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Show CHINA WILL NOT TAKE A HAND IN THE WAR ST. PETERSBURG, May 4. The Chinese Minister, who in consequence of the rumors of the possibility that China might not remain neutral, applied ap-plied to Peking for Information, has received re-ceived a cablegram from the Peking Government and Viceroy Yuan Shi Kal which roads as follows: "In reply to your telegram of April 23 and with the object of putting a stop to unfounded rumors, we request you to deny them, declaring again in the most formal manner that China and the Chi-neso Chi-neso people will faithfully observe neutrality. neu-trality. You are authorized to say that the Chinese Government has given rigorous rig-orous orders to tho local authorities to see that neutrality Is strictly maintained main-tained and that the most complete order Is preserved in the whole territory declared de-clared neutral. Moreover, we are able to guarantee that, owing to tho measures meas-ures we have taken, any renewal of events like those of 1900 Is impossible." |