The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-11-20
THE cHARLesrons MISSION.

for News or the Correspondent Sending
the Subjoined Dispatch Has Struck
Hare'g Nest-The Charleston Said to be
Under Orders to Sieze the Hawaiian
Islands Under Certain Contingencies
Chinese Gossip.
SHANGHAI Nov. 1.-THE special
correspondent of the United Press who
was sent to China with instructions to
investigate the matters which have
been causing so much uneasiness in di-
plomatic circles throughout Europe and
the United States, Is now In this city,
and, from high authority, has been
| placed in possession of most important
facts
The United States cruiser Charleston
has left these waters for Honolulu, and
it is asserted here in quarters likely to
know the truth or falsity of a report of
this nature, that the COM
mander of the Charleston, Geo. c. Re-
mey, has received instructions from the
United States g overnment to seize the
Hawaiian islands should certain event.
ualities occur
The United Press correspondent has
made careful inquiry in regard to this
| matter, and while not able to state
that it is a fact that the Charleston has
started on the important mission men,
toned, he is able to say that. beyond
| any doubt, it is fully believed in official
| circles here that the United States
cruiser has been ordered, should cer-
| tain events occur, to seize the Hawaiian
| islands.
In addition, the correspondent has
reason TO belle We that these facts have
been cabled to the British foreign Office,
and there has been, in consequence, an
exchange of dispatches between the
British admiralty and the admiral in
command of the British fleets in Chi
nese waters. Ostensibly, the mission
of the Charleston is to protect Ameri-
| can interests there and to afford ref
| uge for American citizens on those
islands should the political upheaval
expected there take the form which
some people anticipate it may take.
| The American colony here and others
| also seem to be in hearty sympathy
with the United States in this matter.
It is recognized by all except, perhaps,
| the representatives of two powers, that
| the Hawaiian islands are naturally un-
der the wing, if not under the protec-
| ton of the United States, and that the
United States is the country to police,
| il not to annex, that somewhat dis
| turbed country under certain circum-
| stances"
AS the correspondent understands it,
| the Charleston's mission is not a bold
and uncalled for swooping down upon
and seizure of the Hawaiian kingdom;
it is simply the taking of firm step in
what are considered by the United
| States government, to be the best in
| terests of the United States.
China, it seems, will do little or moth
| ing to protect or to do common justice
to foreigners SO long as the diplomats
alone take a hand in the game, but
when the foreign ministers are backed
| up by powerful war ships, and plenty
of them, their voices seem to have
persuasive sweetness which was alto
gether lacking when the war ships
were absent or few in number here
abouts.
The United Press correspondent,
however, is in position to state that
though the province of Human may be
at present the stamping ground of
number of Russian agents whose duty
| it may be to foster disturbances by all
the means in their power; that the
presence of British agents there is we'll
known to the Chinese government and
that no kind of denial will convince
the Chinese government that this is not
the case.
Russia has been blamed for all the
intriguing which has been going on in
Asia for the past hundred years, yet
nobody seems to think of even suspect
ing England of doing the same things. 1t
may be distinctly said, however, that
England is quite as black, if not o
blacker sinner than Russia in this re-
spect, and that great deal of the
| growth of the British Indian en-
| pire, to say nothing of nearly
all the British colonies is due to
little else than British intrigues
| of the same nature, or worse, than
those British statesmen, and British
newspapers are continually, with holy
horror, holding up to scare the British
public.
| Sooner or later the Russian bear and
the British lion, to say nothing of the
/ French eagle, will tear large slices out
of Chinese territory in order to ap-
| pease. momentariiy, their hunger for
Asiatie territory. Then there may be
developments of sad nature for the
| foreign residents of China.
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