Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-26
RECALL ANTE BOXER TACTICS.
State Department Advising Mis-
sion Boards to Bring in All
Missionaries.
r. s. Consuls Warning Americans Sit
nation Is Such rs to Warrant Them
In Taking Precautions to Fly.

Chicago, Feb. ga dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington SAYS:
President Roosevelt has crown sus-
plcious of the good faith of the Chi
nese government as result OF the
policy of dupliclty which 1t seems to be
pursuing. He has been given assur-
ances through Minister Rockhill which
are not In keeping with the acts of
the Pekin author. .es.
Apparently there has been adopted
at the Chinese capital tactics such as
we're observed in 1900 prior to the
Boxer outbreak. The diplomatic corps
was told then in the most positive
manner that the reports Of general
uprising were without foundation, and
that the government had taken ample
measures to suppress local disturb
ances and to prevent injury TO life
and property. The result of this rep
reservation was the failure Of foreign
powers to take action for the protec-
ton of their subjects and interests UNI
III Il was too late.
The administration sees i'm the pres
ent situation parallel to that which
existed prior to the outbreak with this
single and important difference, that
the present unrest Is not confined TO
two provinces i'm the north but pre-
walls all over the empire.
The state department IS advising
mission boards TO bring in oil mis-
sionaries stationed in outlying dis
'tricts, inaccessible to warships or
troops, and place them at points
where they can be protected. Rear
Admiral Train, commander-in-ch of
the Asiatlc fleet, is giving similar adj
vice TO the missionaries themselves
United States consuls are also warm
Ing missionaries and other Americans
that the situation is of such char
acter as TO warrant them In taking
precautions to fly to points of safety
Inc moment the disorders break out
Neither the navy nor the navy de-
partment Is abating its efforts 10 be
ready to act the moment the president
gives the word.
AMERICAN MISSIONS DESTROYED.
Washington, Feb. 26.-Consul-Gen
Rodgers at Shanghai cabled the state
department under today's date that
the American mission stations at Nan
chang and kien2e nave peen destroyed,
The probable cause Is local. The telc-
gram received from those points states
that IA American missionaries at those
places escaped, but the bingham faml-
~ English, two adults and two chill
dren, are reported to have been killed.
The American gunboat III Cano at
Marking, has been ordered to proceed
Immediately to Kinkiang where she will
probably arrive by Wednesday. The
scene OF the trouble Is about 400 miles
up the Yang Use river.
A later dispatch from Mr.. Rodgers
received today at the state department
says that the island British missions
are reports ed TO be safe.
A cablegram from Commander
Fletcher, the senior officer of the RAJ
leigh at Shanghai, received at the navy
department today, confirms substanu-
ally Consul-Gen. Rodgers report.
NO NEWS IN PEKIN.
Pekin, Feb, 26.--The American Meth
odist mission has station at Nam
chang No news OF the missionaries
has been received at Peltin. It Is sup
posed that they escaped to Kiukiang.