Show CONGER SAFE AND WELL I I I i I American Minister in Peking Sends a Message < Mes-sage to American Officer in Tien Tsin Diplomat Says that Since July 16th by Agreement There Has Been no FiringLegation Has Provisions for Several Weeks but Little AmmunitionJapaneseAttache Peking Gives Killed and Wounded Up to July 23rdDead Number Sixty F + Washington July 31The War department this afternoon received ± this cablegram frcm China t + Che Foo undatedTlen Tsln July 27 Corbln Washington Message + + t Mes-sage Just received from Conger says Since 16th by agreement n firing 1 t Have provisions several weeks little ammunition All safe well + t i I Daggett report allied forces soon < advance Practically no looting t by Americans no unnecessary killing India arrived 26th Order Mc 4 + Cann Sladen both Aliens Mitchell Brice join regiment hereDAGGETT i + DAGGETT + t ARE STILL DEFENDING + AdjtGen Corbln today received a dispatch from LicutCol Coolidge f + commanding > the Ninth Infantry at Tien Tsin It came byway of Che Foo + 4 and Is as follows y J + + TIcn Tsln July Following letter of LleutCol Shlba military at t tache at the legation of Peking dated July 23rd arrived Tien Tsln 25th 4 at oclock In the evening 1l Peking July 22 evening We are all awaiting impatiently arrival of + reinforcing army When arc you coming All legations have been blockaded 4 t block-aded since 13th last month and since the 20th we have been attacked + + continually night and day by the Chlhoso soldiers from more than ten encampments + ± en-campments By a supreme effort we kre still defending + CANNOT HOLD OUT LONG We aro dally awaiting with the greatest anxiety arrival of reinforcements + rein-forcements and If you cannot reach here In less than a weeks time It is t f I probable that we will be unable to hold out any longer + + Emperor and Empress Dowager appear to be still at Peking Were tour + t-our reinforcements to arrive very probable that they would fleo to Wan + + Shoshan I t SIXTY EUROPEANS KILLED + + II Killed and wounded up to date eight killed one a Captain of infantry t 4 infan-try and an Embassadors attache seven seriously wounded the first secretary + r sec-retary of legation being one of tho t twenty slightly wounded The number + num-ber of Europeans killed Is sixty In all COOLIDGE I 4 CHINA FORMALLY DECLARES WAR + London July 31A special dispatch from Tien Tsln today says t + A Peking message dated July 21st reports that the first outside t = news reached there July 18th The failure of the relief expedition made t t the siege far more perilous On June 19th thc Tsung11Yamen broke off t + relations June 20th China declared war Baron von Ketteler and Fran + cis James an English prju ssor7Wj > rejmurdered Over 100 noncombatants t + W > 1 decupled the British r > r viI + occup legation T I understand converts nre holding the North cathedral A thousand f refugees occupied the palace of Prince Lu A truce began July 17th + after twent six days of fierce assault One night the shelling was uninterrupted + unin-terrupted for six hours f Four attempts were made to fire the British legation Two attacks at-tacks resulted in the ruin of the Han Lin college the Chinese national t college The cowardice of the Chinese prevented a successful rushing + + The total killed or died Is Germans 10 Japanese 10 French 11 British + I t t Brit-ish Russians 4 Americans 7 Italians 7 converts 9 total with t wounded 98 The correspondents Morrison Reid and Tementy are ill I + At least 2000 Chinese have been killed The Americans occupy a + i t strong position on the city wall Provisions are still sufficient The i hospital arrangements are excellent Everybody is much exhausted by + 3 continuous work t t Imperial edicts have commanded the Boxers and ordered missionaries + 1 to leave the Interior and commanded Viceroys to help Peking but an + + edict dated July 18th enjoins protection and promises compensation The + + report that a large relief force was coming produced this change For + elgn Governments should beware being hoodwinked + t EAGERLY AWAITING RELIEF t + Rome July 31The commander of the Italian cruiser Elbe at Tien + I I + Tam received the following telegram today from the Japanese attache at t I I T Peking dated July 22nd The legations are eagerly awaiting relief t I I Cannot hold out long Sixty Europeans killed + t + + + + 4H + + + HHHH + + + + + + + H + + < H + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + I |