The news of rioting in China, led by the Boxers, is just beginning to come to this country, and it is of course impossible at this time to tell what may come of it in international relations. The expressed policy of the American government is to do its full share in the protection of missionaries and other foreign residents, especially Americans, but to act, so far as possible, independently of the forces of other countries.
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