St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-08
AMERICA INSISTS ON FULL PRO-
LECTION FOR MISSIONARIES
IN CHINA,
BRITAIN SLOW ABOUT 1T.
PEREMPTORY AND SWEEPING
REQUEST PRESENTED TO
THE CHINESE.
NO AMERICANS HURT SO FAR.
What Property Has Been DAM
aged Will Undoubtedly BE
Paid For.

WASHINGTON, Aug. THE
United States anticipated Great
Britain in taking the most energetic
steps for the protection of American
missionaries in China. The injustice
of the criticisms that have been ut
tered in some quarters upon the al
legged Indifference of United States
Minister DENLY is fully shown by a
mail dispatch that has just come to
the state department from the min
lister. It is dated towards the close
of June, and shows that Mr.. DENLY
has made sweeping and peremp-
tory demand upon the Chinese gov
eminent, similar to that made yes
terday by the British minister to
Pekin, for the fullest protection for
all Americans living in China; for
redress for the depredations COM
mltted upon their property and per-
sons; and finally for the capital pun
1shment of the perpetrators. Just
what answer was returned by the
Chinese government is not known.
as it has not yet reached the state
department, but it is fact that so
far as the department is informed.
In all of the recent outrages commit
ted upon the missionaries in China,
not one American was killed or in
jured, and while some American mis-
sion property was destroyed, it will
doubtless be promptly paid for. In
view of the energetic course which
Mr.. DENLY has already adopted, the
state department has not deemed it
necessary to send him further in
structions for his guidance. He has
already been authorized to confer
freely with Admiral Carpenter, the
commander of our naval forces in
Chinese waters, and the admiral in
turn has been instructed by the sec
rotary of the navy to lend all proper
assistance for the protection of
Americans.
USING A GUNBOAT.
AT the suggestion of the minister,
in June, he sent the Petrol, the light
est draught gunboat in the navy, I'D
the Yang Use Kiang as far as Wuhu,
almost as high as it is safe to go,
and if 1t is deemed necessary, he will
undoubtedly again send a warship
up the river. But as the interior
missions are many hundred miles
above lchang, the head of navigation
on the Yang Use Kiang, comparing
In location with that point as does
Minneapolis with st. Louis on the
Mississippi, and so far removed from
any effective aid that could be rem
dered by gunboats, Mr.. DENLY has
used all of his powers Of persuasion
10 induce the American missionaries
10 at least temporarily leave the ex-
posed positions and come to the
trearty ports where they may be I'M
der the guns of the warships. He
has succeeded in this in some degree.
although in cases it has been found
dl1ncult or impossible to induce the
missionaries to abate their religious
zeal so lar as to seek protection until
order is restored in China. In one
instance, in answer to the minister's
appeal, a body of the missionaries
maze their way from the interior
TO the coast and sent word to Adj
mlral Carpenter to take them aboard
the neet. Theyhad chosen a point on
the coast separated from navigable
water by twenty miles Of marsh, and
when the admiral, after great diff
Guilty, managed to reach them with
small launches, they stated that they
mad changed their minds; that duty
called them back to their missions.
and all returned save three persons.
But in spite of such obstacles il is
believed that Minister DENLY has
been more fortunate than the other
foreign ministers in getting the mis-
slonaries within the area of protec-
ton, and has also induced the Chin
csc government to take measures to
care for the American missions gen.
eralIy.