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No DANGER
IN CHINA
That Is the Oictum OF
the Chinese
Minister.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l.-"There is
no danger whatever of an uprising in
China against foreigners" said Sir
Chentung LANG Chang, the Chinese
Minister. 1T is true, of course, that
there is political agitation in China,
but its object is to create such excite
ment as to cause internal complied
tions with the view of Gripping, if
not wholly destroying. the present dy-
paraded to meet an emergency. 1 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
will not be strong or dangerous.
My government is keeping me mi4
nutely informed. If, as a result of the
agitation now going on, a worthy for
eigner is harmed the Emperor's SOL
diers will pounce upon the community
that harbors the miscreants and lay
| it waste should they be unable to find
every one of the scoundrels response
BILE, directly or indirectly, for the trou-
BILE. The slaughter will be sickening
if the government is driven to re-
prisals Yuan Shi Ko, the great Vice
roy of Chill, set the example for this
sort of rigid work in the Boxer up
rising of 1900. The slaughter of the
| Chinese by the Emperor's soldiers will
be more horrible than that of Yuan
/ Shi's soldiers six years ago If the dis
| contents now at work to involve China
in foreign troubles do not desist.
/ millions of dollars have been ex-
/ pended 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 peaceable people. War is hate
full, awful. horrible-hell!'
rs there any likelihood of a foreign
WARP"
None SO long as the outside world
lets China manage her own affairs.
rs it a fact that Germany or Ger
mans are mainly responsible for large
part of the threatening trouble in
China at present.
THE Germans are aggressive he
replied. Since the dawn of your
i civilizat ton the Germans have been the
other peoples and nations within what
is now the Christian domain They
seem always disconnected with what
they have. Their energy appears to
demand the whole world in which TO
hustle. do not say that they are re-
sponsible in any sense for what is go
ing on behind the scenes in China. L
merely tell you what I have heard
stated in well-informed and RESPONSE
BILE quarters.
Il am keeping my Government in
formed of all I know and all l hear
L have pleaded with the authorities at
Picking to be careful to see to it that
foreigners of all classes are treated
unusually well in China while this agi-
tation is being followed throughout
China.
1.-The Chinese have adopted a new
internal policy. There will be no more
concessions TO foreigners.
The granting of concessions to for
eigners has been a too frequent source
of trouble to be continued. And so We
shall attend to our own affairs in fu-
ture and we hope the outside world
the Christian world-wfll permit US to
90 this. When L reflect that all Chris
tiandom is an armed camp, l am con-
WINGED that we are more peaceably and
neighborly inclined than is the Chris
tan world. I suspect that statistics
would show that there are today more
men in uniform and with deadly weap-
ons in their hands than at any other
period in the worlds history. Even
China is armed to protect itself
why is the Government of the
United States strengthening its mill
tary forces in the Orient?'' was sug-
gested
THAT is something I do not under
stand replied Sir Chentung.
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