The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-11
Berlin Papers Criticise Chat
fees Letter to Waldersee.
GERMANS PERSIST In VANDALISM
Continued Removal Of Instraments frcm
Have De-isted In Their Share Of the Out
rrsge- PaeIiise Expeditions RetHrnIns 10
Pekin and Teintsiu-secretary Hays If.
forts for softer Terms Recognized.

Berlin. Dec. 10.-The German govern
ment has not taken official notice OF Gen.
Chaffees letter 10 Count Won Waldersee
complaining OF the removal of the as
Economical instruments from the wall of
Pekin and the return Of the letter to the
American commander ION account of,its
tone" only few OF the papers print the
incident In their news columns. The Yos-
siche Zeitung remarks:
Whatever the cause, Gen Chaffee had
in no case right to use such rough Ian
guage in letter 10 the commander-in-
chief"
The Berliner Tageblatt observes: I'VE
must, of course. reserve a definite judg-
ment until reliable German reports have
been received. Whoever knows, however,
of the generally acknowledged diplomatic
tact of Count Won Waldersee will not
doubt that he would not have employed
such a brusque procedure without the
strongest kind of provocation."
Capt. Dannhauser. who is with Count
Won Waldersee, says in a private dispatch
received in Berlin to-day:
The French have abandoned their ope-
rations to remove astronomical instru-
ments from the walls of Pekin, presuma-
bly, in order TO impress the Chinese with
their comparative clcmency; but the Ger
mans continue removing instruments un-
der the protection Of a company of engi-
neers."
Dispatches from Waldersee.
Berlin. Dec. 1O-The war Office has re-
ceived the following from Count Won Wal
deIsee, dated Pekin, December 9:
''The international committee for the ad-
ministration of Pekin will meet tomorrow
under the presidency Of Col. Baron Gayl.
'The Guendell column. which was left
at Shan Hal Kwan, reached the district of
Yuen Tientsin, five days march east of
Pekin, December Z. and is now on it's way
back 10 the capital"
Count Won Waldersee also tslegraphs,
under date of Saturday, that the two de-
tachments OF troops from Tientsin, COM
manGed by Col. Lohrscheidt and Mai Fal-
kenhayn. which had been proceeding
against a considerable force of Chinese
regulars who had taken up a position at
Tsang-chou, ninety-five kilometers south
ward of Tientsin, have occupied the place
without opposition. and that the columns
are returning TO Tfentsin.
The budget committee Of the Reichstag
mas ADOPTED resolution that the Chinese
eXpeIitionary corps must be dissolved
after II has finished its duty in China.
Secretary Hays Comp at Pekin.
1t is now dawning upon the German
press and public that Mr.. Hay, the Ameri-
can Secretary of State, has secured an
out and out diplomatic victory in obliging
the powers, Germany included, to yield
TO his arguments in favor of more mod
crate terms in the preliminary joint note
TO the Chinese peace plenipotentiaries
This clearly defined defeat is especially
b!'ter here, because Emperor William
hal set his heart on imposing the most
humiliating conditions upon the Chinese
and thus emphasizing Germnny's power
in their eyes.
Under the patronage of Countess Won
BueloW a notable concert was given this
evening for the benefit of the German
troops in China. 1t was attended by EN-
peror William and the Empress. MANY
members of the nobility, and the entire
diplomatic corps, including United States
Ambassador White and Mrs. White. The
net proceeds of the entertainment wara
about $4,000 marks.
London, Dec. 10-A special disnatcb
from Shanghai announces that II Huno
Chang's Manchu secretary. Yiko. has
Deen arrested by order of Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee. on the eharpa os
communicating with the Boxers.