The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
GUARDED BY WARsHIPS.
ViCe-Admiral Butler Still De-
monStrates the Pressure
on Picking.
DEMANDS MADE ON A vICEROY.
At the Same Time There Is a Gen.
eral Shaking Up in the Diplo-
matio Service.

LONDON, ENG, Oct. 5.-Though the
Foreign Office processes to be satisfied with
the full and prompt acceptance by the Pc
king Government of the ultimatum for
warded to it by the British Government
demanding the degradation of Liu Ping
Chang, Viceroy of Sze-Chuen, for his con-
nection with the Sze-Chuen riots, the
trouble growing out of the overt hostility
of the Chinese to British subjects is not
over. The movements of the British squad
ron in the Yang-tse-Kiang show that the
tension in the relations between Great
Britain and China has hardly been les
sened by the punishment of Liu Ping
Chang.
Vice-Admiral Butler, instead of ceasing
to demonstrate the pressure that is being
brought to bear on the Peking Govern
ment, keeps under orders the British war
ships at every point where they were sta
toned before the Tsung-h Yamen APP
parentIy conceded the British demands.
The warship Eolus has gone to WI Chang,
where Vice-Admiral Butler is charged to
present to Chang Cheh Tung, the Viceroy,
the demands relative to the inquiry into
the Kucheng massacre.
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of foreigners, and WI Chang is the center
of the production of the pamphlets and
placards melting the populace to the MUIR
der of Europeans. No overt acts of hostil-
ity that would justify Great Britain in de-
handing his dismissal from Office can be
traced to him. despite his known antipa-
thy to foreigners. The exact nature of the
demands that will be presented to him has
not TRANSFERRED. A strong feature of Vice
Admiral Buffers admission Is that he is
directed to deliver the British dispatches
directly to Chang Cheh Tung instead of
negotiating through Peking. 1t is expected
by the Foreign Office that the Viceroy will
concede the demands.
Prime Minister Salisbury has directed
Sir Nicholas O'Connor, the British Min
lister to China, to expedite his return to st.
Petersburg as ambassador in place of Sir
F. G. Lascelles. He will be in London in
Novemb Der, when a new Minister to China
will be appointed.
1t is evident that Great Britain is de-
termined to conserve and expand her
trade and other interests in China. In
order to effect this end important changes
will be made in the duties of the members
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rotary of the legation a special commercial
attache will be obliged to make an annual
tour of the treaty ports. The secretary
will visit the chief consulate. The COM
mercial attaches will receive the British
residents, learning their grievances and
watching the course of trade. As Sir
Nicholas O'Connor suggested these changes
nothing will be done in the matter until
Lord Salisbury personally confers with Sir
Nicholas.
1t is rumored in diplomatic circles that
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British EN- bassador
to the United States, will succeed Lord
Dufferin as ambassador to France. Sir
Julian's preference for Washington over
some OF the better-paid European posts is
not concealed. but if he should be offered
the blue ribbon of the British diplomatic
service he would, it is said, be certain to
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