The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-12-27
TEXT OF JOINT NOTE
Formulated By Representatives
OF the Powers at Pekin.
DEPARTMENT GIVES OUT A COPY
China Recognizes With Regret
Her Responsibility and Is
Willing to Make Amends.

The state department Saturday made
public the text of the joint note OF the
powers to China. The official state
ment, after reciting China's ofenses,
proceeds as follows:
Inasmuch as China has recognized
her. responsibility, expressed regret
and evidenced a desire to see an end
put to the situation created by the
aforesaid disturbances, the powers
have determined to accede to her re-
quest upon the irrevocable conditions
enumerated below, which they deem
indispensable to expiate the crimes
committed and to prevent their reoc-
currence:
l. (a) The dispatch to Berlin of an
extraordinary mission headed by an
Imperial prince, in order to EXPRESS
the regrets of his majesty, the en-
peror of China, and of the Chinese
government for the assassination of
his excellency, the late Baron Won ket-
teller, minister of Germany.
(b) The erection, on the spot of the
assassination, Of a commemorative
monument beitting the rank of the
deceased, bearing an inscription in
Latin, German and Chinese languages,
expressing the regrets of the emperor
of China for the murder.
II. (a) The severest punishment
for the persons designated in the i'm
perial decree Of September 25, 1900,
and for those whom the representa-
tives of the powers shall subsequently
designate.
lb) The suspension for five years of
all official examinations in all the
cities where foreigners have been mas
sacred or have been subjected to cruel
treatment.
III. Honorable reparation to be
made by the Chinese government to
the Japanese government for the muir
der of Mr.. Ssjyam.
~. An expiatory monument to be
erected by the imperial Chinese gov
ernment in every foreign international
cemetery which has been desecrated,
or in which the graves have been de-
stroyed.
V. The maintenance, under condi-
tions to be determined by the powers,
of the interdiction against the import
alton of arms, as we'll as of materials
employed exclusively for the manu-
facture of arms and ammunition.
vi. Equitable indemnity for the
governments, societies, companies and
individuals, as we'll as for the Chinese,
who, during the late concurrences,
have suffered in person or in property
in consequence of their being in the
service of foreigners China to adopt
financial measures acceptable to the
powers for the purpose of guarantee
ing the payment of said indemnities
and the interest and amortisation of
the loans.
VII. The right for each power to
maintain permanent guard for its le-
CATION, and to put the diplomatic quar-
ters in defensible condition, the Chi
nese having no right to reside in that
quarter.
VII. The destruction OF the forts
which might obstruct free communica-
tion between Pekin and the sea.
TX The right to the military occu-
patton of certain points to be deter
mined by an understanding among the
powers, in order to maintain open
communication between the capital and
the sea.
z The Chinese to cause to be pub
lished during two years in all the sub
prefectures an imperial decree
(a) Embodying perpetual prohibi-
tion, under penalty of death, of mem
bership of any anti-foreign society;
(b) Enumerating the punishments
that shall have been inflicted on the
guilty, together with the suspension
of all official examinations in the cities
where foreigners have been murdered
or have been subjected to cruel treat
ment; and
(c) Furthermore, an imperial decree
to be issued and published through
out the empire, ordering that the gov
ernors general (viceroys), governors
and all provincial or local officials
shall be held responsible for the main
tenauce of order within their respec-
tive Jurisdictions, and that in the event
of renewed anti-foreign disturbances
or any other infrsctions of treaty oc-
curing, and which shall not forth
with be suppressed and the guilty
parsons punished, they, the said off,
cials, shall be Immediately removed
and forever disqualified from holding
any Office of honor.
Until the Chinese government has
complied with the above conditions to
the satisfaction of the powers. the un-
dersigned can hold ont no expectation
that the occupation of Pekin and the
provinces of Chi Ii by the general
forces can be brought to conclusion.