His Majesty's Counsul-Gen and 1 was in Shanghai, clu 1900, I was present in Shanghai dur whole of the summer.
Exhibit A:—The " Di don, Suly 4, 1900.
Part of @ telegram headed Express Telegram, Shanghai, Monday, 6.20 pam. Pare graph marked by blue pebeil in Exhibit A. pho ste report was ever made to or received never received any definite news of the murder of two other Ministers, but I believe it was rumoured among the Chinese here.
Exhibit B:—" Daily Express" of July 9, 1900.
The statement that I officially informed Mr, O'Shea that all the foreigners in Peking hia been massacred is not correct.
1 never officially or otherwise stated that I had definite information as to the murder of th Ministers or people in Peking.
Thad rumours, but not from s source I credited, I had no otiicial news. informed O'Shea in any coming daily asking tion. "I cannot state absolutely who did not come. I may have mentioned the rumours I heard, but I never mentioned anything officially to anyone.
I do remember hearing of something 1 as reported to have said in the China M But T cannot recollect exactly what it was, or whether I wrote contradicting it.
1900. cBxhitit C:—" Daily Express " of July, 16, I think the Taotai here was Yii at the time, It wag certainly not Sheng. I think the Sheng referred to is Sheng Hstian Huai. I feel no doubt of that. I have no recoil tion of attending any such meeting as is mentioned there. I can't say at that particular date whether Sheng attended any such Consular Body Meeting. He gave no definite information or particulars at all either to me or at any meeting which I attended, He constantly expressed his fears.
Body any such news as that contained in He never expressed to me or the Consular the paragraph.
It he had, I should have rejected it as absurd.
I was in direct correspondence by telegram with Yuan Shih-kai. The telegrams of course passed through Shéng's hands. but they were replies to foley of mine. In some cases be wired independently, that is, without having received a previous telegram from me. Sheng is now and was then the Director General of Telegraphs in China, and was int j between the Consuls and the living in Shanghai. Sheng was acting as the Viceroy to @ certain extent, bat what I did trustworthy source, that is, I believed my formant was trustworthy. The telegram of how. many. None of those telegrams gave! the 14th was sent because it was my: private details such as have been read to me from opinion. I communicated the substance of the paper. the reassuring telegram T received from Yuan the only detail that he gave me was in Shikai on the 17th to London, My private one telegram to the effect that the Legations opinion had not changed at that, dave from Were surrounded, that they were bringing up the heavy guns, and that they were in a bad Gass previously. I gave that telegram to the time when I expressed or fears a few way. Henever told me the Legation was Foreign Office for what it was worth. Iam captured, or anything to that effect. not aware that news had been published in received a telegram on the 17th of July London during the early part of the first week saying that the Legations were not destroyed. in July that the Legations had fallen. I do [Paragraphs read to Mr. Warren in Exhibit not remember any enquiries being made. to {were those between blue pencil marks. imo by the Foreign Office as to whether any Read continuously. H. King.] such thing had happened, I received a. goat Exhibit D:-—* Daily Express" of July 20, deal of miscellaneous news during that week 900.
If L considered anything should be publish-people. {cannot remember receiving any concerning events in Peking from all sorts of officially on the subject, I odd have Tews from Mr. O'Shea. I have no recollection riven it to the official organ—the " North-of Mr. O'Shea about the 2nd of July giving China Daily News," and to no one else. I me information received by him from Chinese have no recollection of giving any statement Sources that. the foreigners had constructed of the sort. Yuan Shih-kai never gave me Bomb-proofs in the Legation, but that Tung any details. Nothing official was stated by Fuchsiang's troops tured on the big guns, me ta anyone, unless the fact of my sitting and that all the foreigners were killed. "Not in the Consul-General's office makes it official. do 1 remember having made any inquiries as 1 was in a position to state that the bombard-to the truth of the statement. ment was threatened, but not that it had Ido not recollect about the 6th of July actually taken place, telling Mr. O'Shea. that 1 had ascertained I never authori: riy such statement as that the above statement was true, that they that contained in th second paragraph of had used the big guns, and that li the for that telegram. eigners were killed. I could not have done TWhat was read to Mr. Warren in Exhibit So, a3 on the 4th my information was that Dis that contained between the two blue-the place had not been entered. T'have no Peneil marks, Hi Ring.) recollection at that, time of having informed Cross-examined (Mr. "MeNeill).
Mr. O'Shea. that I had received & telegram considered ought. to be published tothe should certainly give any news that I from the Nanking Consul containing a wild Hope that there were some Ministers in' the
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