The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-20
CHINESE
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protest based upon the Koran, against
palace sympathy with the Chinese mas
sacres. According to the Canton cores
pondent of the Daily Telegraph, six Chi
nese soldiers have been beheaded for as
saulting an American medical mission
airy.
BERLIN, July, 19.-The' Befliner Post
this evening contains at article, evident
" inspired giving the views Of the Ger
rian foreign office regarding the wi;h
drawsl from the Chinese minister in per-
lin Of the right to use the telegraph for.
ecrct messages The article adnd.s thA'
the step is unprecedent ID, but letlares.
that it was rendered necessary but the alb
normal relations between Germany add
China.
THE regular Chinese troops,r the ar,
ticle says, 'are in the field against the
German troops. It also remains unknown
whether the government from which the
Chinese minister was accredited still ex-
lists. Since the status in China is not
absolutely clear and since the news given
out by the facts, It is impossible to per-
NIT him to communicate freely with his
government under fiction that there is
no war"
The article goes on to insinuate that
the German government had expected
the Chinese minister to take the initia-
tive in erdeavoring to show the foreign
office all the dispatches as an evidence
of good faith and adds;
,qThe German government has, given
fresh evidence of its frank policy since
it could easily have secured the corres-
pondence thriugh bribery, which it dis
dained to do. 1t is a matter OF honor
for the Chinese minister to respond to
the loyal attitude on his part The steps
taken is an appeal to his neral sense"
sEAes EQs sisGbs Zeitnpg apd the NattiSon9al I / a
Eeitung discuss Count Won BueIo%'S
Step, giving ii their fun approval. Ths
Kreuses Zietung -cepsidsEsait sysFys dopbS
full that the powers will harmoniously
carry otit the program laid dewn by the
foreign secretary -s.e-~.
"The possibility must be ever kept in
mind" say this organ, that the powers
may disagree and that each will Swith-
draw to its own sphere of Influence At
any rate, 1t rs now. certain that the war
will last for a long time. and the pres
ent troops in the field are entirely insult
ficient. Doubtless if the United states
government has already created a mill
tary basis in China. Washington would
now make claim for a separate sphere.
If imperialism succeeds at the forthcom-
ing presidential election, a strong expan-
son policy toward China is go be ex-
pected from the United States Tn any
event, in order ii make ther influence
felt in the coming reorganization Of the
Chinese government, each power will
probably establish urther points a'of sup
port in China" &f TEE'.
The Lokal Anseiger says it learns that
the troops marching upon Pellin will re-
ceive orders not to destroy, the immortal
palace,
Considerable. apprehension IS Expressed
by the German press that the Chinese
fleet is preparing to attack German
transports upon theirsarrN .hbut his apx-
iety is not shared by the foreign office.
With reference, to the proposed prOhibi-
ton of the shipment of arms into China,
the .fireign office say the matter, has
been left to the admira1s who are exer-
cising due watchfulpess. The foreign OF
fee does not believe the statement tele-
graphed TO an zAmerican paper mat the
foreign legations are safe in bomb
proofs.
1t is now settled that the ChineseVex-
peditionary corps will 'sail in ten steam
ers from Bremerhavenf between July p
and August g. A shipment Spanish
tfonkeys mas arrived here for the sexpedi-
ton! E'st~ ~ -yF.rN ,,.rt f..... 1t
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