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Show nan c nssa ' "' '' '-'' - ' ' i : .: ; , ,' ..... v !. - '- . Chinese Government Takes Steps to l lolie Reparation for Rioting; Gen. Funston Scents Trouble in Orient, but Banking Bank-ing Interests Say Agitation Is Local. PEKING, Feb. 28. The Government haa Instructed the. Governor "of! Nan Chang, province of Kiang Si, where, . on February . 25, aix French, Jesuit missionaries and four British subjects were killed, - to . punistL se'l verely all participants in the massacre ' and declares Its -willingness to make without question any reasonable reparation demanded.' ' V - - -' ' many foreigners at Peking know the Governor, bf Nan Chang and ' consider him efficient and friendly. They believe his version, of the troubles trou-bles and credit his statement that he was unable to prevent the disturbance. disturb-ance. ; ' ' ' ' '""'''. . ;' - ; American, British and German gunboats are proceeding to the nearest possible point to Nan Chang. Biver navigation is seldom safe beyond. Poyang Lake. British and German gunboats have been stationed at th lake for the last two years despite frequent Chinese protests that it was an infringement of China's river regulations. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. "Things are beginning to look serious In the East," said Gen. Funston in an Interview Inter-view yesterday, "and the action of the War - department - in reinforcing the troops already, In the Philippines will, in my opinion, be Justified before the end of the present uprisings. J- "Though the dispatches thus far received re-ceived seem to Indicate that' th-out- fagerhave "been , confihed"tfr Engirt' residents in China, it is unreasonable to It Is not possible. I have my family now at Shanghai, not far from the scene of the trouble, and I have not the least fear for their safety. These riots are trerely local affairs. The Chinese Gov. ernment realises the Importance of preventing pre-venting any general 'uprising, which is really a caae of setf-preservation. Then, too, there are still stationed In the North of China British. German and French troops, who have been there since tnft Boxer troubles,, and have remained as a matter ef precaution; Each- country h a ' .Mglmant 1W. .Business with China goes on uninterrupted." - -, -, suppose that the uncontrollable mobs which have hitherto wrought such havoc hav-oc among foreigners will' make any distinction dis-tinction of nationality if they ever start a massacre." - - Wood to Lead Forces. ": Speaking of who would likely be In command In case It was necessary to land troops In China, the General said that MaJ. -Gen. Leonard Wood was tfie logical commander of an expedition of the kind, but that he had a number of Generals under him In the milltaryde-partment milltaryde-partment of the Philippines, any one of whom was available for service In China. ' He thought it unlikely troops would be dispatched from here under a General. Needed in Philippines. "It seems probable." he continued, "that most of the forces for a Chinese expedition must come from the United States, for there are not many more men in. the Philippines at present than are necessary for the preservation of law and order among the islands." BANKING CIBCLE3 NOT AT.ARMT.T) AT PROSPECTS N OF TROUBLE IN CHINA NEW YORK. Feb. 28. Banking Institutions Institu-tions In this city doing business In China express no apprehension over the disquieting disquiet-ing news from the empire telling of riots. It is not believed by well-advised persons here that the uprisings, which they say were local disturbances, will become general. gen-eral. ' The International Banking corporation, doing an extensive business with China, received a cable dispatch from Its representative repre-sentative at Shanghai saying that no general disturbance is feared. An official of the company said that he believed the present troubles were caused by the conciliatory policy of the United States toward China. Continuing he said: "But as for any danger of a repetition of an urrHin- such as occurred in 19no |