Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-10
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| gathering continue to worry not only
| the rank and file, but the commanders
who admit the uncertainty Of recon
noisances and the complete absence of
| an effective intelligence department.
Chinese information is received with
| extreme distrust.
1t is obvious that, though there are
many thousands OF Chinese encamped
behind the guns. nothing can be done
at present save to await the arrival of
reinfofcements. The rainy season has
set in and this makes going into the
interior most difficult The country
between Pekin and Tien Tsin in other
floods has frequently been flooded Riv-
or transport is almost impossible and
the railway is practically non-existant
and must be entirely bebuilt Military
opinion is unanimous that if the lega-
tons did not need relief it would be
foolish to attempt to advance before
September.
The Daily Mails Shanghai CORE
sDondent. under date of July .. says:
1T is certain that if the powers make
any movement elsewhere north of Ia
ku, they must be prepared to meet OPP
position. A Chinese official in high
favor with Niceroy Lu Kun vi in the
course of an interview says the south
orn viCeroys are only bound to neu-
trality so long as they are not inter
fered with. They have more war ma
terials than they can use. and the mill
tary forces all over the province als
increasing. The Yang Use kiang is
mined with torpedoes. The garrison At
the Shanghai arsenal has just been re-
inforced by two newly recruited regi-
ments."
Baron Hayashi. being asked by Il
representative If the Daily Chronicle.
said: DO YOU understand that Japan
has noW been allowed Il free hand To
settle the trouble?" replied; do not
understand 50 but | know that Japan
is quite willing to do all in her power
to bring the rising To an end along
with the other powers. Japan is ready
to put .. 900 men into the field"
If any sort of government existed in
Pekin. the settlement of the trouble
would not present serious difficulties,
but if anarchy prevailed. the situation
would be serious indeed.
Mr.. iCnIga Wyndham. parliamentary
under secretary of state for war. said
in the House of Commons. yesterday.
that since 1895 English firms had spll
the Chinese government Il guns Of ro-
sition. l23 field guns and oy1 machine
guns. with ammunition for each class
He also said that a German firm in
1899 sold China $50. 900 Mauser rifles.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Bercs-
rd. speaking at Malt. at the Navy
and Military Society. Monday evening.
said the trouble in china would be far
reaching and disastrous in its conSe-
uuerces TO British trade there. 1t
would be military. not maritime
war. and the powers that could place
on the spot the greatest number Of
troops would eventually nav suhstan-
tial advantages. The powers not con
senting to thu open door" particular
Is Russia. he declared, would eventual
" lose supremacy. He said it was 4
pity that his proposals respecting the
Reorganization of the Chinese army
had not been accepted ny the British
government with a view to the posi-
bility Of a general war. Lord Reres-
ford adv Gated an imperial conference
to which AN the colonies should be in
Vited. to discuss Il scheme of defense.
The Times. this morning SAYS:
Some Chinese officials are evidently
DESTROYS to have it believed in Europe
that the legations in Pekin are still un-
der the protection of one section of the
chinese army. But that only makes ii
more remarkable that they should not
employ III" only convincing argument
by allowing direct communication be-
tween the ministers and the outside /
world. We do not wish to insist too
strongly upon this aspect. but those
circumstartial rumors lack the con
tirmation So easily supplied if they are
true =