The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
COUNCIL OF YICEROYS
France Suggests Way Out of
Chinese Middle.
POLICY LIKE AMERICAS
MOROCCO MAY CAUSE TROUBLE
IN AFRICA.

Paris, Aug. 25.-The viceroys of the
various provinces of China may be
cOnvoked to choose some one of weight
in the empire to deal with the powers
in establishing such a government as
viii assure the fulfllment Of whatever
terms the powers shall dictate in set
Element of their claims arising from
the recent outrages, and one who will
give satisfactory guarantees of COM
plete change of Chinese policy toward
the outside world. Such a solution has
been suggested in diplomatic circles,
but with most of the corps absent on
vacation and President Loubet and NJ
Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs
out of town, the idea has not assumed
a crystallized form. Hope still exists
that a strong central power viii be
found in Pezin which will constitute
the best guarantee f0I the future, the
best means of securing reparation for
the wrongs suffered by Europeans and
the best safeguard against division
among the powers themselves.
Now that the lied forces have. en-
tered the forbidden city the necessity
for maintenance Of concord among the
powers is most pressing. Yet fears are
increasing that the strain of conflict
ing interests and ambitions may cause
a cleavage among the nations interest
co. This danger has been demonstrated
already by the individual action Of
Russia in Selling the port of Port Uni
ty to extend her frontier into Man
churia, and the recent incident regard
ing the landing of British troops at
Shanghai.
Policy of France.
While no official statement is forth
coming as to the position of France, in
the absence from Paris of those in con-
troll of her foreign policy the following.
emanatine from an official associated
with the French government, expresses
the views of the foreign Office at the
present juncture:
I'VE have no revenge to seek in Chi
ma, and we have no intention to de-
mand such recOmpensatiOn in the
shape of indemnities as will create re-
sentiment against foreigners. Our pol
icy will be one of liberal education, the
effort to teach this great mass of peo-
pie to trust and regard Europeans ia
vOrably. In the end this may result
in the advancement Of civilization for
the one and commercial prosperity for
the others. Those who think that
change of government will change the
character of the Chinese people have
not a broad understanding of the deep
seated ideas which centuries have bred
IN them. To make a radical upheaval
of their form of government just at
this time would do more harm than
good. We should attempt to find
suitable person of liberal ideas toward
foreigners who will assume the reins
of government.
"Our position follows the identical
lines of the United States in nearly
I'LL IL,
the broadcast international construction
TO be placed upon foreign privileges,
and it is q fact that had not your COun-
try declared an open door at the time
it did. France herself would have done
so. The reply made by the United
States to Ii Hung Changes request for
the appointment Of an emissary to act
with a view to a settlement and the
establishment of. peace receives gen
eral approval here. France will take
q similar position. for we must be as
sured that we are negotiating with a
concrete body and not with a shadow.
While we have special commercial in
terests in Yunnan and Seechuen, our
desire to de elop that region would be
defeated should we act on narrow,
selfish ideas there"
Object to Waldersee.
The small anti-gcvernmental papers
are still barking over the acceptance
by France of Field Marshal Count Won
Waldersee as cOn1mander-in-chief of
the allied forces in China, and the sim
cerity of Russia's friendship is i'm
pugned, as these papers say thai it was
Russia that suggested Count Valdez
see as the COMMUNICATIVE
The Gaulois calls attention TO the
fact that at a conference presided over
by Prince Bismarck. when outside of
Paris, in a discussion as to whether
Paris should be taken by assault, Count
Waldersee expressed the wish to "see
this Babylon entirely destroyed"
Troublous Times In Africa.
A serious situation has arisen, ac-
cording to reports from Marseilles and
ToulOn, on the French Moroccan from
tier. Troops are said to be massing in
great numbers. in dangerous proximity
to the Algerian frontier. and Moroccan
tribesmen, it isSasserted, are raiding
French territory. Instructions are
said to have been received at the Med
fterranean naval station directing the
French naval authorities TO prepare to
dispatch artillery and stores to Alge-
ria while orders for contingents Of
troops from Algeria and Tunis for the
far east have been cOunteTmanded. In
official circles in Paris, although it is
admitted that the situation needs
watching. it is thought decidedly i'm
probable that the Moroccan govern
ment intends to conduct hostile opera
lions against Algeria.
Fetes For Exposition.
The commission appointed to organ
ize fetes at the exposition in order to
galvaniZe the show into something like
brilliancy, and thus attract visitors,
Co.. T.
given in addition TO the Venetian fetes
already announced. The first will be a
fete Of flowers. held the first week in
September. and the second will be vint-
age festivities on the 18th of Septem-
Der The first viii be made the Occa-
sion for a gigantic flower show and d
battle of flowers. The second will COM
prise an exhibition of French wine
products and a procession of allegOr-
ical cars. Although it has been sug-
gested that the duration of the eXpOsi-
ton be extended. it is officially an
nounced now that the great show viii
close on Nov. 5.
Indecent Pictures Seized.
The exhibition has given a pretext for
unusual license in the display and pro-
duction of sO-called post cards" bear
ing suggestive and in many. cases OBJ
scene pictures. Rue Beranger, a life
senator and a leading spirit IN the re-
form movement here, took up the mat
ter. members of the opera CORPS and
ballet representatives having. protested
that their features were attached to
photographs IN indicate scenes. These
cards were openly displayed in shop
windows and on the bOulevards The
police organized a general raid and
seized $4,000 post cards. coo photo
graphs, four horoscopes on the north
bank of the Seine alone. Similar op-
eratiOns on the south bank are afford
ing an equally good and plentiful mar