Show MILES IS ALARMED 1S General Fears Chinsrss Trouble May Cause General Conflict Chicago Aug 31Cemi Miles who is in Chicago regards It as quito possible that a general conflict of the powers may result from the conflicting Inter estn In China and he believes that nn attempt on the part of some of the powers to partition the Celestal empire among theniBdlves would be sufficient grounds for the United States to resort to arms Gen Miles also believes that the dismemberment dis-memberment of China will hold the possibility of n great danger to the I United States In that the time might come when the European nations would j turn their covetous faces toward the riches of America and be tempted to combine against this country III dont believe that acute stage of I Chinese crisis has passed paid the I General I believe that It is possible i that the conflicting Interests of the powers will yet bring on J gncral conflict I con-flict which will Involve all the civilized 1 powers In the greatest war of modern times tmo Danger arises from the chance that I some of the powers will urge the clls I i mcmbermenl of tho Chinese empire 1 I l the United States and RiiPfiln succeed suc-ceed In acting in harmony along timelines 1 time-lines of the reported agreement proposed pro-posed between thorn It may result In I I a peaceful outcome from the present I i situation Do you bcllevo that an attempt to partition China would result in I Tnltton China a conflict con-flict between the powers General That Is my opinion I What latitude would the United I Siatou adopt In that qase do you l think I 1 Would It fight r I believe that It would have aufll clnt cause to fight was Gen Mllesa t I 1 rpsponne So far as 1 can sec the most hope ful Indication Is I the chance that Russia Rus-sia and the United Stales vlll agree iL to act together He continued There Is to my mind every reason to bcllve that Russia IM uoting In good faith Russia has more to gain by the jiveS RUBSIn ervatlon of the Integrity of the Chinese empire than she his by the policy ot disruption She has spent vast sumo disrupton money In the construction of the transSiberian railway the greatest I enterprise of modern times |