THE UNREST IN CHINS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 10 March 1906, Page 4

THE UNREST IN CHINS.

ANXIETY IN AMERICA

THE POoITION BECOMING INCREASINGLY UGLY. -

(Per Sonoma at Auckland.) WASHINGTON|%eb. 14. Thirty-eight .thousaft.^. men of the Regular Army are^to \be mobilised at Manila for service in China in case..x>T an uprising against 'foreigners ii} ghe ancient empire. The America^ .WaiDepartment has determined to/ send four regiments p£- cavalry and-'seven battalions of artillery to the.^Far Eastern Islands, in addition to^ha troops already ordered. Rear-Admiral Tram lias arranged with the missionaries living in the territory traversed by the Yangtse-Kiang to hurry to certain points in case of apprehension ot trouble, and ugbri arrival they will be picked yip b/iden-of-w£iv The Presbyterian Boardpf Foreign Missions in New Yojp,in consequence of the embarkationlof; American soldiers for the^ Philippinesjpfof possible service in China,'has Warned its missionaries to keeiK'in touch with the nearest treaty ports in casesof trouble. "The chief cause q,f' anxiety, said Mr. Robert B. Spear, secretary of the Board, " is tl'ie cpnstrarit spreading ot .wrong ideas of the treatment of the Chinese iit' this cotiiltry. Stories are being Gfi'culated tlirbitghout China ot the massacre of Chinese in America, and in Ctiina they have yellow jonynals just;"as t^e have, and stories haye a greater percentage of believers. In many instances the missionaries and Americans are at such remote places that""they could be easily cut off, and their only chance of safet- would rest with the Government of China and its representatives." , The Rev. C Charles Fairclough, an Inland Chinese missionary, who has iust arrived from China, in the course of an interview, said: "While it takes time for news of the boycott on American goods to travel from the coast to the interior, the anti-American and anti-foreign feeling in North China is very bitter, and I believe it is more bitter than it was at any time during the Boxer year! The feeling was very strong when I left in December. it was caused by the stories ol the illtreattnerit of Chinese in America, and the exclusion law. In the inland towns merchants are selling no American goods, and I know of cases where Chinese merchants have burned their stock of American merchandise rather than have their countrymen know that they had such in their possession. It is not the-same anti-foreign feeling of the Boxer year. It comes out or what they believe is patriotism.; lhe ■••Chinese ■ are anxious to get their property into their.owng^ The Pekin correspondent of the •'■' Times" says that all the Legation mw&s have been warned of impending darigwr, The Secretary of the German Legation has obtained an additional field battery, The position m China is becoming increa^agjy. ugiv, and the trouble will probably spread from the south to the north-! Vicewy Yuan Shi Kai, on the pretence of suMH-flgsing the- Chunclnises, who are now absolutely quiescent, is sending six regiments, m£h artillery, io Chinkow. It is presumed tbflt the 'real roafcon for the despatch ot these troops -ie that the army is honeycombed with secret, societies, and the Government wishes to i'emove a dangerous weapon from the neighbourhood ot the February It Wong Fong , formerly secretary ot six companies in San Francisco, who is visiting this city, said he thought the Boxer trouble in China was about to culminate in the greatest massacre ot modern times. He telegraphed the following warning to several friendsi m Seattle Los Angeles, and San Fia - cisco :.-«Thp blow » about to fall. Cable warning to friends to leave China at once. Tell jt%m to seek the protection of Germany ■ twnprarily, L»4 get out of the country before £o-r-uary g&h." Af.ter the messagee were sent, #Wg explained their purport as follows W'l recei->«J F«i'd this morning that an ordej- bad i>fe&u spnt out to subordinate circles of the .OhipeAC Reform Association to throw oft «P foreign elements in our country, startjwg on February 25th. _ The Associatiofl is .psionsibly patriotic. i^OJ^pON, February 12. OoyenHßGßt -has uq regarding iliO .general um-esk m Chl. n. a beyond reports of the Consuls, .wtych are conflicting, some of them cansideiino- that the disorders are \m»t, while offers believe that they foreshadow a «^ "^l&^SSary 12. The Import*! Government has ordered the Viceroy of #!o,oohow to execute immediately the leader* 4 the Pu mob,'and to punish sevwwsly t«e others concerned in that affair. ifl« reports that the trouble at O'ha-n-K #V. tf.J'Pse over the detention ot a Chinese J>y «iw? Catholic Mission there. The populace the mission, and then the .^j-tpveign clement arose and wrecked the jftngj lish Mission. Troops which, were sent a,-, soon as possible, fired on the mob, killing twelve of the rioters.