A private letter ated Tentsin the [20th instant, from a n who is going forward with the next relieving force, says that astart will probably be made within a fortnight. The writer sys: From the best sources available it would seem that the foreigners at Peking were holding out on the 10th of July, there are many rumours as, to Chinese helping them. Several couriers were sent off to Peking as soon as Tientsin had fallen; whether any will gt through is, of cours, unk own og ly lag come through from Pe-Being Inter th The Lnperial the Boxers since the tientsin alfur and e killed many, blaming them for bringing on this disaster and trouble." assured U.S. Consul-General Goodnow in the interview the latter had with him, that the Ministers are safe, and that ton. Meanwhile we have good reasons Kang Yi has not been appointed to Can \for maintaining our previously expressed opinion that the Chinese officials themselves do not know whether the Ministers still alive or not.
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