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Show 'jins sips to Eonat wjm I American Missionaries' Instructed to Be in Readiness to Leave Their Posts for Pieces of Safety; Exaggerated Stories ; of , Treatment of Chinese in America ' , WASHUraTOBT, 1. a, Teb. 14. Thirty-eight thousand men of the Regular army are to be mobilized at Hanila for service in China in case of an uprising; against foreigners in the ancient empire. The War department depart-ment ha determined to .send four regiments of cavalry and seven batteries of artillery to the Far Eastern islands in addition to the troops already ordered.'. ' j - ' The navy is also active and has di reeted Bear-Admiral Sigsbee's squad-. squad-. ron, consisting of one armored and three protected cruisers to hold Itself in readiness to proceed to the Far East and report to Bear-Admiral Train, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. The Navy department also has sent instructions to Bear-Admiral Train to take such measures as may seem to him advisable for the adequate protection of Americans "and their interests. . ' . j . . f . I ' jj ' Bear-Admiral Trsin has arranged with missionaries living in the ter-' ter-' ritory traversed by Yangtse Klang river to hurry to certain points in car- cf apprehension of trouble, and upon arrival they will be picked up by the men-of-war. ! " - ' constantly assertive ,' labor influence regulation has plied on regulation until the treaty provisions have been carried out of sight." - ' NEW YORK, Feb. 14. R. E. ' Schwerln, vice-president and ' general manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, -whose business relations with 7 ""the people" o( China have been intimate for more, than a dosen years, regards the situation in China. with. grave apprehension. ap-prehension. He considers the. manifestations manifes-tations of disorder, as primarily anti-American, anti-American, but, with the sentiment of "China for the Chinese" underlying the . eruptions, the' trouble is certain, in his opinion, to'spread and become an anti-foreign anti-foreign uprising that will make all oth-.er oth-.er nationalities. excepting Japanese the objects of attack. ' . Speaking of the prospects of trouble, Mr. Schwerln last night said: . Wholesale Massacre. N ; '"The present situation Is certainly exceedingly serious, .and the safety of '.all the missionaries in the Empire is ; menaced. Indeed, . I should not be surprised sur-prised at any time to read of a wholesale whole-sale massacre. . And. If It should come to such a pass which I fervently hope !may be avoided we simply would' be paying the penalty of our folly and . reaping the fruit of -our outrageous : treatment of the Chinese. . i An ti -Foreign Feeling. I "The Boxer uprising of 1900 was one ' jof the evidences of the ferment of antl-I antl-I foreign feeling, . but -when order had jbeen restored no people stood closer to . I UtV Chinese than did the Americans, as a result our trade with China r 4 increased by leaps and bounds t the ertd of the Boxer outbreak. liu Ue anti-American boycott has not onirchecked the development of trade relations, but the complete destruction of what had been built is now threatened. threat-ened. - . j Lays It to Labor Agitation. "All of this is only the reflex of ac-;tive ac-;tive and aggressive methods of certain labor organizations on the Pacific coast. The clear intent of the treaty'of jl8S4 has been perverted. It defined the fxolurtfd clwsn but in response to the EXAGGERATED STORIES " - OY TREATMENT ACCORDED rr J ' CHXNESE IN AMERICA ' - .. , ? .' . r NEW YORK. Feb. 14. The Presbyterian Presby-terian board of foreign missions In this city, In consequence of the embarkation of American soldiers for the Philippines for possible service in China, has warned its missionaries to use Mie cable In reporting the anti-foreign movement of the natives, and to keep in touch with the nearest treaty ports in case of trouble. . China's "Yellow Journals." I "The chief anxiety," said Robert E. Speer. secretary of the board, last night, Ms the constant spreading of wrong ideas of the treatment of the Chinese In this country. Stories are being circulated circu-lated through China of the massacre of Chinese in America, and in China they have 'yellow Journals' Just as we have them here. But they have not the intelligence that we have, and the stories have a greater percentage of believers. be-lievers. We knew of the President's intention in-tention to send troops to. the Philippines weeks ago." - i One of the visitors to the Presbyterian board of foreign missions here yesterday, yester-day, was the- Rev. C. Charles Falr-clough. Falr-clough. an Inland Chinese missionary, who has Just returned from China. Anti-Americ&a Bitter. "While It takes time for news of the boycott on American goods to travel from the coast to the interior," said Mr. Fairciough, "the anti-American and anti-foreign feeling in north - China is very bitter, and I believe It Is more bitter bit-ter than It was at any time during the Boxer year.. . i l "It is not ths same anti-foreign feeling feel-ing of the Boxer year. It comes out of what they believe is patriotism. The Chinese are anxious to get their property prop-erty Into their own hands. There are railroad, mining and other kinds of syndicates developing property In China and the men back of them are foreigners. foreign-ers. Liberality' of Students! i "I was amased to find a remarkable liberality of views among the Chinese students In Japan. They cut off their queues, wear European clothes and even talk about the necessity of a new form of government for China. There is a spirit of governmental revolution among them." |