The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-10-06
GERMANY BELIEVED
TO Be BACKING DOWN
All indications Are That the Raiser
Will Abandon His
Position.
MENAclNG
MOVE
8lsepors That n Blocknde Of tho
Chinese Naval Ports Will
Bc Declared NY tho
Gar.

London, Oct. IL. a. m.-Apparcnt-
~ Germany''s retreat from an u%ntena-
bio position has been virtually ac-
complished. The Paris correspond
ent of the Morning Post says:
An agreement on the Chinese pro-
gram has been arranged between
France, Germany and Russia. 1t will
be submitted to the other, powers
within a few days. The action recon-
mendcd will be milder than Germany's
original proposal, and it is expected
that all the powers will accept the
program
The Cologne Gazette, in another
semi-ofhcial statement, apparently in
tended for consumption i'll the United
States and England, points out the Sc
rious position resulting from Prince
Tuan's ascendancy, the continued.
massacre of missionaries and converts
and other Indications that the anti
foreign movement is directed from.
IN influential center"
1t thinks that the situation thus
created mus appear intolerable even
70 those powers favoring a policy of
indulgence and fo~rbearance."
The lien Tsin correspondent of the
Standard says:
Il learn that Iii Hung Chang has
declared that Vice Admiral Alexieff.
has gone to Port Arthur to avoid
meeting Count won Waldcrsee, who
was to hold a conference with him
and with Vice Admiral Seymour and.
Sir Alfred Gaselee. The following dis
Patch, dated September 81, has been
received from Shanghai:
NJt So ,o,c,ta1 tL,+ Cara-,IEF Mat
hung III ~ has expelled the Boxers
them into the province of Chi Lii.
Some excitement has been caused
by a rumor that Chinese steamers fly-
ing the British flag are conveying mu-
~nitions of war from Shanghai arsenal
northward.
ut is reported that Russia has Of
fered to repay the British loan"
a dispatch of special interest from
China is the following from DIR. Nor
rison to the Times, dated peking,, Sep
teInber 21:
"l,he recent punitive expeditions
have had an excellent effect in in
creasing security and facilitating the
entry of supplies, but nothing cun be
counted as effective until Pao Ting Fu
has been RACED and the foreigners
and refugees at Cheng Ting and other
places known to the generals are res
cued.
IN. de Giers has addressed a memo
rial to the empress dowager Offering
her the protection of Russia, and re-
questing her 10 return to Pcking. For
ty chief Chinese officials have sent to
memorial to the emperor and the en-
press dowager beseeching them to
%return. The conflicting interests of
Russia and Great Britain prevent a
systematic attempt to reconstruct the
territory, although restoration would
be easy. 1t turns out that Cheng Yin
Hnan, whose death at Kashgaria was
recently reported, was executed under
a nimperial decree at the same time
kwitll other ~pro-foreign ministers who
were executed"
Cheng Yin Huan was special envoy
to Englnnd at the time of the din-
mond jubilee. lie was hated by the
empress dowager, who exiled him to
Iii in 1sas.
The Russians, according to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Morn
ing Post, have virtually abandoned the
province Of Chi Lii to Germany.