Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-21
DEMANDS OF THE POWERS.
Enjoys Almost Ready to Make
known Their Terms to the
Chinese Government

Picking, Nov. II, via Shanghai. Nov.
19.-The belief that the note of the
powers to the Chinese commissioners,
Prince Ching and Lii Hung Chang, will
be completed soon is strengthened by
the results of the recent informal con-
ferences Of the ministers of the
powers. Mr.. Conger, the United
States minister, said Sunday:
'"The situation is apparently very favora-
BILE to the early beginning of negotiations
for preliminary settlement. believe that
the next meeting of the foreign ENJOYS will
virtually settle all points Of difference be-
tween the representatives of the powers,
who will lose no time In presenting the de-
mands What the result will be it is i'm
possible to foreteIl. Events have placed
China in very critical position. Whether
she will be able to preserve her integrity
and to save her trade relations with the
rest Of the world will depend upon what
the powers demand in the final settlement
and upon her willingness to accept prompt
ly the conditions proposed. 1t is quite un-
likely, If not impossible, that the Chinese
court will return to Picking before next
spring, but do not anticipate any serious
delay in the progress of the negotiations
with the Chinese commissioners, as they
are in Geographic communication with the
court"
London, Nov. 19-Dr. Morrison, wir-
ing to the Times from Peking, under
date of November Is, says: THE for
eign ENJOYS have reopened the discus
sion of the death penalty for the
princes and other high officials. It is
evident that the ministers are weak
ening, as they have reduced their pro-
posal from execution to the severest
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forgetting that princes lie beyond the
reach of Chinese common law The
news from the southern provinces is
more reassuring. Ii Hung Chang says
that Prince Tuan has fed for safety to
the residence of his father-in-law at
Ming Hal Hsien, on the Monaghan from
tier of the province of Kan Su.
New York, Nov. 19.-Wu Ting Fang
the Chinese minister is quoted in a
Herald dispatch from Washington as
saying of the Chinese situation:
''The imperial government is anxious to
meet the views of the allied powers. Sc
we're penalties have been imposed upon
those whom it is safe for the imperial
government to punish at this time and
consideration should be shown to China
in her present unfortunate position and
she ought not to be pressed too hard.
81 am in hopes that no attempt will be
made to destroy the Ming tomb. Such a
proposition is horrifying to contemplate.
AS works of art they are beautiful. They
are not the tombs of the emperors of the
present dynasty When the Manchus con-
Quered China, in Difference to the feelings
Of the Chinese, they permitted the tombs
to remain without dissertation. They form
one Of the sights of China and have given
much pleasure to foreign sight-seers."
London, Nov. 19.-It is rumored,
says the Peking correspondent of the
Morning Post. wiring Saturday, that
a spring expedition to Sian Flu is al
ready being discussed as the outcome
of the probable failure of the peace
negotiations. Even if Prince Tuan and
Prince Chwang are absent from the
present seat of the Chinese court
Emperor Kwang Su is still helpless,
as he lacks the aid of a strong and
progressive adviser. all such officials
having been beheaded
Gen. Tung Fuh Hsiang, master Of
the military forces, is dreaded even
by the empress dowager. The new
cabinet minister, Lu Chuan Lin, is re-
ported to be another Kang vi. There
is danger, therefore. that terms ac-
copied by the Chinese commissioners
in Pelling will be rejected at Sian Flu.
Should the court prepare for fur
Their resistance, it would be necessary
for the allies to declare war. but to
discriminate between the court and
China. The United States and Russia
would probably refuse to take part in
such measures.
LII Hung Chang and the Yangtse
viceroys, it is said. have guaranteed
the empress dowager personal safety
if she returns to Picking, but she be-
allies to capture her.
ST. Petersburg, Nov. 19.-The Rus
sian troops are encountering a robber
republic lying south of Kirin, Man
churia, in the mountainous basin of
the upper Sungari. The president Of
this congeries of banditti is a GER
tain Shaidengue. According to gen.
eral staff dispatches, Lieut.. Col
Duroff, with two companies of infan-
try and a sotnia and a half of Cos
sacks, while accommodating recently
collided with Shaidengue and two bat
talions of Chinese regular troops who
were operating with him. Lieut.. Col.
Duroff captured two guns in the en-
gagement. Gen. Fob a few days later,
with a mixed Russian force, engaged
5000 of Shaidengue's followers in the
same pass in which Lieut.. Col Duroff
fought the bandits. Gen. Fob also
took two guns. Gen. Rennenkanpf,
with five sotnias of Cossacks, had
sharp fight November II, 20 versts
from Kirin, on the Kirin-Mukden
road, with Chinese regular troops.
Twenty Cossacks were killed and 20
were wounded. A reconnaissance de-
veloped the fact that Mogeasshan is
inclosed with stone wall Is feet
high and that the inner city also is
walled.
Gifts to Yale.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 19.-The
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