New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-17
NEGOTIATIONS REPORTED.
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the evening journals caustcally remarks, Che
| Foo and Shanghai correspondents would figure
| out that the allied army might. could, would
| or should have reached Picking by Monday IN
this way the yellow man and the yellow press
man at Shanghai calculated that the Picking
! Europeans were massacred on July 70.
The proposed landing of Indian troops at
Shanghai has turned out as anticipated for
| some days past a sad bungle. In the first IN
| stance Liu Kun vi. who is the most moderate
| and progressive of the VicerOys, made no OBJ
lection to a proposal that few thousand British
| Indian troops should be disembarked Tor the de-
| fence of the settlement, and the transports were
| accordingly ordered up from Hong-kong. Be
fore they could be relieved of their passengers
| the French and Russian cOnsus intimated that
| If British troops landed they would be followed
! by other foreign contingents. Thereupon Liu
| took alarm. and last Friday teiegraphed asking
| that the Indians should be sent away. The
| British Consul demonstrated and subsequently
! Liu said he would admit the British. but would
! not consent to an international occupation. Ad-
| mfral Seymour was ordered to keep the men on
| the transports pending further Developments
! and there they have remained. swetering in
| the steaming river, while the diplomatists en-
| deavor to settle their differences If after all,
| the ships should be ordered north without dis
! charging the troops the blow to British prestige
| would be as bad when Russia was permitted
| to occupy Port Arthur.
! But. as it happens, the whole foreign commu-
nifty is really alarmed by the effect this with
! drawal might have on the Chinese mind. and all
| the foreign consus at Shanghai have agreed to
Joint resolution to their respective Govern
! ments representing the dangerous consequences
| of now removing the Indians from Woo-Sung.
| They suggest that they should now land. under
international guarantee. and should be followed
by other allied contingents. This solution Is
very unpalatable to the British Government,
which claims paramount interest in the Yang
tse region. But it will probably have to be
accepted to avoid the alternatives OF an humil-
ating retreat or serious friction with France
and Russia The Chinese Minister in London
says that the landing Of a large foreign force
might precipitate rising in Southern China.
but no harm will result If only small detaCh-
ments are employed to secure the safety Of the
Shanghai settlements. Japan is understood 10
be supporting Great Britain in this matter, ow
ing to the extreme Indignation felt in the island
empire at the conduct Of Russia in taking adj
vantage of the general confusion to appropriate
New Chwang The Japanese who have done
the hardest and most brilliant work in the Pc
king relief operations. naturally incensed
at finding Russia already beginning the annexa-
ton of Chinese territory. One consequence is
likely to be the dispatch of a powerful Japanese
army 10 Corea at an early date
The muddle over the Shanghai question would
perhaps have been avoided II Lord Salisbury and
his influential colleagues were now in consuta-
ton, but the Prime Minister is buried with his
doctors at remote watering place in the
Vosges. and the other Ministers scattered
about on the moors in various English and
Scotch country houses. The business Of the
nation has 10 be conducted from day 10 day by
the Under Secretary OF Foreign Affairs and a few
chief clerks in Downing Street. l. y. f.