The age-herald., 1900-08-24
ADEE'S MESSAGE
 REFUSING APPEAL
Correspondence With Ii Hung
 Chang Made Public.
NOT YET TIME FOR PEACE
Overtures for Truce Will Be Welcomed When Security Has Been Definitely Established in the Chinese
 Capital

Washington, Aug. 23-The State Depart ment this morning made public the follow ing correspondence:
 "Ohinese correspondence, August 2O-22, 1900.
 Handed to MT. Adee by Minister Wu August 20, 19O0 1O:45 a. m.:
 "Cablegram dated August 19 from Vice. roy u Hung Chang was transmitted by the Chinese minister in London and received by Minister Wu on the night of the same day.
 :" It was the declaration of all the minis ters for foreign affairs of the great pow CTS that the expedition of the allied troops was solely for the rescue of the ministers In Pekin Now the allied troops having en- tered Pekin and found the ministers safe, 1t seems proper that hostilities should at once cease and that negotiations should be commenced.
 CT therefore request the United States government to appoint an envoy with full powers, or appoint the minister now in Pe-
 kin for the purpose, as he is necessarily acquainted with the affairs between China and foreigners, and to inform me if the conference will take place In Pekin. After receipt of a definite reply, I will at once proceed to the north. Please request the
 
 his excellency, the President. await re- ply
 Received at the Department of State
 August 21, 1900, BY p. m. "Cablegram from Viceroy Ii Hung
 Chang, dated August 21, 1900, and received
 by Minister Wu on the same day. "The Boxer rebels in Pekin having been dispersed, there will positively be no more fighting. Further military operations on the part of the powers are greatly to be deplored Besides urging cessation of hos tilities, please confer with the Secretary of State upon the subject of withdrawal of troops and appointment of plenipotentiary to negotiate settlement of all other ques-
 tions so as to preserve amicable relations await early reply The American Reply
 Sent to the Chinese minister August 22,
 19OO 1:3O p. m.:
 Memorandum in response to the Chinese ministers communication of cablegrams from Viceroy Earl Ii Hung Chang, dated August 19 and 21, proposing the immediate cessation of hostilities and shs sppoint- ment of an envoy to conduct neg24a Si0ns, received at the Department of State Au- gust 20 and 21, 1900.
 awhile the condition set forth in the memorandum delivered to the Chinese sain- ister on August 12 has not been fulfilled and the powers have been compelled to rescue their Ministers by force of arms unaided by the Chinese Government still this Government is ready to welcome any overtures for truce and invite the other powers to join, when security is established in the Chinese capital and the Chinese Government shows its ability and willing ness to make on its part an effective sus- nf hoGtilitiaS ra in China. When this is done-and we hope il will be done promptly-the United States
 will be prepared to anc9int representa- tiVo to join wifn the representatives of the
 other similarly interested powers and of the authoritative and responsible Govern ment of the Chinese Empire to attain the
 ends declared in our circular to the pow
 CTS of July 3, 1900.
 (Signed "'ALVA D. ADEE, Acting Secretary,
 "Department of State. Washington, Au-
 gust 22, 1900.'"