The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-01
THE CRISIS AVERTED
CHINA COMPLIES UNCONDITION-
ALLY WITH THE DEMANDS
OF ENGLAND.
vICEROY LIU is IN DISGRACE


An Imperial Decree Issued Declaring
that the Responsibility for the
SZechuan Riots Rests With the Off.
ciaIs---The VIceroy has Been De-
prived of his Office Forever aud Other
Officials Will be Punished for PERI
hitting the Massacres.
LONDON, Sept. 3O-A special dispatch
from Shanghai says that Admiral Bul-
lock, with fourteen ships belonging to
the British fleet in the Chinese waters,
will proceed on Wednesday next to
Nankin aud present the Viceroy of that
place with important dispatches.
The offiCials of the foreign office this
afternoon answering questions on the
subject stated that a decree had
already been published ia the Pc
kin official Gazette ordering the vice
roy of 81 CHI to be stripped Of his
rank for failing to protect the missiona
lies ii bis district and as a warning to
others it is further directed that he shall
not be again permitted to take Office.
The decree also announced the offend
ing officials, subordinates, for failing to
take proper acton in the emergency.
Abstract OF the Decree.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 80 Minis
ter DENLY cableG the State Department
from Pekin to day as follows:
Imperial decree issued. Abstrac.-
Responsibility for Szechuan riots rests
with officials. Viceroy Liu careless; took
no notice of the beginning of the riots.
He is deprived of offices, never to be en-
joyed Other officials to be punished.
This would seem to indicate that the
crisis impending in China, involving a
naval demonstration by the British forces
has been averted for a time at least by a
compliance with the principal demands of
the British.
1t cannot be learned, however, whether
the decree comedies of the demands made
and tie cabegram makes no reference
tn the sweeping condition imposed by the
British Minister that the guilty be pun
ished by suspension for three years of all
promotions and appointments in the
civil service in the Province of Szechuan.
Viceroy Liu, whose fall is announced,
has been in trouble before. 1t is under
stood that he was found guilty last Novem-
Der of misrepresentation and later on be-
cause the French investigation showed
that he was responsible for the Cheng
Tu riots, he was obliged to pay an in
demnity of $500, 900 to the French Oath
Ollie Missions from his own pocket. The
present conclusion which has been
brought about apparently by British
theatres will not involve the abandon
ment of the independent investigation
into the Cheng Ia riots which has been
ordered by Secretary Olney.
China Accepts Engiand's Ultimatum.
LONDON, Sept. 30.-It is announced
that China has accepted the British I'll
timatum, and that the viceroy of
Szechuau, who is held to have been re-
sponsible, indirectly or directly, for the
massacre of missionaries in the cities I'M
der his jurisdiction, has been degraded.
France and Germany Make Demands.
LONDON, Sept 3O.-A dispatch from
Pekin to Reuters Agency confirms the
news given out by the British foreign
Office to-day and exclusively cabled to
the Associated Press that decree has
already been published in the Pekin
official Gazette, ordering that Liu, Vice
roy of Szechuan, be stripped of his rank
for failing to protect the missionaries in
his distrietsand that be be not permitted
to again h0Ed office.
The Pexim dispatch adds that the
French minister to China yesterday de-
manded reparation for mission outrages
on French subjects.
The Times to morrow will publish
dispatch from Berlin saying that the
Chinese government has informed Ger
many that the leaders of the attack upon
the German mission at Swatau have been
arrested and measures will be taken to
arrest others concerned.