The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-10-12
POWERS IN
ARGUMENT
All Are Quarre|ing Over
China.
FRANCE SENDS A BILLET
Wants Arms Prohibited, Fortifca-
tions Raced and GUARDS
in Peking.


has abandoned his decision to proceed to
Picking and Will. II is announced. begin
negotiations with the Russian Minister
to China, NJ. dc Giers, upon the latter's
arrival at Tien-Tsin.
General Chaffee has designated the
Ninth Infantry. the third squadron of the
Sixth Cavalry and Battery + to remain ut
Picking. He estimates that II will take
u month to get .ne American troops out
of China
KAISER MAY YIELD.
NEW YORK, October IA cable to the
Herald from Berlin says: Government Of
fcials declare the reports in Paris con-
corning the German attitude are not en-
tirely correct. They state that the diplo-
matte relations between st. Petersburg.
Berlin and Paris are now excellent Ger
many insists upon her proposals concern
Ing the discovery of the guilty parties in
China, but 1t is likely that she will aban-
don the proposal making their punish
ment preliminary to peace negotiations.
The report that Germany has already
done 80 Is premature. She Is waiting for
England's answer to her proposals first.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Berliner Tageblatt telegraphs that in
view of the punishment of Boxer chiefs
and the Chinese Emperor's letter regard
Ing the assassination of Baron Won Ket-
hcstilities cease and that peace negotia-
items be at once begun.
FRANCES NOTE TO POWERS.
LONDON, October 1.-THE Austro-
Hungarian Foreign Office" says the Vi
emma correspondent of the Morning Post,
has received circular note which
France has addressed to the powers, in
which she agrees as to the necessity of
obtaining satisfaction for the anti-foreign
nj It,f OR 20 hot fha M n,
Picking should Immediately begin negotia-
tions on the other questions at Issue. The
note also proposes the permanent prohibi-
ton Of the importation OF arms and am
munition into China. the razing of the
Notifications between Picking and the sea
and the maintenance Of legation guards"
PARIS, Oct. Am official of the French
Foreign Office today formally confirmed
the accuracy of the details of Frances
note to the powers on the Chinese ques-
ton, as telegraphed from Vienna last
night.
A representative of the Associated
Press questioned the official referred to
as to the causes actuatng the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs In issuing the
note. The official said:
IN. Del Case has been contemplating
this action for number of days. France
wants peace and desires 1t expeditiously.
The Minister Is therefore anxious to find
many which will meet tho approval of
all There Is no foundation for the state
ment that an effort Is making to secure
Continental accord, to the detriment of
England or the United States. We are
unable to understand exactly the course
the United States intends to pursue.
whether she will act entirely separate I'M
der all conditions, or whether she will
negotiate In concert with the other pow
ers In case they reach an agreement sat
isfactory to her.
"Germany's note, as understood here.
presents two propositions-one the pun
ishment of the guilty; the other the peace
proceedings. While some people inter-
pref It as meaning that the first is an
absolute condition preliminary to the sec
ond, we see no reason why the powers
should not proceed with the treaty pre-
liminares with those appointed emissa-
rteS OF the Chinese Government at Picking.
while the armies seek out and punish
Prince Tuan and his guilty associates.
There Is no incompatibiity which will not
permit the two actions from occurring
simultaneously. Our hope is for an
agreement to begin negotiations and the
note expresses NJ Del Casse's ideas of
how best that end can be secured. We
feel there is nothing in 1t antagonistic to
the interests of the United States and
uLst we will receive her acquiescence.'
The French Consul at Canton. under
date of Monday, October list, cables that
the gunboat Avalanche, with the French
Vice Consul on board, had just returned
to Canton after cooperating with the
Chinese forces in depressing the troubles
In the disturbed districts of the West
river. certain number of the guilty
underwent capital punishment. The ma
terial losses were very heavy, but there
was no loss of nfe.
GERMANY DENIES STORY.
BERLIN, October 1.-The statement
published that France, Russia and Ger
many have arrived at a complete under
standing in regard to the retention of
troops at Picking and that Germany with
draws her plan for the punishment OF the
instigators of the outrage before the
peace negotiations begin. is denied here
officially.
Foreign Office official made the fol-
lowing statement on the subject: 1.-THE
story Is inaccurate, particularly the init
nation that Germany, Russia and France
have formed a separate diplomatic group.
Negotiations between these powers con-
tinue. as with the others. Germany does
not expect Great Britain's answer to her
proposal for several days"
The semi-official press uniformly dis
credits the assertions. but a well-inform-
ed diplomat assured the correspondent
this evening that he had excellent reasons
Tor believing them to be true, especially
as the German Foreign Office had itself
admitted that Russia had dropped all in
tentions OF withdrawing from Picking.
The Berliner Post denies that the
French. Russian and American" officers
have refused to obey Count Won walder-
see until hostilities are resumed. The For
eign ONCE Is unable to confirm the reports
of the degradation of Prince Tuan, but
the admission is made that there has been
an Improvement In the disposition of Chi
ma toward foreigners. This change, the
Berllner Post attributes to Count Won
arrival.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Zeitung and the correspond
emit of the Lokal Anzeiger confirm the is
suance of imperial orders degrading
Prince Tuan. but the Lokal Anzelger adds
that the edicts are regarded as a sham
by foreign circles In Shanghai.
The Berliner Post has a long article
which tends TO exonerate the Chinese
Government from responsibility for atroc-
tiles and makes concessions in favor of
the Emperor, Empress and the mandarins,