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TROOPS IO QUIZ CH|NA
TEN THOUSAND FRENCH SOLDIERS
ARE TO BE WITHDRAWN
IN MAY
FOREIGNERS FEAR RESULTS
DO NOT SHARE THE OPTIMISM OF
THE MINISTER'S AS TO EU-
TURE PEACE
ADVISERS OF COURT DIFFER
Some Favor Return to Pekin, While
Others Believe in a Reaction
ary Policy Against the
"Barbarians.''

PEKINt April 22.-Gen Voyron, the
commander of the French troops IL
China, has informed Gen. Chaffee that
10000 French soldiers will leave China
next May.
Ii Hung Chang believes that the Chi
nese troops under Gen. Liu will be with
drawn over the boundary marking the
territory defined by Field Marshal Won
Waldersee as the sphere of operations
for the allies, as the governor of Shan ST
province received telegraphiC instructions
nearly a week ago ordering their with
drawal The governor could have con-
veyed this order to the troops in Ques-
tion by last Friday at the latest.
The majority of the French and Ger
man newspaper correspondents accom-
panying the expedition directed against
Gen. Liu, and which has been mobilizing
at Pao Ting Flu, returned to Pekin today,
believing that the expedition would be
called off.
Hsi Liang, formerly governor of the
province of Shan ST. has been appointed
governor Of the province of Hupei.
The foreign consuls at Hankow, capital
of the province Of Huipei, have protested
this appointment to Chang Chi Tung,
viceroy Of Hankow, and have sent him
a telegram advising him to delay pro-
ceeding in the matter of Hsi Liangs ap-
pointment.
The numerous appointments Of China
men with pronounced anti-foreign ten
denotes, is causing comment at Pelzin.
Even the foreign ministers admit that
so many appointments Of this character
are ill advised, while the missionaries
and other civilians are alarmed for the
future.
1t is the opinion Of Mr. Rockhill, the
American special commissioner, that the
foreign troops may now commence leav-
ing China with perfect safety; on the
other hand, the announcement that 10000
French troops are leaving in May, causes
fear among the French residents, and
this fear Is greater among the French
native converts to Christianity, who in
form the priests that they are daily
threatened with what will happen to
them when the foreigners leave.
The views OF the foreign ministers on
the withdrawal of the troops are not
shared by the great majority Of foreign
residents. The ministers aver that some
Of these latter have business relations,
and that others would have to evacuate
the fine buildings they are no woccupy-
ing, rent free, when the troops go.
A personage from Sian Flu, who is
closely connected with the court, denies
that Gen. Tupg Fuh Slang is in state
of open rebellion.
The person in question thinks the mis-
SionafleS VINO reported InaC ne was III
rebellion, must have heard accounts of
his harsh treatment of bandits falling in
to his hands. Gen. Tung Fuh Slang has
frequently disobeyed the orders Of the
court When 5000 troops were withdrawn
from his command last January, he
should have returned their rifles and am
munition. This he failed to do. Be
fore he left for Kan Su he obtained
an audience with the dowager empress of
China Upon this occasion Tung Fuh
Slang said to the empress: "All that your
servant has done has been ito obey or
ders oe the court. He will die upon the
battlefield in your service. If because
Of the commands of foreigners your ser
want was committed to DEATH he would
die unwillingly."
To this the empress declared: LET
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