The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-26
CHINA AROUSED AT LAST.
THE GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO
PRESERVE ORDER.

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A Report That the Authorities Have
offered to indemnify the Treaty
Powers for the Loss of Life and
Property-Several Gases of Rifles
Seized.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-The following is a
summary OF an official Peking cablegram re-
celved on Monday and handed to the for.
eign office authorities on Tuesday. Specific
sums have been offered 70 the treaty
powers by China as compensation
for the loss of life and property
at Wuhu, Wusnoh, Tanyang, Wooseih
and other places where disorders have oc-
CURED. Four leaders have been executed
and twenty-one have been banished Five
mandarins have been adjudged culpably
remiss in not adopting measures to preserve
order. and have been reported to the throne
for punishment.
| SQUADRoNS TO THE SCENE.
The imperial government, recognizing its
entire responsibility for the preservation of
order at treaty ports and for the protection
of missionaries in the interior, has ordered
the viceroys of Chi 81 and Nankin to dis>
patch the northern and southern squadrons
TO patrol the Yang Tse Kiang river and to
| afford protection wherever the life or
property of Europeans is still apparently
| Threatened. Though rumors of further
troubles still excite uneasiness in
certain places the government has no doubt
| of its ability to cope effectively with any
attempts at fresh breaches of the peace
whether from the operations OF secret
societies or as result OF local or accidental
circumstances.
THE EXAMINATIONS ORDERLY.
The examinations held last month at Nan
| kin, Woochang, Nanchang, Hang Chow
| and Woochow ended without the disorders
so often attendant on the assemblage Of so
many thousands of students. At Nankin
| alone the usual number of students is
10000, and the number is scarcely
less at the other capitals mentioned. Moth
ing is known respecting the reports cabled
| to Europe OF an attempt to seize the Foo
chow arsenal, but undoubtsd evidence of
| the activity OF the secret societies has been
obtained in other quarters.
A SEIZURE OF RIFLES.
| Thirty-five cases of foreign rifles con-
| signed to British subject employed in the
| imperial customs offices at Shanghai and
the consignee has been arrested and sent TO
| Shanghai for the British authorities to deal
with. The same man had In his possession
a quantity of dynamite, which, with the
| rifles, he confessed, was intended for the use
OF the secret societies at Chinkiang. The
arms came from Hong Kong. Two other
British subjects and six other
doubtful, residents Of Shanghai,
are implicated in this transaction, which Sir
Robert Hart, inspector general of customs,
and the British consulates at Shanghai and
Chinkiang are investigating.
In conclusion the cablegram repeats that
the imperial government has no doubt of
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sHIRKING ALL RESPONSIBILITY.
| The Paris correspondent of the Times says
it has become known there that the govern
ors Of the Chinese provinces In which
the riots occurred have distinctly declined
to be held resp )nsible therefor, and have
declared 1t impossible to pay the indemnity.
The inference is that Chine's circular to the
powers aims simply at delay in order
to shirk the indemnity and therefore not be
held to account by Europe.
RUsSIAs ATTITUDE.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 25-The Russian
government is disposed to join the other
powers in sending a diplomatio protest to
China, but will not take part in the conn
bined naval demonstration.
LOOKED UPON WITH DIsTRUsT.
Copyright, 1891, BY the " y associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 25-Communicati ons
from the Pekin government Offering com
pensation to foreigners who have suffered
in the recent riots in China with the
strongest assurances of future protection,
are received with distrust In the
foreign Office here. Hsu Ching Chang, the
Chinese ambassador to European courts, has
recently been in st. Petersburg, where he
succeeded in inducing the Russian govern
ment to withdraw from the joint action
projected by the powers. He arrived in
Berlin to-day with view Of trying to in
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certain that he will not alter the determina-
tion OF the German government to cooper
ate with the British in taking decisive
measures.
NATURE OF THE APPEAL.
The Pekin note as given TO the papers
falls to indicate the real character of the ap-
peal made by Hsu Ching Chang TO the Eu-
ropean governments. He has urged that
the imperial government was entirely
honest in desiring to suppress the dis
orders and seeking time to deal with
the anti-foreign governments, and that
precipitate action on the part OF the powers
would defeat their object and bring China
iato anarchy. His communications dis
tinctly suggest the probability Of such
potent polIGioal upheaval in China as might
overthrow the Manchu dynasty. The
panicky feeling existing in Pekin is made
known here by urgent telegraFns sent
through the Chinese embassy imploring
| LORD Salisbury to instruct Sir John w al
sham, the British minister to China, to
adopt q more friendly attitude.
THE MINISTER'S ADVICE.
Minister Walsham advises the foreign
Office that persistent diplomatic pressure,
combined with a naval demonstration at
certain of the treaty ports. will be the
only effective means to prevent reoccur-
renee Of the outrages. He complains that
the promulgation Of the emperor's edict
against the attacks on foreigners has
been unnecessarily delayed. He asked
the officials to use the telegraph
in publishing the edict, but the officials re-
fused, saying that there was no precedent
for doing so, and that the edict must be
distributed by the ordinary couriers. The
minister also complains of the uncer-
tainty Of the punishment Of the real
leaders Of the outrages. II Lord
Salisbury supports Minister Walsham's
policy the powers will actively intervene in
| order to protect Europeans, leaving the
| Tartar dynasty to take care of itself. In
| spite of the chaotic state Of the present
troubles the foreign Office here hopes that
the ultimate result will be an extension of
trade to important ceaters on the Yang Use
| Kiang, which are now closed, but where
the government aims 10 establish con-
| sulates.
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