Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-18
COMPLICATES CHINA
SITUATION AGAIN
Invasion of Siberia, if True, Does This
Chief Points OF Memorial to the Throne -
Tuan MObiIizing Troops Ii Hung Sails.

London, July 1s-If the news OF a Chi
nese invasion Of Siberia proves true &c
win. Of course. immensely compucate
the situation from the international
point Of view As stated in the Assoc
clatad Press 81. Petersburg dispatch Of
July 18Th, the Chinese had already per-
emptorIly ordered all Russians 90 quit
Manchuha, but no one imagined they
would be audacIous enough 20 break out
of their own country and attack Rus
sian territory. Such an attack, if It has
been made, of course, constitutes IN IT,
self declaration of war; rendering
formal notification needless
WHAT CHINESE ATTACK MEANS.
A separate attack by the Chinese on
Russia means giving Russia according
70 the views expressed iu Europe add
ditional excuse for an isolated descent
ON Pekin and an additional claim 20 as
sert greater influence than the other
powers and obtain greater compensa-
ton when the day Of settlement arrives.
Hence. extreme uneasiness has been
created IN the chsuCellories by this lat
est development
AS 90 the latest Chinese assurances OF
the safety of the European legations at
Iekn, they are not credited here On
the contrary. &c is believed these assur-
anCes have been dictated by "a desire 90
save the native city of Iiou rsin The
Associated Press correspondent at
Shanghai wires under date ul July 10th
that there Us hardly "a doubt that Sheng.
the Chinese administrator of teiegrlphs.
is Withholding Information Iu his pose
session The news uf the massacre as
already cabled to the United States may
Doe taken as correct. The dispatch adds
that there is evidence that The Woo
sung forts al the mouth of the Woo
sung river and ten miles north Ut
Shanghai are being strengthened aud
supplied with large quantities of am-
muniuOn lt is hoped .n London that
the landing of 22OQJ japanese troops
which 10 Is expected win be effected
today and the arrival of the Indian
troops win enable the allies 90 reinforce
Shanghai.
Admiral Alexleff reports a sk.rmish
July l4th on the Pei HO river % yrrsts
from Taku between accommodating
body OF Russians and Chinese iu which
several Russians We're killed
CRUISERS RECONNOITER.
dispatch from Shanghai received
here today. reports that five cruisers of
the allied fleet including the British
cruIser Terrible reccnn0itcred at shan
Hal Kuan July l1. aud found the har-
Dor lights and forts intact and but few
Chinese visible
The dispatch adds that 90 was intend
ed 10 lombard the forts but the fleet
Tetrained and stood by ready for action
iu case tho forts showed signs OF actiyi.
49, The same dispatch adds that
eight warshIps are lying of the native
city Of Shanghai and that nine others
are between Shanghai and Woo Sung
A dispatch from Canton received here
today gives some additional facts rela-
tive 20 the memorial 90 the throne
which IL Hung Chang told the foreign
consuls be- as doyen of the yicerOys.
had induced AN tho other yluer0ys. eN
cept two 90 frame. as reported In the
Daily Teicgraphs dispatch OF July TO-
The memorial insisted upon the ueces-
slty OF five points. as follows
FIVE POINTS INSISTED on.
l-Protection OF foreigners I'm the