Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — CHINA SHOWS FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

CHINA SHOWS FIGHT.

Warships in San Mnn Harbor Incite Ire of Celestials. Orders have been issued, direct from Pekin, China, directing the viceroys and governors of the neighboring provinces to put all their forces in readiness for war, on account of the arrival of six Italian warships in San-Mun harbor. It is believed that the Chinese will also attempt to drive the Germans'from Shang-Tung peninsula. The Italian Government made a demand early in March for a lease of San-Mun bay. The lease, which provided for a coaling statoin and naval base, also included a demand for the cession of three islands off the coast of Che-Kiang, with the right to construct a railroad from SanMun bay to Po-Yanfi lake, and to preferential mining and railroad privileges, covering the southern two-thirds of the CheKiang province. The move on the part of Italy is decidedly the most aggressive that has so far been made toward the dismemberment of China.