The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-03
A MAT TER
OF MONEY.
China's Price of Peace
Stated.
FRENCH SMELL POWDER
Conditions at Peking Show up Well
For the American and Japan
csc Administrators.

| N Il w 1ODh, Lee. IO.--A ulSpdlCH u
the Tribune from London says: The
China question has virtually reached
the money point. The amount of the
indemnity TO be paid will probably re-
J quire many weeks of diplomatic con-
sultation Sir Robert Hart knows bet
ter than anybody else what can be
. paid by the Chinese Government with
out the complete surrender of her tax
!. ling and revenue resources to Europe,
but bankers in all the capitals will pre-
fer to have great loan undertaken
by the powers themselves and full
financial control established by an in
ternational commission for the pay
ments of interest and sinking fund
service.
FRENCH MEET CHINESE.
PEKING, Dec. 25.-The French re-
port encountering $4,000 Chinese and
capturing five flags and a number OF
J guns and infiicting a great loss upon
the Chinese thirty-five miles south Of
, here. The report is generally discred
tied. According to the rumor. the
French did not suffer any losses them
selves. 1t is believed, however. that
the French probably met a rowing
band, which was dispersed, number
of the Chinese being butchered. Ii
Hung Chang says that he is satisfied
that the story is false.
J Rev. Mr.. Kelly a Presbyterian mis-
sionary, has reported to Minister Con-
! ger of the burning by Boxers of nine
teen Catholic Christians. He says,
however, that his information has been
derived entirely from Chinese sources.
The Japanese, who have jurisdiction
over the territory thirty miles north.
in which it is alleged the outrage oc-
Cured, will investigate the report.
PARIS, Dec ga dispatch to the
Havas agency from Peking dated De-
4 cember %. says the detachment of
French troops commanded by General
Bailloud were recently attacked by
Chinese regulars and Boxers at Thi
Tchoou. south of Pao Ting Flu The
punitive expedition took the village
after lively combat. Many cannon
and quantity of provisions and am
munition We're secured. On account of
J the hostile attitude of the population,
General Bailloud burned the village
! and also those villages in the neigh
. horhood. The Chinese loss was 1000
90 men. General Bailloud's force sus-
/ tanned no loss. Christian Chinese fam
lilies have been maltreated by the Chi
nese regulars.
BRITISH WILL STAY.
) LONDON. Dec 26.-The Foreign Of
flee informed a representative of the
Associated Press today that there is
, no truth in the Pail Mall Gazette S
despatch which says there has been a
} question of the British seeding from
the allied command owing to the activ
ity of the Germans in the districts
, under British protection.
} CONDITIONS AT PEKING
LONDON, Dec. 26.-In the course OF
a review published in the Morning Post
today of the conditions existing at Pc
king, H j. Whigham, a well known
! newspaper correspondent, says there
are now a quarter of million of in
, habitants pursuing their ordinary avo-
, cations in the American quarter. The
markets are in full blast. He adds
that the American and Japanese quar-
ters are in all respects the best man
, | aged, showing ability on the part OF
} the Americans to handle a subject
people which they have not developed
elsewhere to proper advantage"
Il Continuing, Mr.. NV higham says:
This enormous portion of the city
is policed by exactly one company oil
} infantry and few mounted men un-
4 der provost marshal If only these
4 hard-headed soldiers of the provost
! marshal type had been given a free
hand in the Philippines the task O
' subjugating the unfortunate islander.
would have been much more simple
II the Japanese have come out of tn,
muddle with flying coors they at Ieas
have the Americans close behind.
was worth sending an expedition t,
China if only to get a few hints OIL
transport from the Americans. Thei
. scheme of municipal government coul.
IA not be bettered by the British, VIII
v have learned the business experience
Al In every quarter of the globe. Flo
~ the point of contrast it is only nee
essary to walk down the avenue OF tn
chinese city dividing the United State
and Germany. The American side O
the street is simply Picking in the or
binary garb of peace, minus its varie
gated smells. The opposite side is al
s. most deserted. The Germans hay
come to the American side Tor mea
). and vegetables, and it is whispere
: that the country people are sometime
robbed as they bring in the produce
ID except where the gates are British
American or Japanese. That is VIII
l. the markets in the quarter controlle
by these nations are the best
THE POWERS AND CHINA.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ga cable
gram received at the State Departmer
NJ from United States Minister Congo
dated at Picking on the 24th instar
, states, that the formal meeting be
tween the diplomatic representative
and Prince Ching took place on III
oath. Ching presented the eredential
~ of himself and Ii Hung Chang, VIII
8. was unable to attend owing TO Hines
N to the diplomatic representatives. VIII
N handed to him the international not
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