Show ASKED TO FIX A DATE Chinese Demand that Legations Lega-tions Arrange to Leave THE REQUEST IS DECLINED French Minister Cables the Foreign Office of Demand and Refusal There are in Legations 800 Foreigners For-eigners oC Whom 200 are Women and Children and 00 Wounded There are Also More Than 3000 Native Christians Whom Legations Cannot Leave to be Massacred 1I 1 Paris Aug 9The Foreign office has I received the following dispatch which reached here in cipher from M Pichon I the French Minister i Peking via Shanghai today August 9th the I Peking date not being given l The diplomatic corps has Just been Informed by the Chinese Government that the powers have repeatedly demanded de-manded our departure from Peking under cncort and beg us to arrange our I departure And fix n date We have responded re-sponded to the Tsung11Yamcn that we could not leave our posts without Instructions from our Governments to whom we leave the question 11 should Inform you that should we not depart from Peking the foreign forces coming to our rescue should be of sufficient number to Insure tho safety and convoy of 800 foreigners of whom 200 aro women and children and fifty wounded and mere than 3000 native na-tive Christians whom we cannot leave to be massacred In any case a I Chinese escort should not be considered con-sidered I hope that my cipher No 1 dated August 3rd has been transmitted The dispatch referred to by MPlchon I has not yei reached the French Foreign For-eign office |