Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-14
COLLECTIVE NOTE TO CHINA.
Following Is the text of the collec-
tive note OF the powers to China:

Following is the text OF the collec-
tive note OF the powers to China:
An extraordinary mission headed
by an imperial prince shall be sent to
Berlin in order to express the regret
of the Emperor of China, and of the
Chinese government for the murder Of
Baron Won Ketteler On the scene
of the murder monument worthy of
the assassinated minister shall be
erected with an inscription in Latin,
German and Chinese, expressing the
regret of the Emperor of China.
IL.
(a) The death penalty is to be in
f1icted upon Princes 1uan and Chuang,
upon Duke Ian and further upon Ying
Men, kang vi, Chao Shu Chiao, Tung
tuh Slang, Yu Hsien and other ring
leaders whose names will be given by
the representatives of the powers. (b)
In all places where foreigners have
been killed or maltreated Official eX-
aminations shall be suspended for five
years.
The Chinese government shall erect
monument in every foreign or in
ternational cemetery, which has been
desecrated or where the graves have
been destroyed.
The prohibition of the import Of
arms into China shall be maintained
until further notice.
".
China has to pay just indemnity
to governments, corporations and indl-
viduals as well as to those Chinese
who suffered during the recent events
in person or in property in con-
sequence Of being in the service of Ior-
eigners.
Every single power is granted the
right of maintaining a permanent le-
cation guard Of placing the quar-
Ter OF teKin where the legations are
STATED in a state of defense. Chinese
are not to be allowed to live in that
quarter of Pekin.
The Taku forts and those forts
which might prevent free communi-
cation between Pekin and the sea
shall be RACED.
VIII.
The powers acquire the right of oc-
cupying cc..ain points on which they
agree among themselves, for the OBJ
ject Of maintaining free communica-
tion from the capital and the sea.
IX.
The Chinese government is bound
to post imperial DEGREES for two years
at all -per1ectures. In these de-
creeS (a) to belong to an anti-foreign
sect is forever forbidden under pen
atty of death; (b) the punishments
inflicted upon the guilty are recorded;
(c) to prevent fresh disturbances. it
IS declared that the viceroys, as well
as the provincial and local authori-
ties, are made responsible for the
maintenance of order in their dis
tricts. In the event of fresh anti-for-
| elgn disturbances, or other infringe
ments OF the treaties, which are not
at once stopped and avenged by pun
ishment of the guilty, those officials
shall be promptly deposed and never
again entrusted with official functions
| or invested with fresh dignities
The Chinese government under
takes to enter upon negotiations with
such alterations existing in the COM
mercial and navigation treaties as the
foreign governments consider to be
advisable; as well as regarding other
,, matters which are concerned with ia
cilitating relations.
xI.
The government is to be held
bound to reform the Chinese foreign
Office and the court ceremonial for the
reception Of the foreign representa-
tives, and to do so in the sense which
shall b detlnsd BY the foreign epwerA