Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-21
CHEERFUL CABLEGRAMS.
Paris Favors Agreement Among Pow
 CTS As to Claims for Damage.

CTS As 10 ClllmS 1OE bdHaSe'
 Paris. March 21.-Cablegrams re- ceived here from Pekin are very cheer ful regarding the rapid progress Of ne- gotiations there during the past week. The American proposal to arrange TOT demanding joint damages from Chlna is being favorably discussed by the powers. There appears to be pros pect for the adoption of this pfoposi- tion although with some notifications from it's original form.
 Feeling in Paris favOrS an agree ment. among the powers, respecting the amount each state shall demand and then the presentation of these amounts to the Chinese government as one sum. It is thought the claims of individuals and societies, however, should be adjudged by commissions sitting in the respective legations ana presented separately.
 Tien Tsin. March 21 (afternoon.- The situation here remains unchanged Both the British and Russians abstain from any overt acts of hostility. There are about one thousand white British troops in the vicinity. The Russians are not numerous. It is ru1nored that French detachments at Yang Tsung and Lang Fang have been warned they may De wanted al Ileil SiH- London, March 21.-In the house of commons to-day. the foreign secre- tary Lord I.ansdowne. announced that Russia and Great Britain had agreed to withdraw their troops from the disput- ed territory and reserve question Of title and proprietary rights Tor supse- Quent examination.
 Paris, March 21.-2:3O D. m.-The French foreign office has as yet re- ceved no dispatches alluding to the Anglo French or Anglo-RuSSia trouble at Tien Tsin. Officials are therefore hopeful for q conciliatory settlement for what they regard as not being q serious difficulty.
 London, March 21.-The more staid afternoon papers, with recOllections Of earlier Chinese congregations. decline to credit the sensational stories from | Tien Tsin and Shanghai. They be- l lieve the Tien Tsin difficulty will be 1 readily solved by diplomacy. In re- gard to the suggestion in the Shanghai | dispatch that the Russian squadron
 has designs on Corea, the papers think | it highly improbable that Russia has | ally present. Ol IiShlHS huN
 al war with Japan, which, they con-
 slider, would unquestionably follow
 any forward movement of Russia in 1 the Hermit kingdom.
 The Japanese minister, Baron Hay 1 ashi TadaSu, in an interview to-day
 does not attach any importance to the
 dispatches from Shanghai and Kobe He says that if Russia had any i'm 1 portant designs on Corea she would re- Quire an army and not a fleet. The minister had no information regarding l the reported mobilization of the Jap- l anese fleet.
 | Berlin, March 21-The correspond.
 ent of the Associated Press has learn
 ed from good authority that Count | VOn Waldersee during his brief stay iI Tien Tsin yesterday, succeeded in his
 mission which consisted merely in pre-
 venting bloodshed among the allied 1 troops. Beyond this it is claimed ir
 official circles Germany will remain l perfectly neutral. According tC
 Russian accounts which have reached
 Berlin, the question at issue at Tier Tsin is not controversial and the Rus | sian claims to the territory where the | trouble occurred, are indisputable. Be | sides the Russian flag, it is said, Rus
 sian boundary marks were exhibited | which the British soldiers did not re l Spect.