Show EMPRESS I PEKING German Consul Says Bombardment i Still Proce dinS New York Aug 21A dispatch to tho Tribune from London says News with reference to Peking continues contradictory tinues both scanty and There Is still confusion a to the precise pre-cise date of the allied forces entry whether it happened on the llth or 15th What Is i more Important for practical uncertainty continues to purposes the contnues of the prevail as to the proceedings Empress a Dowager The Chinese Minister that he has received a ister here states hi sUe telegram from Peking which shows that the Empress together with tho tosether Emperor left the capital some days before be-fore the arrival of the allied forces COURT HAS GONE No official news however has reached the Chinese legation here since S the receipt of the telegram from Peking Pe-king announcing the entry = of the foreign for-eign troops on the 15th Berlin like loops London and Washington Is supple with both versions of the imperial movements while a dispatch has been received from LI Hung Chang announcing announc-ing that the court has gone westward The Gorman Consul of Che Foo telegraphs tele-graphs that the bombardment of the palace is still going on KIU that the sti goln Emm l ess Is believed to be within the walls of the forbidden city PEACE NEGOTIATIONS With regard to the suggested peace negotiations nothing IsaL present decided de-cided at the Foreign oflloc LI Hung Changs application to Washington hag ChnngsapplcaUon communicated to not yet been Downing street which has only = Just street British onsul at dispatched ShanghJil Lord SalIsburYs reply to Li a S previous suggestion of an armisticeS S Tr iiin Tnorsriirn the British Foreign Secretary says that no negotiations can be Initiated till the legation siaffs and other foreigners are safely delivered deliv-ered at Titn Tsln without opposition from the Chinese troops S WILL SUPPORT PROPOSITION The opinion of those qualified to ex Britain presis an opinion Is I thaOGreat preS the proposition would very rcudlly support negotiations for a definite sition for settlement opening as soon as possible sdlcmentns Eng States especially to the Uuitctl Eng land hrrclf has nothing to gain by the Chinese Imbroglio not even in the Yangice region where It Is clear that she might easilY drift Into difficulties with other European powers wlth has already obtained a But Russia a1ead foothold In Manchuria and the longer last the hostilities real or nominal S easier will It be for her to secure hor position there This In scarcely more Britain than to the interest of Great It Is to that of Japan TERRIBLE SUFFERING Accounts have been received by missionary mis-sionary societies of the terrible suffer societes male ings endured by the missioiiarlesmale and female In tho long Journeys from the interior of China to tho coast hostIle population The through n n hCte province of SsuChuen Is now however how-ever said to be much quieter and the British Consul has been Instructed to return to Chung King in an armed river steamer ITIs needlessly precipitate retirement JTs liked by tho tirement was not at all Ikld Foreign office and he received peremptory peremp-tory Instruction to go back at once |