The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-19
WORST IS EXPECTED
Little Hope Entertained for the For
eigners in China
ARE MOST PROBABLY ALL DLAD,
The Army of the Allied Powers In
Serious Condition and Unabl.-to
Cope With the Situation.

Washington, D. c.. 5pecial.-Consu!
General Goodnow's snort dispatch goes
to confirm the general belief that the
situation In China is setadily growing
worse instead Of better. The Honan
Shansi (correct) referred TO by Mr..
Goodnow as the place where the vice
roy appears to favor the Boxers, is said
at the State Department to be actu-
ally two separate provinces OF vast
extent, lying in the western and north
ern portion OF China Shansi meaning
western island) is the province lying
directly west Of Chilli, in which Pekin
is located Honan adjoins Shanst on
the south. The two might present an
almost impossible barrier If, rs Mr..
Goodrow's dispatch indicates, they
are disaffected and undertake to oppose
the no-thward march OF the armies OF
Ii Hung Chang and the other great
southern viceroys upon Pekin. The :
consul generals message was undated,
and as this lack Of knowledge as to
the exact time of happenings recorded
in the cablegrams Of the naval and
state department offisials is embar-
raising, and even serious in results,
the government here cabled IN
structions to its representatives in !
China to include the date in the body
Of every dispatch.
Tien Tsin, it is added, is being re-
armed with guns Of the highest class.
The Russian government through its
officials here, has, within the last few
days. expressed to the state depart :
ment its complete approval of the dis
patch Of Japanese troops to China,
there 20 cooperate with the allied
forces in interest Of humanity. At
the same time the Russian officials
have taken occasion to emphatically
contradict the constantly reiterated
report that Russia was standing in the
way of Japan's forwarding troops,
and was in this way rendering more
hazardous the conditions il and about
Pekin.
In this connection it can be stated
that recent reports'of Russian cruelty
toward the Chinese ron-combatants
are emphatically repudiated by the
N,.,t toe xI-hn 4
this is another effort to prejudice 49,
sia in the eyes of America.
Washington, Special.-Still another
forerunner of the uprising in China
is contained in a dispatch to the state
from Consul General Goodnow at
Shanghai, regarding the conditions in
Tinag Su Province. Consul Goodnow
states that the accountability for the
prevailing agitation in North China
cannot be laid to destitution and pow
erty as the crops in that region are
abundant, the inhabitants prosperous
and new methods Of transportation
have not yet thrown any OF the people
out of work, thus intimating that!
some other and more serious cause
existed for the unsettled coalition in
that section. y
Washington, Special.-The Chinese
Minister. Mr.. WI, has undertaken to
get through a cipher cable message
from Secretary Hay to United States
Minister Conge:, ct Pai'u ait! to ie'
liver back the reply of Minister Conger
if he be aliye Mr.. WI forwarded the
cipher ulspatch, together with an ex-
tended explanatory message Of his own
on Wednesday, and the results are
now being eagerly awaited both by
Secretary Hay and the Chinese minis
ter, although it is appreciated that
some days may elapse before runners
can carry out this plan OF opening up
communication between the American
government at Washington and the
American minister at Pekin