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Show ISSUES WARNING TO THE CHINESE Steps Taken by Secretary Root to Quell Anti-American Anti-American feeling. CHICAGO, Nov. 13. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washingtonf D. C. says: More concern is felt by the administration adminis-tration regarding the general situation of affairs in China than Is understood by the American people. In spite of the assurance which Sir Chentung Li-angcheng. Li-angcheng. the Chinese Minister, gave In his speech at Chicago Saturday night that his Government and Its subjects were "Naturally most friendly inclined'' toward Americaaa and their Interests, Secretary Hoot has deemed it advisable to warn the authorities at Peking against fuither propaganda, such as that which was observed during the boycott agitation. To impress the natives of the southern south-ern provinces. In one of which. Kwan- j tung. f)v American missionaries were I murdered some days ago, Rear-Ad- i miral Train, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. Is collecting a strong force in the vicinity of Canton. He cabled the State department Saturday that he had left Shanghai with the battleship Ohio and the transport Gen. Alva, having hav-ing marines aboard. A general uprising against foreigners, such as occurred during the Boxer outbreak. out-break. Is not apprehended. But the boycott movement, inaugurated last summer, has gained such headway that It has been found almost Impossible to check it. |