Evening star., 1901-04-23
Rumor to That Effect Vigorously
Denied in Berlin.
BOXER ACTIVITY IN PROVINCES
French Troops Ordered to With
draw About May I.
GEN. CHAFFEE NOTIFIED

BERLIN April 23-Officials here en-
phatically denied the report cabled from
London that new complications have arisen
In the China question. and that Washing
ton. London and Berlin are busily confer
ring on the subject.
The Cologne Volks-Zeitung prints cor
respondence from a German missionary In
China, which says that in southern Pc
Chilli the Boxers are preparing for an
other great rising. especially in the district
OF kuang- -Ping-F'u and Nai-Ming-Fu, where
the population sympathizes with the Box
ers because of the famine there. The popu-
lation persistently disregards the DEGREES
issued by the authorities.
Referring to Yu-Hsen (the former gov
ernor Of Shan-SD. the correspondent says
Emperor Kwang-Su was fully Informed on
the subject Of Yu-Hsien's murders of for
eigners and ordered the provincial judge at
kan-Su to decapitate Yu-Hsien, who has
since fled and disappeared.
French to Leave in May.
dispatch from Pekin yesterday says:
General Voyron. the commander of the
French troops In China. has informed Cen
erai Chaffee that 10000 French soldiers will
leave China next May.
The numerous appointments of Cinnamon
with pronounced anti-foreign tendencies Is
causing CpITllieHI dl fehln. fLNeH lIc loT-
eign ministers admit that so many appoint
ments of this character are ill advised,
while the missionaries and other civilians
are alarmed for the future
II Is the opinion of Mr.. Rockhill, the
American special commissioner, that the
foreign troops may now commence leaving
China with perfect safety; on the other
hand. the announcement that 10, 600 French
troops are to leave in May causes fear
among the French residents, and this fear
is greater among the French native con-
verts to Christianity. who inform the
priests that they are daily threatened with
what will happen to them when the for
eigners leave.
The views Of the foreign ministers on the
withdrawal of the troops are not shared
by the great majority of the foreign resi-
dents The ministers aver that some of
these latter have business reasons and that
others would have to vacate the fine build
ingS they are now occupying rent free
when the troops go.
At a recent meeting of the council both
the emperor and the empress wept fire.
quently. The dowager empress said that
each day of absence was day when she
could neither eat nor sleep in peace. The
emperor said that Pekin was the home of
his ancestors. and that he could not bear
to abandon It.
Renewed Military Activity.
According to dispatch to the London
Mail from st. Petersburg, official informa-
tion has been received that renewed mill
tary activity is beginning in Manchuria
Chinese troops are strongly intrenched at
three points around Mukden They are
armed with good Mauser rifles and have
thirty krupp guns.
To the eastward of Mukden, near Tur-
ehausen, there are 1000 men. under the
chief Boxer general. Lutanse To the
northwest. near kulo. there are 6.OOO Chi
nese, under the former governor of Mink
den To the eastward. In Mongolia and
near the In Shan mountain, there are o UU
more under the Chinese general Schu.
Admiral Alexieff has accordingly organ
lied an expedition under Gen Zerpinsky.
consisting of two regiments and five sot-
MAS of CoSSacks. sixteen guns and q
body OF volunteers. to operate against
the three points mentioned The first
movement was successfully carried out III
the beginning of April Kulo. which Is oyt
kllometers from Mukden was stormed and
the ex-governor Of Mukden was taken pris-
oner- In this action the Russians had thfr-
teen men killed and four officers and eief,-
teen men wounded The advance toward
the Iurchausen position was then begun.
owing to the departure of most of the
russian troops from Mukden the latter
- city has become very unsafe Almost night
~ RUSSIAN sentinels are found shot in the
back " "
The situation in southern Manchuria Is
sian troops will be necessary in the early
spring.
BERLIN. April 22-It is believed in Ger
man official circles that Russia will take
up negotiations with China again regard
ing the Manchurian convention after the
general China question is settled
1t is also believed officially that the Chi
hese regular army is already retreating
before the expedition which is under way,
and that the allied comma nders are now
discussing what troops they can send
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