Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-01-23 | Page 3 | China Will Take a Hand

CHINA WILL TAKE A HAND. Will Fight to Freo Manchu From Foreign Control. Ixmdon, Jan. 22. Tho Dowager Timprcss of China Is thoroughly alive to tho peril threatening China as a result of thc Russo-Japanese crisis nnd has. according to the Globe's Shanghai correspondent, determined de-termined at all costs to fight for thc freedom free-dom of Manchuria from foreign control. Conferences between the Dowager Empress Em-press and the leading statesmen. It Is added, add-ed, hae convinced her that any other policy pol-icy would be tantamount to dynastic suicide, sui-cide, as the dishonor of the ancestral tombs implied by foreign domination, would be unpardonable in the eyes of the Chlneso and unless a vigorous effort Is made to reassert Manchurlan authority, the Talplngs and Kolashul will attempt to restore tho Ming dynasty, with the result of thc complete destruction of China. Thc correspondent adds that the Dowager Empress Em-press has been Informed that somo of the foreign officers arc willing to gle thc Manchus a final opportunity of rehabilitating rehabili-tating themselves, even to the extent of aiding them by force, If necessary, provided pro-vided the Manchu Government Is sincerely sincere-ly favorable to reform. Tho Russian Minister Min-ister at Pelting, iho correspondent says, has learned of the result of the conferences confer-ences ami Is convinced that In tho event of war China will be forced to participate, with thc result that the wholo world will possibly become Involved, J-'lit th meanwhile," the dispatch concludes, con-cludes, "Japan, though ostensibly engaged with Its own quarrel, Is really tho spokes, man of tho whole group of powers de-oted de-oted to tho policy of nntl-partltlon and who havo virtually agreed together to defend de-fend China."