The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-27
CHINA IS DOOMED
Apparently Partition of Country
is Inevitable.
Government is in the Power of
the Boxers.
WILL NEVER MOVE OUT
Russia is Preparing to Swallow
All North China.
Germany Plans For War and
Disruption.
WILL NEVER MOVE OUT

New York, Sept. pa dispatch to the
Herald from Shanghai says:
! The situation in China is now more
serious than ever before for those who
are interested in preserving the integri-
ty of the empire.
The Chinese government is in the
| power of boxer leaders who are not like
| ly to submit to the empress dowager
propositions unfavorable to them
The friendly viceroys of the south are
still loyal to the throne and any foreign
aggressions in southern China will pre-
cipitate an armed uprising
| Already the governor of Nghanwe pro-
vince has addressed a memorial to the
empress dowager declaring that his sig
! nature to the viceroys' agreement with
the foreign consuls in Shanghai was
| forged.
There is danger that the friendly vice
roys will be replaced.
Sheng, the friendly taota1 OF Shangna1
has been ordered north and that practi-
cally means his death.
| Russia is holding all the forts and
Strategical points from Taku to Pekin-
Russia possession of the railway shows
by the permanent arrangement which
her officers are making that she intends
to swallow the north of China
No one here believes that Russia will
ever move out except under overwhelrn-
ing pressure from other powers.
Germany's assurance that she does
not desire territory in China if the latter
be able to pay an indemnity is mislead-
ing.
Her demand for the punishment of the
leaders of the boxers as a condition
precedent to peace negotiations means
war and perhaps the complete disrup-
tion of the Chinese government.
Friendly feeling between Russia and
Japan IS increasing. France is hand in
glove with Russia.
Vice Admiral Seymour's attempt to
undertake the isolated British occupa-
tion of Shanghai and to patrol the
Yangtse Kiang has weakened the Brit
ash position, while losing an opportun-
ity to make a definite agreement for
non partition of the empire with Japan.
The United States is consistent, but
powerless.
Lu Lii Chuan Liu, who it is unofficial
ly announced is to be the new viceroy
of Canton is anti-foreign.
Unless the allies protest, the friendly
viceroys are likely to have no friends
left in China
The only method for dealing with the
situation not involving the division of
Chinese territory, is through the friend
1y viceroys, gradually removing the
throne from the power of the boxers
leaders.
Americans on the spot believe that
the settlement Of the present question
will decide the fate of the enormous and
increasing American Chinese trade.
CHAFF.EE AT ITEM TSIN.
copyright, 1900, the Associated Press)
Tien Tsin. Sept. "a, via Taku,. Sept: 25---
General Chaffee has arrived and conferred
ments mem with a view s of Establishing a win
ter base in the vicinity of Tien Tsin. He
nspeeton ypss The & present d pan Is un
derstood to be tentative and based upon
force The plan contemplates placing the
troops under canvas outside the city
Chang. Chang and Informally discussed the OUT
look for settlement 1t Is understood
company the viceroy to Pekin. No other
power except Russia has yet officially
e6 Marsa Is lung Count V6n
commander in chief of the international
viii be received by a review of the troops
of all the allied nations.
the capture of the. Lu Isl forts began
rushing troops north along the railroad
for the purpose of occupying Shan Hal
Kuan-
NATURE OF SALISBURY'S REPLY
DENIED.
London, Sept. 27.-The statement that
Lord Salisbury had verbally answered
the German ambassador, Count
Hatzfeldt- Wildenburg in the same
terms as the United States government
used in replying to the German note re-
garding China has called forth many
denials throughout Europe. In the first
place it may be reiterated that Tuesday
last the Britisi1 premier told the Ger
man ambassador here that Germanys s
idea of the surrender of the authors of
the outrages as a precedent to peace ne
gotiations was not feasible, and in so
doing Lord Salisbury employed terms
similar to those used in the note from
Washington. Though this was intend
ed as a refusal of what is regarded in
Downing street as the really only inn
portant fea ture of the German note, it
was not accepted as such by the Ger
man ambassador on the ground that
Lord Salisbury did not formally an
Swer the note, and left the latter part of
the German proposal, i. e, that the min
listers at Pelxin should designate the Of
Tenders, unanswered pending an hourly
expected message from Sir Claude Mac
Donald the British minister a Pekin.
The British foreign Office has issued
what may be taken in England to be a
denial Of the statement made to the As
sociated Press, saying that the British
answer has mot yet been sent" This
was expressly set forth in the dispatch
announcing Lord Salisbury's reply to
the German ambassador and it was ad-
ded that the answer might not be sent
for several days.
awaited message from Pekin will have
any bearing on Lord Salisbury's deter
minatiOn to agree with the United
States in refusing to consent to the on
ly proposition of any weight contained
in the German note, though the formal
may be STAYED off at the last moment,
by Germany receding from the position
she has taken up and submitting to
compromise. If such is the case, and a
high German official in London has al
ready limited to the Associated Press /
that it might come about, it is only nat
ural that Berlin and tile other capitals |
in accord with Germany, will use every
effort to conceal the fact that Germany
was coerced into a compromise arrange /