Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-23
MONEY DID IT.
A Carpenters Son Marries into
the Oldest Families.
OCCUPATION OF SHANGHAI.
Extreme Measures to be Taken to Obtain Salts
faction of Chinese Government.
The Brazilian Difficulties-A Scramble to
Secure the New Cardinal Soon to be
Created-America Will Prob
ably Get One.
VIII Teach the Celestlals Lesson.

Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, Nov. at is learned this
evening upon the authority of an attache
of the British foreign Office that the posi-
ton of affairs in China in regard to the
outrages Oh Europeans and the negligence
of the Chinese authorities to take effective
measures for the punishment of those con-
cerned in them. will shortly have a new
and startling development. 1t will be re-
membered that in August Joint note,
signed by every diplomatic representative
in Peain, was addressed to the Chinese
government. 1t demanded The wide publ
cation of the imperial decree denying the
outrages, the punishment OF those con-
nected as ring-leaders, not merely the it,
dlviduals here and there whe joined the
mob, but the officials who were Negligent IN
giving protection, and the eX-othclalS and
literati who circulated the intiammatory lit
erature and melted the mob 10 outrage. and
the opening of Human province, the center
of all the disturbance, to foreign trade.
Not one of these conditions mas been full
filed and the time given for the purpose IS
coming rapidly to an end. The note was in
form and substance an ultimatum. The
Chinese We're at the time informed OF It's
character, although it was lntlmated TO
them that the measures to be taken, un-
less adequate satisfaction were obtained,
We're not then definitely agreed between
the powers.
The Chinese government has now, it is
said, been made acquainted with the de-
clSion and has been informed that at the
termination of the period of grace the city
of Shanghai and the river from it down to
WoOSuug. including the latter town, will
be occupied by foreign fleets until satisfac-
ton is obtained The business OF Shanghai
will 90 on as usual, but the receipts oil the
customs house will be taken and held for
the present. In addition, the mouth
of the Yangtse-Kiang and so much
of that river as may be thought
necessary will be placed under
foreign naval control. There will be no
fighting or bombarding, the foreign naval
force, amounting to forty vessels, forming
such an overwhelming force as to render
any notion of resistance out OF the ques-
ton.
The aim of the movement will be the
seizure of customs, and all expenses OF
these measures will be betrayed out Of the
money thus obtained.
Next to the occupation of Pekin. which
would, of course. mean war, nothing more
striking and effective than the occupation
of Shanghai could be accomplished. The
customs receipts of the past year We're
nearly 100000 taels, or, roughly, about
Sl5J000.
This scheme which, it is claimed, has now
been made known to the Chinese, accounts
for the apparent inaction of the powers dur
ing the past two months and the absence of
the British admiral at Nagasaki in Japan,
where the requisite steps can be taken
more conveniently than in China itself
Nagasaki is only two days steam from
SHANGHAI