The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-29
EARL Ii TO BE DlSREGARDED
EXPEDITION WILL GO FORWARD IN
SPITE OF HIS SUGGESTIONS.
The Jealousy Among Powers Cnus-
ing Commented Possibility of
JnDnn'S Uniting with Chinn.

copyrighted, 1900 by Associated Press)
Paris, July 2s-Yu Keng, the Chinese
minister here, says he is convinced tAe
legationers in Pekin are safe and sound,
although some buildings may have been
destroyed. While this conviction is not
shared by the official and political world
here, dispatches received from the Far
East during the past week have raised re-
newed hope that some. il not al, OF the
members Of the legations are sill alive
Minister Yu Keng thinks the silence Of
the ministers at Pekin is not SO ominous
as it is considered abroad, and he asks
that China be given another Ave days
credit TO produce authentic and satslac-
tory news of the legations, or perhaps Of
the ministers themselves. lie himself
Is still in Ignorance OF the actual situa len
In Pekln, but concludes from dispatches
here as received from the provincial
ylceroys and from kilograms asking tho
mediation Of France. that Emperor KWaug
Hau aud the empress dowager have the
upper hand and that Prince Tuan has been
mastered. Happily for my country and
for the foreigners he said, "Yuns Lu
and Prince Ching are, / believe, now Ia
power and this leaves me hopefuI-even
though the presumption of the ministers
may prove correct-that the legatloners
are still alive"
The feeling obtains here that this may
not solve the situation, and that, though
alive, the ministers are still probab y
held as hostages. The equivocal decla-
rations Of ii Hung Chang have served ia
deepen the feeling OF mistrust regarding
all Chinese affirmation and informati n
kn
foreign governments intend to d.srceari
Ii Hung Changes Recommendations viii b
they believe we're made in bad falth-uot
to march On Pekln On the contrary, the
international expedition will start a1oJ
the middle Of next week. following as
closely as possible the railroads Litle
doubt Is felt that the Chinese government
will hold the surviving European Minister
as lever to secure better terms in the
final settlement but in this they VIII h
disappointed, for the powers viii exact
for this even a heavier indemnity thar
they would have demanded II he minis.
tors had been allowed to leave Peiin oil
their own yolltion,
The ambassador OF one Of the great pow.
ers. alluding to the joalousies which have
already beccme perceptlble at Tien I IN
said: "The moment is a critical one fol
the white races in the Far East To win
they must stand together, Japan al thu
present moment is apparently with thc
Western powers, but It must be remem.
bered that although Japan, as resul
of the Chino Japanese war, and by reason
OF her acquired civilization, looks d0wr
upon the Chinese, still the many race
afalisdons between them and Japanese
ambition may lead to a coalition OF The
two great members OF the yellow race
which would be fraught with peril to the
Western world. China, under Japan's
tutelage, would become a great power
with whom the European nations woul
have graver problems than the PARCEL n
out OF her territory among them, which
hiss chiefly occupied them up to the pres.
emit As indicating the Russian susniclor
Of such an eventually it is known her,
that Russia is mobilizing 100000 men a
odessa for any emergency"