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Show JAP DESTROYED AT SHANGHAI Serious Trouble likely to Result. Taotai Appeals to Foreign Consuls China Unable to Enforce Orders. EuBsla Ignores Orders of China to Disarm Her Warships at Shanghai Shang-hai or Leavo Port. SHANGHAI, Aug. 21. Shanghai was thrown Into a fovor of excitement this afternoon by tho arrival of a Japanese torpedo boat, which was sighted coming in from tho Bouth at half past ! o'clock. Sho passed Woosung at full speed and started up tho rlvor of tho Ju for Shanghai. Tho United States torpedo boat destroyer Chauncey slipped hor cable ca-ble and followed tho Japancso destroyor. Tho Japanese boat was cleared for action. ac-tion. Sho anchored off tho Cosmopolitan dock, whero tho Russian cruiser Askold is undergoing ropalrs. Tho Chauncey camo 'to anchor practically botweon tho dock nnd tho Japaneso destroyor. There aro at present no Chinese men-of-war In this port, but tho taotai haa telegraphod that a Chinese cruiser bo sent Immediately. Tho Russian Consul- ! General here flatly refuses to disarm tho Askold and the Russian torpedo boat destroyor de-stroyor Grozovol, or to order thorn to lea'vo the harbor. Appeals to Consuls. The taotai has notified American Consul Con-sul Qoodnow, who Is dean of tho consular body, that China cannot protect the foreign for-eign settlements. He contends that Russia Rus-sia Ignores tho orders Issued by China and that China has no moans of making her oboy them. Consul Goodnow has called a meeting of tho consular body for 10 o'clock tomorrow tomor-row morning, to tako Joint action for tho protection of foreign Interests. It Is bo-lloved bo-lloved that tho foreign consuls will then nrrango means to strcngthon tho hands of tho taotai In dealing with tho matter mat-ter of tho Russian warships hore. Standard Oil Interested. Tho Askold is docked adjunct to tho warehouses hero of tho Standard Oil company, com-pany, which aro valued at over 51,000,000. The Standard Oil company has demandod protection for Its property from Consul Goodnow Tho dock where tho Askold lies is owned' by British interests. On ono side of this dock is German and Dutch property. Thero aro eight American, ono Gorman, two British and four French warships here. Tho steamer Halting, which arrived ar-rived here today, reports having sighted a Japanese squadron last night off Gutzlng Island,, about slxty-llvo miles southeast of Shanghai. The squadron ahowed no lights. Tho United States monitor Monadnock and two torpedo boat destroyors havo been ordered to be ready to protect tho neutrality of Shanghai. Later reports declare de-clare the Japanese squadron to bo twenty twen-ty mllos from Woosung. Woosung Is tho outsldo harbor of Shanghai. |