The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-11
SECOND EDlTION---o AN,
Ii HUNG CHANG DISTRUSTfD.
NOMINATION AS PEAcE COMMISSION
FER NOT fANoRABLY RECEIVED
In London. as the Britishers Believe
He Has n Decided Distrust
of Them

New York August io.--A dispatch TO
tho Tribune from London says. The an
pontmenl OF Ii Hung Chang as the Chi
nese pleuipotentiary for the negotiation
of terms Of peace has been received with
various feelings here Those who know
the far East have deep distrust OF tho
astute old viceroy and they insist tia.
his nomination can hode no good TO this
country. u not hostile 60 all foreigners
he Is at any rate a determined opponent
OF the British whom he has always dis
liked, notwithstanding his personal rela :
lions with General Gordan and other En-
lishmen.
On the ether hand some Chinese experts
contend t>dt the Manchu government,
realizing that the powers are IN earnest,
relies on Euu LII 10 arrange terms and
TO patch up AN accommodation as he did
after the lien rsln maseacres in 1870,
The latest batch OF cipher messages re-
cehel from the minister at pekin is ecu
sidered 90 BE- significant and In some do
gree reassuTing. There are determined
skeptics and croakens. such az those wac
wece providing a month ago. circumstnn-
thai accounts OF an alleged Wholesale
butchery at the legations, who sull ,h-oW
doubt on the genuueness of these dis
patches, but not much attention Is paid TO
them. The wisdom of the ministers Tn
declining to lesve Pekin unless adequate
protection can he secured for them is 90
v0Es to everybody II is not. however,
regarded as absolutely certain tina he
offer to- escort foreigners 10 Tien Tsin
Is really trap. TO judge from previous
experience OF Chinese methods, 1t is pos
sible that the tsung /. yamen intends NJ
tima,ely to deliver the legation stafiS in
safety 70 the allied commanders, but II
will procrastinate and prevaricate as long
as possible and all certainly maintain
its hold on the diplomatists while there
seems remote prospect o. using them
as hostages to eNtort favorable terms cf
settlement Whether the government could
in amy case convey the 500 foreigners IN
GLIDING women and children, unframed
through the lines OF Boxers and the mill
tary rabbre Is point no one can deter
mine influential members Of the Chinese
mercantile community believe the tsung
II yamen could, 10 so II il would, be-
cause they are 'hrmly convinced that the
whole anti foreign movement has been de-
llberately constructed in the imperial pal
ace. which is still capable of controlling
tho storm 1t he's evoked.
The total number Of Anglo-lndian troops
ordcrtt to Ci.ina Will not fall far short
OF 20, 600 men. but without much larg r
force, which certainly could not bo SHARED
from Englsnd'5 eastern dependencies, 1t
will be impossible to police the whole of
Yang Use Kiang.
Indeed the departure Of the British con-
sui from Chung King shows thai Eng
land will, for the present be content
merely 10 protect her Interests At tho
mouth OF the great river
Mr.. Goodnow's dispatch stating that
Shanghai merchants believe the landing
Of British troops VIII do mischief by iu-
citing the Chinese only confirm some
bsgivings already expressed here,