraphs Tele-graphs and Tao Tat l of Shanghai dated Shanghai July 23rd I i Information from Peking dated I July 18th says that the TsungHYa men deputed Won Jut an under secretary secre-tary of the department to see the for k eign Ministers and he found every one 1 well without any missing the German I I Ger-man excentee Gen Yung Lu is going to memorialize I L memorial-ize the throne to send them oil under an escort to Tien Tsln in the hope that the military operations will then be stopped SHANGHAI HAS ANOTHER STORY 7 The Shanghai correspondent of the Dally Mal telegraphing July 23rd says A letter from a Chinese official In Shan Tung has been received by an acllvc functionary here containing the i following passage At the beginning of the month the foreign missionaries 3 made several atlempls to send messages I mes-sages out of Peking out thanks to the I Btrict watch kept on the city the bearers bear-ers were all caught and executed On the 4th Inst only 100 foreigners much exhausted were left alive in Peking and one night when the big guns were incessantly fred it was known that all the legations and foreigners were finished although pretended telegrams contradicted these facts q RUSSIAN COUNCIL OF WARt WAR-t The St Petersburg correspondent of the Dally Mall asserts that there are differences of opinion in tim Russian I council of war The Minister of War Gen ICouopntkin wishes to send 100 000 men to clear the rebels out of Man cear churia On t other hand according to this correspondent Emperor Nicholas Nicho-las wishes the operations limited to the districts defense and pacification of the frontier districtsWANT WANT NO CONQUESTS Tg Let two armies one of the allies In the south and the other of the Russians Rus-sians In the north confront tho Chinese Chi-nese and the rising so the Czar Is Kaid to argue would be bound to collapse 3 col-lapse Ve want no conquests he Is reported to have declared at the conclusion of a sitting of the council What we desire Is to protect our frontiers 1 fron-tiers and to steer Into smooth waters p the Chinese ship of State now buffeted by the waves of civil war j 1 THINKS CHINESE ARE JUGGLING There Is nothing further this morning 1 morn-Ing that throws any light upon the mysterious situation Two urgent dispatches dis-patches were addressed yesterday by the Chinese Minister to the Peking Government and the administrator of telegraphic communication strongly recommending the restoration of telegraphic tele-graphic communication so as to enable t4i en-able the powers to learn of the safety t of the foreign Ministers Until such proofs arc secured no one here Is Inclined In-clined to alter the opinion that the Chinese Chi-nese are merely juggling to gain time EARL LIS MISSION Rumor circulates briskly around the F personality oCLI Hung Chang He LJ I IB credited with a mission to offer to code to the allied powers two provlnpes rI1 as Indemnity for the Peking outrages and also to offer to restore order and give facilities for trade with the outside out-side world on condition of the surrender surren-der of Kalo Chou WelHaiWel and N Manchuria by the powers and the withdrawal of all missionaries Little i attention however need be paid to i any of those rumors BRITONS MODIFY VIEWS I lLiI Though there are some Indications zr1 that HIP hardened pessimism is beginning begin-ning to melt under the warm show of Chinese assurances so that It is now tii admitted that perhaps not all the foreign for-eign Ministers ar Peking have been murdered still Incredulity remains the 9 dominant note of European comment iJ No one Heenis able to reconcile the as j uiiriaoeH < of lie imperial edict with tUr 4 MUniicr Congers statement In his s alleged niwsnge to Secretary Hay that he was in hourly expectation of death by miiAHncrc though both documents fE3 purport to have been sent off from Ze Peking on tho same date It Is confidently anticipated however 0 that tho mystery will be solved as jt all the Governments following the lead of the Unltod States Secretary of State Co Tiny have taken steps to test the Hlncerlty of Chinese ofllclaldomby insisting in-sisting upon communication with the Ministon jdJ UnISL01 w t DESTROYED BY RIOTERS The China inland mission received 1jq1 n telfgrum from Shanghai dated today r0o to-day which reports that Slang Slen SI I StU Cha Kluo Shekia Tien and Klang II Tsl Kuen all mission stations in the 1ij province of Hoh Nan have been de fltroyed by rioters The missionaries j ii art safe 1Dt STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS the I In the House of Commons today Pai llamont Secretary of the Foreign c ofiUo Mr William St John Broclerlck I4 ntld certain statement with regard to the wifely of the legations at Peking th Pe-king and said the Chinese Minister declared them to be unharmed Mr t7 Brodorlek rend thejlext of the several edicts of JuJy iSth Commenting on Minister Congersdispatch to the Department De-partment of State of the United States MI Hrodoi lek said that though the dispatch dis-patch wa < the same date as the edict of assurance of safety the latter wa not bornt out by Mr Conger HOW CONGERS MESSAGE CAME onnul < Warren had telegraphed to ir the Governor of Shan Twig to I enow how a inessns from Peking reached meS8tp him Jn two days and why thero was no mouGpge from their foreign Minim 111 im or Sir Claude MacDonald The Coy prnor had replied that the United States fj4 I I Ministers message w sent by the TsungIlYamen by a messenger traveling 600 leagues roughly 200 miles a day I assure you the Governor of Shan Tung had added there Is no telegraphic communication I cannot explain why MacDonald has not telegraphed i tele-graphed but I beg you not to be anxious about the Ministers for they and the others are all living and Unharmed un-harmed Of this I have already had several reliable messages DISCREDITS CHINESE STATEMENTS STATE-MENTS Mr Broderick continued Seeing that a month has elapsed since any communication com-munication hasi reached the Govern ment from the British legation and the TsuncrHYumen is in communication communica-tion by messenger with various Chinese Chi-nese authorities her Majestys Government Govern-ment feel theycannot give credence to any statement or to any decrees attributed at-tributed to the Emperor or Chinese 1 Government until they are fortified by letters signed and dated by l Sir Claude I MacDonald or other British officials or by some cablegram in our cipher IMPERIAL EDICT TRANSLATED According to the translation read by Mr Broderick the Imperial edict is as follows In the Confucian philosophy Spring and Autumn It Is wrltteji Envoys En-voys should not be killed How then I can It be supposed the thrones policy is to connive at allowing troops and people to vent their wrath on foreign Ministers The edict then gives the assurance already made unto the public ERROR IN MESSAGE I is probable that In the message from the Governor of Shan Tung to Consul Warren the word leagues should read Us A his is a Chinese mile equal to about onethird of an English mile AT HIS OLD GAME Ina private message from Shanghai it Is asserted that Li Hung Chang aVQusthat the object of his Journey is ito i-to place the regular Chinese army inline in-line with the allied troops for the suppression sup-pression oC the Boxers < The Times editorially suggests that 1 LI Hung Chang is playing the old game of the sublime Porte by putting forward for-ward proposals which will appear I Indifferent In-different degrees and ways lo benefit the Dowers I says President McKinley has been asked mediate and the request Is facilitated by the care which has been taken In Washington not to commit the United States to any very thoroughdoing policy cy cyIndian Indian troops are dally arriving at Hongkong Three transports arrived here yesterday and two others have left Hongkong for Taku QUIET IN CANTON Report from Canton say the city is outwardly quiet but that there is a strong undercurrent of unrest among the Chinese Only a few European ladies la-dies have f many still remaining St Petersburg dispatches represent the situation in Manchuria as far more serious than had been supposed I is asserted that the Chinese have occupied occu-pied Hailar where the Russian railway star is surrounded and In desperate straits WILL COMMAND ALLIED FORCES According to the St Petersburg correspondent cor-respondent the Times Gen Korapat kin the Russian Minister of War will probably become commanderInchief of the Russian forces in China and will presumably take command of all the allied al-lied troops |