The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-08

TA7 ASIlNGTON, Sept, IA crl'
NM sis has arisen in the turbulent
WV province of SEC Chuen, in
China, and the foreign offices
of the United States and other coun-
tries have taken precautionary stops
for the safety Of their citizens IN that
region.
American gunboats will be brought
into plav TO guard American citizens
and formidable international naval
array is at hand in Chinese waters.
American Charge ~'Affalres Wll-
liams at Pekin todata cabled the state
department that the situation had be-
come critical in SEE Chuen. where pub
lie meetings in various cities, accom-,
panied with the closing OF shops and
schools and refusal TO pay taxes have
eliminated in serious disorders.
American Methodist missionaries al
Shung King and Chcug Tu have IN
formed Mr.. Williams that none of them
has yet lef; his post except that Amer
lean and British women hnvc left
Chnng Tu for Chung King. Twenty. one
districts arc said to he affected by
the present agitation Tax offices have
been destroyed and several officials
have resigned, but resistance TO the gov
ernment has been passive rather than
active.
Gunboats on Guard.
The Chinese foreign office has as.
sured the legation that protection VIII
be given all foreigners and their prop
crty and has offered 10 escort all who
desire TO leave the disturbed area, The
vicerov of SEC Chuen is said 10 be act
ing with energy. A British gunboat is
now proceeding 10 Chatting, while
three other gunboats, one British. one
French, one German, are at Ching
King.
Admiral Murdock's flagship. the
Saratoga is at Woo Sing, the New Or
leans is at Shanghai and two or three
United States gunboats are cruising IN
the Yangtsc river.
On receipt Of today S disquieting re.
ports the department of State tele.
graphed the legation at Pekin to re.
quest Admiral Murdock to dispose the
American gunboats in the manner best
calculated to forestall any danger 10
American citizens.
The department also sent teegrapbic
instructions to Mr.. Pontius of the CON
sular service 10 90 from Tankow to
Chung King. The trip from Cheng Tu
to Chung King where there are gun
boats, requires ten days journey, while
nenp u Is IDuC udNS Journey from
Chatting, whittier the British gunboat
is proceeding
Cause of Uprising.
An imperial cdict recently placed I'M
der the ministry of communications of
the central government the construc-
ton of all trunk lines throughout the
empire and cancelled all concessions for
the private construction Of trunk lines
granted before 1911.
This measure affected the line which
is building by Chinese private enter.
prise at Sze Chueu; and according TO
the state department., has doubtless pre-
cipitated the present manifestations in
province always considered more than
ordinarily turbulent.
In the view of American officials
the province is one where reactionary
tendencies, the cry Of "China for the
Chinese and a certain amount of anti.
foreign tendency have made the eco
nomic and progressive measures of re
form and industrial development aided
by the central government more slow.
" appreciated than III other parts OF
China.
State department officials say there
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