The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-01
CHINA YIELDS TO ENGLAND.
In OUsTED FROM THE VICEROY-
SHIP OF sZE-CHUEN.

The Responsibility for the Riots in
the Province shown to Rest With
the OaiciaIs-The DepOsed Viceroy
Ritter in His Hatred of Foreigners.
Previous Outbreak Compelled
Him to Pay SsOO,OOO TO France Out
of His own Pocket.
washington, Sept. SO.--The state depart
ment was advised this morning by Min
lister DENLY that Viceroy Liu had been
degraded by an imperial decree issued to-
dav. The abstract Of the decree cabled
bv Mr.. DENLY shows that the response
bilitv for the Chengtu riots in the prov
tnce of Sze-Chuen, rests with the officials;
that Viceroy Liu was exceedingly care
less and took no notice Of the riots and
made no attempt to stop the outrages;
he is ordered to be deprived of his office
and never again to be employed. Other
officials are also to be punished.
The American commission will proceed,
Notwithstanding this action. to conduct
its Investigation of the riots. The Sec
retary of the Navy was this morning ad-
vised that Lieut.. Commander John P.
Merrell of the Baltimore had been sub
stituted for Lieut.. Commander Barber as
a member of the commission, the latter
being i'll. The other members of the
commission are Consul Sheridan p. Read
and Fleming Cheshire.
I.iu, the degraded Viceroy, appeared TO
have been an official whose constant aim
was to stir up strife with the mission
aries and seek the good VIII OF the ma
tives, whose deep-roOted anti-fOreign SEN
timents caused these periodical outbreaks
in the province over which he ruled. lie
has been connected with previous out
RACES and was compelled to pay the
French indemnity, amounting to SoOO0Oc,
from his private purse for crimes COM
mitted against French Catholics last VIM
ter. He narrowly escaped being deposed al
that time, and was only retained because
he was popular with some of the leading
officials at Pekln and because his serN-
ices we're needed in matters pertaining
to the revenues of the province. His rep
utation is that Of a vicious and unscrupu-
lous person, and it is said that the whole
government of the province of Sze-Chuen
is impregnated with the anti-foreign feel
ing so vigorously eXemplihed in the otti-
The degradation of this viceroy is but
one step in the direction of complying
with the demands of the powers interest
ed in compelling indemnity for the mis-
sionary outrages. 1t is believed that
Liu's successor will be Lu, a viceroy Of
one of the northern provinces, a man
said to be honest and just, and rather in
clined to friendliness towards foreigners.
Additnoal demands are understood to
have been made by the British and Amer
with a long step in the direction of re-
form in the province of Sze-Chuen will
have been taken. These ministers have,
it is understood, made demand that
all examinations for promotion in and
appointment to Office shall cease in that
province for three years. This is intend
ed as a blow to the ofIice-holding class,
from which source emanates all the al
Information circulated among the
natives for melting them to the commits
London, Sept. s0-A dispatch from
Pekin was received at the foreign Office
this afternoon confirming the statement
that China had acted favorably on the
demands of the Marquis of Salisbury for
the punishment of the Viceroy of SEE
ish minister at Pekin, reported was re-
sponsible for the outrages beginning in
May at the mission stations in Changtu,
the capital Of Sze-Chuen.
The dispatch received at the foreign
Office says that the Chinese official ga
zette has published an imperial edict an
nOuncing that the viceroy Of Sze-Chuen
has been stripped of his rank for failing
10 protect the missionaries and will never
again be allowed to hold office, so that
his case will serve as a warning for all
posed to do wrong The decree also de-
nounces the subordinate officials of the
PROVENCE who failed to take proper ac-
ton for the protection of the missiona-
ries.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that the
Tsung-Li- Yamen (the board controlling
municated its decision to the British min
lister, who expressed himself as satisfied
with the terms of the edict. 'It is now
probable also,' says the Pail Mall Ca
zette. that the British vessels which
had entered the Yang Use Kiang river
for the purpose of enforcing the demands
Of Great Britain will forthwith descend
the river and resume their former sta
tions."
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
British Admiral Butler, commanding the
Chinese squadron, arrived at Woo-Sung on
Saturday on board the warship Edgar.
The other English war vessels at Woo
Sung are the cruisers Caroline, Undaunted
and Archer, and the dispatch boat Alac-
rity. The war sloop Daphne and the gun
boat Firebrand are at Shanghai, and at
various ports up the Yang-Tse-Kiang are
the cruisers Rainbow Spartan and AGO.
lus and the gunboats Plover and Swift.
Ihe Times tomorrow will print a dis
patch from its Berlin correspondent say
ing that China has informed Germany
that the leaders of the attack on the Ger
man mission at Swatow have been ar
rested and measures will be taken to cap
lure others implicated in the outrage.