Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
Diplomat Says They Have Been Disturbers
for Centuries.
;HlNA WILL MANAGE ITS OWN AFFAIRS
No Danger of War Unless Its Purpose is
Interfered With.
ALL CHRISTENOoa is AN ARMED CAMP
world Contains More Armed Men Now
Than Ever Before and China
Must Protect
Itself.


says: There Is no danger whatever Of
an uprising in China against foreigners"
| said Sir Chentung Lang Chang. tho
! Chinese minister. "lt is true of course,
/ that there is political agitation In China,
/ but its object Is to create such excite
/ mont as to cause iuterna tional complica
tions with the view of crippling, If not
wholly destroying. the present dynasty.
My government is amply prepared to meet
any emergency | do not mean that China
( is threatened with revolution, but that
a small party of discontents is striving
desperately to start revolution. But the
movement would not be strong or danger
| GUS
MY government is keeping me minutely
Informed. II, as Il result OF an agitation
now going on, a worthy foreigner is
harmed the emperor's soldiers will pounce
upon that community that harbors the
miscreants and lay ii waste, should they
he unable to find every one of the scoun-
drels responsible, directly or indirectly. for
the trouble. The slaughter would be sick
ening If the government is driven to
reprisals. Yu An Shi Ki. the great vceroy
of Chill, set the example for this sort of
rigid work in the Boxer uprising of 1900.
The slaughter of the Chinese by the en-
peror's soldiers would be more horrible
l
ago IL the miscreants now at work to in
volve China in foreign trouble do not
desist.
Millions OF dollars have been expended
by the central government in the last six
years in bringing the army up to a proper
condition of efficiency China does not
want to go to war. We are a peaceable
people. War is hateful, awful, horrible
hell.''
rs there likelihood OF a foreign war;"
None so long as the world let's China
manages it's own affairs
Part Taken by Germans.
lis it a fact that Germany or Germans
, are mainly responsible for a large part of
, the threatening trouble in China at pres
f-enty< " ~ s-sA .s4sf fs~--.'sa aass'''- E's-es,
'The Germans are aggressive" he re-
piled. "Since the dawn of your civiliza-
ton the Germans have been disturbers OF
: the peace and repose of other peoples and
nations in what is now the Christian
domain They seem always discontented
, with what they have. Their energy APP
nears to demand the whole world in which
to hustle. l do not say that they are re-
E sponsible in any sense for what Is going
on behind the scenes in China. l merely
| tell YOU that l have heard that stated in
well informed and responsible quarters.
am keeping my government informed of all
T kn~w and all hear. / have pleaded with
= the authorities at Peking to be careful to
= see to it that foreigners Of all classes are
= treated unusually well in China while this
agitation lasts have learned that my
=. advice is being followed all over China
: Tho Chinese have adopted new internal
nolicy. There will be no more concessions
;. to foreigners.
.The granting of concessions to foreign
ars has been a too fruitful source OF
= trovble TO be continued. And shall
= attend to our own affairs in future. and W.
hone the outside world, the Christian
70 world will permit us to do this. WheI
reflect that all Christendom is an armed
. camp. | am convinced that we are mor'
. neaceably and neighborly inclined than Il
"a the Christian world. l suspect that sta
- tistIcs would show that there are toda!
n more men in uniform and with deadl!
:, yeapons In their hands than at any otbe
=, period in the worlds history. Even Chin
Is armed to protect ITSELF
- ..vhy is the government of the Unite,
= states strengthening its military forces Il
.. the ORIENT" was suggested.
T.. ..That is something ! do not understand
,s replied Sir Cheng
le Quiet AT FuchOw.
roNDoN Feb. 1.-THE Church Mission
at arv society's secretary at Fuchow, China
ty renlying to an inquiry regarding the alarm
st ing reports Of unrest in China, cabled thi
er morning that there was no cause 70
anxiety. The secretary of the society a
Shanghai cables that all is quiet there.
S Fryer Fears Trouble.
BERKELEY, Cal, FEB. l'-P-of. job
Df Fryer. head of the department OF Orients
languages of the State university say
that a copy of Chinese newspaper whic
has lust reached here says that the Ch
nese government had ordered 100000 sma
IN arms and 100 cannon from manufacturer
nd in Germany in preparation for the threa
ut ened war with foreign powers. Pro
Fryer who has spent thirty years in Chin
er believes that the present trouble In Chin
of is undoubtedly the most serious that II
re nations have had to deal with since rel;
ic- tions with the Chinese kingdom were e
'r- tablished.
ne Word from Missionaries.
We NEW YORK Feb. ls.-The following q
ss' blegram from China was received today
ey the Presbyterian board OF foreign mission
he Missionaries not in peril; everything
d arfrcr