New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-03
WILHELM TO KWANG SU.
REPLY OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR TO
THE ASIATIC SOVEREIGN.

Berlin. Oct. 2.--The following is the text of the
Chinese Emperors message to Emperor William
of Germany:
fallen victim to the rising which suddenly
broke out in China without our officials being
able to prevent il, whereby our friendly Fela-
tions we're disturbed is deeply deplored and re-
GREETED. BY decree we order that sacrifice be
made altar for the deceased, and Chief
Secretary Kun Yang has been instructed to
pour Hbations on the altar. The commercial
superintendents of the northern and southern
ports have been ordered to take the needful
measures concerning the conveyance of the coffin
of the deceased. When it reaches Germany
second offering shall be made on an altar.
Germany has always maintained the friend
liest relations with China. We therefore enter
tain the hope that Your Majesty will renounce
all resentment, so that peace may be arranged
soon as possible, and that universal mar
mony be rendered possible for all time This
is our most anxious hope and our most ardent
wish.
Emperor William replied, September 80, as
follows:
To the Emperor of China: I, the German
Emperor have received the telegram OF Your
Majesty. the Emperor Of China have OBJ
served with satisfaction that Your Majesty is
anxious to eXpiate according 10 the custom and
precept of your religion the shameful murder OF
my Minister. which set at naught all clVlllza-
tion. Yet, the German Emperor and Chris
tian I cannot regard that abominable crime as
atoned for by hbation- Besides my murdered
Minister, there have gone before the throne OF
God a large number of our brethren OF CnilSIidn
faith. bishops and missionaries, women and
children who, for the sake Of their faith, which
IS also mine, have died the violent death OF
martyrs and are accusers Of Your Majesty.
Do the libations commanded by Your Majesty
suffice for all these innocent ones? L do not
make Your Majesty personally responsible Tor
the outrage against the legations, which are
held inviolable among all nations nor for the
grievous wrongs done many nations and
faiths, and to the subjects of Your Majesty OF
my Christian belief. But the advisers of Your
Majesty's throne and the officials on whose
heads rests the blood guilt of crime which fills
all Christian nations with horror must exp1ate
their abominable deed. When Your Majesty
| brings them to the punishment they have De
| served. that I will regard as an eXpiation which
will satisfy the nations of Christendom- If Your
! Majesty will use your Imperial power for this
! purpose accepting to that end the support OF
all the injured nations, I. for my part declare
myself agreed on that point. I should also glad
! " welcome the return Of Your Majesty to Pc
| king For this my General, Field Marshal Won
| Waldersee, will be instructed not only to re-
| ceive Your Majesty with the honors due your
rank but he will also afford Your Majesty the
military protection you may desire, and which
you may need against the rebels.
| I also long for peace which atones for the
guilt which makes good wrongs done, and which
| offers TO all foreigners in China security for
life and property, and. above all. for the free
| service of their religion. WILLIAM, L r.