Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-09
STILL ANTI-F0REIGN.
Germany Has Little Faith in
Chinese Promises.
Sees Treachery in Establishment Of
Imperial Court at Singan
Larg, Foreign Force Will Spend Winter al
Pekin And Taku.

| miStic view Of the Chinese situation
| which prevailed in Germany last week
| has been unfavorably affected by the
| reports that the Chinese court has re-
solved to settle permanently at Sin
! gan, capital Of the province OF Shen ST.
| This the Berliner Tageblatt regards as
''indisputable evidence that the Chinese
court is as anti-foreign as ever
THE failure Of the court to return
! to Pekin," it says, makes a failure OF
the proposed peace negotiations, mas
| much as the Chinese government could
| annul the whole procedure at any mo-
ment by revoking the credentials of
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang"
Without claiming any official author
| ity for its attitude, the Tageblatt com
ments favorably upon a proposal to
declare Emperor Kwang Su deposed.
| Washington. oct S-The Chinese
minister has advised Secretary Hay Of
the receipt Of a dispatch from the
southern viceroys, stating that the i'm
| perial court is on it's way from Tai
Yuen to Sinsan. where the imperial es-
| Enlistment will be set up. The min
lister is also advised officially that Vice
roy Yu, Of the province justs vacated
by the court. has been impeached for
his anti-foreign tendencies.
| Pekin, Tuesday, oct 4, via Tien Tsin,
| Sunday, oct. I, and Shanghai, Oct. S.
/ The American troops will not partici-
| pate in the expedition to Pao Ting Flu.
/ Gen. Chaffee has the assurance of Ii
| Hung Chang that if the allies desire
! Pao Ting Flu. the Chinese will readily
surrender that city Ii Hung Chang
has given the same assurance to the
| other generals. The Americans believe
that revenge and military display are
the only objects Of the expedition, and
| they hold that it will retard the restor-
alton Of peace.
| The Russians are understood to have
practically abandoned the railroad and
70 have stopped its reconstruction.
| Gen. Chaffee favors the return of the
railroad to its owners and its recon-
structiOn and operation on a joint in
ternational basis.
The first reinforcement Of German
! troops has arrived here.
| Pekin. oct. S.-Gen. Yamaguchi will
retain 10000 Japanese troops, 1000 of
| them at pekin and the others at Taku
and along the line of communication.
|
winter in Pckin. and 1900 Russians.
! Thr number Of British troops who will
De retained has not yet been decided.
Sir Alfred Gaselee will probably keep
| q brigade. The allies are storing sup
plies for six months. Count Won Wal
| dcrser'S headquarters will be the build
| ngs in the imperial pleasure grounds
outside the purple city.
| Berlin Oct. S.-The Berliner Post
| considers that the latest news shows
| that the Chinese court neither intends
to return to Pekin nor to punish the
| guilty adequately
| The Boersen Zeitung regards NJ. Del
| cases note as a wedge driven into
| the recently re-established harmony OF
the powers" From its Shanghai CORE
| spondent the Frankfurter Zeitung has
received the following: THE Chinese
| Telegraph Co., which is immensely rich
wishes to transfer its interests to for
eigners. fearing that the property will
| be seized a indemnity by the powers"
New York. oct S.-Five of the Amer
| lean missionaries who We're in China
during the Boxer outbreak, returned to
his city. today. on the steamship City
of Rome. They escaped to the Rus
sian frontier and made their homeward
| Journey via Europe. They are the Rev.
}. II. Roberts. Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. W.
p. Sprague. Rev and Mrs. Mary Will
liams. and Mrs. DIR. Virginia G. Muir
dock, all members of the American
Missionary Alliance.
London. Oct. 9.-"Five thousand Tri-
ads" says a dispatch to the Daily Tele-
graph from Canton. dated Oct. T. have
defeated the imperial troops and occupied
several places between Mrs bay and Deep
bay. They are now moving southwark.
The viceroy, today. dispatched Admiral
IIo and Gen. Tong to oppose them"
London. Oct 9.-The Times publishes \
report that Emperor Nicholas recently
decided to recall the Russian troops from
Manchura after Mukden had been occu-
pied.
st. Petersburg, Oct. S.-The Russian
general staff has received official dis
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