The age-herald., 1900-09-26
GERMANY HEARS
 ALARMING NEWS

Berlin September 25.-Alarming news from China has reached the German gov
 ernment but it will not be published now, as Germany intends to use 1t during the
 conference in Pekin. Field Marshal Count
 von Waldersee has cabled to Emperor Will
 liam direct that he has found the general
 situation much more dangerous than he
 had expected, as it has grown worse during
 the last fortnight and the consuls in cen
 tral and southern China are expecting
 general uprising.
 Advices from Dr. Mumm von Schwarzen-
 stein, the German minister in China, are
 of a similar tenor. Rear Admiral von
 Bendemann has repeatedly cabled that the
 situation along the Yang Tse kiang is
 very critical and also expressing fears con-
 corning the safety of Kiao Chou.
 The German Forieign Office has received
 official information of the appointment of
 Prince Yuan as grand secretary. In reply to an inquiry as to whether this indicated
 serious turn aualrs, d hlsn otlIclal ot tne
 Foreign Office said:
 Undoubtedly it does for those powers
 that want to begin peace negotiations. The
 appointment means that Yuan is now at
 the helm and shows to what length the
 Chinese government will go in defying the
 powers"
 The official added that Germany feels ab-
 solutely no bitterness over the answer of
 the United States, although she regards it
 as embodying mistaken policy toward
 China. There has been no further ex- change of views the subject between Berlin and Washington since the reception of the American reply. Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein will go to Tien Tsin tomorrow. The report is com firmed here that Germany has assured
 Lord Salisbury that she is not opposed to the Empress retaining power, provided she retains it under the control of the powers, thereby preserving the harmony of the powers.
 Private Russian advices say that official
 news has been received at St. Petersburg confirming the report that neither the Em- peror nor the Empress will return to Pekin
 until the foreign troops have left Chinese territory.
 special to the Lokal Anzeiger from Pe- kin says that the Emperor and Empress have separated and that the former is now located in Ia Tung. Other dispatches say f the Germans took the Lu Tai forts with out serious resistance. The German press continues to comment upon Americas answer to the German note, taking the ground that the situation | has been made more dangerous and sad 1 ding the blame for this upon President | Mckinley. Several semi-official papers | severly condemn the attitude of the United | States. Others explain 1t by reference | to the difficulties in the Philippines. The | Vossiche Teitung says: "The American constitution brings 1t | about that every four years the whole | political situation is revolutionized. With | such conditions a settled foreign policy is | impossible. Great Britain also has party | governments, but change of internal pol l itics does not seriously influence her for eign policy"
 l The firm of Hohner and Company, in l Trossingen, Wurtemburg, has sent coco | harps to the German troops in China. The l instruments bear Prince Bsmarck's mot | to: 'We Germans fear God and nothing | else in the world"
 | The Cologne Gazette publishes state | ment evidently inspired, to the effect that 
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