The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30

the newly re-conQuered Soudan have
already been drawn up. and the Egyp-
tian government has decided that the
first credit. Rs50. OOO. is to be chiefly
devoted to extending the railroad 10
Khartoum and organizing a soudan
police force.
The news received this week from the
far East has been OF a somewhat dis-
duieting nature. II appears the Euro
pean residents OF Pekin are In a state
of alarm at the drafting into NAT city
of large bodies Of Chinese troops. as a
counterpoise to the recent ARRIVAL tnere
OF guards for the foreign legations. Tne
native soldiers are very turbulent ana.
coupled with the anti-foreign riots az
Canton. the situation has caused great
uneasiness among the foreigners. who
number about $50. In response 70 the
demand of the diplomats. the Tsung
Ii Yamen has promised TO remove the
soldiers. who are mostly
ans. and who openly declare their IN
tention OF OF driving out the foreign
devils" But the fulfillment OF the
promise of Tsung Ii Yamen offers con-
siderable difficulty. as the only force
capable OF over-awing the Chinese
troops at Pekin is the foreign drilled
force in the neighborhood Of Tien Tsin,
commanded by Gen. Yuan Shek Hal.
who, however, In dreaded by the pal
ace, and may be regarded as practic-
ally holding h destinies of China In
his hand.
The dowager empress OF China seems
TO thoroughly recognize the Importance
Of having a modern organized army
and navy, and Is aid to have Informed
the Tsung Ii Yamen that urgent re-
forms are needed and that progressive
measures in other departments are i'm
practicable until the government Is
IooLaA an hU a naWQrful armV and
navy.
The convention providing for the
lease OF We Hal Wei to Great Brit
ain is published to-day. 1t provides
that Chinese troops n warships may
use the leased territory. Some OF the
British newspapers imagine this implies
an angemen by which Great Brit
ain will recognize Chinese military
forces.
In connection with the summonfng OF
a French doctor to examine the en-
peror of China, the Saturday Review
says 1t sees in this a ruse upon the part
OF the empress dowager, and adds thai
II would have been an easy matter to
palm OFF a sickly youth of % on the
European physician, as the emperor Is
scarcely ever visible to foreigners.
An article in the National Review
written by l.. j. Maxse, who has pre-
viously shown himself to be well in
formed on h Dreyfus affair. has
caused some stir. He afiirms that the
car has now become a convinced Drey-
fusard and is taking a sympathetic in
terest In the prisoner of Devils island.
The National Review adds that there
has been great establishment and indig-
nation in French ministerial and the
higher military circles of France by
the publication of too frankly outspok-
en- articles by NJ. Z~akrowsk1. president
of the Russian appeal court, declaring
the Dreyfus court martial amounted. to
a return to the lettres de cachet and
the days of the Bastile. n also scath-
ingly criticising the prosecution OF
Emile lola. 1t Is asserted that the
Russian government received remon-
strances from Paris in the interval be-
tween the articles. efforts being made
to have NJ. Zakrowski silenced or re-
moved. But IL is added the attempt
failed. This is looked upon a. being
evidence of a remarkable change OF
opinion in Russia. SD
Ii Is announced from st. Petersburg
that all the powers have now accepted
the cars invitation to send delegates
to the proposed disarmament confer
ence. Each power will be represented
by three delegates and II will be a rec
ord diplomatic assembly in point of
numbers. Count Muravieff. the Russian
minister of foreign affairs, is going to
Livadia where he will confer with the
czar on the outlines of the programme
which will be submitted to the dele
gates of the powers. The Russian min
lister Is very optimistic as to the result
OF the conference.
The Daily Chronicle prints a letter
from a correspondent who alleges that
the various American typewriter COM
panies which do business abroad have
formed a trust which controls the prices
of all the leading machines sold in Great
Britain. The writer adds that although
the cost of production of a typewriter
Is said to be considerably below e10
the retail price here is G23.
General Wesley Merritt and Mrs. Mer.
rift are still in London, Mrs. Merritt
suffering from typhoid fever. Although
her condition is not serious. her sick
ness will necessitate her remaining
here for some time.