Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-12
DISAGREEMENT OF CHINA
Spoken of in Message to the People
of the West.

Spoken of in Message to the People
of the West.
LONDON, June 1.-THE Shanghai
correspondent of the Daily Express.
telegraphing yesterday, says:
Weng Tung Ho, Emperor Kwang
Hsu's tutor and confidant, who was
dismissed by the Dowager Empress at
ter the coup d'etat in 1898, sends with
the special sanction of the Emperor ana
his party, including three viceroys, a
message to the people of the west. In
part it is as follows:
His Majesty is convinced, through
amply trustworthy sources. that the
loyal support of many scores of mil
lions of the Chinese will be accorded
to his proposals Tor putting an end TO
lne state OF anarchy brought about by
the action of the Empress Hsi Isl.
The government of China being vir-
tuaIly non-existent, the Emperor pro-
poses that the foreign powers whose
troops dominate the capitol shall re-
move his imperial person from the
palace in which His Majesty is con-
fined prisoner, shall declare Empress
Hsi Isl and her present ministers to
be usurpers and shall bring Emperor
kWang Hsu to IAN King, WI Chang
or Shanghai, whichever the said for
eign powers deem to be the most suit
able situation for the new capitol of
the new Chinese Emperor under the
new conditions.
1t is proposed by his majesty and
his advisors that the foreign powers
should declare joint proteororate ana
undertake the task of governing tne
country through his majesty.
Weng Tung Ho, who predicts a
peaceful acceptance of such a regime,
goes on TO say:
China is ripe for the change of tide
which the reaactionaries vainly seek to
stem. If it should so be, on the other
hand, that the foreign powers seriously
contemplate the dismemberment of the
Chinese empire, they have before them
the huge task of facing dense mil
lions, who, although lacking training
who make but contemplate soldiers.
possess boundless powers Of passive re-
sistance and would be able to wear out
the patience of any European rulers
seeing to govern them without regard
to the prejudices of the oldest ciyiliza-
ton.
The conquest and division of China
lTOODS
but to retain the government would
require 100000 soldiers and centuries
of work. The task would end with the
most unhappy results for both con-
quered and conluerors.
His Majesty and his advisors beg
America and Japan to pause before
resorting to ACKNOWLEDGMENT. which can
be deferred at least until the emperor's
efforts to govern his people and to re-
store the happiness OF this great d.
vision OF the human race have prov
ed aborative. II the people are assur-
ed that the powers are guiding and
protecting his majesty and do not in
tend TO swallow the country piecemeal
they and the soldiers will return IN
quesuonably to the allegiance from
which the empress diverted them.
shanghai, under to-day's date. cables
that there has been street fights in
Pekln since early Sunday forenoon.
The Russians are making large pur-
eEases of canned provisions at Shang-
hai and everything points to an out
break OF hostilities. All British mis-
slonaries will probably be expected to
return quietly to treaty ports"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph in a dispatch dated
yesterday at 1:40 p. m, says
Reports from Yum Nan-Fu district
say that the French minister has teie-
graphed that a crisis is imminent and
that he is advising all foreigners to
eyacuate Yum Nan.
All the kilograms indicate that the
situation has not in the least i'm
proved. On the contrary, the disor-
der has spread from the neighborhood
of Pekin to the capitol itself. which is
growing turbulent in anti-foreign dem
cnstrations. In addition TO the burn
ing of the PelSin club. the secretary of
the Belgian legation has been roughly
handled in the streets. Hostile crowds
continue TO demonstrate against the
legations. Two thousand interna-
tlcnaI troops are approaching the city
and the advance guard is due to arrive
to-day fTuesday).
The United States, according to dis
patches from Copenhagen, hare given
hearty adhesion to the scheme for a
European demonstration. The Russian
minister in Pekin, who also acts as
the envoy Of Denmark, is credited with
having sent a dispatch TO the Danish
foreign Office to the effect that a DEM
cnstration has been planned under the
leadership of England and Russia. IN
which all the great powers and several
CT the smaller will take part The
latter are not called upon TO send
troops. as there are enough on the
spot; but they are 10 be asked to dele
gate the right to hoist their flags to the
great powers in order that demon
station may be made or battle fought
under the flags Of all Europe. Japan
and the United States have been i'm
formed and agree TO the arrangement.
The Daily Press publishes the fol-
Loving from St Petersburg:
Prince Oochtomsky. editor Of the
yiedomosti. and who is great Chi
nese authority, says that the boxers
are one OF the old secret societies with
which the modern society OF China Is
honeycombed. They have been work
ing against foreigners for several gen
e-ations. The boxers viii probably be
put down, but II is feared that great
number of men. women and children