Show ARE SKEPTICAL european statesmen doubt the authenticity of ortho tho conger message s and believe ministers are dead london july 21 sir celb loh the chinese minister to great britain cited ted the foreign loreign office this morning and communicated what purported to be an imperial edict giving assurance that on july 18 all the foreign ministers at peking except baron von Ket bettelee telee were safe and sound under the prote protection 1 of the imperial court the chinese minister did not see the british minister of foreign affairs lord salisbury the alleged edict was received without comment the th e correspondent of the associated press haa has the highest for that not the slightest credence Is attached by the british government to this latest stand and that also the government la is quite unable to understand the credence which Is accorded at washington io minister mulster congers me message seago to the elate state department there lord salisbury according to this authority if la of the truth of the origin al at reports of the massacre of foreigners at peking berlin july 21 the united states ambassador andrew white received a dispatch from washington today een sent since the receipt of minister congers dispatch to the department of state instructing ting him to see the foreign office ce regarding plans for common steps for securing trustworthy information from peking and other parts of china mr air white in compliance with instructions visited the german minister of foreign affairs count von buelow this morning minister congers dispatch Is regarded here with skepticism doubts are expressed at the american and british embassies as well as at the imperial foreign office it is thought probable that it la Is an old dispatch hitherto withheld by the chinese au thorit leo tiM or a dispatch concocted by the chinese after the capture of the united states legation code the foreign office has a cable message from the governor of shan tung saying he had received minister congers dispatch from chinese runners and forwarded it to washington the governor of shan tung in this telegram also denies having sent a dispatch to sheng administrator of telegraphs at shanghai saying that the foreign ambassadors had been murdered london july 21 tho unreserved credence given to minister congers message by official washington continues to cause surprise in london the absence of any date and the absence of acknowledgment of the receipt of the telegram from the state department cause the london officials to think it list a spontaneous message sent a long time before and interrupted by the chinese all tha the theories admittedly present difficult difficulties its which only add to the obscurity of the situation and harder render ren der the unraveling unraveling of the puzzle the announcement ol 01 the british cruiser Bona venturas departure from woo sung as alleged in pursuit of li ll hung chang comes somewhat as a surprise after the honors paid the 1 chinese viceroy at hong kong but confirmation of the news will meet the approval of a large majority as li ll hung jbangs present attitude la ib regarded as being characteristically dubious As li hung hongchang chang was booked for shanteal Sh angEal the departure of his from thenea the nead nea r by bi port zt t wu sung sg seems to indicate a suspicion sus Welon on the part of the government that his objective may bo be elsewhere where he would not be so easily by the representatives of the powers the chinese invasion of siberia seems to have been checked promptly so that probably it will not be bb continued it Is reported fromcke fro from cho foo that the th e international commanders have co concluded n that tt will be useless to try to iLd advance vance on peking before the middle of august paris parts july 21 yu keng the chinese minister here today handed to the minister of foreign affairs if Del casse an imperial edict dated july 15 1 giving the assurance that all the foreign ministers except baron von ketteler the german minister were then safe and sound under the protection of the imperial court |