The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-29
so 1T is SAID AT PARIS
The Idea of American Mediation in
China Anglers Germany.
JEALOUSY SHOWN AMONG THE POWERS
A Parliamentary Paper Given Out in lCrdon
Containing an Appeal From the Empress
for GLANDS Good Offices to Settle
the Present Difficulties.

(Copyright. 1900. by the Associated Press.)
Paris. July 2S-Yu Keng, the Chinese
Minister here, says he is convinced that
the legations in Pekin are safe and sound,
although some Of the building may have
been destroyed. While this conviction is
now shared by the official and political
world here. DISPATCHES received 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. Minister Yu Keng thinks the
silence of the Ministers in Pekin not
so orninous as it is considered abroad, an
he asks that China be given another FIVE
days credit 10 produce authentic ana
satisfactory news OF the legations or,
perhaps of the Ministers themselves. He
himself is still IN ignorance of the actual
situation in Pekin, but concludes from
dispatches he has received from the pro-
vincial viceroys and from kilograms ask
ing the mediation Of France, that En-
peror Kwang Hsu and the Empress
Dowager have the upper hand. and that
Prince Tuan has been definitely mas
tered.
Happily for my country and for the
foreigners" he said, 'Yung Lu and Prince
Ching are, 1 believe. now in power, and
this leaves me hopeful-even though the
presumption of the Ministers may prove
correct-that the legationers are stia
alive"
The feeling obtains here that this may
net solve the situation, and that, though
alive, the Ministers are still probably
held as hostages. The equivocal decla-
rations of Ii Hung Chang have served TO
deepen the feeling of mistrust regarding
all Chinese affirmation and information.
The Associated Press learns that the
foreign Governments intend to disregard
Ii Hung Chang's Observation-Disclosures
they believe are made in bad faith-not
10 march on Pekin. On the contrary, the
international expedition will start about
the middle of next week, following as
closely as possible the railroad. Little
doubt is felt that the Chinese Govern
ment will hold the surviving European
Ministers as a lever to secure better
terms in the final settlement; but in this
they will be disappointed for the powers
will exact for this violation of interna-
tional law even heavier indemnity than
they would have demanded If the Min
listers had been allowed to leave Pekin
Of their own volition.
Meanwhile negotiations are actively
proceeding between the powers and the
situation which will succeed the entry
Of the international troops into Pekin is
a matter affording subject for the great
est anxiety. Already things do not ap-
pear 10 be going altogether smoothly at
Tien Tsin. and jealousies are beginning
to peep out that may develop into a very
serious disagreement before long. The re
lations between Japan and China which
may eventuate from the present trouble
are being discussed in the diplomatic
world Although the Japanese Minister
here, Kurno Shinichiro. scouts the idea
of any alliance between Japan and China.
the possibility of such a development is
taken into consideration by the foreign
representatives.