Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-06-04
GUARDS IN PEKIN.
American and Other Foreign
Troops Numbering 349
Arrive to Guard Legations Native
Population Quiet.
80 Foreigners Escaping from pao ling Flu.
Attacked by Boxers.

and other foreign guards arrived.
They numbered 349 in all.
There was no manifestation Of hos
tility
The presence of the guards has al
ready had a marked effect upon the
bearing of the Chinese toward foreign
ers. The excitement in the adjacent
country has been much allayed, but
many Christians refugees are still
fiocking into the city.
Unfortunately. no leaders Of the
Boxers have been arrested. though
their capture would have been easy.
All the government has done has been
to occupy the scenes Of the disturb
ances. and no real repressive measures
have been taken.
London. June 3.-The Chinese question
is attracting much public interest here.
yet the raVases of the boxers" and the.
landing of British and other armed par
ties have scarcely caused Il fluttcr of eX-
citement. for Lord Salisbury. The Asso-
ciated Press learns. does not believe the
latest outbreak will result i'm anything
serious. That ii will bring up acutely
the question Of the partition Of China i
a possibility considered too remote for
any expression Of opinion.
The attitude of the British foreign
than phlegmatic.
Everything is left IN the hands ~ Sir
Claude Macdonald, our minister said
one Of the officials responsible for the
conduct Of these affair. He Is tnpOW-
cred 70 rcpuisiti"n the men and guns ne
needs from the China squadron. All the
ministers At Prkin seem 10 cooperate
nothing OF the local conditions existing
there ana never heard Of the Boxers
till the other day. | am inclined 10 be
lieVe We shall not hear OF Them again In
the near future.
Yes. perhaps the Chinese policy II Lord
SIlishurv's weakest point. But, as a mat
ter of fact. England cannot have any Far
East policy. The constant change Of
government leaves nothing for the for
cign minister to do but to become an op-
portunst of the extreme type. With
Russia il Is different She Is an autocratic
power, whose foreign Office remains in
power as long as ii pieases the ear.
During the lifetime Of a ruler consist
ent policy can thus be carried out. In
England We have no such chance
This. perhaps. is the most truthful de-
scription of the British policy in the Far
East. or rather lack of II. eyer given 10
the public.
Tht. feeling among tn officials n that
uSsia's inroads ou JIpan's prcrogajives
in Korea constitute a much srav"r source
Of danger than the Boxer outbreaks,
though Korean matters have temporarily
ceased to figure prominently in the press
dispatches
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~ ,ii'' ,uI ~, 49,, .,ii,.1,rtjne ~ ~
cape from Pao-TingFu to 1irn Tsin III
n1l'N ~ 49,, - ~ -, t,,r ,,,..,.e
killed.
4 later dispatch reports that the party
has sugGeeHGd IN srItlii l." P"miht m Will Will
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loiirl rrr'.nrh nnJ I;rI.sian refugees from
pao ring fu. nave arrived here. Nine
are >tlli missing. y o"I! "l m'nMieu
M, .nI N r,k,. innJ M Min I.iu ching
Tor the relief Of the party there.
IL Is y purt'l from Nh ti4.,t WI; - -
~ MN 5ing. Lne bean murdered. and
that Mr Norman ui thu same mission Is
missing
Shaa.hai. Juno 2-Thc Empress Dow
a4er ha- ordered th- arrest of Lin, the
hines m''ndEtF 81 ,.'' I'LL ~ 'lI'i,,
i>..,,, N!n, ,nI I'm Glnl,rr.
Thry arc charged with being dangerous
chartctr riH. nu' ~ I'',nl9 'ne an 80 ~
Ii,i,isb enttrnrisrs
-,
GefI'h; > t'ii, . .' I,v'Sl ,,iti 'm.,C Ia
AM th,t me SITUATION in CHINA is inn
proved during the last fow days. The
Chime" military 'uiholIllrr nav .'u'" y
.i,,,,ii,n rL t,,r,i..n nftir,4 rxnrcts
the truuhlcs will be uuirtcd without fur
ther Violence
Iondon limo l-Tb. shanghai CORE
spundent II the Times says that we'll
informed natives IN Shahshal thllK hlli,hi the [
'I,'. ,'i,ri -. '.,i',,s ~
Minneapolis. Mimi, June "a Times
special from Tacoma, Washington.
says: News by steamer from fong
Kong states that the 'FoNcrs are eN-
tending operations To southern China
Extensive operations in smuggling