Show BAROH PAUL BELIEVE FOREIGN MINISTERS ARE SAFE detroit july paul merling german consul general to peking china and an intimate friend of the late german baron von ketteler passed through detroit today en route to new york whence he will sail wednesday for home just beffre leaving peking he bad a long talk with minister conger who he sald was very sure that the uprising would not amount to much 1 I cannot believe said baron merling that all the foreign ministers have been massacred I 1 am quite certain that the cipher message from peking to your government Is genuine and was written by minister conger 1 have several reasons lor believing so but I 1 cannot give my reasons tor my government would not like to have me talk too muan you can believe one thing that Is certain as the rising ot the sun the armies of europe will devastate north ern china |