Show GERMANS SKEPTICAL DO NOT BELIEVE THE FROM CHINESE BOURSES berlin july 20 the german gov crement feels confident that the present attempt by chinese officials to deny the peking massacre are insincere and invented solely by a desire to hamper and retard the power of the joint action ot the powers officials deny some ot the stories printed by the english press which the foreign office characterizes as made of the same cloth as many that were sont during the spanish american war and the earlier stages of hostilities in south africa the only story showing any foundation according to the foreign office Is the question of who Is to become commander ln la china now engaging the attention of the powers regarding this a foreign office official says today the intention to make lord wolseley or some other english officer the commander ln ahlet does not meet with approval anywhere it is not strange because the british land force in china Is rather insignificant as well authenticated information shows the proposal to make a german the chief commander would not be accepted by germany unless unanimous wish to that effect was expressed by the powers interested te the deml bochen blatt asserts from alleged authentic figures that the number of allied troops now in china Is of these however russians are located in llao tung peninsula and jwan tung province and germans with sixteen field guns twelve heavy guns and sixteen machine guns at kaio chou now on the way from germany prance and england there are about men and the first part of a japanese division Is also en route arrangements range ments have been made tor the departure of men with guns and altogether there will be from present arrangements in china by september germans english french russians japanese americans 2000 italians and lans together with guns and 36 machine guns gen von boguslawsky a high military authority whom the correspondent of the associated press questioned regarding the foregoing estimate said it was quite possible that thise force of would prove insufficient to bring china down but that in such an event every power would increase its contingent it the of china should rise he continued it might prove to be a question of unparalleled military magnitude but even then the powers by skillfully using their fleets and troops in the harbors and harbor cities could dictate peace on their own terms |