Show L CRINA SUES fOR PEACE Government Through Li Hung Chang Asks for the Appointment of an I American Commissioner > I Appeal Shows Chinas Complete Weariness of the Struggle andS and-S Desire to Make Terms No Opportunity for Cabinet Meeting in Absence of Secretaries Root and HayWu Ting Fang Confi dent Satisfactory Termination Will be Reached r Washington j Aug 0Tho Chinese I iGovernment today made formal application 4 appli-cation through Li Hung Chang as its i envoy for the appointment of an American commissioner to bring about the cessation of hostilities In China and the restoration of general peace This coming since the capture of Peking Is the flrsL showing of Chinas complete weariness with the struggle and her desire to make terms The reply re-ply of the UnIted States Government lias not yet been made known Li Hung Changs application came t to the Chinese Minister and was delivered 11 de-livered by him to the State department at 10 oclock this morning Shortly afterward af-terward the President was made acquainted ac-quainted with Chinas desires In tho absence of Secretary Hay and Secretary ii Secre-tary Root the latter having gone to New York who have been most active In the Chinese matter there was no opportunity for a Cabinet council o The condition inside Peking was cI made more clear today by a dispatch from Admiral Remey giving reports L from one of his stan officers Lieut Lallimer as to tho situation on the H5th I spoke of the troops moving on the imperial city and clearing out the Tartar city I REMEYS DISPATCH This latter city contains the Tartar arsenal and is the headquarters for the 1 vicious Tartar troops Admiral Remcys a dispatch is a follows Taku Aug Authentic report from Poking August 15 from Lieut Lattimcr Troops moving on Imperial city Clear I i Ing out Tartar city l Americans who remained In Peking are well except ono IL child CapL Myers recovered from wound has typhoid crisis passed and 1 now convalescing Assistant Surgeon Llp pctt was wounded upper left leS bono fractured Leg iaved now recovering Tho following killed during tho siege in i Pelting Scrgt JF Fanning Privates C D King J W Tuchcr J Kennedy R E Thomas A Turner ml1 Floher t Wounded Private J Schroeder elbow I severe now dangerously ill from fever p Seaman J Mitchell upper arm severe now recovering l other wounded L nnd slek returned to duty Casualties I Cas-ualties Maj Biddies command attack I Tan Paling First Lieut Butler cheat II Private Green wrist Private Warrel right temple all slight Reported from Chinese sources that the royal family has escaped and arc en route to Sian Fu REMEY I FOUND STATE OF ANARCHY I is said at the War deparment that the reports of continued fighting In Peking indicate that tho allied forces found a state of anarchy In the city with many disorderly people and no method of controlling This especially especial-ly would be the case If the reported flight of the Empress Dowager and Emperor is true Consequently It has been found necessary for the troops i to restore order in tho city and carryout carry-out the instructions under which our forces are acting I REPLY NOT KNOWN The American reply to Chinas latest L appeal for 0 cessation of hostilities received today from LI Ilung Chang has not yet been made known and it is likely that the matter will bo ono of the main subjects of consideration at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow But there Is reason to believe lhat the overtures will in effect be rejected on the ground that the conditions laid down in the American note of August 12th have not been compiled with and unless compiled with the Governments course must proceed without reference to Chinas appeal for r halt in the proceedings pro-ceedings WOULD MAKE AGREEMENT The dispatch of August 12th said specifically that the United States was ready to enter Into an agreemnt between be-tween the powers and thc Chinese Government I Gov-ernment for a cessation of hostilities on condition that the relief forces q should be permitted to enter Peking unmolested and escort the legationera therefrom under such circumstances as the commanding General might lay down But up to the present time there la I 110 evidence that the allied forces are unmolested at Peking or have received the sanction of the Imperial GoVern mpiit to convey the Icgatloners lo Tien Tsln without further trouble and under un-der the condlllons laid down by the commanding General t MEETING STUBBORN RESISTANCE COn the contrary all of the dispatches mdlcalc Unit the allies are meeting stubborn resistance and there Is an entire lack of compliance with the conditions con-ditions laid down by the United States in Us dispatch of August 12th As stated however the Government r has given no auWiorllatlve statement of its purpose In reply to Chinas application ap-plication of today and there is still r slight chance that complete compliance 0 with the demands of August 12th maybe may-be announced In the Peking dispatches 1 before the final determination on the reply is made But the disposition is clearly in the line Indicated ChlnaO last application for peace negotiations was received qarly today at the Chinese legation end was transmitted i trans-mitted by Mr Vu to the State department r depart-ment Spcretarles lluy and Root were out of the city but Acting Secretary of State Adec went over the subject i with the President I WANT CONGER TO ACT Earl Lis request IB that tho United States shall name Minister Conger or some other official to act as peace envoy en-voy for the cessation of hostilities Li j expressed his willingness to go to such point as the powers may desire and under the Intimations made It Is 1 thought that Peking or Tien Tsln 0 would be selected for the negotiation 4 The Chinese envoy proposed no terms i r to the withdrawal of the troops and made no other suggestions as to what was to come before the commission 4 commis-sion his sole anxiety being to secure the cessation of hostilities WANT GENERAL COUNCIL The application h I understood also I to have been made to the powers In the hope that If