The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
WATCHING ONE ANOTHER
ALL THE EUROPEAN POWERS ANX-
IOUS TO GET A SLICE OF CHINA.
Suspicious that One Will Get the Ad-
vantage of the Other-RumOrs
Regarding Great Britain.

LONDON, Dec. 22.-Semi- official reports
and rumors Of more or less reliability all
go to show that an international storm is
brewing over the attempt of the powers to
grab territory in China All the European
powers are suspicious of one another, and
are quietly watching each move. A Ger
man-Chinese commission has been ar
ranged, according to a dispatch from
Shanghai to the Daily Mail, to settle the
boundaries of the occupied district at
Kiaochau; and it is evident, therefore, that
the occupation will be permanent. The same
dispatch says it is rumored in Shanghai
that the British intend to occupy Talien-
Wan, south of Port Arthur, in order to
guard the Gulf of Po-Chi-Li. The Daily
Nails correspondent at Toxic says there is
no excitement there over the news from
Port Arthur The press is calm and the
public is Indifferent. 1t is rumored, also, the
dispatch alleges. that a large Russian mill
itary force is coming overland from Siberia.
According to another special dispatch
from Shanghai the British squadron will
make demonstration at Che-Foo, on the
north coast of the Shan-Tung promontory,
as warning, it is supposed that Great
Britain intends to oppose the division of
China without consulting her. 1t is re-
ported there that Russia has offered China
loan to pay off the indemnity of the war
with Japan; and it is believed, says the dis
patch, that Japan and England are acting
in concert to preserve China from disin-
tegration, favoring the idea of a protector
ate over central China, with a capitol at
Marking.
The Cologne Gazette maintains the ac-
curacy of the statement that the Russian
ftOy1 Of nr+ AVfJ tod
with the visit there of the British war ship
Daphne about a week ago. AS proof it
points out that there were neither Russian
ships nor Russian consul at Port Arthur
at the time the Daphne visited the harbor
and it argues that Russia could only have
learned of the visit through China's COM
plant. The Paris correspondent of the Co.
logne Gazette telegraphed his paper Mon
day that a week ago, in spite of the pro-
tests of the Chinese, the British war ship
Daphne entered the inner harbOr at Port
Arthur, allegedly to ascertain whether Rus
sian ships were there, and that the Russian
occupation of the port was connected with
the visit.
A dispatch from Berlin says: 1.-THE Co
logne Gazette embarrassed the government
to-day by declaring that the other powers
would soon follow the example of Germany
and Russia, now that the partition Oh emma
had actually commenced. Other papers
have expressed opinions in a similar vein.
It has been limited that Prince Henry's des-
tination is another point than Kiao-Chau
and that he will receive the supreme COM
mand in the China seas. The Norddeutsche
Allegemeine Zeitung hastened to issue de-
NAL of these assumptions, declaring that
they were not warranted by the facts.
Tho Cor,,oaY, admiral comma ndino 0f KiaO-
Chau bay refused to admit newspaper men
within the German lines.
A dispatch from Brest says the French
cruiser Jean Bart has been ordered to pro-
ceed Immediately to China. The Jean Bart
is rated as second-class cruiser; she
mounts four 6.2-inch quick fire guns, six
65-inch guns, fourteen 2.5-inch guns and has
nine guns of smaller calibre. Her crew
NUN hers go men.