Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-09-28
LARGE WAR CLOUD.
The Chinese Difficulty Assam.
ing a Serious Aspect.
ACTIVITY OF SECRET SOCIETIES.

war
Asked for the Lower Yang Tse-Kiang
Districts-Plausible Explanation Made
by the Celestial Government-Sum-
mary of an Official Cable Received at
London from Pekin-Thirty-Five Cases
of Foreign Rifles Seized.
LONDON, Sept 26-The opinion is gain
ing ground in well informed circles here
that the Chinese difficulty is gradually as
SUNNI more serious aspect. Advices
from Shanghai to The London and China
Tele graph, of this city, state that the
highest officials at Pekin and at Nankin
expect the European governments to COM
bine in a demand for redress for the out
RACES perpetrated upon foreigners in
China. The same paper adds that the
secret society men are also expecting such
action upon the part Of the powers, and
that they are preparing to act when the
right moment arrives. The paper says
IT is certain that a very prominent person
has been asked to supply war material
and drill instructors for use in the lower
Yang Use Kiang districts.
Monks Attacked by Natives.
Many young men of the best Chinese
famil es are connected with these secret
societies. a prominent foreign resident
of Shanghai, the same paper states, has
been asked 70 send estimates to Nankin
for organizing band of troops TO be dis
ciplined and armed Accord ng to the Eng
lished system, and to be commanded by
foreign officers The same resident, it is
said, has been asked to state the terms
uuon which he can supply three fast steam
cruisers, fully equipped for war and to
he 6ali--ara1 Nyif hin rhraa h.
The Office of the Missions Catalogues, az
Lyons, has received advices from China
to the effect that the natives had attacked
three n onks at Northern Chansi and that
nothing had been heard from the vicar
apostolic. Fears are entertained for the
safety If the monks and ninety inmates
OF the Chansi orphanage.
Eeady to Make Preparation.
Following IS the summary OF the official
cablegram received from Pekin and
handed to the foreign office Specific
sums o. money are offered to the treaty
powers o compensate for the loss of life
and property at Wuhu, WUsus, Tanyang,
Wooseil and other places where the riots
occurred. -Four leaders OF the riots have
been executed and twenty-one banished.
and five mandarins have been adjudged
culpab!y remiss in having failed to deal
SAASNAiNS = WIN tiiC ItbNtIS anu " lhht
adequate measures to preserve order.
They have been reported to the throne for
punishment. The imperial government
recognizing its entire responsibility for
the pres ryatiOn of order at the treaty
ports anC for the protection of missic7-
aries in the interior, has ordered the
viceroys of Chihi and Marking to dis
patch the northern and southern squad
rons of the Chinese feet TO patrol the
Yangsten and afford protection where
ever the life and property of Europeans
are still app arentlv threatened.
Passed OF Without Disorder
although the rUmors of further
troubles still excite uneasiness in certain
places, tie imperial government has no
doubt OF its ability 10 cope effectively
with any attempts at fresh breaches of
the peace whether from the operations of
secret societies or the result Of local or ac-
cidental circumstances. The examina-
ton held last month al Marking, Woo
chung, Nanchang, Hang Chow and Foo
Chow ended without the disorders often
attendant upon the assembling of so
many thousands of students, the usual
number a Marking alone being 600
and scarcely fewer at the other capitals
mentioned Nothing is known respecting
the reports cabled to Europe of an at
tempt to seize the arsenal at Foo Chow;
but undouhted evidence of the activity of
secret societies has been obtained in other
quarters
Arms and Dynamite.
"Thirty-five cases of foreign rifles, con
signed to a British subject employed in
In the Chinese imperial customs service
at Chankeang have been seized by GUS
toms officers at Shanghai. The consignee
was arrested and sent to Shanghai to be
dealt with fy the British authorities The
same man was found TO be in possession
of quantity of dynamite. which, ne con-
fessed, was intended for use by a secret
society at ChiukeanC. The arms came
from Hong Kong. Two other British
subjects and six other foreigners of
doubtful nationality. residents of Shang-
hal, were found TO be implicated in this
transaction, which Hart, the inspector
general of the Chinese imperial customs,
and the Br fish consulate at Shanghai
and Chnkeang are investigating. The
imperial gove rIment repeats that it has
no doubt of its entire competency to pre-
serve order"