all would name a commIssioner there would be a general I council of peace between Li Hung the hand and the I Chang on ono several I sever-al representatives of thp nations on I the other Aside from the fact that the conditions i condi-tions on August 12th have not been complied with by China it is probable I that this Government would desire to I I take sufllclent time to learn what the otljor powers Intend doing on the same I line as all are acting In unison Moreover More-over there are some unexplained features fea-tures of LI Hung Changs application I I one of them being that while he asks I A tho allies to cease hostilities he gives no assurance that he has the power lo make the Chinese army and the rebellious re-bellious Boxers cease their hostilities SITUATION AT PEKING The situation at Peking was made clearer today from many sources The latest advice appears to be that from Consul Fowler at Che Foe repeating a dispatch received from Consul Rags dale at Tien Tsln The latter reports Chinese troops surrounded In palace grounds The Japanese legation received re-ceived a dispatch of the same general tenor but none In detail stating that the Chinese troops retreated on the 15th within the imperial palace and that they were surrounded there with the Japanese military headquarters located in the Japanese legation MOVING ON IMPERIAL CITY Admiral Remey also transmitted an authentic report from Peking on the 15th saying Troops moving on tho Imperial city These several dispatches dis-patches from different sources estab lish clearly that the imperial palace and grounds were under siege But not one of the dispatches is clear as to how late this condition of affairs ex isted The Fowler dispatch Is the latest to be received and Is dated the 20th but probably that Is the date on which it left Tien Tsln The Japanese dispatch also refers to the Chinese taking refuge In the imperial im-perial palace on the 15th but does not bring the situation beyond that day So that the latest Information while showing the Imperial city surrounded does not disclose the issue of tills situ ation nor how l long i las continued EMPRESS HAS ESCAPED Todays dispatches scenr to imike clear that the Emperor and the Em press Dowager have made their escape from Peking and that about the only present service of the Imperial palace and grounds Is as an asylum In which the Chinese soldiers are making a last stand I Thp Japanese legations advices to day showed that the banners of the Imperial cortege were seen leaving Pe king l on the 12th and that probably the Empress Dowager as VeIi as the Em peror had left the city ConsulGeneral Goodnow advised the State departmontthat he had infotnta Olnm tlon frnno InOlmr from Chinese ton sources that the thrt Empress Dowager had left Peking ATTITUDE OF POWERS The altitude which the International forces will observe to Internatonal peror and Empress Dowager Is under stood to have received ofllclal consid eration among the otclal resulting from a request hy the resuling roys that no personal indignity be shown to Chinas rulers Indigniy to this U ls quite generally understood response that therewill be no personal Indignity to the Emperor and Empress Dowager not because it is felt that there Is I any special consideration due them but be cause China would be precipitated Into n chaotic condition lf the responsible heads of the Government lost their functions NO PERSONAL INDIGNITIES In view of the general desire of this Government and the others concerned im keep China Intact the dl Position among officials is toward refraining from any personal reCrlnlng Chinese rulers I develops In this con nection that all of tho powers al recently rojecte < thc pi ° P ° sItlon of the Consuls at Ties Tain to destroy the tombs of the Ming dynasty The Proposed destruction I destructon was ain threat held out to thc Chinese In the 1 te I hop of K I bringing them to terms But time 110wers rejected the nlLJ rectlteA Proposal and n proposl thus gave pwe significant evidence that anything calculated to give Personal not nnH or indignity to the ChInese S part of the present campaign CHINESE TROOPS SURROUNDED The Stale ccpa trncnt tonight made u f tonlSht public the following Cho Fop Ub 20 lflOOTo Secretary of Slate Washington D CRanaclnle re scale 10 ports Chinese troops surrounded la palace aurroundoc II pOlaco grounds FOWLER Ragcdale is Consul at Tien Tsln REPORT FROM GOODNOW The Statement department today issued the following statement The Acting Secretary of State makes public the receipt of a telegram today from ConsulGeneral Goodnow dated the 20th inst > reporting n statement state-ment of the Governor of Shan Tung that the Empress left Poking on UtS 33th for SlnanFu In the province of Shan SI and that Princes Jrolnce o Tuan and Viceroy Kan YI are still in Peking sti SlnanFu appears to be another version ver-sion of the name of tho capital of Shan SI where there is an imperial palace I Is otherwise spelled Hsi An Si An and Si Ngan the aufilx Fu de noting r city which ia a seat of admin istration admln REPORT FROM FOWLER The State department this morning received a dispatch from Consul Fow ler dated Che Foo August 15th I ro latnc to ho massacre of mlsalonailes and others at Pao Ting Fu which has been referred to a number of times In the press dispatches and fios generally been conceded to have occurred on June 30lh The first part of the dispatch Is so badly mangled In lranHini slon that It Is impossible lo make much out of it The text Is ns follows Cho Foo received August 15th Secre tan of SlIt lc Washington Evening 13th 1 reported all presbytcrkiu missionaries Pao Tlnp Fu killed June 30th promises burned Same night Catholic mission Rain stopped work July 1st attacked American Board Pltkln 9 shot dead trying lo keep Knots out Misses aiprrull 11 11 Aul Gould taken Boxer headquarters killed Bannal r1 H ld near temple Coop or Bclpl na fate uncertain Officials I had j sent all homo from yament All thad connected foreigners Buffered like fate I Authority Special messenger sent fatl Tien Tsln missionaries FOWLER |