The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-21
GERMIN vIEW OF SKELETON.
Chinese Attempts to Deny Prkin Mas-
 sacre Believed Insincrre.

1 sacre Believed Insincrre.
 Berlin, July 20.-The German govern
 ment feels confident that the present
 attempts by Chinese officials to deny ] the Pekin massacre are insincere and
 dictated solely by a desire to hamper
 and retard the powerful joint action of
 the powers. At the Chinese legation
 here, where also dena's of the massacre i have arrived from the viceroys, the
 statement was made to-day to the cor
 respondent of the Associated Press that the Chinese minister himself, Lu Hai
 Houan, placed little reliance upon
 them.
 Lu Hai Houan has in no wise replied
 to the recent prohibition by the foreign
 office of his use of the telegraph for se-
 cret messages but he has since sent to | Count von Buelow several tslegrams for
 approval, which has been granted. The foreign office considers that the gravest point in the situation Just now
 Is the doubtful attitude of the southern
 and central viceroys with the evident | spread of the antiforeign hos,ilities.
 The news received here on this score is
 very meagre, but it all points to treach- cry and to a cunning policy of procras- tination by the viceroys until the mo- I ment shall have arrived when they can afford to discard dissimula tions, Yuan | Shi Kai, the governor of Shan Tung, is regarded here as worse than unreliable. | The foreign office feels glad that all these Chinese r,yes have not succeeded
 in binding the powers or in retarding their serious military preparations. Official circles deny number of sen- sational stories printed by the English
 press-stories which the foreign office characterizes as made of the same cloth as many that were set atloat during the Spanish war and the earlier
 stages of the hostilities in South Africa.
 The only story having any foundation, according to the foreign office is the question of who is toibe commander-in chief of the allies powers A war offl-
 cial said to-day: "The suggestion to make Lord Wolseley or some other
 English officer the commander-in-ch does not meet with approval anywhere. This is hardly strange, because the British land force in China is rather in- significant, as well-authenticated infor- nation shows. The proposal to make German the chief would not be accept ed by Germany unless a unanimous wish to that effect were expressed by the powers ininterested.
 The semi-official Miltair Wochanb'att aserts, from alleged authentic figures, that the number of allied troops now in China Is 43,00G.
 Of these however, 0,000 Russians are located in Liao Tung peninsula and Twan Tung province, and 1000 Ger mans, with sixteen field guns, twelve heavy guns and six machine guns at Kiao Chou. Now on the way from Ger many, France and England there are about 15, coo men and the first part of Japanese division is also en route. Ar engagements have been made for the de- parture of 57, 900 men with 144 guns, and altogether there will be. from present arrangements in China by September 16,OG0 Germans. 12,000 English, 65,000 French. 5o, 900 Russians, 21 ,000 Japanese, and 1000 Americans 2,000 Italians and ITO Austrians together with 311 guns and 36 machine guns.
 General Von Btguslawsky, a high military authority, whom the correspon- dent of the Associated Press questioned regarding the foregoing estimates said 1t was quite possible that this force of 115, coo men would prove insufficient to bring China down, but that in such an event the powers would increase it's con- tingent. If the whole Of China should rise" he continued, it might prove to be question of unparalleled military but even then the powers by skullfully using their fleets and troopers in the harbors and harbor cit ies could dictate peace on their own terms"
 The Vossische Zeitung prints a special from Paris this evening as ssrting that the French language will be declared the vehicle ot general com between the allied contin- gents in China.
 Herr Euge ne Wolff, the we'll known trave'er and writer, declares in the Ber- liner Tagblatt that British policy in China has ben solely responsible for the present troubles, "a policy which first cCddled up the reform party there, and then left them, with the young emperor, in the lurch." Outlining the terms of the final settlement he says;
 Germany, when peace is re-establsh- | ed. must insist on three points. She | must have the princess palace opposite l the British embassy in Pekin: China I must bind herself to furnish Germany | for colonial purposes a s many hundreds | If thousands of coolies as Germany | wants, and the Chinese government | must erect on German territory in Tsin Tau a university, q commercial school, l l technical high school and other simi- lar institutions where Chinese pupils