Show NO AUTUENTIC MESSAGE European Governments Do Not Attach Any Credence XThatever to Statements Coming from Chinese J t Neither Will They Consent to Stay Preparations for Advance of Relief Re-lief Force Toward PekinJLondon Mail Prints Story Which T Says All Foreigners Have Been Massacred and Legations De stroyedMinisters Shot Their Own Families I 6 London July 2gThe Thehopes of Eu I tope for the safety of at least some of I the members of the legations at Peking I Pe-king which earlier In the week had commenced to revive are now flickering I and ni the point of extinguishment It has been nolnted out that there has been I ample time to get authentic messages signed and dated by the Ministers This Is the consummation of Chinese assurances assur-ances that will be acceptable Until such advices have been received or until un-til the Ministers have been handed over I in the flesh the general public and the Governments interested will not attach at-tach any credence to further Chinese statements or consent to stay preparations prepara-tions for the advance of therelief force toward Peking SURROUNDED BY CHINESE The latest story originating In other than Chinese sources Is a special dispatch dis-patch from Che Foo dated July 27th a according to which Missionary Wilder who started for Peking a fortnight ago I lias just returned and reports that he I found the Imperial Chinese forces completely com-pletely surrounding the Tartar city He was unable to deliver a message to the legation and In reply to his entreaties the Chinese said they could not allow t any one a pass to the foicigners 1 ATTACK CEASED JULY 11TII According to reports the attack on the legations ceased on the afternoon of July 11th Everything was quiet during the icmalndcr of Missionary i WiJders stay When he left on July 38th a decree had been issued commanding com-manding all persons to protect the foreigners for-eigners In China Returning he saw no troops for sixty miles south of Pe king but he learned that 20000 men were in the neighborhood of Yan Tsun and PelTsung I LEGATIONS ALL DEAD The Dally Malls Shanghai corre spondent telegraphs that a Russian banker who left Peking July 7th and arrived Shanghai Wednesday July 25th says that when heleft Peking all the legations had been destroyed and all the foreigners mu eled The Min isters seeing death was inevitable shot their families Sir Robert Hart the banker said committed suicide in despair The full text of the Dally jfalls telegram is as follows TEXT OF THE MESSAGE Shanghai July Newspapers here publish statement by an In fluential banker residing In Peking near the British legation who arrived In Shanghai July 25th having left Peking July 7th Ha states that the legations were then destroyed All the foreigners foreign-ers had disappeared and he could not J say positively J If they had been murdered mur-dered as he was too frightened to inquire in-quire INFORMATION RELIABLE I The Malls correspondent proceeds l Investigations prove this Information i Is reliable The banker in question has gone to Ting Po His friends will not disclose his name fearing that to do 130 would cause him to lose his head MASSACRE CONFIRMED The manager of the Russian bank a bf Shanghai has received a letter from the banks New Chwang branch stating stat-ing that one of their Chinese repre nentatlves from Peking who had Just arrived confirmed the report of the Pelting U Pe-lting massacre He states that all the ii foreign Ministers were murdered MINISTERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES Seeing death was Inevitable as the Chinese swarmed Into the legations the J Ministers killed their families at the last moment Sir Robert Hart In despair de-spair committed suicide HAS DEPRESSING EFFECT I The statement cabled from Washing Jon that officials there are wavering with regard to the reliability of the al i Jeged messages from Minister Conger and Wu Ting Fangs assurances has had a markedly depressing effect on this aide of the ocean where many have been buoyed UI by the sanguine c1r views of the State department at i Washington regarding the various Shanghai dispatches and pessimism is ia again gaining the ascendancy i NO IMPROVEMENT No improvement In the general situation t sit-uation is the message one agency t brings from the British CftnsulGoncral aUShanghal to overwrought Europe wlnu another asserts that as a week 3 has elapsed without a reply to the Conk Con-k fiuls message to the British Minister at Pelting Sir Claude MacDonald through j the TsungliYamen Chinese Foreign J olllce the belief is confirmed that theca the-ca Chinese olllcial reports are only to gain ii time and that If the Ministers are sI alive they are held as hostages I TELEGRAMS NOT VEGETABLES A3 commentators pertinently remark eS If there is an atom of truth In all the VTel Chinese asservatlons the officials have only to supply the legations not with tiE1 vegetables but with telegraph forms iil Definite news of any kind Is scarce The report comes from Shanghai that business has been resumed at the port pic of New Chwang and that a second Japanese division is mobilizing at To klo preparatory to embarkation for e1 ChinaCONFLICT re CONFLICT AT AN TONG e Through a