The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-05
laERICi TO
ACT II CHINA.
General Chaffee to
Command Troops
Sent There.
FICER0YS ARE ALARMED.
APPEAL TO THIS COUNTRY TO
KEEP OUT FOREIGN
TROOPS.
Navy Department Busy in Placing
the Warships IN Command
ing Positions = Sixth
Cavalry En- Route.

Washington. June 2T-Gen. Chaffee
who has been ordered to command the
american troops in China. left Wash
ington at 1910 o'clock today for San
Francisco, accompanied by Lieutenant
Harper. his aide. He is due at San
Francisco al o'clock Sunday morning
and sails for Nagasaki on the transport
Grant with the Sixth Cavalry the same
day
WASHINGTON. June 26.-The pur-
pose of the Government TO place an
adequate military force in China was
made perfectly clear to-day. when or
ders were issued TO Brigadier-General
! Adna r. Chaffee to take command of
the forces in China and to proceed a,
/ once TO assume his new duties.
/ More significant. probably, than the
assignment itself. was the wording of
the formal orders 10 General Chaffee.
issued late in the day by Acting See-
retary OF War MeikIejohn. directing
him TO take command OF the troous
ordered TO China, and to proceed to
Peking by way OF San Francisco and
Taku, accompanied by his aids
The announcement of General Chat
fees assignment and the orders to pro
ceed TO Peking. came after the State !
Department had declined to accede 10 |
a second proposition from the six great /
yiceroys of China that foreign troops /
be kept out of China until Ii Hung |
Chang reaches Peking In a more for
mai manner. with the signatures OF the
slx Yiceroys representing the greater
part of the empire, Minister Wu re-
peated to-day his plea of yesterday that
the foreign troops be kept out of the
country.
Secretary Hay laid the formal re-
quest or the YIceroys before the Cabinet
meeting, but there was no disposition
to vary from his present determination.
already made by Secretary Hay to the
- ,'1,AHsa Minister 10 send our forces to
5I1H points as We're menaced and
fSfifssti hiir officials and citizens wera il,
While the Vlceroys spoke Tor tneIT
they could not speak for Pc
king, and it is to Peking that the Off
,ials most anXiously look. Minister
Songer is still silent and the latest ad .
vices have shown that little reliance I
can be placed on the dispatches from |
Shanghai saying that the Ministers and
egations at Peking are safe. For this
reason the orders TO General Chaffee
70 proceed to Peking took on an added !
meaning.
General Chaffee was in conference
With the War Department authorities
most of the day, and in the afternoon
,napt nearly an horr vrirb Secretary :
Hay going over those phases of the
Chinese situation in which diplomacy
will have mingled with military action.
General Chaffee is TO sail from San
Francisco on July on the same trans
1ort carrying the Sixth Cavalry. The
lesire TO have General Chaffee and this
iavalry regiment reach China with lit
lie delay is such that the transport will
lot stop at Honolulu, but will continue
m her way direct to NagaSaki. Japan.
Ii that point General Chaffee viii be in
with the War Depart
nent and viii receive further instruc-
ions If the trouble is all over, so that
roops will not be needed, the trans
,ort will go from Nagasaki TO Manila.
f the situation has not improved. Gen
raj Chaffee. under his present instruc-
ions. will assume command OF all
American land forces and will act in !
conjunction with the military forces Of
,.her powers fer the protection of life
md property of foreigners in China He
$ to report to the American Minister !
n Peking as soon as he can place him. I
elf in communication with that Off
:ial