New-York tribune., 1900-08-14
DIPLOMATIC VICTORY
AMERICAS INFLUENCE on THE CHI
NESE RULERS
tRY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE. ]

I tRX TELEGRAPH TO TRIBTNE.l
Washington. Aug. 13.-The anomaly of bring
Ing China to the terms which the United States
suggested by means of military force without
a formal declaration of war is curiously shown
by a comparison of dates of important events
| in the last two months at Peking and at Wash
lnEton, and American shirt sleeve diplomacy Is
placed in a more favorable light when 1t is re-
allied that actual declarations OF war would
have insured the spread of the anti-foreign
movement to the entire empire. alternating the
effective friendship of the Southern Viceroys.
All China would have been partitioned by Rus
sia. England. Germany and France. forever
closing the open door to Japan and the United
States
This danger. averted as far as the Peking
crisis is concerned, has unhappiIy arisen in a
new quarter. due to the threatened breach OF
faith at Shanghai. Perhaps those most soIcitous
for the maintenance Of the open door have Sc
cret assurances that the proposed military occu-
patton of the Yangtse ports is only a British
bluff designed 10 spur the Southern Viceroys
to make greater efforts to bring the Northern
authorities to their senses. and this accomplished
the other will be dropped. otherwise, it is in
conceivable that those who stand for the in
! tegrity Of the Chinese Empire should not recog-
nlze that for Russia to seize all Manchuria only
| needs such compensating pretext as the Brit
| ish occupation of Shanghai German Kiao-Chau
would expand indefinitely in three directions,
| and French Tonquin would speedily embrace all
Chinese territory south and west Of Hong Kong,
with all the doors barred against the trade of
! the United States and japan
The chronology Of the Chinese crisis seems to
indicate Enthusiastically that the authorities at
! Peking are more easily affected by single dis
! play Of force than by all manner Of threats or
! persuasion. They apparently had supreme con-
fdence in their new army organization, upon
| which millions had been spent since the war
! with japan, and it gradually dawned upon
| them that superby armed, we'll intrenched Chi
namen are no match at all for the seasoned SOL
| diers Of the Powers all their bold show Of re-
sistance disappeared The most interesting dates
| Of the crisis are as follows:
May 81. marines went TO Peking.
June Il, relief force started for Pektng-
June II Taku torts taken
June IS stopped way Peking BY
| periaI troops and forced TO retreat
June 10 Ministers allowed twenty-four hours 70 leave
TieaTsin HlE n'ne'e troops attack foreign
June 90 Tuan ordered attack foreigners;
! oonbardment OF legations began
June % relief and brought back Taku
aas z . reports % Of PsFo @ and Prs P 8 IN
csi- csI-I l'-" " eo'''o' ana anarchy III FsA'nS ana
June % Imperial decree denying Chinese responsibility
By % Mnis5sP lS va u Ja s Gus I1 4Au capture
July HAYS circular to Powers defining United states
/ Tsin all day.
Tsin destroyed. would be difficult restore in
Ii by imperial edi5t
| July II, Hays cipher TO Conger
July IA, capture Tteu-Tsn-
! July 16. firing the legations stopped
eiGners.
July 10, Kwang sus appeal TO the President.
! July % Presidents reply
permit Mins:ers journey 10 Tien-Tsin
July 80 Hay insisted 70 Ii that power to deliver Min
a len
| cauca. This insisted upon
august 2 ediot allowing free communcat!on in plain
language and ordering Yung Lu 70 Ministers
Tea-Tsn al once; YaIaen to Wqi Az web1 Ministers
ng st Tie TenTsin rs sfSG165r
August Pei-Tsang taken: eaict allowing cspAer dis
for for Ten rStlE sa IN amen si'''' 10 'u's '7s & 70 ~
August g. Yang-Tsung taken .eK edf
august 7. Il made Plenipotentiary. l- O. ssg1
august s United States demands cessation Q, hostile
GoHe1 ef cdn G5 fa braTo8 3S 5f ,aisfr
August IL begs peace viii try carry out
the Presidents wish urged by dispatch OF August S
It is shown clearly that the assault on the
legations did not begin until all Peking knew Of
the fall Of the Taku forts, and not until the Of
dciaIs there knew that Admiral Seymours relief
force had been defeated and was returning to
| Tien-Tsin. There is every indication that the
Imperial forces, which had not actively support
ed the Boxers before the Taku forts were taken
al that time threw of all pretence OF protecting
foreigners. When, on July 3. the assault upon
the foreign concessions al Tien-Tsin began the
reinforced allies began their advance from Tong
Ku. and their progress was such that six days
later the Tsung-li- Yamen, which, apparently
had a better knowledge OF the foreigners
strength than other Chinese officials. begged
that Tien-Tsn be spared The fall of Tien-
Tsin promptly marked by the cessation Of
the assault on the legations. a decree in favor
of protecting foreigners and the Emperor's ap-
peal for mediation, fulfilling the first condition
demanded by the United States. The plan begun
by Ii Hung Chang 10 avoid the assault on
Peking by delivering the Ministers TO the allies
at the coast fell through upon the insistence Of
the United States that communication must first
be restored. This was partially granted on Au-
gust 2, and all restrictions were removed when
Pei-Tsang EeT fulfilling the second American
condition, and the third prerequisite apparently
awaited only the capture of Yapg-Tsun.