Show Iti WAR MAYBE DECLARED Exposure of Duplicity of Chinese Government fl Govern-ment Likely to Result in Cessation of Diplomatic Relations C9 powers May Unite in an Open Declaration Against the Chinese 1 Ministers Saved Not by Protection of the Government But to Scarcity of Chinese Ammunition and Fear Which Victories I i at Tien Tsin nspired Another Letter from MacDonald 1 1 1I jL I f London a Aug Simultaneously With the letter of Dr Morrison there tED comes from the Belgian Charge dAf f it aires at Shanghai an official statement state-ment that the ales are expected to J roach Peking In about a week they being I be-ing eighteen miles from Tien Tsin 4 ng mies yesterday yes-terday Another letter has been received at CTicn Tsin from the British Minister Sir Claude MacDonald dated July 24th SURROUNDED BY CINES We are surrounded by Imperial ft troops he writes who are firing onus on-us continuously The enemy Is enterprising I enter-prising but cowardly We have provisions = pro-visions for about a fortnight and are i ratIng our ponies 3 r The Chinese Government If there b m one has done nothing whatever to help d iis I the Chinese dont press the attack i I at-tack we caa hold out for say ten aysSo no time should be lost If a il I terrible massacre Is to be avoided I SAFE ON JULY 28TH m Yet a Shanghai special says LI Hung hang has received a decree dated July r CSth commanding him to inform the i Consuls that the Ministers were safe sae iTh on that date Evidently Sir Claude MacDonald was overpessimistic as Dr Morrison under date of July 21st announces the arrival oC supplies In L view of this it Is quite within reason that the edict announcing the safety co of the Ministers oa the 2Sth Is correct i TRONG INDICTMENT OF CHINESE 3I i CHI-NESE c 1 S 11 Claude MacDonalds latest letter i 1 while a strong Indictment of the Chinese f Chi-nese Government Is not nearly SO much I fco as Dr Morrisonts dispatch That correspondent with the imperial edicts as authority declares that as late its 1 July 2nd the imperial Government i ordered the Jjtoiers to continue their loyal and patHo ic ervlfcta lelr I r xnlnaling the Christians r TO WHAT THEY OWE SAFETY x t He explains those marvelous change I Bn the attitude the Chinese showing that all appeals for intervention and protestations of friendship have been due entirely to the victories oC the al 1 ic at Tien I Tsin The Ministers at 1 Peking owed their safety up to July Slst not to Government protection but to the scarcity of Chineseammunition and to the fear which the Tien Tsin victories inspired l MAY RESULT IN WAR F When It remembered how great re i liance la 1 placed upon Dr Morrison in i England the Importance of his expo sure of the Chinese Government can scarcely be overestimated It scorns to banish all hopes entertained by Lord Salisbury that the Chinese Government might yet be proved not directly responsible re-sponsible for the outrage and It may result In an entire cessation of the negotiations ne-gotiations with Chinese diplomatists if not In an open declaration of war on the part or the powers READY TO ADVANCE Gen Sir Alfred GaseTee is quoted assaying as-saying on July 2Sth that he was ready to advance although lacking in artillery Col Daggett commanding the Americans at Tien Tsin Is also credited i with a similar slatement on the same date although utterly without trans portallon not even having a horse for himself Reinforcements are reported I to have been sent to the Chinese at Yang Tsun where strong intrench ments have been thrown up to bar the advance f of the allies GERMAN EXPEDITION The Berlin correspondent of the Dally Chronicle says that Emperor Williams approval of the employment of noncommissioned non-commissioned men on leave is evident ly Interpreted to pave the way for a German expedition on a large scale and it Is probable when sufficiently large this force will act Independently FORWARD MOVE BEGINS The allies began the advance from Tien Tsin this morning announces an agency bulletin dated at Shanghai at 1110 a m today I is assumed that the Americans British and Japanese are taking part taltng part In this forward movement whether other nationalities are or not An advance ad-vance base will probably be established twenty or thirty miles nearer Peking and supplies will be assembled prepara tory tOl direct stroke at the capital TROOPS AVAILABLE Of tho G0000 allies debarked at Pe Chi LL ports English military obscrv 952rslcierthat 30QOO are avnUable fo f vt n Vn1 eYGnl JTJn fu Chinese forces according the Vls Of gatherings of the ales Intelligence of ficers up to July 27th were disposed In a great arc thirty miles long and dis tant ten or fifteen miles The numbers and exact location of the several 1 divisions divi-sions are utterly unknown PEIIIO RIVER BLOCKADED The PeiHo river is blockaded by sunken stoneladen Junks for twenty miles beyond rica Tsin and twenty according to Chinese spies of the allies a dam has been constructed for the purpose of flooding the lowlying expanse ex-panse of country The first engagement of the relief expedition ex-pedition will probably be at Pel Tang where the Viceroy of Yulu personally commands UNABLE TO ENDURE SIEGE The following Information was brought to Tien Tsin Wednesday July 25th by a Chinese missionary student who was sent by the British legation lie received the message Intrusted to him and left July 18th He saw a few troops between Peking and Yang Tan No works had been constructed Food In Peking was scarce and the city would be quite unable to endure a siege Among the scraps of information 1 brought by another courier who left Peking July lith was the fact that Gen Ma a noted Boxer chief had been I killed by the legations SEYMOUR INVITED TO COMMAND Shanghai telegrams of this date say the foreign Consuls met yesterday and decided to Invite Admiral Seymour British to take command of the Shanghai defenses The French Consul I Gen 1f dc Bezaure on behalf of the Consuls visited Admiral Seymour uud he promised to draw up plans and submit sub-mit them to a council of officers The Shanghai Municipal Council objects to the consular action I is reported that another letter from the British Minister at Peking Sir I Claude MacDonald dated Peking Wednesday July 25th has reached Ta ku The Chinese Government has renewed re-newed the suggestion that the Ministers Minis-ters leave the capital but the Ministers declined The Belgian Government has received news that the allies have already Peking marched elcht miles in the direction of |