| Show DEADLOCK IS BROKEN S More Favorable Condition of Affairs Respecting Re-specting Chances for an Understanding 1 > S Understand-ing Among Envoys at Peking S i State Department Has Information to this Effect But Just What Is Not Stated ul Probably Comes as the Result of Secretary Hays Latest Note to the Powers Setting Out Object of tfe l S c oft United States as to ChinaS i J I 1 > 5 China-S S S 5 S J t S S Washington Nov 2Such Information Informa-tion concerning the Chinese situation ns has come to the State department In the last few days Is said to Indicate a more favorable condition of affairs respecting the chances for an understanding under-standing among the Ministers of the powers than during the early part of last week when a deadlock seemed imminent Just what Is the nature of this Information Infor-mation Is not staled but probably It came as the result of Secretary Hays latest note to the powers setting out the object of the United States Government ernment as tc China This note contained con-tained the Instructions that have been sent to Minister Conger and are believed be-lieved to be of such n nature as to constitute an appeal from tho extreme course suggested by some of the powers pow-ers as to the treatment of the Chinese Government on some of the matters upon which the Ministers have been unable to agree Nothing has come from Mr Conger during the past forty I eight hours S i r t S change of front datca from the Czara Illness SS Shanghai scndsanothcr batch of reports re-ports from Chinese sources Among these Is a rumor that the allies havo I reached Wcl Hul Fu 300 miles cast of Sian Fu and arc proceeding westward Another Is that the Taotal of film flm Chino Fu In the province of Che Kiang has been fiismisscd and that sixteen I ringleaders of missionary murders have been captured A third says that S a Chinese ofllclal has arrived at the capital of the province of Hunan with orders to organize a military force of 500CO Boxers S S S The Shanghai correspondent of the I Dally Express wires that the Russians are assuring the Chinese that the Amur massacres were really repugnant repug-nant to the Russian ofllcers hut were carried out under oiders of Count von r Waldersee Satlsfuction Is expressed In the London Lon-don papers this morning at the news that the diplomats In Peking have arrived ar-rived at a preliminary understanding but no Scat confidence seems to be felt that any real step has been mado In the endless negotiations I is recognized rec-ognized that there Is little for Germany Ger-many to do but to concede whenever the United States and Russia agree The Standard says l Is hardly possible for Germany to hold out deeply offended r she is as the United States Russia France and Japan arc disposed to moderation Our Berlin correspondent believes that Germany I Ger-many penalty is prepared to ale the death S |
