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Show 11 CALL HALT ON YELLOW HEN Powers Likely to Shut China M. ' Will Intervene t Show Hor What Limits of Nsu- trality Fflean. Reports Indicate That Celestials Aro to Becomo Actual Allies of Mikado. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 13. The reports that Chinese troops are concentrating concen-trating In the valley of the Liao river are causing considerable concern here. The Bourse Gazette thinks It Is entirely probable that the Chinese Government will formally propose to undertake to guard and to administer the territory actually occupied by the Japanese, adding: Auxiliaries to Japanese Army. "To thl9 Japan doubtlesy will readily acquiesce, as it will relieve Japan or guarding her lines of communication. In other words, regular Chinese troops will become auxiliaries of the Japanese, and the Japaneye army, thus relieved of the necessity of protecting Its- lines, stores and land transport, will set free all the strength of the Japanese forces to operate against Russia. China thus would become actually the ally of Japan. If the reports are confirmed, not only Russia, but other powers, must Intervene to show China what the limits of neutrality mean." Is an Uncertain Quantity. China has been all along an uncertain uncer-tain quantity, from which any development develop-ment or complication might be expected. expect-ed. No one knows precisely what pressure, pres-sure, radical or political, Japan may be able to bring to bear upon tho great silent empire. The logical belief always al-ways has been thnt China would endeavor en-deavor to do its utmost to refrain from taking side In the present contllct, in order that she might be In a position to make tho best terms possible with the ultimate victor: but it is realized that a continued Japanese advance Into the heart of Manchuria might exert a powerful Infiuence upon both the Chinese Chi-nese peasantry and the nearby Ill-controlled Ill-controlled regular troops which the weak central Government at Peking might find lt difficult to curb, thereby precipitating serious complications upon the sceno of actual hostilities. Quiet at the Front. No change is reported in the situation situa-tion at the front, and no confirmation is obtainable here of the reports that Gen. Kurokl Is moving northeast of Mukden, but the. authorities are noticeably notice-ably more reticent than usual. Japs South of Bianiupuza. The Emperor received a telegram from Kuropatkln announcing that a considerable force of Japanese has been seen about thirty-six kilometers southwest south-west of Blnnlupuza. No further engagements en-gagements are reported. War Offlco Enters Denials. The War office authorized the Associated Asso-ciated Press to deny the report circulated circu-lated by the Morning Post of London to the effect that 3000 men of LleuL-Gen. LleuL-Gen. Zassalltch's corps have been captured; cap-tured; to deny the report from the samo source that he has been wounded, and to also deny the statement from Toklo that dum-dum bullets were used by the Russlnns at Llao Yang. Ouktomsky to Bo Recalled. The report published In Paris today that Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky had been tried by court-martial, sentenced sen-tenced to death and shot for disobeying disobey-ing the order not to return to Port Arthur after the sortie of tho Russian squadron August 10 Is untrue. He has not been tried by court-martial, but will be recalled. |