People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — WERE WARNED IN TIME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WERE WARNED IN TIME.

Americans in China Saved by Minister Denby’s Foresight. Washington. Aug. B.—The United States anticipated Great Britain in taking the most energetic steps for the protection of the American missionaries in China. United States Minister Denby toward the close of June made a sweeping and peremptory demand upon the Chinese government, similar to that made yesterday by the British minister to Pekin, for the fullest protection for

all Americans living in China; for redress for the depredations cimmitted upon their property and persons, and finally, for the capital punishment of the perpetrators, and in consequence, in all of the recent outrages committed upon the missionaries in China not one American was killed or injured, and while some American mission property was destroyed, it will doubtless be promptly paid for. In view of the energetic course which Mr. Denby has already adopted the state department has not deemed it- necessary to send him further instructions for his guidance. He has already been authorized to confer freely with Admiral Carpenter, the commanded of our naval forces in Chinese waters, and the admiral in turn has been instructed by the secretary of the navy to lend all proper assistance for the protection of Americans.

CHARLES DENBY.