Show ARE MOVING ONPEKIN6 ft Advancing Column of the Allies Reported to f 1 Have Reached a Point 35 Miles 1 from Tien Tsiru Action 1 Occurs Between Japanese and Chinese Two Miles Beyond the Hsiku Arsenal in Which the Japs Withdrew After SufferingS Suffering-S Thirty CasualtiesReports of a Wholesale Massacre of Christians Outside of Peking Confirmed S I I I London Aug 4 355 a According to special dispatch from Shanghai dated August 3rd the advancing column col-umn of the allies was reported there yesterday to have reached a point thir tyfivo miles beyond Tien Tsln Nothing Noth-ing from any other point corroborates this statement In fact the Standard goes so far as to say that it fears the real advance apart from preliminary I measures has not yet begun CASUALTIES TO JAPANESE I Tien Tom dispatches dated July 30th tell of an action which Is termed a reconnolsgance between the Japanese and Chinese two miles beyond the Hslku arsenal In which the Japanese withdrew after suffering thirty casualties casual-ties WILL LEAVE THE BRITISH The Tien Tsln correspondent of tho Standard under date of July 27th declares de-clares that the Americans and Germans have been ordered to move forward without waiting for the British AGREED TO A TRUCE A ChcFoo special dated August 1st says the safety of all the Americans in Peking and the reception of a letter from Dr Cheltman dated Peking July 20th saying that on the previous day t i Sir Claude MftcDonald the British Minister Min-ister had agreed to a truce providing the Chinese came no closer and continued con-tinued We hope this means relief but having defeated the Chinese we are fearful of treachery All are ex I haunted with constant wutchlng fightIng fight-Ing and digging trenches The greatest credit Is due to Air Squiers secretary of the United States legation whose military experience and energy are in Yalua valuable le i CJJ32LaiUST DISAPPEAR The < Shanghai correspondent of the Dally News says that the Consuls there regretthe Independent action taken by the American association and the China association on the ground that It Injudicious He says The settlements set-tlements being International petty Jealousies must disappear The China association is of little local influence Presumably he refers to the American Asiatic association MOVE AGAINST DYNASTY The Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Express announces tho arrival there from San Francisco of Homer Lee for some time resident agent in the United States of the society for the reformation of the Chinese empire with COOO which will presumably be utilized In connection with the movement against the Empress Dowager a movement move-ment quiescent since 1S9S until within the last few weeks L MASSACRE OB CHRISTIANS Nearly all tho correspondents confirm con-firm the reaorte of a wholesale massacre massa-cre of ChristianS outside Peking a correspondent cor-respondent of the Dally News giving the number of killed as between 10000 and 15000 all defenseless converts Imperial Im-perial troopsso it is stateddid the dastardly work S CHINESE OFFICIAL EXECUTED According to the Shanghai correspondent corre-spondent of the Times one of the members mem-bers of the Taung11Yamcn mentioned by United States Consul I Goodnow as having been beheaded for profoiclgn tendencies was Hsu Ching Cheng former for-mer Minister to Russia The correspondent corre-spondent says the Empress Dowager ordered his execution on the advice of LI fling Heng HAS FEW SUPPORTERS LI Hung Chang has been Informed from Peking that Prince Chings only prominent supporters In his peace policy pol-icy aro Gen Yung Lu and Wang Wen Shao president of the board of revenue reve-nue whoso influence is small 5 ARE REPORTED SAFE It Is said that a resident of Weston Super Mares his received a telegram from a nephew in Peking dated August 1st saying Safe In tho British legation i lega-tion S FORWARD MOVE BEGAN SUNDAY Tho forward move for the relief of the foreign legations in Pclclng began Sunday July 20th A message from Tien TsJn on that date says the advance ad-vance guard of the Russians occupying the right Hank and the Japanese I pushed to the river without opposition Tha expectation is that the whole allied al-lied LXJ ltlonary force 20000 men would be on the march by Tuesday July Slnt Sixteen hundred Americans and 2300 British are cooperating It is purposed to follow the river using bouts to carry food ammunition and artillery I I TELEGRAPH > H OFFICE BLOCKED The telegraph office at ChI Foo appears ap-pears to be blocked and newspaper and official telegrams are subject to In dcfinale delays Shanghai correspondents correspond-ents learn that the Russians were defeated de-feated north of New Chwang and that a body 5000 strong Is endeavoring to relieve the force besieged at Toehl Chow by 10000 Chinese and numerous guns Four Russian steamers on the Amur river ale said to have been sunk or damaged by the Chinese fire OBJECT OF ENLISTMENTS The Chinese military commanders at Shanghai have formally notified the foreign Consuls there that the enlistments enlist-ments now proceeding are to provide largo forces for tho protection the foreigners and have expressed tho hope that they will not entertain I groundless fears or suspicions adding that the Increase of the army is entirely en-tirely to secure their safely |