Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-12
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SITUATION IN CHINA.
A Russian Prince Thinks the Tr

Prince Oukhotomsky, president of the
Russia Chinese bank. has been inter
viewed in st. Petersburg on the Chinese
situation by the correspondent Of the
New York Herald, and takes gloomy
view. He thinks the trouble Of last
year will soon be repeated on a larger
scale, and the powers will have all they
can do to handle the Chinese, who are
in an angry mood over the pillaging Of
temples and palaces in Pekin. The
Herald correspondent says:
I found the president Of the Russo
Chinese bank Is a really marvellous
room.
Everything in it was Chinese. The
room was like a Chinese temple. II
looked to me as though there were g
thousand Buddhas there, all beautiful.
ly arranged and no two alike.
I echoed the sentiment prevailing ir
political and diplomatic circles here
that there was little chance Of an early
evacuation.
Prince Oukhotomsky said: "The Ger
mans do not mean to get out at all
That was what everybody knew who
was in Pekin. It was the common talk
of every German there, and they made
no attempt at concealing the object OF
their mission, which was to STOP" g..
"But what do they want?" asked
"The provinces of Chanting and Chi
L." was the reply, adjacent to us In
Manchuria-a territory with 25,0O0,OO(
of Chinese inhabitants. They want
Yang-Tse; but only for trading pur-
poses. All this they look upon as a
colony Of Germany.
"And Count Won Waldersee?"
IT did not see Count Won Waldersee
at Pekin; but every one there knew
that he felt the uselessness Of his posi-
ton.
1.-THE kaiser had forced him to 1t, and
told him he must act and make big
thing of It,"
"All to make a show?"
"Yes.'
But do you consider that the kaiser
thought the matter easy?'
"He evidently did; but he must have
been i'll advised. He thought Pekir
could be taken with battalion. So II
could but the battalion could not STOP
there. That Is what he did not under
stand. He did not comprehend the
tenacity and silent resisting power Of
the Chinese, who have the character
Of the Finlander and the characteris-
tics of Turanian blood"
"They will never forgive and never
forget"
There Is no fear with them. The
spirit of fatalism among them Is fal
too strong. They would not care ever
If as many more Of them were sacri'
feed
What would have been the right
course to pursue?"
Retire at once after the Legations
has been rescued and treat the Chi
nese as barbarians with whom we
would have no more intercourse. Had
that been done Ii Hung Chang and the
rest Of the mandarins would have come
running down after us. Instead Of that
and I look upon 1t as a shame that
Russian representatives should be In
such a position-ministers are running
after Ii Hung Chang, bowling, scrap
ing, and craving audiences Of him."
I asked him what he thought would
be the condition of affairs should Ger
many not evacuate Pekin before the
wet season came on.
His reply was:
when the season commences the
legations cannot remain in the city
They will have to go up to the hills
They will go with a small guard Of SOL
diers.
"In the recent trouble over which
there were such great difficulties only
one Of the legations was attacked. The
probability Is that the Chinese are now
more angry and excited than ever and
will attack all the legations. Remem-
Der, the Chinese are very bitter, and
have much right to be so. The pillag-
ing at Pekin was something awful"
"Pekin was fabulously rich," the
prince proceeded. Examples Of beau
tiful things were ruthlessly taken and
sold while, so to speak, flecked with
blood.
"And the railroad will once more be
cut. It has one track, and none Of the
hands are English. They have rein
stated all the Chinese in their former
situations and so the line Is in the
power of the Chinese who will surely
cut it again the moment they get the
chance. So the trouble will recur.
"Then we shall probably have a re-
currence Of all that took place last
year, the same anxiety, the same con-
seriousness of our powerless, the same
history to begin over again, the same
expense, a new expedition, the whole
thing repeated.
IAN enormous proportion of the SOL
diers left will naturally die off. And
then, what in the name of common
sense are the powers aiming at? What
do they want? What can they expect
to get out of it? If they persist they
will more and more diminish China's
means of payment. The powers are
perfectly helpless. A war of venge-
ance, such as Germany seems to wish,
is out of the question. Such a course
will only raise up more trouble.
Never was the yellow race greater
danger to us than now"
Just so,' replied Prince Oukhotoms-
ky. In the picture which he drew
himself and sent to our emperor; but
the German emperor If he was the
first to draw attention to that smould-
ering danger, was the first to fan 1t
into aoroas and IN cauSa II TO break