The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-23
UNITED STATES AND China.
NO STATE OF WAR AS YET
kempn Has Full Power-UncIe Sam
Not in Recent Fight-RevoIt Is
Sprending-Rumor of Extra Sess-
ion of Congress.

Washington, June 2O.-Adjustant Cen
eral Corbin declares that up to date only
one regiment, the Ninth infantry, has
been ordered from Manila to China.
In addition to the Oregon, which is to
go up to Taku from Hong Kong, the But
falo, with 800 green landsmen aboard, has
been ordered from southampton, England,
to the Philippines, while the gunboats
Princeton and Marietta, which are admir-
ably suited to service in the Pei Ho river,
have been held at Cavite under orders to
be ready for service at any moment.
The Zafiro has been held at the same
place in readiness to take on supplies for
The naval contingent at Taku. If the
Princeton and Marietta join Admiral
Kempfi, as seems probable now, he will
have at his command a more numerous and
effective fleet of gunboats adapted to SER
vice on the Pei do river as far up as
Tientsin than those of other nations. No
reports were received at the state depart
ment today from any of its officials in
China.
In the absence of a copy of the orders to
Admiral kemptf it is not possible to give
a precise definition of his position, but the
facts are wider than was supposed He is
not limited to the protection of American
life and property, but may do anything in
his Judgment to conserve American inter
ests of any kind in China. This instruc-
ton opens up unexpected possibilities, IN
yolving even an alignment of the United
States with China in case it may be found
necessary in that manner to prevent the
usurpation or destruction by other powers
of such trade privileges as we now enjoy
in China, improbable as such alignment
may be.
A significant fact in this connection is
that the official view here is still that there
is not a state of war between China and
the United States. 1t is contended that
the stirring events of Sunday morning did
not of necessity involve us in war, and
that the action of the Chinese commander
at Taku may yet be disavowed or prove
to have been based upon ignorance or mis-
an opportunity for explanation by the
Chinese government and suitable repara-
ton that will close this incident without
war.
Uncle Sam Took No Part.
London, June 2O.-From the German Of
fetal dispatches the American ships took
no part in the bombardment of the Taku
forts Saturday morning. No news has
yet been received here of the relief of the
legations at Peking, and Europe's atten-
ton centered far less on the overwhelming
display of naval force at Taku than on
the fate of the diplomatic stats and 600
cosmopolitan residents guarded by hand
full OF marines with the legations COM
pound. There has been no news thence
since June IA.
Rumors that Japan will, as the manda-
tory of the powers, restore order in China,
was revived in the dispatch from Yoke
hama. Berlin dispatches intimate that
Germany will not object to Japan sending
$4,000 troops, while Great Britain will in
dorse the plan with avidity, though per-
haps only secretly.
The japanese legation in London has of
fetal information of the dispatch OF 5000
troops. In the meantime the British are
dispatching six native regiments, besides
artillery, from India.
The revolt is spreading in western China.
The representative of Pritchard Morgan,
NJ. p, at Cheng Tu, wires that he and
his party have been detained there owing
to .Ae news that the revolution has brok-
en- out in Sc Chuan, which adjoins the
province of Yuen Nan, also in revolt, and
official news comes that the London mis-
sionary society's premises at Tsao Shih,
central China, west of Hankow, have been
destroyed by a mob.
The rising seems to be spreading with
rapidity and shows an unexpected organi-
cation among the foreign elements. The
missionaries at Tsao Shin escaped and
reached Hankow in safety.
a news agency dispatch from Shanghai
dated June 10, says the latest news from
Picking is that the dowsger empress is
greatly concerned at the capture of the
Taku forts, and that wholesale degrade
tions in the Chinese army, including Gen
erals Sung Ching and Fung Flu Slang, the
governor of Picking, and other high Off
Gals who promised the tsung Ii yamen
to accomplish the expulsion of the for
eigners, have taken place.
Three of the Taku forts, it is added
were completely destroyed, and most Of
the garrisons were killed or wounded by
charge from the sailors of the allied
fleets.
Must He Careful.
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