Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-21
lstpje Of the Southern and Cen
trail Vieroys,
WANT No ENGLISH GENERAL
germany Does Not Desire chief Conn
mand Of AIlled Forces, Unless
Powers want H.

Berlin July 20-The German gov
.rpm,n. feels confident that the pres
ont attempts by Chinese officials TO de-
ny the peHn massacre are insincere
and Invented solely by a desire to
hamper and rctard the power Of the
,olpf action Of the powers. Al the Chi
psse legation here, where details Of
~ massacre have arrived from the
y.rsrovs. a statement was made today
~ tbs correspondent Of the Associated
PRESS by the Chinese minister himself
In Ha Houan, that he has in no wise
rs,llsl 20 the recent prohibition by the
foreign office OF his use Of the tele-
rarh for secret messages but he has
since sent to Count Won Buelow several
kilograms for approval which has
been granted.
The foreign office considers that the
rayest point In the situation just now
(. the doubtful attitude Of the south
ern and central ylceroys, with the evil
dent spread Of the anti-foreign hostili-
tiles. The news received here is very
meagsr but Il all points TO treachery
and TO a cunning policy OF procrastl-
nation by the viceroys until the mo-
meBt shall have arrived when they can
afford 10 discard dissimulations Yuan
shl Kal governor Of Shan Tung is re-
garded here as worse than unreliable,
The foreign office feels glad that all
the various ruses have not succeeded
IN binding the powers or In retarding
their serious military preparations.
officials deny some Of the stories
printed by the English press, which the
foreign office characterlzes as made OF
tae same cloth as many that were sent
during the Sp8nIsh-American war and
the earlier stages Of hostIlitles IN South
/ Africa. The only story showing any
foundation. according 20 the foreign
office Is the question OF who is 20 be-
come commander IN China.
now engaging the attention Of the
powers Regarding this foreign Office
official says today
The intention to make Lord Wolse-
ley or some other English officer the
commander ln-chief does not meet with
approval anywhere u is not strange,
because the British land force in China
81 rather Insignificant. as well anthem
Heated Information shows, The pro-
y0s8l 90 make German the chief COM
mlnler would not De accepted by Ger
many unless a unanimous wish TO that
FrH q N.r Ia.
tersstel'
The VossIohe zeitung prints a special
dispatch from Paris this afternoon. as
sorting that The French language was
declared The vehicle OF general COM
mln.eauou between the allied Contln-
gents zoo China.
Herr Eugene Wolff the well known
traveller and writer, declares In the
Her.n-r Tdgehlatt that British policy
IN China has been solely responsible for
The present troubles-"A policy which
first coddIed up the reform party there
ana then left them, with the young
emperor in the lurch"
Outlining the terms OF the final set
. Element De says. Germany. when
peace is re.establshed, must insist on
three points She must have the
F. princes palace opposite the British
embassy in Pekin. China must bind
herself 90 furnish Germany. for colo
MIA. purposes. as many hundreds Of
thousands of c0louists as Germany
wants. and the Chinese government
must erect ON German territory in
Is'n Tau a university commercial
school technical school and other simi-
jar institutions where Chinese pupils
may Dee taught what European ciylliza-
u9n means thereby killing forever
Asiatic bar1ar.sm."
As @ further step. Herr Wolf rec
ommends that hereafter the ylceroys be
he.a responsible for the lives and prop
cry OF whites in their districts
me Chinese eXpedltionary corps will
include a corps FOR field postal service.