Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-07
To COMPROMISE
RUSSIAN DEMANDS MET HALF
WAY BY GERMANY.
EMPEROR TO BE RESPECTED.
Lii Hung Chang Starting for Pekin-
International Army at
Shanghai.

New York, Sept. IA dispatch to the
Tribune from London
The German reply to the Russian pro-
posal may be in the form of a cOmprOm-
Use and as such it will be treated in or
der to save the face of Russia; but in
substance, the communication which has
been made to the state department is a
clear rejection Of the Russian PROPOSE
ton. 1t matters very little in principal
whether the whole or a portion of the
allied contingent is kept in the Chinese
capital, but the point is that Picking will
continue to be held by foreign troops
till peace negotiations are concluded.
The most important concession Ger
many make to Russia is the agreement
to respect the persons of the empress and
the imperial ministers. This is good
sense, for otherwise it would be impossi-
BILE to get a Chinese court and privy coun-
ell to come back and begin negotiations
since 1t is out of the question that the
princes n mandarins o put them
selves in the power of the allies in order
to be tried and possibly executed.
The report that a punitive expedition
is starting from Tien Tsin for Pao Tine
Flu is probably correct, but the further
statement that an allied column is setting
out for Tai Yuen Flu. the present resi-
dence of the empress, nearly 800 miles
from Picking, is certainly fictitious.
"a SuS6SSlANC llSlIl VI SuALSSC ASWS yes
terday was that an order suspending the
departure of the fourth brigade of Indian
troops has been cancelled and that the
entire force would proceed at once for
the far east. Twelve hundred more In
dian troops have been landed at Shanghai
so that there are now over 5000 men there
and 1000 camp followers. The German
troops were to have landed at Shanghai
yesterday and the Austrians are also pre-
pairing to disembark a small detachment
doubtless to give moral support to the
allies: so that a powerful little interna-
tional army is gradually being formed at
the Yang Use treaty port.
1t is possible that the powers may also
have to send a force farther south before
long. Street riots are said to be frequent
in Canton and the situation in that quar-
ter is by no means settled. The publica-
ton of Admiral Seymouris detailed report
of the operations of the abortive Picking
relief expedition, has made a good i'm
preston. The admiral pays high com
pliments to all the foreign sailors and
marines under his command and there is
no doubt that all concerned in this enter
prise did very well. The report does not
lead to the belief in the efficiency of reg
ular Chinese troops. Had they possessed
any skill in the use of the excellent weap-
ons with which they were armed, they
should have wiped out Seymour's small
wounded men n being short of supplies
But the Chinese almost invariably fired
high and their volleys did little execution
Ii Hung Changes secretary, according
to a message from Hong Kong, has ar
rived at that place and reports that Earl
Ii leaves Shanghai for Picking tomorrow
Whether he will be escorted by a Japan
ese or Russian cruiser seems doubtful
Probably the task will be more congenfal
to the latter.