St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-01
FORGED TO DO IT.
CHINA COMPLIES WITH THE
PEREMPTORY DEMAND OF
BRITAIN.
WCEROY LlU MUST SUFFER.
REMOVAL FROM OFFICE FOR HIS
PART IN THE FIENDIsH
OUTRAGES.
AN AMERICAN DEMAND GRANTED
commission to Investigate the
Cheng Tu Trouble Will Travel
Overland.
AN AMERICAN DEMAND GRANTED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Minister
DENLY has cabled the state department
from Pekin as follows: Imperial de-
cree issued. Abstract: Responsible
lty for SEE Chuen riots rests with Off
Gals; Viceroy Liu careless; took no no.
tlce OF beginning of riots. He is de-
pr1ved of office, never to be employed.
Other officials to be punished
Thls 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 compliance with the
principal demands of the British. Tt
Is not yet learned whether the decree
comedies all of the demands made, and
the cablegram makes no reference 10
the sweeping condition imposed by the
British minister, that the guilty Off
Gals be punished by suspension for
three years on all promotions and ap-
po1ntments in the civil service in the
province of SEE Chuen. Viceroy Lin.
whose fall is announced, has been in
trouble before. 1t is understood that
he was found guilty last November
OF mlsappropriation of unds and Ia fer
on, because the French investigations
showed that he was responsible for the
Cheng Tu riots he was obliged to nav
an indemnity of $500, 600 to the French
Catholic missions from his own pocket.
Inc present conclusion, which has
been brought about apparently by
British threats, will not involve the
apandonement of the INDEPENDENT in
'Nestlgat1on into the Cheng Tu riots.
which has been ordered by Secretary
Olhey. There has been a change in
the personnel of the commission. and
commander Barber, the naval at
tache who has fallen ill, has been re-
HeVed from duty as a commissioner
py Lieutenant Commander John p
Merrill, executive officer of the II. g
S. Baltimore
GAINED OUR POINT.
The reason for the delay in organiz-
ing ana sending forward the American
commission to Cheng Tu has Just tran
spired. 1t arose from the insistence of
our state department upon sending the
commission overland instead of IN the
Yang Use river. The Chinese govern
ment was exertmely unwilling to have
the journey mada 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 overland
through the breadth of China, ac-
compan1ed by a formidable escort
would have a most salutary moral eff
feet upon the Chinese, resembling as
1t would demonstration in force. the
point was insisted upon, and it is felt
that substantial advantage has been
gained in the concession.
LONDON, Sept. 30.-It is announced
that China has accepted the British
ultimatum, and that the viceroy of
Sze Chuen, who is held to have been
responsible, indirectly or directly. for
the massacre of missionaries in the
territory under his jurisdiction, has
been degraded.
special dispatch from Shanghai
says that Admiral Butler, with four
teen ships belonging to the British
fleet in Chinese waters, will proceed on
Wednesday next to Nankin and pre-
sent the viceroy of that place with
important dispatches The officials of
the foreign office, answering questions
on the subject, stated that a decree
mad already been published in the Pc
KIN Official Gazette ordering the vice
roy OF SEE Chuen to be stripped of his
rank for failing to protect the mis-
slonarles in his district, and as a warn
ing to others. 1t is further directed
that ne shall not again be permitted
to take office.
Ihe Pekin dispatch adds that the
french minister to China Yesterday
demanded reparation for mission ONT
RACES on French subjects The Times
tomorrow will publish dispatch from
Berlin which says that the Chinese gov
erhfnent mas Informed Germany that
Ihe readers OF the attack upon the
GERMAN mission at Swatau have been
arrested and measures will be taken
to arrest others concerned.