The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-11
RUSSIA
Now has a FreteXt for Taking
a Hand in Chinese
Middle,

China tonight appear distinctly graver.
The destruction Of Russian chapel at
Tung Tingan has provided Russia with
the desired preteXt to land more troops
The dispatch from st. Petersburg this
afternoon, that the government is re-
solved if the dangerous situation in China
continues to take immediate acton to re-
press the ant-foreign movement, at the
sametitme declaring that it has no inten-
tion of disassociating himself from the
joint action of the powers may be regard
ed sem-official utterance, meaning
that if there is any hesitancy on the part
of the powers Russia will act alone
All report agree that the bower move
ment is Spreading The report is con-
tirmed that the French agents at Mong
Use and Yun-Nan-Fu have been compelled
to retire and this shows that the ferment
has reached southwestern China and has
provoked France into taking active steps.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British minister
at Pekin has wired the British consul
at Shanghai confirming the reported out
RACES and the fact the tthe throne and
government have been actuated by Sc
cret sympathy with the boxer movement.
His dispatch, however, is in no way of an
alarmist nature.
The latest Tien Tsin dispatch saying
that the dowager empress has appointed
anti-foreign generals with the pretended
mission to suppress the boxers making it
impossible to doubt that the time has ar
rived for energetic action. 1t is expected
that the British government will utilize
the Chinese regemint which has been in
training, as 1t would be dangerous to re-
move the garrison from Hong Kong at
the present moment.
A special dispatch from Shanghai, dat
ed June 9, says:
THE Tsung-Li Yamen has protested to
the ministers against the presence Of such
a large number Of foreigner forces as
serting that is cannot be only for the
protection of legations, but for the es-
tablishment of a garrison in the capital
of an independent friendly state. The
answer which the foreign ministers re
turned to this protest is unknown.
The American mission at Pei-Tang-
Chow was destroyed yesterday but the
missionaries fed to a place of safety.
1t is reported that the viceroy of Chi
Ii has resigned
1T is proposed to bring Ii Hung Chang
back fro mthe south, but Prince Kang
famous Ii Ping Heng, the former gov
ernor of Shan Tung.
Pao Ting Flu is burning. The, Tien Tsin
railway has finally ceased to be operated.
All the English missionaries are encamp-
ed inside the legation"
Copyright 1900, by the Associated Press)
LONDON, JUNE 9.-The Chinese situa-
ton, which is at the beginning of the
Il,
ternational horizon, now overshadows ev-
cry other topic. England. according to
most authorities-save those who control
her foreign policy, is face to face with
a crisis in far eastern affairs, which
though it may not result in any immcd-
ate partition of China, must determine
the part that England shall play when
the partition eventually occurs. That
such emergency should have arisen at
a moment when England is least able to
utilize it, when almost all her land forces
are six thousand miles from home and
when there is a paramount necessity for
keeping an extra strong hect in European
waters is deplored by all shades of states
men and politicians. Lord Salisbury
stands almost alone amidst his own par
ty in believeing that the results of the
boxer outbreak will be neither serious nor
permanent. The attitude he adopts to-
ward the unanimous agitation for more
strenuous action is voiced by an inti-
mate friend, who said to a representative
of the Associated Press:
Lord Salisbury believes we should be
thankful for small mercies. The co-opera-
ton of diplomas and authorities on the
spot seems perfect and unusually har-
monious So long as this satisfactory
state of affairs continues he will be emil
nently satisfied and will take no other
steps. unless one or several of the pow
ers ask Great Britain's assent to a sys-
TEN which appears feasible, or, unless
Russion aggression becomes muchc moro
apparent than it is today. When these
ontingencie soccur. or the representatives
of various nations at Pekin fail to agree,
then will Lord Salisbury assume the in
iatitive. At present he is agreeably sur
prised at the smoot progress of the ne
gotiations at the seat of disturbances
and implicitly trusts IN Sir Claude Mac
donald, the British minister to China"
1t might be added that Great Britain's S
premier is not particularly optimistic re-
garding the length of time the various
ministers and admirals in the far east
will cooperate so admirably. But Lord
Salisbury is far too philosophic to borrow
trouble.
NEW YORK, JUNE 9.-The first report
of the detailed doings of the boxers was
received by the Presbyterian board today
in a letter from Rev Horace w. Hould-
ing. of the South Chi Ii mission at Lin