Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-29

Copyright. Associated Press.)
PARIS, July 2S.-Yu keng. the Chi
nese minister here. says he is convinced
that the legations in Pekin are safe and
sound. although some of the buildings
may have been destroyed. While this
conviction is not shared by the official
and political world here. dispatches re-
ceived from the Far East during the
past week have raised renewed hope
that some, if not all. of the members
of the legations are still alive. Min
lister Yu Keng thinks the silence of
the ministers at Pekin not so ominous
as it is considered abroad and he asks
that China be given another five days
credit to produce authentic and salts
factory news of the legations. or, per-
haps. nf the ministers themselves. He
himself is still in ignorance of the ac-
tual situation in Pekin, but concludes
from dispatches has has received from
the provincial yiceroys, and from tele-
grams asking the mediation OF France,
the Emperor Kwang Hsu and the En-
press Dowager have the upper hand
and the Prince Tuan has been decis-
lively mastered.
Happily for my country and for the
foreigners he said, "Yung Lu and
Prince Ching are. | believe, now in
power, and this leaves me hopeful
even though the presumption of the
massacres may prove correct-that the
legations are still alive"
The feeling obtains here that this
may Tot solve the situation, and al
though alive the ministers are still
probably held as hostages. The equiv
ocal declarations of LII Hung Chang
have served to deepen the feeling of
mistrust regarding all Chinese affirma-
ton and information.
The Associated Press learns that the
foreign governments intend to disre-
gard Ii Hung Chang's recommended
tions-which they believe are made in
bad faith-not to march on Pekin. On
the contrary, the international
Exped tion win start
about the middle of next week, follow
ing as closely as possible the railrJad.
Little doubt is felt that the Chinese
government will hold the surviving
European ministers as a lever to secure
better terms in tho final settlement, but
in this they viii be disappointed, for
the powers will exact for this violation
OF international law even a heavier in
demnity than they would have de-
manded if the ministers had been al
lowed to leave Pekin OF their own Volt
ton.
Meanwhile negotiations are actively
proceeding among the powers and the
situation which will succeed the entry
of the international troops into Pekin
is a matter affording subject FOR the
greatest anxiety. Already things don't
appear TO be going altogether smooth
ly at Tien Tsin, and jealousies are be-
ginning TO peep out that may develop
into a very serious disagreement before
long. The relations between Japan and
China which may eyentuate from the
present trouble are being discussed in
the diplomatic world. Although the
japanese minister here. Kurino Shini-
chiro, scouts the idea of any alliance
between Japa nand China, the POSSIBLE
ity of such a development is taken into
consideration by the foreign repre-
sentatiYes.
The ambassador Of one Of the great
powers, abiding to the jeolousies
which already have become percepti-
BILE, said: The moment is a critical
one for the white races In the Far
East. To win they must stand the
ground. Japan al the present moment
is apparently with the western powers,
but Ii must be remembered although
Japan, as result Of the Chino-Japan-
esq war and by reason OF her acquired
civilization, looks down upon the Chi
nese, still
Their Many Race Afhnftfes
and ots-- ties between the two nations.
with Japan's ambition. may lead TO a
coalition OF the two great members Of
tue seiios fdce which HOutu De IfaugnL
with peril to the western world.
China, under Japan's tutelage, would
become a great power with whom the
European nations might have graver
problems than the parceling out Of her
territory among them, which has chief
~ occupied them up to the present Az
indicating the Russian suspicion OF
such an eyentuality. Il IS known here
that Russia is MODELLING 200. 900 men
al Odessa for any emergency"