The sun., 1900-11-03
French General VOYrOn Wipes
Out Many Boxer In
tested Villages.
EMPRESS D0WAGER MUST GO
1t is stated That Her Removal From
All Participation in the Chinese
Government is Necessary
Before Peace Comes
Finally.

Washington, Nov. "A dispatch TO the
IIavaS agency in Paris from Pcking dat
cd Oct. 81 says:
''fhe foreign ministers today continued
the discussion of the peace propositions
To be presented "a the Chinese. The
French proposals were accepted. Addi-
ti5nal specifications will be discussed
Monday. Ouuccnnnt Of the necessity for
thorough accord between the different
cabinets the final note will not be pre-
sented for several weeks.
"Gcuoral Nuyron commander in chief
of the French troops IN China. with The
allies under his command, is purgng the
villages around Tientsin and Pcking,
Many villages infested with Boxers have
been destroyed and their inhabitants pun
ishrd 4 French column sent To Tucn
rescued the missionaries there. Another
French column met with resistance at
Sici Chung The enemy's losses We're
considerable. The village was burned.
"News received from PaoTing-Fu i'll
dicatrs Il movement Of French and Ger
man troops upon Sizing, where the i'm
pcrial tombs are situated. 1t is runorcd
that the army Of Yang-Y -YuKantc has re-
solved to defend the place.
AS the result of inquiries made by the
international commission under General
Balloud SECOND in command of the
French troops in China, the allies are
convinced that the grand treasurer and
the governor of pao-Ting-Fu and IL Chi
neSp colonel We're instrumental III the
murder of American and English ms
sionarcs, and they have been condemned
To death and will he executed soon.
Three vital Questions.
II is stated in quarters well verscd in
Chinese affairs that outside of the aues-
tuns of indemnity, punShments. etc.,
now under negotiations nt l'ekinE, thtr"
are three vital and farrcaching questions
"a lie determined first, the removal oi
the empress dowager, personally ana
through the influence of her advisers
from all participation in the Chinese gov
crnmcnt: second, the creation of an IN
demnity fund by the Increase Of Chna''
customs revenue. either by the payment
of the duties in gold instead Of dcpre
catrd silver. as at present. or else w
duu.ling the present silver duties from
per ccnt to 10 per cent nd valorrm. and
third, the establishment of II minister o
foreign affairs in place of the old an'
cumbersome system Of the tSung-ll-ya
men,
The demand for the retirement of tn
empress tlowagcr is said to result flon
the conclusion now generally accepted
that the imperial government of thin
was responsible for the Boxer uprising
As the empress dowager was the ruin
authority of the imperial government
during the uprising this responsibility
brought home directly to her. There
understood to he 10 purpose, however,
visit upon her any personal punishmcn
OF indignity, but merely to 50 form the II
constructed government as TO cNclud
her from all participation i'll it. 1t
deemed advisable for that reason that sl
should remain permanently away frol
Peking and that her advisers also shoul
he kept away from the seat of govern
lnrit.
The plan of doubling China's custom
duties has arisen from the need of fin,
ing Il source to pay war indpmnti'
which the various powers demand. 1t n
pears, however. that the increase of II
duties has heretofore been brought to Il
attention of the tnted States COVER
mcnt hy LII Hung Chang. This occurr,
during his visit to Washington fc
years ago, when il was represented til
the ) per cent was fixed in 1SlS
treaties with tile United States, Gre
Britain and other countries and was pa
able iii silver, at which time silver W
worth as much as gold. But with I
change of value between silver and sc
Iii lung Chang pointed out that Chin;
per cent duty in silver actually nett
only about 2la per cent, judged by I