Show MINISTERS IN CHINA OHINA ARE SAFE That Is thIs Mornings Estimate of ol the Situation BRiTAIN IS 18 IN A MUDDLE lIer ilam lu In China Chin Russia vill uW oW Ihu Their Own 01 Mind N 1 York JUlie teA dispatch toh to the Tribune frem London says The missing links link In the chain ot of re Ilet In ChIna are recovered one by br one oneTh The Th only remaining mINing link is 18 the body ot of foreign ministers and am ret ug In and there theN seems little reeson realOn to doubt that they are t whether In lh the capital or on the way to the coast st Tile The British admiralty I is behind time but has contrived to re report rt that Tien Fain was for or 11 five days with lit littie littie tie hoes and that thal Admiral Seymour seized Jelled an arsenal l during his retreat and anel wall wait hard pressed when were sent to him To these mea meagre re explanations was u added In Parliament all additional detail that the at hall had telegraphed to the consul general at Shanghai that the foreign In l continue to receive every protection from rom the im government Details are stil still lacking Jut but It I is eviden evident that Admiral Symour Seymours relief column was a ett cut or off from rom supplies and unable to either rah reach Pekin or to re return turn to rien flen Tein when the Russians Americans Americana and other aled allied COe forces re It Monday Mondoy It had not tic ac any useful purpose and had been under fr tire for or a fortnight and on sh rt ratIons The situation hi has cleared to admit A perspective view of oC the ish Ih And Amerian American plc policy What the II In China China is II nobody outside out side Idl tine the foreign oUre professes to un Understand Lord Salisbury Iu lies not die any objective pint points beyond tho protection of the British and commercial Interests Ie H baa not start od out well for Cor the relief fore force cor corn e mande by Seymour hal has returned to Ten Tam utter aCter bing being thwarted and baffled baled In th the attempt to reach and the column with other for Cor olga contingents hRS has It En Ens land lies taken a subordinate Iut In the bombardment las ment of the Taku aku torts torte and the forces orce bo have ve rescued cued the relief relle expedition which was bad planned b by the British admiral I rd Salisbury bulY will no now 1 fall all back back without Sll wi doubt upon the lie European concert and she tl the initiative wi will bo be taken by Rue Rus sla The American unlike the European powers seems to know I its own mind and this Is a reat advant advantage age 1 It provided a small contingent for Cor Seymours column and snottier one nine was wal under fire with the b be for for Tien rain fre ws relieved but ech each Wl was sent Into China China under defnie definite In instructions and ther there was as no engage i With other itt the thi pr foreigners of V life anti and tle the property of the The Tue American activity wl will end whim Is its legation Is safe and the lve lives and of oC Americans In China are pro tooted There wi will b be no Intervention In Chinese political affairs nor any par participation In the partition of tie the em empire empire pire The European concert wi will be belef lef left to sete settle time the question relatIng tt to the deposition ot of the tho empress an safeguards against tine the dissolution of the Line empire Time The Japanese nele be said nid to have s cd the situation ald and also to have hao cloude It wih with uncertainty They bo have saved it by dispatching a large force orce oC f soldiers I to China and b by preparing to o mobilize trop troops They have hae It I by a military occupation which il is likely to be permanent or to lIst eat until Russia Is ready to agree to a theme of participation by which Japan will profit larely largely Timers There are mati rumors ot of massacres oC t Christian converts and foreign met mer merchants chants hants but thee these simply prove that there here Is n a state of oC childish panic In tie the seaboard that tha every wid wild etc sto 7 of outrage Is beleve believed b by Itching t ear mrs The Ill patches dispatches reeled received by met mer hou houses here from rom Shanghai are The gravity ot of the situa ton lon has hils evidently been exaggerated In Inthe the he last fortnight |