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roy, to lend him 100000 taels on the
security of viceroyal industrial under
| takings.
A correspondent at New Chwang says
| the Russians at Hal Cnefis are await
/ ing re-inforcemerts, whose advance is
| delayed by the impossible conditions OF
| the roads to Leao Yang and Mukden.
i Meanwhile the native population of
! the district is being treated with the
utmost severity Eye witnesses report
an indiscriminate slaughter OF non
combatants and the reduction OF the
country in the vicinity of Port Arthur
| to a state of utter desolation-
| Berlin. Aug. 29.-Her Won Brandt, for
mer minister to China, who was inter-
viewed today regarding the situation,
made the following statement:
1T is an error to assume that the Chi
neGa trouble is at an end with the relief
of the foreign legations As a matter of
! fact It has but just begun because now
I the divergent interests of the powers are
asserting themselves. No doubt, the
United States would conclude peace i'm
mediately and act as a mediator if, unfor-
/ tunately Chinese dupltcity were not so
PRUSSIA wants the empress dOwager
retained. Great Britain wants Emperor
Kwang SSu at the head of affairs. Ger
many runs the risk of being isolated or
of being compelled to confront coalition
of several powers if. after the arrival of
Count Won WalderSee. she should wish 10
continue action, perhaps Sin2le-hdnded,
or if in her demands tor redress she
should go further than the powers pTin-
cipally interested in China.
Regarding the causes that led to- the
Chinese troubles. Herr Won Brandt quot
ed verbatim the text of a remarkable re
port made by the chief of the Russo-Asi-
l IL E1IIrf Ia Hrr
not heretofore published. The passage OF
the greatest interest is as follows
"A majority of the Pekin legations nave
settlements in Pekin, like those at the
treaty harbors, Immediately after the ar
rival in Pekin of strong detachments M
DeGiers Russian minister, will endeaVor
! to reduce this demand to the appointment
of foreign police commissioners under
command of the legations.
Several of the legations desire a spec
iaI regency over the emperor and the re-
moval of the empress dowager from pow
err but NJ de Giers insists upon retaining
the powers of the empress dowager, since
the above arrangement would induce sew
eral powers to demand the appointment
OF their candidates as members OF the
This report did not reach St Peters
burg until July 80. Commenting upon 1t,
Herr Brandt remarked:
This shows how far the Pekfn minis
tiers wished to go even before serious dit
1CulIl6S D6Bdn.
Paris, Aug 29.-Admiral Courrejolles
cables that he is sending a gunboat
from Shanghai to ascend the Yang Use
Kiang river.
The officials of the ministry of ma
rine here were shown today the dis
patch from Washington. in which it is
declared that the opinion prevails there
that the dispatch from Admiral Cour-
rejolles announcing the intention of
the admirals to detain Ii Hung Chang
until the diplomats have consented to
open negotiations with the Chinese, re-
ferred to situation which existed some
time ago when Ii Hung Chang first
announced his intention of starting
north. The French officials declare the
news is not old, and that there is no
question as to the correctness of the
wording of the dispatch, but they add
that they themselves are una bic to say
from the dispatch what is the present
position of Lii Hung Chang, whether
he is detained ON board ship or whether
the admirals intend to detain him when
he arrives at Taku.
London, Aug pa special dispatch
from st. Petersburg contains the as
sertion that Russia, almost immediate
ly, will notify the powers that she
considers the relief of the Pekin lega-
tions as the final accomplishment of
the military task of the allied forces.
Berlin, Aug. 29-According to a dis
patch received here from Tien TSin,
Japanse forces are now on their way
from Taku to Pao Ting Flu, capital of
the province of Chi Ii, with the di-
rect object of occuHying the latter
place.
The German vice admiral at Taku re-
ports the arrival at Pekin Aug. % of a
German convoy with provisions.
The railroad from Tien Tsin to Yang
Tsun is working, but from the latter
place to Pekin the road is in bad shape.
Che Foo. Aug. 29.-Yu, the governor
of the province of Shen 81, is report
ed to have invited the foreigners in the
province to come to his protection.
About Aug. q fifty accepted the in
vitation, and all were massacred
Hongkong, Aug. 2s.-Two hundred ban
dts raided the Tartar city of Canton on
Monday night Several houses were loot
raid was the Cantonese hatred of the
northerners.
1t is rumored at Annoy that Il, coo Japan
csc troops are coming there from For
mora.