Show CltINA AGAIN APPEALSo I V Viceroys Beg Uncle Sam to Use His Influence Against Landing of Troops at Shanghai r y S L I No Attention Will b Paid to the MemorialEntirely Out of the I Province of the United States to Interfere With British Pro gramme in Southern ChinaCommunication Will Probably Turned Over to Government for its Information I i Washington Aug 11It is stated L ofllcially tonight that this Government will pay attention whatever to the latest appeal from China transmitted In the form of a memorial from tho z southern Viceroys begging the United States to use Its Influence against the landing of British tropps In the Yang z S tse valley This memorial was transmitted trans-mitted to the State department this S morning by the Chinese Minister Mr Wu It urged on this Government the ry serious consequences that would follow 1 the landing of a British force at Shang fl hal and represented that the piepara z tlons already made had Induced a panic among the resident Chinese and would paralyse commercial activity In i that part ol the empire almost as much as a iormal declaration of war Jjy Great Britain OUT OF ITS PROVINCE This Government decided however v that not only would it be entirely out of Its province to Interfere with tho British piogramme In southern China t which was beIng carried forward by Admiral Seymour on thc ground with the full knowledge of local conditions i but In view of Chinas present attitude I atti-tude and the lack up to date of even an acknowledgment of our latest demand i de-mand concerning the safety of our = Ministers the United States was not E inclined to shoulder any of Chinas troubles with Great Britain nor any E other of the poweis Consequently IL the appeal of the Viceroys will be Ig t Jioied It la possible that the communication u from Minister Wu may be turned over ri to the British Government for Its Information In-formation on the general friendly prln cjple that has been adopted by the r powers of keeping each other informed L on the various developments in the situation Even this step however has 4 5 not been decided upon yet and will be 5t left to the Judgment of the PresIdentS President-S lAPS NOT JEALOUS S In connection With the proposed landing land-ing of Admhal J Seymours force it may p be said that the report of Japans opposition op-position to this move is without any ofllcial confirmation here The Japanese Japan-ese Minister in general conversation when the subject was first broach 1 ald that he had Information of any L piotest having been entered by Japan What developiHentb subsequent events might bring It was Impossible for him to say Itmay be said however asideS aside-S fiom the Japanese Ministers statement state-ment that Japan has up to date displayed r dis-played no jealousy of Great Britain m the Chinese campaign Japan herself it has been announced semlofllclally has no colonial ambitions S FRIENDLY UNCLE SAM I Incidentally it may be said that the cordial relations between Japan and the United States aside from her participation par-ticipation In the British and American advance Pet Tang has been shown In her reply to the State departments advices concerning our last note to China This note was transmitted for the Information of Japan as well as to the other powers Interested and the Japanese Government promptly ac knov ledged its receipt and Indicated its friendly l approval of the stand ta U tcn by the United States While this acknowledgment was a mere olllcial courtesy Japan Is the only one of the powers BO far to give formal expression expres-sion of Its concurrence In the action of the United States Canton Aug 11 Secretary of State I Washington Conger date August 10th Tsl Nan answering my message says that the legations are under siege by the Imperial soldiery The situation Is J desperate The losses of the legations lega-tions arc sixty killed and about 100 wounded There Is some sickness nevertheless nev-ertheless the general health continues good Ho concludes Whatever maybe may-be the outcome we will hold on Indefinitely In-definitely MWADE S It is believed that the date assigned this dispatch by the Consul refers to S the file date when the message left Tel Nan and docs not fix tho time when it I left Peking by courier 5 SMUGGLED OUT OF PEKING 5 While the State department does not attempt to fix a date upon which tho Conger menage left Peking the ofll dais are Inclined to believe that it wau one of the messages smuggled out of S Peking before the imperial edict was I issued removing the restriction upon 1ho transmission of cipher messages Thflplate of the edict was August 5th There 18 little new In the message beyond the ominous reiteration of Mr Congers statement that the condition was desperate NOT FAINTHEARTED The concluding sentence of Mr Congers Con-gers mcaaago saying that the lega tlonera are prepared to hold out Indefinitely In-definitely no matter what the outcome may he Ig I considered gratifying in tclllgenc6 because it Indicates that the S besieged Ministers are not growing fainthearted and will stand out to the bitter end This message like the oth ers that have proceeded it contains no intimation that any of the numerous messages forwarded by this Government Govern-ment have reached the beleaguered foreigners for-eigners in the Chinese capital V LI AS PEACE ENVOY Up to the present time neither the Chinese legation nor the State department depart-ment 80 far as known has been advised ad-vised of LI Hung Changs selection as envoy for peace In behalf of China But the report is credited by the Chinese Minister here who says that Earl LI is eminently qualified to perform such service In case the Imperial Government Govern-ment determines upon such a course MARCH WILL Nor STOP A member of the Cabinet said today that the reported Imperial edict authorizing S au-thorizing LI Hung Chang to negotiate for peace was likely to have no immediate Im-mediate effect on the situation It may be true he said and tho Chinese Chi-nese may be awakening to a realization realiza-tion but neither that edict nor anything any-thing else will bring about any change 5 In the PreSent plan and determination to push on to Pelting and rescue the legations S le-gations I do not apprehend that anything any-thing will occur that will be a warrant 1r stopping the march on to the Chi I I nese capital The Ministers must be I rescued first We would plarc little faith In such a step until It backed up by something more definite LI Hung Chang may Immediately put himself In communication with some of the powers but It wjll not affect present pres-ent plans until our legations are rescued res-cued It was further stated that this Government did not have much faith upon the reliability of the Chinese statesman and was not Inclined to pin great faith to his acts I |