Show ALL DOUBTSDISPDLLEDH I l MncDonalds Dispatch Settles Question Ques-tion With Britons I London July 31 418 1 a mSlr I Claude MacDonalds welcome dispatch dated Peking July 21st and received In I cipher la accepted on all sides as dispelling dis-pelling doubts that might still have existed regarding the genuineness of I the dispatch Owing to an error in I I transmission the message fails to show I the number of wounded David OH phant and Warren wore two st entl Interpreters FAILS TO MENTION OTHER LEGATIONS LE-GATIONS The message falls to mention the other legations and other matters of pressing importance to know but It should be borne In mind that the British Brit-ish Minister may not be aware that all his previous dispatches have been suppressed i sup-pressed He may he under the impression Im-pression that the Government is fully posted regarding all recent occurrences Apart from this dispatch there Is practically no fresh news although a special from Tien Tsln asserts that the British and American forces are getting get-ting ready to advance within forty eight hours LI Hung Chang remains at Shanghai He says tho great heat prevents him I continuing the journey to Peking I NO LIABILITY TO JAPAN Sir Michael HicksBeach Chancellor of the Exchequer explained to Parliament Parlia-ment yesterday that the British Government Gov-ernment has Incurred no financial liability lia-bility to Japan for military assistance In China The proposed guarantees depended de-pended upon Japans sending a larger number trooos than she sent and at an earlier date and the offer was not accepted by the Japanese Government MEMORIALIZED THE THRONE Sir Chih Chen Chinese Minister In London has been notified by telegram that LI Hung Chang conjointly with other VIceroys and Governors has memorialized me-morialized the throne to urge tho immediate im-mediate sending of the foreign representatives repre-sentatives under escort to Then Tsln or I the restoration to them of free telegraphic I tele-graphic communication with their Governments Gov-ernments BRITONS ARE CONVINCED At last the British Government Is convinced that the Ministers at Peking J nre safe Brussels Berlin und American I Ameri-can advices were regarded with doubt but once the British Consul at Tien Tsin confirmed them all doubt vanished van-ished lie telegraphs to the Foreign office today that a letter from a Japanese Japan-ese Colonel in Pel lng states that the legations were safe July 22nd There had been no firing on the legations since July 17th The Consul adds A reliable messenger who failed to enter Poking1 but reached there returns re-turns sUiting that there was no firing on the legations between July 15th and July 19th ACCEPTS THE EVIDENCE I view of this evidence the British Government Is convinced that the legations lega-tions are safe tons At this hour the good news has not become sufficiently known to the public to cause great rejoicing but the feelings feel-Ings of relief of the officials who havo read the dispatch S can hardly be described de-scribed < VINDICATION FOR SECRETARY I HAY Almost In the same breath that they express their delight they say this afternoons af-ternoons dispatches may be regarded as C striking vindication of the United States Secretary of State Col John Hay and almost a triumph for him a relief from International anxiety GREAT BRITAIN DECLINED A telegram from Shanghai reports on the authority of n Briton who hid been for many years In tIme service of the Viceroy of Nankin that prior to the framing of the YanffTsc agreement with the Consuls the Viceroy suggested sug-gested AngloChlneee occupation of the YungTsc defends but Great Britain C declined I Is reported at Shanghai that t c powers have again proposed through III Hung Chang the peaceful surrender of the Woo Sung forts and Kianguau arsenal but that the Chinese regard I the proposed as a breach of the existing exist-ing agreement BOXERS ASSURED OP PARDON LI Hung Chang Is understood to bo preparing a proclamation for distribution distribu-tion as he travels toward Chi Li assuring assur-ing the Boxers of pardon if they disband dis-band and return to their homes COMMONS HEARS THE NEWS In the House of Commons today the Parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign For-eign office Mr St John Broderick read the dispatch from the British Consul at Tien Tsln saying that the foreign Ministers Peking were safe July 22nd Mr Broderick also read a dispatch In which the statement was made that a strong body of troops compose almost I al-most entirely of Kwans Sus was around the legations and that the Chinese were forced to block the river with sunken craft with a breach on the left bank In order to flood the country to the eastward S RUSSIANS GUARD RAILROAD Mr Broderick added that the council of Admirals decided July 16th that the railroad between Taku and Tien Tsin should be guarded and should be managed man-aged by the Russians The Government Govern-ment has Informed Russia It acquiesces as the arrangement Is the most convenient con-venient but that it must be clearly understood un-derstood that the line would revert to its former management that Is the British on termination of hostilities Mr Bro erlck added that he did not yet know who was to have supreme command com-mand British troops would be available availa-ble to cooperate with the allies but no arrangements have been made mate to put them under command of foreign officers The Che Foo correspondent of the Daily Express telegraphing July 25th says I have received a dispatch from Peking dated July 10th saying All silent bullets and shells occasionally occasion-ally fired from streets causing but few casualties I is reported that eighteen foreigners foreign-ers have been murdered at runG Chou on tho Pel IIo CHINESE ARE REPULSED A dispatch from Shanghai dated Monday and received at Brussels says that according to the Governor of Shan Tung a Imperial decree announces an-nounces that all the Ministers are safe The rebels attacked the British legation lega-tion on July Sth but were repulsed with the loss of 1000 Through the In termediary of the Governor of Shan Tung a telegram from the Russian Admiral Alexieff ha reached the Ministers Min-isters In Peking Chinese sources say that the Europeans were holding out on July 24th In the Catholic cathedral |