Show I B BOXERS vr ARE fins RE m IN if POWER POYER J Jp p AND CRISIS IS AT T HAND HANDu u Dismemberment of China is Feared in iii Spite of I Various Official Assurances to the Contrary t United States is Said to Have H Protested ted Against Aga the H Honors nors r I Ito to fo Tuan Missions Again Attacked t j I t New York Sept 27 JA A dispatch to the Herald from Shanghai says The situation in China is now more serious than ever before for those who are interested in preserving the in integrity integrity Integrity of the empire The Chinese government is in the power of ot Boxer leaders who are not likely to submit to the empress dow dowager dowager ager propositions unfavorable to them Th viceroys of or 0 the south are still loyal to the throne and for foreign eign aggressions in southern soUth China Ch na naI will precipitate an armed uprising ing I Already the governor of province has addressed a memorial to the empress dowager dow ger declaring that his signature at re to o the viceroys agree agreement ment men with the foreign consuls in forged Ther iS danger that the friendly viceroys will be replaced Sheng the th friendly teothi i of f Shanghai Shan hal has been ordered north and that practically means his bis death Russia to t Hold Rold Manchuria holding all aU the forts and anu l points from Taku to Pekin 1 ekin I Russians possession of the railway tIwa Q shows show by the permanent nent which her officers o cers are making that she intends to swallow the north of China No one here believes that Russia will willever willever ever eer move out except under over overwhelming overwhelming overwhelming whelming pressure from other powers Germanys assurance that she does not desire territory In China if it 1 the lat latter latter ter t be e able to pay an Indemnity is mis misleading misleading misleading leading Her f demand for the punish punishment punIshment ment meat of the leaders of ot the Boxers as a ae condition e precedent to peace negotiations negotiations negotiations means continued war and p pir r haps the complete disruption of the Chinese government Friendly feeling between Russia and Japan is increasing France is hand in inglove inglove inglove glove with Russia Vice Admiral Seymours attempt to undertake the isolated British occupation occupation pation p of Shanghai and to patrol the Yang Tse Kiang Klang has weakened the British position while losing an n op opportunity oPportunity opportunity to make a definite agreement for far of the empire with Japan J pan The United States is consistent but I powerless Gaining Gri iii a aLu e eLu Lu LI Ll Chuan Liu who it is i unofficial ly announced is ja to be the new new De viceroy vl eroy of ot Canton is Unless the I allies aIlles protest pretest the friendly viceroys are likely to have so o friends left in China I The only method for tor dealing with the I situation not involving the division of I Chinese territory is through the friend I ly b viceroys gradually removing the tile throne from the power Ower I of the Boxer leaders Americans on the tIre spot believe b that the settlement settle ment of the present question will decide the fate of the enormous and increasing American merIcan and Chinese trade |