Show l WILL RESIST ADVANCE r Suggestion that Allies be Allowed to Enter e Peking to EscoMithsters tAoTien i s Tsin Impossible I > r I Thi the Dictum of Li Hung Chang Who Also Declares that in Case the Troops Advance the Chinese Must FightRumor the Legations Have Left Peking is Without ConfirmationHearsay I I Stories of Sundays Battle I i II I I London Aug 8 435 a mIrt case I the troops advance the Chinese must I fight Tho suggestion that the allies I should be allowed to enter Peking In order to escort the Ministers to Tien I Tsin is absolutely impossible I This Is the dictum of LI Ilung Chang I It was transmitted last evening to William Prltchard Morgan member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydvll by his I agent at Shanghai The agent had carried to Earl Li a message from Mr I Morgan urging that the allied troops be allowed lo enter the capital and I stating that D settlement could be made at Tien Tsin whereby a war of the world against China would be averted SAID TO HAVE LEFT PEKING I But even the optimistic LI failed to hold out the slightest hope of Its feasibility feasi-bility although he reiterated to Mr Morgans agent his declaration that the Ministers had left Peking fixing the date of their departure as August 2nd < The agent makes this comment The Consuls are without confirmation confirma-tion ton MESSAGES SENT TO SALISBURY These messages have been int to Lord Salisbury accompanied by 3 statement by Mr Morgan urging that the allies should take no step to endanger en-danger the lives of the Ministers A message from the Belgian Minister Minis-ter dated Pelting August 2nd seems effectually to dispose of the rumors that the Ministers have either left or are Intending to leave Peking The Chinese Minister In London says he has received a telegram from China Chi-na announcing that n long Imperial edict was Issued on August 2nd authorizing au-thorizing the Immediate and safe conveyance con-veyance of all Europeans in Peking to Tien Tsn STORIES OF SUNDAYS BATTLE Several dispatches are printed giving giv-ing hearsay accounts of Sundays battle bat-tle The Dally Malls correspondent at I Che Foo telegraphing Monday says The fighting lasted seven hours and the ales when my report left were pursuing the Chinese but owing to the floods progress was difficult Thus the Chinese will have to reform re-form and to recover from the effects of the battle Only a small garrison I with fourteen guns remains at Tlcn Tsin where some anxiety is felt because I be-cause of a report that 15000 Chinese are said > to be moving two days march to the southeast BRAVERY OF TUB JAPS All the correspondents agree In praising prais-ing the bravery and organization of inS the Japanese but none of them brings the story much beyond Gen Chalices report LI Ping Hong according to the Shanghai correspondent oC tho Standard Stand-ard has been appointed Generalissimo of the Chinese forces and has loft Peking Pe-king to command the troops outside the city A Shanghai special says that official advices from Toklo announce that I armed collisions have occurred between parties of Russians anil Japanese outside out-side Taku This however a It comes by way of Shanghai must await confirmation con-firmation before being credited AMERICAN WOMENSLAIN The Shanghai correspondent of the Dally Mal confirming the massacre of missionaries at Chu Chow F says that t American womenwere among I the victims I The Sebastopol correspondent of the Dally Graphic says that the Russian 1 Government will send 125000 additional I addi-tional troops from Odessa tot the far t East before the end of the year KAISER AND CZAR AGREE KISEJ Berlin dispatches say It Is rumored that an agreement has been reached I between Emperor Nicholas and Emperor I Empe-ror William whereby German troops will be permitted to proceed to China by way of Siberia The royal arsenal at Woolwich has been ordered to send thirty million rounds of smallarm ammunition to j China I |