The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-15
DOUBT AS TO FUTURE.
Europeans In Pekin Ask "What
NextPo


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! Correspondence of the Associated Press J
Pekin, Sept. 11.-From ministers to
the student interpreters in the various
legations and from generals to drum
mer boys, not a soul but that is asking
| the question, What next?
1t takes, even for government mes
! Sages, from ten to fourteen days to get
/ an answer to a cable, and private and
| press messages, now that the govern
ment telegraph line to Tien Tsin has
Deen closed against them, are prac-
ucaIly unknown, consequently the for
elSnerS in Pekin are almost as badly
eli for news of the outside world as
We're those besieged in the walls of the
British legation during the siege
English and American papers have
Just been received, which make inter
estlng reading for the ministers and
| their families, telling as they do all
about their supposed death and giving
tragic details as to how the men killed
their women folk, how members of
certain legations were boiled IN oil and
other narrowing pictures of the last
day of the siege. There is certain
gentleman living in Shanghai, better
known to the world as THE Shanghai
Liar, who, if he were here, would prob
ably meet q warm reception from some
of his resuscitated victims.
The great question now heard in
CfNA1 -, MIaI Is the hWOElQ gong TO 90
with China, with so many nations hav-
ing conflicting interests and opinions
as TO what should be done? 1t is a
mistaken idea to suppose that the Chi
nese themselves have been settled with
enectuaily yet, but if Sir Robert Hart
proves a true prophet, then there will
be no serious affair before the begin
ming of November, by which time the
numerous bands marching from the
south will have come together and oe
nr II
| There will probably be one battle with
great loss to the Chinese before they
realize the hopeleSsness of further re-
SiStance.
Another great question often asked
here is whether China Will prove a
great battle-ground on which will be
fought out the supremacy of Russia CT
Japan in this part of the world. Though
the Japanese have the general sym
pathy here as against Russia, still
nearly all those who have lived long
in China say they trust that if the
department of Chi Lii, in which Pekfn
is situated, has to be controlled by the
japanese or Russians, that Russia will
get 1t.
The reason for this is that the re-
ligiOns of japan and China are much
alike, the people, if they had their
queues cut off and allowed their hair
to grow on the front of their heads,
would not be distinguishable from the
Japanese, that the yellow peril would
then become an assured reality, for
with the modern ideas Of Japan en-
grated on the Chinese, and with the
wealth they could accumulate, the
largest trained army in the world
would be at their disposal, and their
navy would be equally powerful, and
that combined the Chinese and Japan
csc would become the most powerful
race on earth.
Another idea at present prevalent
among army officers here is that moth
ing can prevent the partition of China,
and that in each sphere of influence
a Chinese army will be maintained to
help protect it against other foreign
aggression, and that this will eventu-
ally be the means of bringing about a
mutiny which would sink the Indian
mutiny into an apparently insignificant
occurrence Of small importance.