The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-01
The English Fleet Won't Need
TO Bombard Nanking.
SZEcHuEN vIcERoY DEGRADED
stripped of His Rank and Forbidden
10 Hold Office Again.
Nieeroy Liu Has Already Paid $780,
600 10 the French Out or His own
Pocket. for Riot Indemnity-China
Is Humble Before the United states
and Germany, Too.

London. Sept. 3o.--A dispatch from Pc
King 10 Reuters agency confirms the news
given by the British foreign Office today
that a decree has already been published
in the Peking Official Gazette. ordering
that Liu. viceroy Of Szechuen, be stripped
or his rank for failing 10 protect the mis-
sionaries in his district and that he be not
permitted to again hold office. The Pc
king dispatch adds that the French min
lister TO China yesterday demanded repair
alton for outrages on French subjects
The Times tomorrow viii publish a dis
patch from Berlin which says that the
Chinese government has informed Ger
many that the leaders of the attack upon
the German mission at Swatow have been
arrested, and measures will be taken 10
arrest others concerned.
Shanghai Sept J9-Admiral Butler, with
the fourteen ships belonging 10 tne Brit
ism feet in Chinese waters. viii proceed
on Wednesday next 20 Nanking, and pre-
sent the viceroy al that place with i'm
portant dispatches from officials of the
foreign office.
A decree has already been published in
the Peking Official Gazette ordering the
vlCeroy OF Szechuen stripped OF his rank
for failing to protect missionaries In his
district. and a warning 10 others i
is further directed that he be not again
permitted to hold office The decree also
denounces a subordinate official FOR fail
ing TO take proper action in case OF emer-
gency.
Washington City. Sept. 20.--The Asiatic
squadron which has been concentrated
A. Cheefoo. has dispersed The flagship
Baltimore has gone to NagasaN. the
Yorktown TO Chemulpo. the Concord TO
Shanghai.
Niceroy Liu. whose fall is announced.
has been in trouole before. 1t is said
he was found guilty last November Of
arzgs mr. tat nd 10 -er If
French Investigations showed he Nas re-
sponsible for the Chentu riots. he was
obliged 10 pay an indemnity Of 100000 10
French Catholic missions from his own
pocket. The present conclusion. which has
been brought about apparently by Brit
ish threats. VIII not involve abandon
ment OF the independent investigation in
TO the Chengtu riots ordered by Secretary s
Olney. There has been change in the
personnel Of the commission Command
or Barber, the naval attsche, has fallen
Ill, and has been relieved from duty as
commissioner by Lieut. Commander John
r Merrill. executive officer L. $. :. Bal
timore.
The reason for the delay In organizing
and sending forwa~rd the American COM
mission to Chengtu has just transpired
II arose from the insistence of our state
department upon sending the commission
overland instead Of up the Yangtse river
The Chinese government was extremely
unwilling 70 have the journey made in
this fashion. while they had no objection
to sending the commissioners up the river
in a steamboat As the department felt
that the passage Of the commission over
land through the breadth Of China ac-
companied by a formidable escort. would
have a most salutary moral effect upon
the Chinese, resembling as It would
demonstration Of force, the point was in
sisted upon and ~ is felt that substsn-
tisl advantage has been gained in the
concession.