Show GERMANS RETICENT Foreign Office Has Littlo to Say About China Trouble Berlin June Copyrighted 1900 by tho Associated Prc5sTho Chinese troubles have almost completely swept the South African war from public attention at-tention Even the latest Pretoria news went uncommented upon except by the militia About Chinese events the Foreign For-eign office uses great reticence and above all studiously avoids admitting that the present events mean an actual and probably bitter and protracted war with China This may be partly owing to the attacks of the Radical and Socialist So-cialist press which maintains that tho present rising of Chinese against the lorelgn devils Is directly or Indirectly due t the German sulzure of Kalo Chou In this the papers are strengthened strength-ened by the public utterances of the German missionary bishop of ShanTung Shan-Tung Von Anzer who recently described de-scribed the disastrous effect upon missionary mis-sionary work of the Kalo Chou seizure FOREIGN OFFICE SURPRISED In political circles here It Is known that the Foreign olllce was quite surprised sur-prised by tho Increasingly serious character char-acter of the Chinese uprising While Ketteler the Ger It is true Baron von I man Minister at Peking sent two messages mes-sages lnl detailed report from Pelting containing alarming ndvlcea from tho German Consuls throughout China and predicting serious trouble before long not much Importance was pad here to this report because Kctlelcr was new In Peking Pecng But though the Emperor and Count von Buelow the Minister of Foreign Affairs do not attach much Importance Ito I-to the newsi from China they arc now thoroughly aroused Ills Majesty declared de-clared Friday at Kiel that German Interests In-terests In China under no circumstances matter must be allowed to Buffer no m how great the sacrifice VIEW OF GERMAN PRESS The bulk of the German press takes the same view The Krouz Heitung prints an interesting editorial saying It is I quite certain what will be the 11 mil outcome of the troubles In China H will be Impssslble to reestablish a vigorous authoritative central Government Govern-ment ot Peking Hiich as the powers dc 1 sire and will need Presumably they will b < > obliged to enlarge and give definite defi-nite shape to the sphercoflntercst policy and lo further divide China either with or without leaving a nominal nom-inal central Government sit Peking To several of the I power the present crisis came loo quickly which further endangers dangers the situation MAKE DESPERATE RESISTANCE The Foreign olllce says that Its lateet news from Tien Tain la I substantially the same as that set forth In the statement state-ment of RIght lion William St John Broderlck rn1 Jer Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs In the House oC Com monu London The Foreign office Htati however thai the Chinese soldiers sol-diers have made desperate resistance to tIe International force which again prove that It will be necessary for the powers to continue their present policy of Jointly enforcing order In China and also the IldMeSitY for harmonious action ac-tion ttyJ1 thO I IH > < TS Lard < JKI tlv Hiltih Charge dA taUT In r ilti to IT tld to th cocrf 5pondent of tht A3jwUJ Press that aIll I ho doubted If the powers had yet exchanged ex-changed views concerning the future slate of the Chinese Government or what would be done with the Dowager Empress and those allied with her The only course at present he thought Is to enforce order and protect Europeans |