The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1900, Page 1

i L a n ———— This Paper not taken from b e s s LIKE BIRDS OF PREY THE POWERS WAIT TO REND THE CHINESE EMPIRE Russia and Japan Are Reaching for the Nnrth, While England, France and Ger- many Cast Longing Eues at the Rich Provinces to the Southward, clear and concise, without prejudice, and based vpon information s:cured from ihe highest sources and carefully weighed and considered. Dt et 00 00e0eiei ettt tdrtedeisdedsdsdoisiededsdedstdoidsdododsdsdetesdsdedsdetdoidoensdsesdsiodsdsdsdededod odededesel Situation as I Appears Pr_espm. Re\'iewed hy the Call-Herald Agent. | BY JOHN F. BASS. = r from the ‘ aiplom otiations be- great powers of 7 ) . Z the r na no one moment; the ty takes a what is sled. Th an powers of ipy themselves lussia desires the to-morrow that s been obliged to re- ! se capl- sly declares that re the split of China, and h, if followed for Japan ditions of o superior roads y. Very 3 observers saw many prochement between arly suggested a and current events between these two 4 - feeling. d the Russians everywhere. raflway—they hold all £ At Taku Russia, any hold the outer forts approach of large | Russians occupy the great ar- Taku and Tientsin. Again | Russians hoid the | ch damage to the for- | Another arsepal above so in Russian hands. For| they have been preparing to hold | ons rermanently, diplo- | esentations to the contrary It looks as if Russia old all territory north of‘ and the integrity of | the mouth of Russian diplomats s China minus Manchuria. Japan Needs Money. the integrity of China, not wish to be left out in the case of a division. The increasing f a large army and navy weigh ¥ upon Japan and unless she can rrow money in the markets of the world cannot hope to hold Russia long in Not long ago Japan was able to v a small portion of her new loan Rumor has it that more re she made an Ineffectual attempt rrow money in New York. The finan- condition of Jepan is eritical. Times hard. In the interior loans are L t a less interest than 12 per cent. Banks pay 7 Der cent on six months the betwee strong post Petho river. desires gland. i ever = ALLIED Forces MarcHING INTe ™=e TEMPLE OF Hol™ PEACE 1N FoRB1DEN €Ty 7 deposit. The fnevitable result of all this will be that Japan must throw herself into the arms of Russia if the latter is only halfway generous. For a long time Japan has been casting covetous eyes upon Korea. Under these circumstances it would take the combined pressure of the other powers to prevent a lopping off of a goodly portion of the Celestial em- pire In case of the dismemberment of the Chinese empire the portions desired by other powers are not so distinct as those f Russia and Japan. The Powers’ Shares. s alley and would be slow in allowing France to take Canton. Germany on the other hand not only expects to get the province of Shantung but also a large slice running down to the left bank of the Yangtse. The difficulty of a peaceful tlement would be, therefore, great. I have doubt that Russia. relying upon the disagreements of other nations, hopes n Manchuria and at the same time preserve the integrity of the rest of China. This is not an unitkely solution of Englandsdesires the whole of the Yang-, Lo JUST TAKING THE BRIDGE OF BoaTs & _— o PEITSANG o« — them alone, the integrity of China may be preserved. ——— READY FOR THE nusmx&‘ Chinese Had Mined the Entire Dis- trict at Mukden. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 28.~The Rus- sian sappers who are employed to dig out and destroy the mines at Mukden, of- ficial dispatches say, found the whole district mined and it was only the un- expected arrival of the Russians that prevented wholesale destruction. A special commission was appointed to in- vestigate. The advices also say the provincial treasurer escaped and that the Chinese guerillas had been looting extensively, their booty including the Manchu throne, | extensive libraries, collections of plc- tures and colossal archaeological objects, all of great value. —_———— SEEEKING TO PLACATE RUSSIA. Text of an Inspired Article Published by the Berliner Post. BERLIN, Oct. 25.—The Berliner Post - CHINESE HHA;DARlNi “HO RECE|IVED ALLIED TRoOOPS IN PALACE o« — THE CALL AND NEW YORK HERALD'S CORRESPONDENT AND SNAPSHOTS OF STRIKING SCENES TAKEN BY HIM DURING THE 1 RECENT MARCH OF THE ALLIED FORCES ON PEKING AND STORMING OF THE CHINESE CAPITAL. —_- - - )8\)]\)]W8h8hl the whole question. Conditions favor it. Owing to the Boxer movement Russia has found an opportunity to throw her armies into Manchuria and besides to secure strong positions along the Peiho River Her military occupation wiil, no doubt, be as permanent as that of the English m Egypt, and while the other powers are looking at each otber askance she-will gradually assume all the functions of gov- ernment in a country that has always nad a military government. I believe Germany understood the situa- which would gradually have formed itself into “spheres of influence.” The Manchu dynasty is so weakened as to be unable to have much influence on tion when the Emperor favored following | the course of events. The Empress has the retreat of the imperial family from Peking and carrying the