Show DOUBTSCHINESE MESSAGES Berlin a ITo Faith Igaring Safety of Legations Berlin July 23he Berlin Govern mnt and press continue to disbelieve ihc assurances of the Chinese authorities authori-ties that the Peking legations are safe At all events the German Foreign office will continue to regard the report that the legations still exist as a myth until communication now cut olf for neirly a month shall have been reestablished re-established in the most Indubitable lshlon The Government is gratified to find that the correspondence published proves that Japan honestly Intends to cooperate with the powers On the o her hand considerable disappoint triCnt is i experienced In official circles at the tenor of the reports from Washington Wash-ington regarding Americas policy On this point the Berliner Tageblatt with evident Inspiration says The Chinese have already succeed cd In creating differences of opinion among the powers The Government of the United States seems determined thus carl to occupy a separate standpoint stand-point with the concert of powers As at Taku where the American Admiral would not Join n now President IIc Kinley apparently means to oppose the joint action of the powers aimed at the reestablishment of order in China all of which proves that the Chinese are Indeed the most cunning diplomats In the world While most of the papers point out the impossibility of an advance upon Peking because of the snmllnesB of the allied forces as against a greatly su perlor force because of the disastrous effect which a possible defeat would have upon the whole of China and also because of the rainy season National Na-tional eltung contends that there Is but one way to ascertain the truth or untruth of the Chinese claim that the legations are safe namely an Immediate Imme-diate advance upon the capital The respondent of the Associated Press learns authoritatively that the question of the chief command on both land and sea still forms the subject of diplomatic negotiation and that absolutely ab-solutely nothing has yet been settled in that matter The semiofficial Berliner Post points out that Germany must send a number of warships to the YangtseKiang to protect the commercial German Interests Inter-ests In Shanghai and Hankow adding I those Interests arc to be paralyzed by the Chinese our naval guns must talk Every attempt to blockade navigation navi-gation there by mines must be prevented vented from the start Free navigation naviga-tion upon tho YnngtseKlang Is of the greatest importance |