Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-11 | Page 1 | French and German Commanders Clash over Pao Ting Fu Affair

P FRENCH FRENCH RHO GERMAN COMMANDERS CLASH OVER PO pao TING FO PU AFFAIR Pekin l Feb b ML Count von Waldersee is very muck mock dissatisfied with the con I duet of the French Frend troops near Pao Tiny Tin Fu Fix o and lid also with their avowed intention Intention I tion In Sn spite of his protests against it to organize an exposition to take pos pea possession session of ut f th th province of Shan Si He take the ground that expeditions except for police purposes or against again t bands Of of robbers should not be undertaken during pea re negotiations the French com corn commander comman I I mander man r at Pao Ting Ping Fu says that he be is acting in entire In n of Count Counti i von yon Waldersee and believes the tha wisest course coune to be to nip the incipient rebellion in the too bud Immediately He asserts that he was attacked on three sides aloes by y a num number number ber her of Chinese e while out with a few f w men near Pao Ting Fu FI and his bis theory is that thit the power of the foreigners should be I shown if possible wherever wb ever an occasion I arises L A A staff officer of Von Waldersee Valder who F investigated the Pao Ting Fu affair p could find no such auch evidence of trouble j I as had been reported On th the contrary i he ha there are grounds for sup supposing posing quite the opposite although probably probably probably ably there a elsewhere els where considerable numbers of dangerous robbers infest the I country districts Li Hung Chang asserts a Sert that the empress em empress emI press preas dowager and Kwang Kwan Su Se I never had bad more moe harmonious relations than they have now and that the former quite agrees to the necessity for modern reforms He has h telegraphed to the court his refusal to agree to sentences of execution fraught with extreme danger das e and threatening the dynasty itself v