Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-11
NARsHALLTowN. IOWA. wednesday, JULY II, 1900

acted upon the initiative of England at |
a critical stage Of Chinese affairs.
MIR. Broderick did not explain wheth-
er there was any secret agreement be-
tween the British and japanese gov
ernments by which the two empires
would stand together against Russia
He avoided any reference to Europe
an mandate for japanese action, and
clearly there is none.
Japan, at the urgent request of En-
gland, is cooperating with the other
powers in the restoration OF order, and
no limitations are placed upon her ac-
ton.
Close observers already perceive that
the deliverance of the legations. IL it
can be effected. will not mark the end
of the Chinese complications, but the
beginning of one of the most trouble
some chapters in European diplomacy.
Japan, having sent strong force
into China, will be as reluctant as Rus
sia to retire WITHOUT receiving adequate
compensation in territory. and Ger
many will be equally persistent in her
demand for satisfaction for the murder
of her minister.
Chinese news offers a strange medley
of Contradictions and surmises. but the
general tone OF the press dispatches is
brighter ard more hopeful than 1t has
been.
There is no confirmation here OF the
report that the legations were safe on
| July 5. which is a day later than the
official dispatches to the admiralty, but
there is an apparently trustworthy
statement from Shanghai that the en-
press dowager has resumed control of
4 the imperial government, with Yung Lu
as chief minister.
1t is not clear whether Prince Tuan
has been discredited, or whether the.
Eempress dowager is still using him to
keep the Boxers under control. and at
the same time directing Yung Lu and
Prince Ching to protect the Legations.
There are no further details of the
Chinese operations against Tien Tsin,
nor any explanation of the evidence
which led Admiral Bruce to believe
that Prince Ching is supplying the le-
4 cations with food and defending them
from assault.
j News from central China is, however.
4 3l,distinctly reassuring, and indicates
that the anti-foreign movement is not
making progress in that quarter and
that the mission stations are safe.
Lord Salisbury himself has confirmed
this view in letter to friends. of the
y Foreign Mission Association.
! The fog is still dense. but it is slowly
Il lifting, and unless the best informed
observers here are misled by their
hopes there has been no catastrophe at
a Pekin. and the foreigners will be de-
q livered from their peril in due time.
a Men closely in touch with the foreign
Office assert that the Boxer revolt is
likely to subside rapidly when the revo-
lutionists learn that a Japanese army
: is in motion. and the foreign conttn-
gent Will enter the capital without en-
countering much resistance.
!. Convicts RcleaseSl ,to. XIII Foreigners.
MOSCOW. July 11.-Dispatciles from
i Port Arthur say that one of the first
Eacts of the Boxers in Pe!sin was to lib
. fierate $500 notorious convicts. who We're
], confined in the prisons there. They
! were granted liberty on condition that
+ + they should murder the Europeans and
/ native Christians in the city
I The convicls are now armed with
! I swords. pixies and daggers and are
searching thruout the city for their vic
!, ,tims. Foreign buildings. stores and
banks are being burned ny these mis-
/, creants. 1t is now feared that the
: plague will follow the massacre.
i The Argunski. Nebstichinski and AS
. chitinski regiments. three. trans Baika
! Cossack organizations, along with one
! brigade of artillery, have been dis
patched to guard the Manchuria rail
i, way.
! 1t is reported from Urga. in rorth,
!, ern Mongolia, that all is quiet al
i Shanghai. The Europeans are holding
themselves in reserve and hope to es
cape all danger from Boxer inva
sion.