Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-19
CHINA SITUATION
Does Not Call For Sending
Of Squadron.
ONE VESSEL WAS SENT
e.
Diplomatic Pressure Is Now Being
Applied to the Tsung II Yamen IN
Regard to the Empress D0wager
Ruling Over the Country. 1s 10
b oe
ONE VESSEL WAS SENT

+ New York, March ia special to the
Herald From Washington says Secre-
tary Long expects to receive a dispatch
shortly from Rear Admira Watson am
%nouncing the name of the vessel he has
ordered to Taku, China, to protect Am
erican interests.
Admiral Watson he said, twas in
structed to send a vessel to Taku to pro-
vide protection for American interests.
We AVE been informed that there is
some little trouble in han Tung province
and that American missionaries are in
danger. The vessel to go. probably a
g%unboat, will take all proper measures to
protect American citizens"
The secretary aid further that there
was not a thought of sending a squadron
to him 1t is the expectation of the
department that Rear Admiral Watson
will select a gunbaat, perhaps the Cas-
town, or the Bennington. These vessels
are suitable as. to draft. Each has a
sufficient force on board to and a de-
tachment to protect missionaries who
may reside at a short distance from
! where the vessel is stationed.
Secretary Long expects thai the trouble
just reported will be suppressed and the
vessel at TAXI will then be directed to
return to her proper station.
Official mail adviceS received from Pc
kin in a diplomatic quarter here discoun-
%tenance the statement contained in a dis
patch from Shanghai that a reign of ter
ror prevails in China.
A diplomat who talked relative to the
! situation said that his adViceS showed
that the diplomatic pressure is still being
} applied to the Tsung Ii amen The EN-
peror is still on the throne. though the
empress dowager is governing the en-
pire and is actively taking measures to
put China on a strong defensive basis
So far as the report that the empress
dowager has objected to the open dOor
policy is concerned, the diplomat who dis
,cussed the Chinese situation agreed with
administration officials that she mas
nothing to dc with the matter.
THE open door arrangement has been
concluded by the United States with Eu-
ropean powers, not with China" he OBJ
served. Consequently the empress dow
ager can have nothing to say about 1t.
AS a mark OF friendship for your coun-
try. the European powers agreed to re-
spect, in the spheres of influence they
had acquired, the trade rights granted
by your treatieS with the Chinese empire.
That is the open door Arrangement which
has been agreed to n China cannot OBJ
ject to it."
Two weeks is fixed by the administra-
ton as the limit of time when notes fela-
tive to the open door arrangement VIII
be made public. 1t was reported ithat
this goyernment a succeeded in OBJ
tanning identical notes on the subject, but
this is incorrect.
Great Britain has agreed to the Am
erican provision provided the other ma
lions complied with it's provision. Rus
STA has pointed to her action in opening
Talien Wan as an indication of what she
proposes to do. Germany declares that
Kaio Chau is now open to the trade OF
the world and will remain so and France
asserts that she does not r~ecognize the
term ''sphere of influence tally and
japan have expressed their approval OF
freedom of trade in China