war westward. This would' have necessitated a military occupation west and south of’ Peking, been either the leader or the unwilling tool of that retrograde movement jn Chi- ‘nese life which' culminated in the Boxer UDFising. Alone the Viceroys ‘of tne » southern .provinces have maintained a neutral attitude toward foreigners and ‘have shown themselves willing to come to some rational agreement. Oid foreign res- idents in China believe that these Vice- roys, the only friends that foreigners have had in China in the last few months, should ‘recelve the hearty support of the alljed powers, and that through them, and publishes an inspired article devoted to showing that the Anglo-German agree- ment will in no way interfere with Rus- sia’s interests in Manchuria. “If England had not arrived at an agreement with Germany,” says the Post, “she would have been compelled to do so with Russla. This would have been a serious blow to German trade. Germany, in her ?p‘d(’ of an honest broker, had served Russian interests.” Qv o eoee 'Duplicity of the Chinese High Ofr_lgi_als. 'High Praise fop . Line: @ Roast rm;s_t@rr. OHN F. BASS, who was with the allled armies in the advance on Peking as The Call-Herald's spectal correspondent, arrived on the | Gaelic yesterday and has apart- ments at the Palace. He is accompanied | by his wife. Mr. Bass’ experience as a war corre- spondent has been lively and varied. He | was with Kitchener in Kitchener's first | expedition on the Nile, and he has seen | the Armenian massacres. Bass was the | Herald's correspondent during the | Graeco-Turkish war and the Zola trial and | he was sent to the Philippines at the com- mencement of hostilitles between this country and Spain. He was sent to China | at the beginning of the Boxer outbreak. | To Mr. Bass must be given the credit of | sending to a newspaper the first direct |news of the taking of Peking. Bass’ | assistant, James Hull, carried the dis- | patches from Peking to’ a point midway between Tungchow and Tientsin, from where they were sent to Shanghal by way of Taku and Chefu and finally to the | Danish cable. Hull joined a Russian con- voy while bearing the dispatches. The party was chased by Chinese cavalry and was in imminent peril of being an- nthilated, but it eluded its pursuers. Hull | reached his destination on August 17 and got the dispatches safely off. Bass says | the news that Peking had fallen had been | carried previously by the Japanese cour- fers, but his dispatches were the first ta | reach this country. Chinese Duplicity. Bass makes serlous charges against the Imperfal Chinese Telegraph Company which may involve that concern in difi- cultles. Bass was sending dispatches | while at the front and had employed a man to see that they went out from Shanghai after passing through Tientsin, Taku and Chefu. This man, he says, | discovered that the telegraph company, | instead of delivering the dispatches, was | quietly selling them to the local press | in Shanghal. Bass’ agent was unable to | get the dispatches to send them to New { York by the Danish cable, and he mada a complaint to the managers of the com- | pany. They informed him complacently | that their company had a contract with the Shanghia newspapers to deliver all telegrams containing news of war that came from the front, whether official or otherwise. Complaint was then made to the director general of the Impertal Tel- | egraph, who held all dispatches for ex- amination. That official allowed Bass® agent to obtain a copy of the dispatches. By paying extta rates he succeeded in preventing the local newspapers from get- ting the dispatches for one day. Then they were well on their way. Bass re- lates this incident to show the corrupt practices of the Imperial Telegraph offi- clals. Consul Goodnow informed Bass that his employers had a good case for indemnity against -the Chinese Govern- i ment. No Care for Wounded. | Bass relates another incident which re- | flects upon United States Minister Con- | ger. ““When we came to Peking,” says Bass, “we had about thirty wounded men. The chief surgeon in charge applied to Min- ister Conger to allow the men to be taken mto one of the houses of the American | Legation. Conger, in answer to the sur- :geon’s appeal, said: | *‘I would rather not. The legation is | too small. There are plenty of other places in Peking." . “Upon the surgeon making another ap- peal,” says Bass, “Conger sald: * “Well, if it Is necessary, very well, but I would rather you took them somewhers else.” “The surgeon,” continues Bass, “saw that the Chinese houses were not fit to be ysed for hospital purposes on account of thelr filthy condition, and he was ob- liged to leave the wounded men outside overnight. It rained that night, and though the doctors made every effort the men suffered piteously. The British Lega- tion finally took the wounded in. Con- ger's action excited so much comment among the officers that they all begged me tc mention it in my reports. “The missionaries showed very little consideration for the wounded men, not one even condescending to approach them. American Soldier Best. “I desire to say that in the campaign on Peking the American soldler proved | himself the most intelligent and best-