Yokohama dispatch the Government has received Information that Chinese attacked a body of Japanese 1 Japan-ese and Koreans In the vicinity ot Ant An-t Tong on the north side of the Yalu liver Refugees had arrived at Wlju Japanese reinforcements were proceeding pro-ceeding to the scene of conflict r The latest news received at St 1 Tetoiburg from Blagovcslchcnnk was dated July 23rtl The Russian garrison liad been rcsupplled with ammunition nnd would be able to hold out until reinforced re-inforced EN ROUTE TO TIEN TSIN i1 The Chinese legation l here reiterates i V the assertion that the Ministers are en route to Tien Tsln A Parliamentary paper on China was c issued this afternoon dealing with the jic period or murder of missionaries from I January 4th to July 13th when the 1th tfhlncse Minister London Sir Chin I r Chen Lo Feng Luh communicated to l Lord Salisbury the Imperial edict WARNING TO PRINCE CHING The last letter from Sir Claude Mac I Donald dated May 2Sth refers to the warning to Prince Ching that the Minister Min-ister would summon guards unless the Government showed a greater disposition I disposi-tion to protect the legations Minister i I Minis-ter MacDonald admitted that he was somewhat surprised at the calmness I with which Prince Chins received the suggestion which he said had already I been made to him Minister MacDonald adds Possibly Possi-bly the Government has awakened to the strength of the Boxer movement and would be disposed to welcome the additional security afforded by the presence of foreign troops The con I tents of Sir Claude subsequent sub-sequent telegrams are already known i VICEROYS WARNED July 7th Lord Salisbury notified the Viceroys through a communication to the Chinese Minister that they would bo held personally responsible should any Injury be clone to the Europeans On July Cth Lord Salisbury gave the southern Viceroys assurances of support sup-port July llth the Chinese legation l forwarded for-warded to the Queen a telegram dispatched dis-patched from Peking July 3rd by the Emperor as follows APPEAL OF CHINESE EMPEROR Slnco the opening of commercial intercourse In-tercourse between foreign nations and China the aspirations of Great Britain have always been after commercial extension not territorial aggrandizement aggrandize-ment Recently dissensions have arisen between Christians and the people of Chi Li and Shan Tung certain evil disposed persons have availed themselves them-selves of the occasion to make disturbances disturb-ances and these having extended so rapidly that the treaty powers sus peeling the rioters might have been encouraged by the Imperial Government Govern-ment attacked and occupied the Taku forts The sufferings arising from this act of hostility have been great and the situation is much involved In consideration con-sideration of the facts that of the foreign i for-eign commerce of China more than 70 Pqr cent belongs to England that the Chinese tariff Is lower than that of another an-other country and the restrictions thereon fewer British merchan have I during the last few decades maintained relations with Chinese merchants at ports a harmoniously as if both were members of the same family NEW COMPLICATIONS But new complications have arisen mutual distrust has been engendered and the ltuatlon haVing thus changed for the worse It Is felt that If China cannot be supported In maintaining her position foreign nations looking on so large and populous a country so rich In natural resources might be tempted to exploit or despoil it and perhaps differ among themselves with respect to their conflicting interests I is evi dent that this will create a slate of matters that wpuld be disadvantageous to Great Britain a country which views commerce as her greatest Interest China Is now engaged in raising men nnd means to cope with these eventualities eventu-alities but oho feels that If loft to herself her-self she might not be equal to the oc cnsJon should It ever arise and there fore turns to England In the hope of procuring her good offices In bringing about 0 settlement of the difficulties that have arisen with the other treaty powers The Emperor makes this frank exposure ex-posure of what Is nearest his heart I and hopes this appeal to her Majesty the QueenEmpress may be graciously taken under consideration and an answer I an-swer vouchsafed at the earliest possible i moment I The papers close with the edict of July 19th already published which was communicated to the Foreign office July 13th MACDONALDS LAST MESSAGE The lat written communication from the British Minister at Peking Sir Claude MacDonald dated May 12th declared de-clared that the demeanor or the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Peking was quiet and civil toward to-ward foreigners although from the panic among native Christians It could be assumed the latter are being subjected sub-jected to threats of violence RAIN TO RESTORE TRANQUILITY I Sir Claude MacDonald was convinced that 0 few days of heavy rainfall to terminate the drought which had helped excite the unrest of the country districts would do more to restore tranquility tran-quility than any measures the Chinese or foreign Governments could take |