Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-02
THE TROUBLE IN CHINA
Peking Precautions to Protect
Foreigners.
THE CHANGFU UPRISING
Further Details of the Looting of the
Mission.
DUE TO ANTI.FOREIGN SPIRIT
Canton Arrival Says Situation is Seri-
ous-Paralyzing Effects of Boycott
-Goodnow's Fat Job.
DUE TO ANTI-F0REIGN SPIRIT
An Anti-Foreign Spirit.

to protect foreigners.
An Anti-Foreign Spirit.
VICTORIA, b. c., March "details
brought by the Empress of India of the
attack on the American mission at Chang
fu. sixty miles from Annoy shows that the
looting of the mission was occasioned by
the anti-foreign spirit.
The missionaries escaped unaided, except
by Mr.. Aldham. who was concealed In the
house of a Chinese Official, and thus es-
capped the rioters. Another feature of the
Chinese national movement, as first in
dicsted by the boycott. has been the estab-
Ishment OF Chinese Independent Chris
tlan Church, the movement being organ
lied to oust entirely the foreign mission
aries A Chinese Presbyterian pastor from
San Francisco is at the head of the move
inent at Shanghai, where $4,000 has been
subscribed for the organization of the cam
paisn fund for the Chinese Independent
Church.
Captain Kelley. an American employed as
chief OF police by the Chinese government
at Changhsa, Human, was murdered by
two Greek adyenturers, who shot him when
he sought to arrest them for illegally SELL
Ing arms. The murderers were pursued by
chinese soldiers and captured near the city
gates. one committed suicide and the other
was shot by the soldiers.
Wong kai Woh, Chinese commissioner to
Japan, has been sulfCcated by charcoal
fumes at Yokohama. He was educated at
New York.
The steamer Empress of India brought
news of the wrecking of the japanese pas
senger steamer Kubo off the Japanese
coast. Only one of the twenty-five persons
un board was saved.
Tie German steamer SeIvla. carrying
home-bounG troops. struck a floating mine
wien leaving Nladivostok and sank with
500 OF those on board.
EX-Consul Goodnow at Shanhai has been
appointed foreign adviser at Nanking at u
salary of $500 a month.
Says Situation is Serious.
SAN FRANCISCO. March Wv. S AL
len, Canton agent for Hour company, VINO
arrived from the orient yesterday. said the
situation IN China was very serious.
The principal element in the agitation
over there Is the newspaper agitation he
said. The Chinese newspapers have pro-
gresSed wonderfully They are at last alive
10 the general situation of fairs throughout
the world and they are becoming power
ful weapon. IT has been charged that they
are being controlled by the japanese, but !
have noticed no evidence of 1t. The whole
movement seems to me a Chinese upheav-
al national In scope. 1t is foolish TO say
the boycott or the reform movement in
general Is weakening. Ii would be more
correct to say it is just beginning. 1 think
the whole trouble could be compromised by
allowing the coolies access to the Philip
pines and Hawaii"
Mr.. Allen was recalled from China ur ac-
count OF the paralysis OF the arms busi-
ness since the boycott
Central China Quiet.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, March 2-In an
swer to a letter sent by Secretary Stokes
OF Yale University to Yale's mission In
Chang Sha, in the province of HUMAN.
China, the following eablegram was re-
ceived at the university today:
Central China is quiet. Missionaries
not In terror"
The cablegram was sent by Dr. Edward
II. Hume, who has charge or the Yale mis-
slon In Chang Sha. He was graduated from
Yale In 1897
Causes of Unsettled Condition
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2-Wiliam
Hancock, for the past thirty-one years a
resident OF China. and a commissioner OF
customs there arrived here on the liner
Hong Kong on his way to England Speak
ing OF the situation in China last night. he
said;
The principal causes OF the present un-
settled condition are the dissa tbs faction In
southefn emma over the indemnity to be
paid TO foreign countries resulting from the
Boxer outragCs. which ocurred in northern
China, and the outrageous treatment ac-
corded to the wealthy King family of China
by a custom officer In Boston when he and
his family We're route from England to
China by way of this country. King and
his family We're treated as ordinary coolies
and the head of the family was furious
over the matter. ] think he was the real
instgator of the boycott.
'Yuen Sh! kai. Yiceroy OF Chilli prov
ince. has done all he could to stamp out
the boycott, but no one can do much when
once public Indignation Is aroused in that
country. Things are very apt to become
serious before peace again reigns. In va
rious provinces the Chinese are on the eve
OF n serious uprising. and it is hard to tell
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