Show TOHAMPER POWERS I German Government Has no Faith in Chinese Stories I I I POLICY I OF PROCRASTINATION Denials of Peking Massacre Regarded i Re-garded Simply a Ruse Viceroys are Treacherous and the Foreign Office Sees Only One Thing in the Telegrams Sent Out Through Ch neso Sources That it Is a Ruse to Blind the Powers and Retard Seri I j ous Military Preparations 1 I i i I Berlin July 20The German Government Gov-ernment feels confident that the present pres-ent attempt by Chinese ofllolals to deny de-ny the Peking massacre arc Insincere and invented solely by a desire to hamper and retard the power of the Joint action of the powers At the Chinese Chi-nese legation here where details oC tho massacre have arrived from tho Viceroys a statement was made today to the correspondent of the Associated Press by the Chinese Minister himself Lu Hal Houan that he has in no wise replied to the recent prohibition by the Foreign ofllce of his use of the telegraph tele-graph for secret mess ge but he has since sent to Count von Buelow several telegrams for approval which has been granted POLICY OF PROCRASTINATION The Foreign ofllce considers that tho gravest point In the situation Just now is the doubtful attitude of the southern south-ern and central Viceroys with the evident evi-dent spread of the antiforeign hostilities hostili-ties The news received here is very meager but It all points to treachery and to a cunning policy of procrastination nation by the l1lon Viceroys until the moment mo-ment shall have arrived When they can afford to discard dissimulations Yuan Slit Kal Governor of Shan Tung is regarded re-garded here ns worse than unreliable POWERS NOT BLINDED I The Foreign office feels glad that all ruses have not succeeded in blinding the powers or in retarding their serious military preparations OHlcIals deny mitary of the stories printed by the English press which the Foreign office characterizes as made of the same cloth as many that were sent during the SpanishAmerican war and the earlier stages of hostilities In South Africa The only story showing any foundation according to the Foreign ofllce Is the question of who Is to be come Commanderinchief in China now engaging the attention of the powers Regarding this a Foreign office official says today OBJECT TO WOLSELEY The intention to make Lord Wolse Icy or soma other English officer the commanderlnchief does not meet with wih approval anywhere I is not strange because the British land force In China I is rather insignificant as wellauthen ticated information shows The proposal I pro-posal to make D German the chief commander com-mander would not be accepted by Germany Ger-many unless unanimous wish to that effect was expressed by the powers In terested t NUMBER OF ALLIED FORCES The semiofficial MIHtar Wochen blatt asserts from alleged authentic figures that the number of allied troops now In China is 13000 Of these however how-ever 20000 Russians are located in Liao Tung peninsula and Kwan Tang province and 1600 Germans with sixteen six-teen field guns twelve heavy guns and sixteen machine guns at Kalo Chou fow on the way from Germany France and England there are about 15000 men1 u d the first part of a Jap I au se division is also en route Arrangements Ar-rangements have been made for the departure de-parture of 5 O men with 111 guns and altogether there will be from present arrangements in China by September 16000 Germans 12000 English 65000 French 60000 Russians 21000 Japanese 7000 Americans 2000 Italians and 170 Austrians together with 211 guns and thirtysix machine guns Cns WILL INCREASE CONTINGENT I Gen von Boguslawsky a high mili I tary authority whom the correspondent correspond-ent of the Associated Press questioned regarding the foregoing estimate said Jt was quite possible that this force of 211000 would prove Insufficient to bring China down but that In such an event every power would Increase Its contin contn gent 1 the whole of China should rise he continued 1it might prove to bo a question of unparalleled military magnitude lut l even then the powers by skillfully using their Meets and troops in the harbors and harbor cities could dictate peace on their on term S Tho Vosslche Zeltung prints a special dispatch from Paris this afternoon asserting as-serting that the French language was declared the vehicle of general communication com-munication between the allied contingents contin-gents in China RESPONSIBILITY FOR TROUBLE S herr Eugene Wolff the wellknown traveler and writer declares in the Berliner Tageblatt that British policy in China has been solely responsible forth for-th present troubles A policy which first coddled up the reform party there and then leCt them with the young Emperor in the lurch Outlining the terms of the final settlement set-tlement ho says Germany when peace is reestablished must insist on three points She must have tho Princes palace opposite the British embassy in Peking China must bind herself to furnish Germany for colonial colo-nial purposes as many hundreds of thousands of colonists as Germany wants and the Chinese Government must erect on Germany territory In Tain Tau a university commercial school technical school and other simi lar institutions where Chinese pupils may be taught what European civilization civiliza-tion means thereby killing forcvtr Asiatic barbarism As a further step I Her Wolff recommends that hereafter the Viceroys bo held responsible for the lifea and property of whites In their districts I The Chinese expeditionary corps will include a corps for fold postal service |