Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The Chinese imbroglio is still within the diplomatic stage. The powers interested in the far East find the same difficulty in agreeing to the German proposals—i. e., that the leaders in the antiforeign demonstrations in China shall be given over to the powers for punishment before negotiations for peace began—that they experienced in accepting the Russian plan for the withdrawal of all the troops from Pekin. Up to the present ■writing it appears that only Austria and Italy have accepted the Kaiser’s plan without reservation. The United States and Great Britain have rejected it, but have committed, themselves to the policy of demanding the punishment of the leaders responsible for the attacks on the foreigners. France and Russia have assented to the greater part of the German proposal, but do not insist upon punishment before negotiations are opened. Japan’s position is similar to that off France and Russia. The German pres? has bitterly attacked the United States for refusing to accept the Kaiser’s proposals. At the same time it is admitted, that the proposals will be modified tot meet the varied ideas of the powers. There is nothing in the South Africpfi situation that warrants the belief 'that the Boer cause is any the less, hopeless. The members of Kruger’s cabinet havt sailed for Europe. The Auditor of State has taken the public records and archives, and the treasurer has tf|ken with him what funds are left in the strong box. There is no longer a Transvaal government. Seven thousand BritiJh troops occupy Koomatie Poort, the tow* on the railway at the frontier. Theyailway from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria V practically open. British railway experts declare that within a few weeks 20,#00 soldiers will be ample to police the Bwo republics. 1 According to an official dispatchofrora Gen. MacArthur the Filipino rebel®‘uve captured a party of over fifty menß n( lei Capt. Shields of the unteer infantry. Capt. Shields h!w s ‘‘ll is believed to be among the woundeM B is thought that so large a party w l *' 1 ' not surrender without a desperate so that the list of killed is probably laßF 0 Russian and German commercial political aggression in Asiatic TuiW-' and the vehement agitation for indejOP dence in all the European provinces® Turkey will unquestionably bring alW* the downfall of the Ottoman empW* Russia or Germany will some day sIM power at Constantinople. The New Zealand government has cided to issue, workmen’s tickets fro® nearly all the principal towns to suburl® up to a twelve mile distance at a unifonß charge of 2 shillings per week. I