The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-19
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GERMANY INSISTS ON PUNISHMENT
OF THOSE WHO INCTTED
TROUBLE
MUST have THE LEADERS
EXECUTION OF THOSE HIGH IN
AUTHORITY INSISTED
BRITISH ALSO INsIsTENT
Demand That Emperor Kwang Hsu
Return to .Pekin-Message
to Ii Hung
Chang.
MUST HAVE The LEADERS
BRITISH ALSO INsIsTENT

BERLIN, Sept. 18.-The foreign Office
has sent circular note to all the pow
ers, announcing that the German govern
ment considers that an indispensable pre-
liminary to the beginning of peace ne
gotiations with China is the delivering
up of those who were responsible for the
note is as follows:
DEMAND REDRESS.
'"The government of the emperor holds,
as preliminary to entering upon diplomat
ic rela tons with the Chinese government,
that those persons must be delivered up
who have proved to be the original and
real instigators of the outrages against
interna tional law which have occurred
in Pekin. The number of those who were
merely instruments in carrying out the
outrages is too great. Wholesale execu-
tions would be contrary to the civilized
conscience, and the circumstances of such
! group of leaders cannot be completely
ascertained. But a few whose guilt is no
torious should be delivered up. The rep
reSeDtatives of the powers at Pekin are
in a position to give or bring forward
convincing evidence. Less Importance at
taches to the number punished than to
their character as chief instigators as
leaders. The government believes it can
count on the unanimity of all govern
ments in regard to this point, insomuch
as indifference to the idea of just atone
ment would be equivalent to Indifference
to a repetition of the crime. The govern
ment proposes therefore that the govern
ments concerned should instruct their
representatives al Pekin to indicate those
leading Chinese personages from whose
guilt of instigating or perpetrating out
RACES all doubt is excluded.
The note has been sent to the German
embassies at Washington, London. Paris,
st. Petersburg, Rome, Vienna and Toxic.
FELING IN LONDON.
LONDON, Sept 10, 4:2O.-As might be
expected coincident with the arrival of
Count Won Waldersee in China, comes
the most important declaration of policy
yet issued by any of the allies. AS the
Daily News remarks: Germany's circu-
lar not has turned the tables on Russia,
whose evacuation proposal had put Ger
many into an awkward corner Now If
Russia assents to the German not she
will be unable to continue says the Daily
News, to pose as China's great and for
giving friend. while she will lay herself
open to the charge of reducing the puni-
tive expedition to a farce.
On the eve of Ii Hung Changs depart
ure,' says the Shanghai correspondent of
the Daily Express, writing yesterday,
''he received a strongly worded cablegrarn
from Lord Salisbury declaring that the
British government would insist upon
the return of Emperor Kwang Hu to
Pekin as an absolutely essential condition
| of peace negotiations, without which the
dissolution of the Chinese empire was in.
evitable. Lord Salisbury informed Earl
LII that the allies desired to preserve
China, but that nothing would divert
them from their irevocable intention of
punshing those responsible for the ont
RACES, whom they would, if necessary.
pursue over all China