Show I 1 STATE department mm L i desires that the area of hostility be limited and clynas authority respected 9 washington feb 13 the state dev today issued this statement i after some preliminary exchange ol 01 1 views between this government and the government 0 other powers anter cited in the chinese matters fhe de apartment part ment on the tenth of february sent the following instructions to american in st petersburg to klo and you will express to the minister lor foreign affairs the earnest desire of the government of the united that in the course of the military operations which have begun between rus acia and japan the neutrality of china and in all practicable ways her administrative istra tive entity shall be respected by both parties and that the area of hos shall bo localized and mitigated as much as possible so that undue excitement and disturbance offlie chinese people may be prevented ana the least possible loss to the commerce and intercourse of the world willbe will be occasioned casio ned jt at the same time this government informed all tho powers signatory of the protocol at of its action and similar action on their part No answers to the above note in addition to those received up to yesterday have been received by the state de there Is a hint thattus tria will beek to avoid any cipa alon in the proposed representation to the belligerents on the ground that he has small concern in tho matter but no formal answer has been receive fd from her england wants a more definite statement of the purpose and scope of the note secretary hay Is 1 disinclined dis inclined to yield to this wish he thinks that t would be impossible to get the powers together lt an attempt was made to very exactly define the purpose of concurrent action so as to man churla the question is left open purposely as to whether or not Cht naad Is or Is apt in force in that war swept territory thatis Tb atis why I 1 the term administrative entity was td in secretary hays note it Is question of tact tobe determined later on whether 05 not china boet administrative entity in man this engendered by t w note Is not inexplicable to authorities here it la declared las been animated by abe all mple nand direct purposes and hag tried to express the acl 0 o a note there Is grave danger of the flight irom ot the chinese it 18 not speedily convinced that there Is no danger of an invasion of one or the other of the belligerents t e state department has been waru to by china itself that the result of this flight wil certainly be a general uprising against foreigners that might result in massacres this might mean the disruption in this event it ie believed here that the neutral powers will make ok ath the lion share the being too coupled to prevent them on the part nt official hare caused to freely the ion that russia will be guilty of a grave mistake 1 ehe rejects tho proposals but it she does do so it Is said fiero will be no attempt made on our part to secure through force of arms the purposes stated in the note in other words the united staica Is not to be dragged into hostilities in the east i paris feb 13 the falc temps says the cabinets of london paris and berlin are in accord upon secretary hays note in the response which the three powers will mako to the united states it will be suggested that the text ot the american document be clarified and simplified the three powers agree in giving the note a construction favorable to cainas chinas proclamation of neutrality and also that this neutrality be recognized and respected throughout the period of hostilities tili ties but that owing to the special conditions prevailing lc manchuria which Js the present theatre of actual warfare manchuria will not be included under this declaration of chinese neutrality this exception of manchuria not affecting cainas chinas rights or stipulations in treaties |