Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-22
MAJOR GENERAL CHAFFEEs LATEST PICTURE AND STREET
SCENE IN PEKING.

/ an end. Their force Is, OF course, more
than sufficient 20 rcpel any attack
which may be made on them. whether
| by Boxers or by imperial troops. but
when 70 De- remembered that they have
90 police the great struggling city Of
| Pekin. with its million inhabitants. and
! 90 keep open the lire Of communication
! 90 the coast. their strength is by no
means excessive even n u Is sufficient
! for the work in hand.
Besides the allied generals. like Lord
Roberts I'M South Africa, may have ad-
vanced too fast effectively 90 occupy the
country behind them, The speed Of
their march was rendered necessary by
the position Of the legations, for If
the relief column had taken three or
four days longer on the journey it
might have come too late
ARE ALLIES BEsIEGED?
Stn. II the Chinese troops defeated
at Pei Tsang and Yang Tsun should
form up again between the capital and
Ten Tsu. the allies VIII either have
20 march back 20 disperse them or 20
wait AN that task IS performed by
re-inforeements from the coast, and
meanwhile may find themselves yir-
tu9lly hesIeged IN PekIn.
The pessImists too. are additionally
depressed by Minister ,uuger's testi-
mouy as 90 the conduct OF the Chinese
government. and his opinion that the
whole movement was got up by the im-
perial authorities and that the Boxers.
We're "a mere pretense. On The other
hand, IL rs admitted that N the em-
press and the Manchu princes and par
tiCuarly Tuan. have been captured. the
outlook Is much more hopeful, since Il
viii be possible 90 find responsible Chi
nese authorities on whom new ar
rangements can be imposed. The ac-
tlou Of the southern yiceroys too, shows
that the campaign IN the north has had
an excellent effect I'm checking the fur
Their spread Of auti-foregn agitation.
EARL ii is IAiPUDENT.
The Chinese minister here has handed
90 the foreign office for transmission
10 Lord Salisbury ii Hung Chang's
note suggesting that plenipotentiary
should be appointed 90 negotiate with
him. His communication Is cOuChed
IN tone of cool assumption. which eX-
cites q certain amount of indignation.
The Times and other papers have
articles anCrily deuOunbng II and sug-
N'nNIAIa NAihA AlF AtNhtNH "iA'HAi'A hA N'taNNA
of him.
The aged ylCeroy Is profoundly trust
od by what may De called the Anglo
Chinese colony here, which Is not with
out influence on the foreign office II
is urged that there Is no proof that il
is not playing FOR his own hand, rather
than genuinely tndeavorIng 90 eNtricate
China from her difficulties. His in
nuenCe has for some time past been
Cvershad0Ned bv the violent reaction
airy Mauchu party, and be- may now be-
trying 10 get even with his enemies, or.
again. ~ he Is volunteering his SER
vices the powers maynegouate withhim,
and as soon as peace Is patched up and
the allied conungents withdrawn. Ii
win be repudiatel as has happened DE.
fore. ON the ground that he has ex-
CeoGed his authority.
10 Is also said that IL disiikcs Eng
land more than any other European
nation. and has moro than a prefer
ence Tor Russia. II Is. therefore thought
that. 81 possible negotiations should
take place in peltin. and LIS intcrvcn-
ti0n bee dispensed with. All this, OF
course again depends on the possIbili-
~ OF finding anybody In Pelin TO nego-
tiate with