Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — CONGER INDICTS CHINA. [ARTICLE]

CONGER INDICTS CHINA.

Says Imperial Cavalry Bombarded, the Legations. A long dispatch from Minister Conger was received at the State Department in Washington Monday night giving a detailed report of tiie condition of affairs in Pekin since June 20. Mr. Conger Mid t&at a sow days after tiie fall of Takn forts the Tsnng-li-Yamen broke off commun(cation witli, tiie foreign ministers nnd gave orders that the diplomats leave the city. Believing that to do thia meant certain massacre, Mr. Conger goes on to state, the ministers refused to vacate, tlieroupon the imperial government ordered the imperial forces to attack in force tiie legations. He says that failing to take the legations by infantry attack tiie Chinese troops brought artillery into play, nnd for over three weeks the legations were subjected to cbnltiined heavy bomliardmeut. The Pekin imperial army made repeated and determined attacks nnd attempted to carry the legation defenses nnd it was only through the gallant and heroic tdnnd of tiie marine guards that the" Chinese failed to capture tiie legations. The portion of the message outlined above was suppressed by th> department. Tiie Government has been anxiously waiting to hear front Mt*. Conger nnd, while the revelation he tnnkes is startling, tiie officials were prepared for just what they got; Mr. Conger’s statement that the Chincsi* imide n desperate attempt to exterminate the foreigners the night before the relief nnny arrived indicates that the Chinese knew the foreign army would take tiie city in n few hottts and that they wanted to destroy nil evidence of their duplicity ity killing the foreigners. As tiie imperial government directed the nttneks on tiie legation wliich constituted n decimation of war, it is snid that no pears* overtures will be accepted which do not embody n complete surrender.