The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-06
CHINESE ASK AID
OF UNITED STATES
Want Foreign Troops to Eyscu-
ate lien Tsin.
WILL COMPLY WITH REQUEST
MINISTERS AT PEKIN ANXIOUS
FOR AN ADJUSTMENT.

III ASHINGTON, July 5.-The Chi
w nese government has appealed to
the United States to use it's good
offices to cause the allied powers, who
still retain their soldiers in Tientsin. to
eyacuate that place in conformity with
the spirit of the agreement of Pekin,
which settled the boxer troubles.
The appeal was made today by Min
lister WI directly to Secretary Hay,
in the shape of a cablegram from
Viceroy Yuan Shih-Kai of Chi Ii,
which the minister supplemented with
a long verbal explanation.
Translation of a cablegram received
July l. 1902 (fifth moon, 29th day..
From Viceroy Yuan Shih-Kai of Chi
Ii, dated July 3, 1902 (fffth moon. 18th
day..
your cablegram of July is re-
ceived with much qualification. In the
final protocol signed by the different
powers there is no stipulation that a
supplementary convention will be made
in regard to the restoration of Tien
Tsin.
But the foreign military officers at
Tien Tsin have arbitrarily given rise to
fresh complications and drawn up
many articles limiting to 500 the num-
Der of Chinese guards TO be stationed
at Tien Tsin within the limit of thirty
kilometres. Since the brigands in the
vicinity of Tien Tsin, ON account of the
footing of the arsenals in 1900, are gem
orally Wen armed, it would be impossi-
bic for such a small force to suppress
and punish brigandage; much less can
it police the city and vicinity and pre-
serve order generally.
The military officers appear to DE
willing to restore the city. but in
roo hay rrfoF1 20 EnTo fr.
reason to fear that their action is not
by any means for the public good. The
foreign ministers at Pekin do not APP
prove their action and they have re-
peatedly demonstrated with them, but
the military officers have not been will
ing TO come 70 an agreement The min
listers and the military officers each
hold to their own opinions which great
iy impede the progress of affairs
i request you to ask the government
of the United States to consult with
the other governments so that in
structionS may be sent to the different
military officers direct, ordering them
10 accede to the suggestions of the for
eign ministers to the end that the
restoration may not be further de-
layed."
The author of this message. Yuan
Shih-Kai, has taken the place of the
late Ii Hung Chang to a large extent
in dominating Chinese foreign policies
and. the United States government is
the more disposed to heed his appeal
because of his excellent conduct during
the Boxer uprising. He was the prin-
cipal means of communication between
the outside governments and the lega-
TONERS during their time of peril and
but for his strength of character the
entire province of Shan-Tang would
have been drawn over to the Boxer
cause
Secretary Hay will address himself
TO the various governments probably
through Mr.. Conger at Pekin and the
foreign ministers there. The situation
at Tfen Tsin is peculiar and. in the
view of the state department, the at
utude of the foreign military officers
there is perfectly unreasonable.
The state department has satisfied
itself that the foreign ministers at
Pekin, whose governments are repre-
sented by these military leaders, are
thoroughly anxious to have the treaty
of Pekin executed in a fair spirit. and
TO that end TO have Tien Tsin evacuated
at the earliest possible moment by the
foreign officers. SO it win carry the
Chinese appeal to the governments con-
cerned.