The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-03
AFFAIRS IN THE ORIENT
Every One of the Powers Figuring
Night and Day for Position.
THEY ALL ARE SUSPICIOUS
No Agreement Said to Exist Between
Russia and Germany as to the Occu-
patton of Kiao Chau Bay.
Great Uncertainty.

London, Jan. 2-The Daily Graphic
claims to have authority for the asser-
ton that no agreement .xists between
Russia and Germany with regard to
China; that Germany occupied Kiao
Chau without Russa's cognizance. A
dispatch to the Times from Pekin dated
Friday says: The arrangements with
Russia for the guarantee loan are ac-
lively proceeding. and when completed
the Russians on the plea of supervising
the collection of land taxes will obtain
the right to enter every yamen in the
empire.
Chicago, Jan. 2.-The Records Ia
coma, WASH, special says. The steam-
err 1ndrapura has arrived from Japan
bringing the latest advices. regarding
the Oriental situation. Ii Hung Chang
has been recalled to power at Pekin.
the emperor and the inner council de-
string his assistance in the present dip
lomatic crisis. Lii Hung Chang recent
~ started to his estates on account of
Ill health, but he has now returned to
Pekln and the government has taken
up for consideration his memorial on
the military and naval defenses of the
empire. This memorial was prepared
on Earl Lis return from America and
Europe but it has remained in a pigeon
hole until now.
thousands of troops are being re-
cruited in the interior and 1t is intend
ed to double the number of battalions
in all the Chinese maritime provinces
within 30 days. The emperor has re-
ceived 4S secret memorials regarding
the defense of the empire from high
military and civil officials throughout
China. All China is awakening.
A number of papers in Japan and the
Chinese maritime ports express the be-
lief that a partition of China among
tn In hny l,ai
1t is reported that France will receive
Formosa from Japan as part of the ter
rttory allotted her. Japanese papers de-
clare that part of the programme to be
impossible OF contamination.
Captain Brussatis and others of the
German cruiser Cormorant We're re-
Gently pelted by stones and mud by a
Chinese mob while landing at WI
Chung in one of the cruisers boats.
flying the German ensign. The officers
were landing to pay their respects to
Chung Chi Tung. The latter. upon Ger
many's demand, has made prompt and
satisfactory apology, including a salute
to the German flag of u guns.
1t is claimed that the Chinese COM
mander at Kiao Chau was tricked into
surrendering by the German admiral,
who gave his word that the emperor of
China had consented to the occupation
of Kiao Chau and would consider any
resistance an act of rebellion.
The Jill Shimpo. the most influential
paper at Toxic, says that according to
reliable authority Russia, France and
Germany have reached an understand
ing whereby Russia is to take Corea
and North China, Germany the Shan
Tung districts, while France will get
Fofmosa and parts of the koo KEN
coast. This story comes from Hong
Kong and is not generally credited.
London. Jan. "A sensation has been
caused by rumor from Plymouth that
the English admirals have fired on
Russian man-of-war in Chinese waters
Nothing is known as to the rumor at the
foreign Office or the admiralty. The
morning papers publish also the state
ment that England is pressing China to
declare Port Arthur a free port 1t is
supposed that the presence of British
wafships there is intended to insure
freedom of access for trading vessels.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Times says: It is reported that
China has given consent to Russian
surveys for a railway to Port Arthur as
branch of the Russian Trans Man
churia railway, and not a mere extern
sion of the Chinese TEN Tsin railway.
1t is also stipulated that the route is to
avoid Multden, the capital city of the
Tartar dynasty. Mukden is the capital
OF the province of Lao Tong, Man
churia, and is also 40 miles northeast
of Pekin. 1t was the last residence of
the Manchuria sovereigns before the
conquest of China, and is the place
where the early emperors of the reign
ing dynasty were buried.