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Show CHINA'S ACTION MAY CAUSE GRAVE TROUBLE PEKINO, Jan. 1. The Ministers here of the foreign powers have telegraphed their Governments the refusal of China to pay the international Indemnity in gold notes and have discussed the matter mat-ter among themselves. It is proposed to Inform the Chinese Government that failure to fulfill the obligations provided In the protocol will entail grave consequences. conse-quences. The policy of the United) States presents pre-sents an object in the way of delivering a Joint note to China on the matter, and the present dlSiculty is generally attributed at-tributed to the encouragement given to China by the American Government's Indorsement of their arguments. The Chinese are content to await developments, develop-ments, believing that the powers will find it so difficult to agree on a course of action that the present deadlock will be prolonged Indefinitely. The monument to Baron Von Ketteler; the German Minister who was killed in Peking shortly after the outbreak of the Boxer trouble, will be dedicated January 18th, Chinese and German officers offi-cers participating. The monument Is a white marble arch, spanning the principal prin-cipal business street at the spot where Baron Von Ketteler was assassinated. Replying to inquiries from the Legations, Lega-tions, the Foreign office admitted that there was some truth In the reports re-ports of war-like preparations on the part of Tung Fuh Slang, although it characterizes the stories of his movements move-ments as exaggerated. The Foreign Of flee says the Viceroys of the Northern provinces have sufficient troops to subdue sub-due him. This latter statement, however, how-ever, Is disbelieved. It is expected that Government troops will Join Tung Fuh Slang in the event of his undertaking a rebellion. Popular sympathy Is with Tung Fuh Slang, who was exiled and degraded for obeying the orders of his superiors and attacking the foreign Legations Le-gations here. |