The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-03
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
Terms OF settlement rroposed-Repu-
dated by Our Cabinet.

Paris, June ga representative of
the Associated Press was informed to-
day that, as a result of negotiations
between the powers, an agreement has
been arrived at which provides for the
maintenance Of the status quo, as re-
CARDS spheres Of influence and COM
merc1al agreements and also respect.
ing the nature of the guarantees and
c~ompensations which will be demanded
from China.
According to the understanding. the
international army Of occupation will
consist OF $4,000 men. Russia and ia
pan will provide u, 900 each and Great
Britain will provide 10, 900 men, France
5000 and Germany and America ana
other powers 5000 each.
The Russian army corps in Siberia
which has just been modified will only
cross the Chinese frontier in the event
Of the crisis being aggravated.
Washington, June 29.-The state de-
partment also has beer made &C
quainted with the terms Of the agree
ment between the consuls andthe- vice
roys looking to the protection of for
eign interests in the southern prov
inces in China. The first step to this
end was indicated in Secretary Hays
cablegram of las Wednesday to the
American consuls in China, authoriz-
ing them to take direct action instead
Of waiting on possible communication
with Minister Conger.
This authorized the consul general at
Shanghai, and probably several others
in the south began negotiations with
he vicereys n taotais of their re-
spective districts. The outcome was
the nine articles of agreement. The
text is withheld from publication, out
it is understood that its general pur-
pose is to make neutral the Chinese
treaty ports at Nankin and Hankow.
The naturalization would involve the
withdrawal of foreign men of war
from the treaty ports and also of any
foreign troops or sailors, leaving to the
Chinese authorities and the residents
of Shanghai and the other ports the
preservation of order.
The agreement came before the cab
met to-day and failed of ratification,
in the belief that the foreign ~consuls,
as a body, never entered into the
agreement. In addition to the sub
jectS above mentioned, as forming
part of the agreement, it appear that
the consuls bound themselves to &C
quit the Chinese government of any
responsibility for murder and pillage
in the treaty ports if any foreign war
ship should enter uch port in viola
ton of the agreement. The whole re-
puted agreement bore the appearance
of a rough memorandum which the
cabinet concluded could never have re-
ceived the assent of all the foreign
consuls.
1t was to-day announced that the
Chinese legation here had communi
Gated to the French government the
text OF a document cabled by the vice
roys of Nankin and Hankow, June
9th, which is an agreement between
the y-ceroyS and conSulS at Shanghai
whereby, subject to certain conditions,
the viceroys undertake to portect the
missionaries and foreign merchants in
south and east China
THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT.
The document which was sent for
ratification by NJ. Del Case, consists
of nine articles.
The text of the cablegram to the
Chinese minister in Paris is as follows:
W. the viceroys of Nankin and
Hankow, in order properly to provide
for the protection of missionaries and
foreign merchants in the southern and
eastern parts of the Chinese empire,
have ordered the governor of Shanghai
to submit to all the ~consulS and to
combine with them in the following
agreements:
Article l. The measures we have
taken have in view the protection of
the lives and properties of miSsiona-
ries, and of foreign and Chinese mer-
chants without distinction.
Art. 2. 1t is understood on both
sides hat the Shanghai concession
shall be protected by the foreign pow
ers.
Art. 2. The viceroy of Nankin and
the viceroy of Hanchow formally en-
gage to protect the properties of mis-
sionaries and foreign merchants in the
valley of the Yang Use Kiang and in
the ports of Fouchow and Hankow.
Orders have been given by them to
the local authorities in the various
provinces f%orbidding the spreading of
false news and directing the arrest OF
the Boxers.
Art. 4. In ports where foreign
warships are lying they are authorized
to remain at anchorage on condition
that the sailors remain on board.
Art 8. Should the foreign powers
send warshipS to the Yang Use Kiang
without the consent of the viceroys
and governors the latter are not to be
responsible for the misdeeds or massa-
ores. resulting, and China shall not be
called upon to pay indemnity.
Art. g. Foreign warships shall not
approach or anchor near the Woo
Sung forts or cruise in the valley I'M
der any preteXt, not eve for the drill
of sailors, in order to avoid any mis-
understanding or unforeseen misfor-
tunes.
Art. :. All foreign powers under
TAX not to permit their warships to
approach or to anchor in the neigh
borhood of the Shanghai arsenal, and
not to permit their sailors to approach
the ammunition manufactured in the
arsenal and intended for use against
rebels and the protection of missiona-
ries n merchants. Should, how
ever, a viceroy, or governor withdraw
any (ammunition) he must not be sus-
pected.
art. s. In places thus far devoid of
troops missionaries and foreign trav-
oilers are not to go, in order that they
they may not expose themselves to
any danger whatever.
cart. 9. The protection of the
Shanghai concession shall be carried
out with the greatest calmness and
WITH an absence of ostentation, for in
the present excited condition of the
paopIa the S1iphfaSf alarm might pro-