| Show DISPATCH IS GENUINE pact Fact Fully Verified by the thc Production of the Original WIth the Signature to Contro Controversy versy Regarding It Washington AU Aug state tte di d today issued the following ft The state department hu has received a dispatch from Mr Kr Fowler consul at atCh Ch Che Poo Foo dated at night Oft on tb the second of Aug Au stating that when b be learned from tile the Shanghai papers that doubt were r entertained or of the genuineness of the Conger Coner cipher telegram he Ia wired on the to the governor of lung to send hl him l the original by br cod Tier The Th governor at t on once t complied with lIh the request sending lid In a special postman who by traveling night aid day dar for five dy days made the journey which In ordinary times Umea would have bay re required twelve days day II He delivered to Mr Fowler Foler the original of the Con Conger ger dla dispatch patch It I signed by XI hr ConGer Con Coner Ger er and dated the of July It Ii I precisely the same as the message re at the state te d department with I several veral words word prefixed which came In InI inan an form to the Chinese I here lIere The be dispatch In 10 It Its complete form says af that the members of the American legation had been be I le C for tor a month In the tb British le lelion lega legation lion tion Mr lr Fowler has bat no doubt of tile the genuineness of at the ch A cabinet meeting wu was held toda today which lasted about an hour The Riney dispatch telling of the check hack to dt te I Japanese scouting column was u reed read but was w not lIot considered u of serious 1st III as affecting the general ad advance vance It was wa suited that the govern ment ha has no official assurance that a general advance atance against Pekin has ha been b begun bY the or any nr other con cOlI contingent of the t hI force The dispatch was ft also aleo dl di cussed and one of tile the members said Id that It was 1 accepted as putting en end to any Dr possible controversy as to the authenticity of oe the original Conger cl pher br dispatch TIle The Presidents plane have not been changed by any developments since Ince his hili return to Washington Wa and he will start back to Canton tonight u previous previously I ly arranged CIPHER WITHIN A CIPHeR OR Woe Interesting Cacti connected with the original cipher message hive ve been beeD brought to light by Mr report It re r That who hn Mia Minister Wu t fa facet celY the cipher Q an the lIlt flat Ite be found It contained ed a d cI cIbel bar bel a r TM The of baa Tung Yuan transmitted with the message a message from Ut the whIch In I urn turn transmitted Mr Congers message The latter was In Inthe inthe the tate slate eat the former In th Chinese Sal lat cipher When Mr Wu l t the m ties age lie of transmittal lit he Was wac unaware of that tact fact and thought that u the several troupe groups or oft figures were a pot por tl don lI or of the Tung 11 amen message All a matter of fact l they wen the ii dal words word or of Mr t r message me and Ga they were undecipherable by bJ Minister Wo Wil because the they were re In the stale de department cipher Instead Jn t ad of tit lit British tIn legation etc ere Mr a message really We W have uve been tor Aw month In III the British I er fact developed is II that the menage wu warn signed E P Coster Jul July DATE DATS OF Tn THE lAOZ Kea Manly person had that while dIe the Ole message was aul It wu was dated by the Chinese om Now It appears that the Tung or Yuan did date It the It is thought hot this date dat wu was ac eui to and that wid Mr fro r act unity wrote his I h on the and put cipher reed rad for II at th opportunity the message e did not leave leae Pekin un i Ih the following day Th The done dOlle much to rehabilitate the hwee tn in the of 11 t r those who have heretofore bt been t a as to their lr Integrity In r rd 11 to HI the trans transmission aDl mission of these t J e I I mena messages |
