The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-13
OBJECTIONS TO wALpERsEE.

| New York. August ia dispatch TO
the Tribune from Lond II says: Despite
the assertions so confidently repeated that
all the powers have accepted the uncon-
ditional appointment of Count Won wal
dersee as commander- chief of the al
lied forces in China, 1t is stlli believed
here that several governments have Civ IN
consent to the counts nomination with
important limitations on his freedom OF
action. 1t Is pointed out in Paris. and
by responsible statesmen like NJ. Meline
that under the law of February, 1874, no
foreign officer hold nomnally or provis-
ionally, command of any body of French
troops. AT present the cunts commission
from the powers would make him rather
chief of council of officers than COM
mander in-chief in the accepted sense ot
the term No doubht when the allied
army is sItually engaged in a battle with
the ChiAese the German field marshal
will be in command and his tactical dis
positions will be carried out by all ranks
and nationalities. but on the anger ques-
tingents will be largely Ill TIL hhOtcnl
tion of strategy and policy, the attitude
Of the chiefs of the various foreign con-
tingents will helargely determined by iu-
structions from home
1t is possible however that if Count Won
Waldersee reaches the Pei Ho a more
definite understanding between the paw
ers as to their objects and purposes in
China will have been reached 1t has
been stated in a quarter we'll informed on
continental politics that the Hurst sug
gestion for the appointmer. of Count Won
Waldersee was made b. Sus ear in an
autograph letter TO the German emperor
This may be true but, If so. st. Pet-r.-
burg was only returning TO Berlin hint
quietly received from that capital The
statement Of some of the German news
papers that the suggestion first came
from England is, of course, absurd. on
the contrary, the British government IS
by no means in a hurry to express APP
proval of the proposal, which it nrst ap-
preached win considerable hesitation
The only member OF the cabinet who
has lately referred publicly to the Chinese
question is Lord Londonderry. The post
master general in 4 recent speech at pol
iticsl meeting urged that the powers seek
no ndiscriminat vengeance. but would IN
sist on the punishment OF the mdndarns
and other high personages really resp1n-
sibie Tor the outrages committed instead
of allowing themselves to be put off by the
execution of q miscellaneous selection OF
less guilty subordnates, Great Britain,
said the speaker must see what ii cCdld
do to preserve order in the Yangtse val
ley and he maintained that her majesty's
government considered 1t was under
special obligation to protect Shanghai.
Considerable uneasiness continues TO
be felt in official circles. though not much
is said about 1t in the newspapers as 10
the action of Russia in the Canese prov
inces adjacent 10 her own frontier. Very
little is really known about the state NJ
affairs in the Amor region, and 1t has
even been alleged that the attacks on the
Russian settlements have been those oil
smll rowing bodies of Tartar handitu.
But Russia is clearly preparing for a
campaign on grand scale. Moscow tele-
grms assert that sixty thousand troops
have alredv started ON the railway route
to the Far East nd many more are to ne
embrked from odessa. Some OF the Rus
sian newspapers are now openly assert
ing that the time has come TO settle
whether the Slay or Mongol, Christ or
Buddah shall be supreme in Northeastern
Asia Meanwhile the Russians are alreauy
understood to have decided to take pos
session of New Chwang the important
railway center and harbor which 1t mas
been the determined object OF BRUSH
diplomacy for two years past to keep out
of Muscovite hands.
ALLIES TWELVE MILES NEARER
PEKIN.
Copyright 1900, Associated Press)
Tien Tsin. Monday, August 6, via Shang-
hal. August 12,-The army advanced
twelve miles today,
Two reliable couriers. who left fekin
August /, arrived today at Tien Tsin
They say that the empress dowager led
the foreigners Tor few days. me
former viceroy OF Shan Tung. who is bit
terry anti foreign arrived with new
troops. according to these couriers, and
planted two batteries on the wall near
the legations. The enemy began shelllhg
ana opened fierce rifle fire which was
kept up for two days
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