The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
SAID TO BE
SETTLED
The RussO-British EmbrOgliO
Looked Serious
But Dispatches to the Regis
ter Late this Afternoon
Seem to Show
THAT GOOD COMMON SENSE
Has Prevailed and that the
Threatened Conflict
Will be Averted.-It was Ey-
identity a Case of Hot
Head and Jealousy

New York, March 20. "A dispatch to
the New York Herald from Tien Tsin
March 20, says.
Count Won Waldersee while here
yesterday had long and seporate
conversations with the Russian and
English commanding generals. He
orally renewed the propositions which
the Russians had declined to enter
tain.
General Wogack declined to dis
cuss the question of ownership until
the British had Withdrawn from the
ground claimed by Russia and oc-
cupied by his forces. General Camp
bell stated that under his instructions
he could not withdraw from the posi-
ton.
"The dead lock therefore continues.
Count Won Waldersee is visibly de-
pressed at the failure to arrange the
question, the seriousness of which he
seems fully to realize. :After an hour
he returned to Pekin.
"There has been much fighting dur.
ing the day between French and British
soldiers, but up to the present there
have been no serious results. Gen
eral Voyron has ordered ,out gendar-
mes, who. together with the Austral-
ians, are now guarding the settlement
and preventing the French soldiers
not entering.
CAMPBELL'S STAND APPROVED.
General Campbell has received the
approval of the government in his
view of the dispute with the Russian
commander here and is holding his
groundlund orders from London.
Count Won Waldersee's proposal
which General Wogack declined to en-
terrain, was that the disputed territory
be turned over to a neutral guard, the
Russians and British simultaneously
Withdrawing pending legal investiga-
ton of the questions involved.
British offices maintain that if, as
rumored, Russian troops are being
hurried to Tien Tsin from Port Arthur
the British government willregard their
arrival as a hostile movement on the
part of Russia.
General Wogack has made the fol-
lowing statement of the Russian posi-
ton for the Herald:
" The question over which we un-
happily are at odds is not whether the
disputed grounds belongs to us or to
the Chinese government or to the rail
way company, but whether the English
will make good their trespass.
" AT the time the British attempted
to take possession the ground was
protected by Russian flags and a
clearly deliminated boundary of stone,
These flags were overturned and
thrown away by a working party OF
Bengal pioneers and coolies, who
went on with their work until driven
off by our guards.
BRITISH MUST WITHDRAW FIRST.
Before we can discuss hequestion
of ownership the British, VINO lare
to some extent on our ground, must
withdraw. Once the British have with
drawn l am sure the Russian imperia
government will ignore all previous
regrettable violence and listen in a
most friendly spirit to whatever the
British government may have to say
regarding the definite possession OF
disputed territory. No sane person
can for an instant doubt that had en-
gineers requested permission to build
a switch or sidetrack on our ground II
would have been Immediately granted
4" Unfortunately however, they
sought their ends by forcible means
The British troops must be withdraw
from Russian territory. There can be
. no other settlement"
A COMMON SENSE VIEW.
sy scrpps-McRae Press Association.
st. Petersburg, March IA semi
3 official note issued today says the Tier
Tsin incident commonplace, but hal
I been terribly exaggerated Until il has