Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-07
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WILL BE GIVEN FREE HAND IN
CHINA.
PRINCE TUAN'S COUP D'ETAT.
Rushed From Council Of Ministers
Passionately Crying "Down
With the Foreigners"

OouuOus July T. I.4V u. ".-1ue Ftu3Sldl
government announces that dt will give
Japan q free hand to apply military force
In China. The terms Of this consent are.
in the subjoined dispatch
from st. Petersburg, under date of July
8. inquiry from the Japanese cabi-
net regarding the dispatch Of Japanese
troops to China to render aid ia the for
e1gners In Pekin. The Russian govern
ment declared ON May ~ tina tt left the
Japanese government full liberty OF ac-
ton In this connection, as he Toxic cab
met expressed its readiness to act in full
agreement with h other powers.
1t is In consequence of this. no doubt.
that Japan lis preparing to embark 20, 900
more troops. Political considerations
thai were thought to have been influence
ing h action of the powers are thu laid
aside for a moment at least by the gov
ernments supposed to have the clearest
PURPOSE respecting China's future. ia
pans sending of troops can have little
bearing on the fate of the foreigners in
Pekin.
Baron Haashi, h new Japanese min
lister, who arrived in London on Friday,
said that 10 days would probably be re-
qulred for the carrying Of troops to
China His dictated statement contained
these sentences:
IF all conditions Japan has asked were
conceded, l see no reason why Japan
should not undertake the task OF SUD-
pressing the trouble The powers are all
agreed In wishing to put down the rebel
lion, but it does not seem that they are
agreed on the means"
FROM this authoritative utterance It is
inferred that Japan does name condf-
tdons, and that the concert of the powers
is a little tangled.
Details of further horrors in Pekin are
% n nrn1 hN - t,
from Chinese sources, especially of the
slaughter In the Chinese and the Tartar
cities of thousands of native Christians,
so that the capital reeks with arnage.
The ruthless thirst for blood is spreading
in all the northern provinces, and wher-
ever there are nat:ye Christians the
scenes enacted in the capital are repro
vinces nothing further comes regarding
tne legation forces, except a repetition
that n are all dead. The correspond
ents aver that If the Chinese officials in
Shanghai wished to throw light on the
real state of affairs in the capital they
couid 90 so, and, therefore, the worst re-
ports are accepted as true.
Prince Tuan's coup d'etat is described
by the Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Mail as a sequence to the grand
council of ministers at which Yung Lila
advocated the suppression of the boxers
promptly. The dowager empress gave her
Whoie support to Yung Yua and a scene
of disorder ensued.
Prince Tuan passionately interviewed,
aided by Kand Yih. They rushed from
the council and their pa%rtisans raised
the cry, "Down with the foreigners"
The eHec was electrical. The palace
officials of all sorts and most of the pop
ulace took up the cause of Prince Tuan
and his agents Immediately put the en-
peror and the dowager empress Under
restraint.
The Che Foo correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing on Thursday, says
there is no longer any doubt that dis
of 5000 that left Tien Tsin for Pekin on
June IL. The Russians had a full field
gun complement and carried their own
transports. AS nothing has been heard
from them for twenty-four days it is
assumed That they have been over
whelmed. Trustworthy news is re-
ceived to the effect that all the country
to the northeast of Pekin is covered with
corpses of men and horses of the west
ern garrisOns.
Fighting of a desperate character took
place in the immediate n~eighborhood of
THEN Tsin on June 80. Taku dispatches
say an attacking force is expected at
any moment. The Chinese commanders
are awaiting the arrival of more guns
and reinforcements before making an
tlIUrL 10 reudhe Cne city. "A dlSpatC
from Shanghai to the Daily Telegraph,
dated June S, says the losses of the allies
to June 20 -otaled 900.
According to the Daily Telegraph's
correspondent, in a dispatch dated
Thursday, United States Consul Nc
Wade has got influence with Lii Hung
Chang and has persuaded him to issue
a proclamation containing detailed in
structions to projects, sub-prefects and
magistrates. 1t orders them to detect,
behead and otherwise severely punish
Boxers. These officials, the proclama-
ton says, will be held responsible for
the safety of the missionaries and ma
tive Christians. The governors of Two
Quoungs join in the proclamation.
Another proclamation issued by Ii
Hung Chang directs that persons start
ing an uprising shall be at once be-
HEADED and that those spreading false
rumors shall be severely punished. This
later phase, in a Chinese sense, means