The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-20

Riang su is already I'm a stste of revolt
and that at Tai-tung there has been Sc
rious rioting. telegraph stAtion being
burned.
FEARS ABOUT RUSSIA.
LONDON, August 1.-THE Russian
Governments permission TO NJ. de Giers
and his staff to leave Peking under Chi
nese guarantees while the United States
and other Governments tell their Minis
tors to hold out until relieved. Is the sub
ject OF much comment In London. where
supposed Russian designs are aoseiy scru-
tinized.
A special dispatch from st. Petersburg
attributes to Russia the Intention TO NIL
Manchuria with troops and not to let go
that territory when the present ebullition
Is over. The Russian War Office expects
to have $4,000 men and 2l2 guns in ST.
IBERIA by the end of September. Shanghai
has received no news from Che Foo or
Tien-Tsin today but a dispatch boat from
Taku is expected at Che Foo tonight The
total number OF allies in the province of
Pei-chi-n is 3. 900. with ia guns. The total
August 30th will be 1000 with 80 guns.
IL HUNG CHANG TO TREAT.
NEW YORK, August ia dispatch to
the Tribune from London says
The appointment of Ii Hung Chang as
the Chinese plenipotentiary for the nego-
tlation Of terms Of peace has been receiv-
ed with various feelings here. Those~whc
know the Far East have deep distrust OF
the old viceroy and they Insist that his
nomination can bode no good to this coun-
try. IL not hostile to all foreigners. he Is
at any rate a determined opponent of the
British, whom he has always disliked
Notwithstanding his past relations with
General Gordon and other Englishmen.
| On the other hand, some Chinese ex
perts contend that the appointment show,
that the Manchu Government. realizing
that the powers are I'm interest, relies OF
Earl Ii to arrange terms and to patch uI
an accommodation as he did after th'
lTien-Tsin massacres in 1s7D.
The latest batch of cipher messages re
ceived from the Ministers at Peking Il
considered to be significant. and In SOM
degree reassuring. There are determines
skeptics and croakers, such as those wht
tia! accounts Of an alleged wholesal
butchery at the legations. but not mucl
attention Is paid TO them. The wisdom
of the Ministers in declining TO leave Pc
king unless adequate protection can b
secured for them Is obvious to everybody
II Is not, however. regarded as absolutel
certain that the offer to escort foreigner
TO Tien-Tsin Is really a trap. To judg
from previous experience of Chinese meth
lods, u IL possible that the Tsung Ii va
men intends ultimately to deliver the IL
cation staffs In safety to the allied com
manders. but II will procrastinate an
prevaricate as long as possible. and wi
certainly maintain its hold on the dipic
matists while there seems a remote pros
pect Of using them as hostages to extoi
favorable terms of settlement. Wheths
the Government could in any case conve
the 500 engineers. including women an
children. unharmed. through the lines {
. Boxers and the military rabbie is poir
, no one can determine. Influential men
the Chinese mercantile community b'
lieve the Tsung Ii Yamen could do so
IL pleased. because they are firmly ro'
WINGED that the whole anti i-foreign roV
r msnt has been deliberately constructe
In the Imperial palace. which is still Ct
E pahle of controlling the storm II h'
e evoked.
= The total number OF Anglo-Indian trool
: ordered to China will not fall far sho