The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-07
NO HOPE in China
Government at Pekin is Declared
to Be Dead.
Empire Must Be Divided Among
the Powers.
BUT ONE ALTERNATIVE
That is a Lot of Independent
Provincial Governments.
Ii Hung Chang Insincere, In
capable and Unreliable.

l.
Herald from Tien Tsin August 2s. via
Che Foo, September 3, and Shanghai,
| September 5, says:
1t is reported that the American min
lister approves of inviting Ii Hung
| Chang to Pekin to negotiate on behalf OF
China
Those who know this vfceroy best re-
gard him as insincere, incapable and IN
| reliable
In Pekin the government is dead
1t means either partition or the main
tanning Of independent provincial govern
ments.
DELAY ENCOURAGES BOXERS.
| New York, Sept IA dispatch to the
| Herald from Pekin, date missing, via
Tien Tsin September 3 and Shanghai
Wednesday, says: Overtures toward
peace negotiations with the allied minis
ters have been made by a few nandarins
but there is no prince among them
The allied forces are hesitating go en-
/ ter the palace. fearing for the prestige
/ of the Chinese government and that if
the buildings were destroyed and burned
the government of the whole of China
would fall on the powers, rendering par
tition Inevitable
This delay is encouraging the boxers
who have murdered two French soldiers
! in the center of Pekin.
A dispatch to the Herald from Hong
Kong says:
The chamber of commerce and the
China association are telegraphing
strong protest against the withdrawal of
troops from Pekin till proper govern
ment has been established They urge
| that withdrawal would be disastrous to
| foreign prestige throughout China
Alarm is manifested among reputable
Chinese at rumors of contemplated sim
ultaneous risings in Canton and Hong
Kong on Saturday. The police place no
credence in the reports.
The French gunboat Decidee and the
transport Surnai have arrived.
REPORTS from West river have been
ceived of disturbances at Tai Ping where
300 robbers were looting. The WI Chow
project and hundred men fortified
pawnshop and telegraphed to Wu Chow
for assistance and 400 troops We're dis
patched to quelI the trouble
There is dissatisfaction at Lung Chwo.
but it is not likely to come to head for
lack of arms
EACH POWER FOR ITSELF.
New York. Sept. IA dispatch to the
| Tribune from London says:
Germany's reply to the Russian pro-
posaI for the evacuation of Pekin is com
menred ,,non nv nearIv every naner This
morning The Times states that the
German decision is one to which nobody
need object. It is for Germany, as for
each one of the powers, to settle for her
| self what her own position requires.
| The Standard says the answer from
| Berlin is, in fact, rejection of the
/ Russian recommendation. though in
| form it appears to be highly concilia-
/ tory.
| The News remarks that the reply is,
as might have been expected, neither
In form it is nearer refusal than accept
ance; in substance it is nearer accept
/ ance than refusal
The Telegraph says nothing but an
| explicit refusal to evacuate Pelin was
| to be expected from a nation which,
| through the murder of it's ambassador,
| has suffered in a peculiar degree from
| the brutal recklessness of the boxers.
The Mail says that Germany's decis-
| ion to retain her troops at Pekin was
certain from the first, for though the
! German policy is, above all things,
anxious to avoid quarrels with Russia
| it is not less anxious to avoid making
world, which result must inevitably have
| followed had Count Waldersee landed at
| Taku to find that even the German
| army had retired.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
| Times says the viceroy of WI Chung
| has telegraphed to the British consul
/ general urging that Great Britain should
without delay initiate peace negotiations.
/ He lays stress upon the magnitude of
British trade interests, which are SER
| iously threatened by the possibility of
| continuance of disorder.
SEEKING A COMPROMISE
London, Sept. IA special dispatch
from Shanghai says Ii Hung Chang has
made a request for an American escort
to accompany him on his journey 20 Pc
kin and that United States Consul Good
Now that a proposal more in confor-
nifty with the original American recon-
mendation has apparently met with the
| appreciation of at least a majority of
the powers, the British foreign Office has
allowed it to become definitely known
| that the British government is of tha
opinion that it is advisable for the al
lied forces to remain at Pekin until sat
isfactory arrangements for peace, etc,
are concluded with the Chinese govern
ment-
SEEKIN GA COMPROMISE
Paris, Sept. 7.-Active negotiations are
in progress looking to some compromise
arrangement with Russia regarding the
position she has assumed towards Pc
tween the powers now have better prom
iSe of success The compromise suggest
/ ed, 1t is asserted here, is the withdrawal
of the forces of all the powers from
| Pekin, leaving an international guard to
protect the legations, which, it is fur
ther asserted in Paris. will be allowed to
remain at the Chinese capital pending a
troops, it is also said, will retire TO the
neighborhOod of Tien Tsin, leaving suf-
ficfent forces along the road to keen open
the route and railway between Pekfn
and Tien Tsin.
Russias attitude is interpreted here as
meaning that she will withdraw her
troops outside the walls of Pelxin. but
necessarily great distance from that
city.
TO BE A PEACE COMMISSION.
Washington, Sept 1T is known
knowledge Of the attitude of all the
powers regarding the Russian proposal.
but it is still awaiting official advices
as to some CT them. The i1forrna ton