The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-10
SITUATION DISTINCTLY GRiVgg
CHINESE GOVERNMENT CONNIvING
WITH THE BOXERS IN ATTACK
UPON FOREIGNERS
CHINA ENTERS PROTEST
Asserts That Too Many European
Soldiers Are at tho Chinese
CapftaI-CIash Seems Near
at Hand.

LONDON, June 9.-The situation In
China tonight appears distinctly graVer
The destruction of a Russian chapel at
Tunguan has provided Russia with the
desired preteXt to land more troops.
The dispatch from st. Petersburg this
afternoon that the government is re-
solved If the dangerous situation in
China continues, to take immediate mill
tary action to repress the anti-foreign
movement, at the same time declaring
that 1T has no intention Of disassociating
itself from the joint action of the pow
ers, may be regarded as a semi-official
utterance, meaning that If there is any
hedtancy on the part Of the powers Rus
sia will act alone.
All reports agree that the Boxer move
nlent is spreading. The report is con-
tirmed that the French agents at Mong
Use and Yuan Nan Flu have been COM
PEELED to retire, and this shows that the
movement has reached Southwest China,
and has provoked the Chinese into talk
ing active steps.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British minister
at Pekin has wired the British consul
at Shanghai, confirming the reported out
RACES, and the fact that the throne and
government have been actuated by a Sc
cret sympathy with the Boxer movement,
which the government has ample power
to suppress II it so desires. His dispatch
is, however, in no way of an alarmist
nature.
The latest Tien Tsin dispatch saying
that the dowager empress has appointed
anti-foreign officers, with the pretended
mission to suppress the Boxer movement,
makes 1t impossible to deny that the time
has arrived for energetic action.
1t is expected the British will use the
Chinese regiment which has been en-
training at Wei Hal Wei, as it would
be dangerous to remove the garrison
from Hong Kong at the present moment
CHINA ENTERS PROTEST.
A special dispatch from Shanghai, dat
ed June 6, says:
THE tsung-li-yamen has protested to
the ministers against the presence Of
such large number of foreign forces,
asserting that it is not necessary for the
protection of the legations, but for the
establishment OF a capital of an inde-
which the foreign ministers returned to
this protest is unknown.
1.-The American mission at Tang Chow
was destroyed yesterday, but the mis-
sionaries fled to place Of safety.
''It is reported that the Viceroy of Chi
Ii has resigned.
'It is proposed to bring Ii Hung
Chang back south, but Prince Kang VI
proposes to give the post to the famous
Ii Ping Heng, the former governor of
sanh Tung.
"Pao Ting Flu is burning. The Tien
Tsin railway has finally ceased to be OPP
Grated. All the English missionaries are
encamped inside the legation.
FRANCE TAKES ACTION
PARIS, June 9.-An official note Just
issued says:
Admiral Courrejouelles, at Taku, has
sent a fresh detachment OF fifty men to
Tien Tsin. A cable dispatch from Yum
Nan Sen, dated Thursday evening, says
the agitation against foreigners is such
that the vicerOy has announced that he is
powerleSs to protect them. The French
consul at Lang Show NJ. Francis, has
been warned of the situation at Pekm.
and has gone to Tonquin with all the
agents and missionaries. The French con-
sui at Mong Use has done the same The
Chinese government has been informed
that it will be held responsible for the
security of French citizens, but, If neces-
sary, France will protect them.
RUSSIA DETERMINED.
ST. PETERSBURG, June Sit is de-
clared here that the government is firm
ly resolved if the dangerous situation in
China continues, to take immediate ener-
getic military action to repress the anti
foreign movement tba ca rne tirOa the
government has no intention of dissociat-