The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-21
CHINESE WILL YIELD
Ready to Comply With All
Demands of the Powers.
MARTIAL PREPARATIONS SCARE THEN
Prince Ching and Ii Hung CHANG
Greatly Worried over the Pro-
posed Expedition-Urgc Their
Government to Give Up.

PEKING, Feb. 20.-Prince Ching and
Ii Hung Chang have received "A tele.
gram which virtually means that the
Chinese will comply with all the demands
Of the powers, although they still de.
sire information on few minor points.
The foreign ENJOYS look forward con
6dently to absolute compliance by to-
morrow at the latest.
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang have
been greatly worried by the prepara.
tions for the expedition into the in
terror, and they have strongly urged the
court to yield, pointing out that other.
wise the dismemberment of the empire
was probable.
General Chaffee signalized the Chi
nese New Year by calling upon Ii Hung
Chang, who seemed to be in much better
health.
II is now asserted that the Germans
will turn the railroad over to the Brit
ish at the end of the month.
Last Saturday was an uncomfortable
one for Ii Hung Chang and Prince
Ching, the Chinese peace commissioners
DIR. Mumm Won SchwartZcnstein, the
German minister. visited the Chinese on.
voys on that uay and informed them that
Count Won Waldersee would be ready to
start n great expedition for Singan-fu on
Feb. % If the Chinese government did
not comply with the demands of the min.
listers before that date.
The Chinese commissioners asked the
minister how many men would compose
the expedition. DIR. Mumm Won
Schwartzenstein refused to tell but said
there would be enough to get through to
the Chinese capital.
The Chinese commissioners immediate
ly dispatched an alarming message to
the empress dowager, in which they in
formed her that she must hurry and
agree to the terms and that the Ger
mans would surely start for Singan-fu if
she did not settle by the date mentioned.
Later in the day an attache of the
British legation visited Ii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching and told them that
the English were tired of waiting to
hear from the Chinese government.
Their troops We're anxious and enthusias-
tic to join an expedition and would start
next Saturday with the Germans. They
would never rest until they got the en-
tire court in their hands. and once they
had succeeded in doing this there was no
telling what would happen.
This alarmed the Chinese commission
ers still more, and they rushed n second
telegram to the empress dowager, in
which they urged the necessity for quick
action on her part. A little later an at
tache of the japanese legation visited Ii
Hung Chang's temple and told the Chi
nese ENJOYS that the Japanese were un
der Count Won Waldcrsee's orders and
would be compelled to join the expedi-
tion next Saturday. The Japanese at.
tache advised quick compliance with the
demands of the ministers as the only
way of preventing the dispatch of the
expedition.
Thereupon the Chinese commissioners
hustled off a third telegram to the en-
press dowagcr. This time they told hei
that there were only two heads in ques-
tion-those of Chao Shu Chao and Wing
Lien--while if the expedition should start
thousands of her loyal subjects would be
killed, and there would also he ter
mendous property loss. All these tce
grams are now in the hands of the EN-
press dowager and the court, and it is
very likely that they will interfere some
what with the New Years festivities
which are supposed to last five days.
Meantime the German, British anG
japanese headquarters show great sign.
of activity, and the troops there are max
ing every preparation to start on Feb. ,;
if it should be necessary.