Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-10-11
CHINESE SITUATION.
Nothing Important Looked for Until
Mckinley Gets to Washington.
FOREIGN TROOPS EXPECTING ATTACK
4 Chinese Force Checks Some German
Troop. and Compass Them to Retire
-Chinese Rebels Attack y
Market Town.

Washington, Oct. S.-Developments
OF any consequence in the Chinese
situation are not looked for until aft
er the return of President Mckinley
to the capital. He is expected on
Tuesday morning and on the after
noon of that day u cabinet meeting
probably will be held when the ques-
tons presented by the French note
will be gone over in an informal way.
The French note, which recently has
been addressed to the powers, is not
regarded as just now of pressing
necessity for action, as several OF the
nations interested already have in
structed their representatives in Pc
Kin to ascertain whether the imperial
edict completely names the persons
deserving punishment and other fea-
lures of the French proposal con-
tains propositions which can remain
In allegiance. This government may
not consider seriously the PROPOSE
tons which look to the prohibition
OF the importation Of arms into Chi
ma and the dismantling of the fortifi-
cations. Interest meanwhile centers
In the report which Mr.. Conger will
make regarding the adequacy OF the
punishments to be meted out by the
Chinese government to those persons
who were instrumental in the boxer
revolt and the future course of this
government may depend largely on
what the Investigations now being
conducted develop. No advices have
come as yet from Mr.. Conger on this
subject, but this is not surprising as
she work to be undertaken is Of con-
s'lerable magnitude.
The war department officials expect
that all the American troops which
are to be sent from Pekin to Manila
will be out Of China by the 2lst in
slant.
Such efforts as have been made by
the state department urging the re-
turn Of the imperial family to the
capital city seem up to this time to
have been Intellectual The last Off
cial advices of Minister WI, now
about a week old, indicated their in
tcntion Of going to Sinan-Fu in the
province Of Shensi, which is further
&c the west than they now are. The
fact that the acting governor of the
province was directed to refrain
from NIL extravagant preparations
IN making arrangements for the i'm
perial family is, to Mr.. Wu's mind,
an indication that their sojourn at
Hinan-Fu is to be but temporary.
Conditions respecting the question of
food and telegraphic communication
were unsatisfactory in Tai-Yen, in
Shansi province, where the court has
been located since its departure from
Pekin and these essential requisites
will be improved in their new abode.
Mr.. WI believes that Earl Ii, the
principal peace negotiator, already
has started for pekin, as u message
Of several days ago indicated that it
was impossible to reach him by tele-
graph at Tien Tsin, as he had started
for the capital.
For'" y "op. Exp"ctinr an Attack.
london, Oct, SIN h dispatch from
Pekin to the Times dated October /,
Or. Morrison says;
ut looks now as II NJ, de Giers
1.-THE Russian minister to ChnaJ would
negotiate with Ii Hung Chang at
Tien Tsin. The American withdrawal
will facilitate Russia's negotiations
concerning Manchuria. All the man
darins in Pekin have declined the
empress dowager's orders to proceed
10 Tai-Yuen-Fu, assigning various
pretexts.'
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Morning Post, in a dispatch dated
yesterday, says; AN the foreign
troops here are held in readiness
against possible attack by 5000
Chinese troops now advancing along
dhe Grand canal"
Chinese R-hels Attack u Market Town.
London, Oct. s,--The Standard has
the following from Tien Tsin, dated
October s: "A German force came
into collision with 5000 Chinese, de-
scribed as boxers, few miles south
of Tien Tsin this morning. The Ger
mans were checked and compelled to
retire to Tien Tsin. There is reason
TO believe that the Chinese in this
case were not boxers but were Ii
Hung Changes veterans who had been
ordered to wait near here in view
Of the possibility that the foreigners
would'bar his progress to the capital"
Emusror Denounc"s the Boxer Movement
Pekin, via Shanghai, Oct. s.-By an
imperial decree issued at Tai Yuen
Flu, capital of the province of Shan
ii, dated September 2i, Emperor
Kwang Su denounces the boxer move
ment and designates for punishment
nine ringleaders. lie acknowledges
his own fault and 'rebukes himself,
but he places the chief blame upon
the princes and mobiles who partici-
pated in the movement and ,protracted
II.
The Germans Checsed bv Chinese