Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-09

Shanghai, August 1 for Submission to Earl
Ii Hung Chang. The authorities consider
that the opening of communication with
Minister Conger, therefore. only partially
complies with the Presidents demands.
With the legations still under fire. the Chi
nese government cannot be said to have re-
moved "all dangers to their lives and liber-
ty,' and, moreover, SO far as known here
the imperial authorities OF China have made
no efforts to communicte and cooperate
with the relief expedition. The new de-
manl upon the Chinese government is for
square-toed compliance with these condi-
tons. There is hope, growing out of the
fact that the Chinese government has yield
ed partially, that when confronted with the
firm position taken by the United States it
will be sufficiently impressed to make COM
piete acQuiescence.
Not Yet Forwarded.
Although the note was delivered to Min
lister WI early last evening, it had not been
forwarded to the Chinese government at 10
o'clock this morning. The laborious char
acter Of the work Of transating it into
precise Chinese. and then Of putting it into
the complicated cipher system which the
Chinese employ, was responsible for the de-
lay. The minister and his assistants had
bsen at work almost constantly since it was
received, but up to the hour named. had
not finished the work of putting 1t into
cipher.
The State Department is, inclined to ex-
press incredulity over the report wired by
the Shanghai correspondent of the London
Daily News yesterday to the effect that
Consul General Goodnow had protested
against the landing Of troops at Shanghai
hIr Iy,ir
nothing from Mr. Goodnow on the subject
and is not inclined to believe that he would
undertake so grave step as the lodgment
of protest against the action Of the Brit
ish admiral would mean, without consulting
the department here.
1t is probable that the demand of the
was transmitted by Mr.. Wu to the Chinese
this afternoon, as he was busilv
engaged up to midday on the arduous task
of double translation, first from English to
Chinese and second from Chinese to the Of
ficial code. This required unusual time. as
the gravity of the message called for scru-
pulous exactness. How long it will take
for the message to actually get into the
hands of the ruling authorities at Pekin is
an open question. dependent largely upon
the facilities which the Chinese director of
telegraph can command both in runners
and wires in communicating with Pekin.
But in any event 1t appears to be accepted
that 1t will take several days before the
rounds can be made and an answer ex-
pected.
Diplomatic Day.
A number of the foreign representatives,
including Count Hacke. the German charge;
NJ. Thiebaut, the French charge, and Mr..
Takahira. the Japanese minister called on
Acting Secretary of State Adee today,
mainly because 1t was the regular diplo-
matte day, but also to learn the latest de-
velopments in the Chinese situation. They
brought no news from their several gov
ernments, and it can be stated in this con-
nection that at present there is no i'm
portant phase OF the situation under nego-
tiation between the powers. Mr. Adee
showed to his callers the demand of the
United States on the Chinese government,
and later in the day copies of the docu-
ment were placed at the disposal of the
several foreign officials. The views which
foreign chancellories will take of the docu-
ment cannot, of course, be indicated thus
early, but so far as the foreign represen-
tatives in Washington are concerned they
agree in expressing cordial approval of
the latest movement on the part of the
United States.