Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-03
THE LOOT|NG Of PEK|HG.
GERMANS AND FRENCH HAVE SEIZ-
ED THE OBSERVATORY IN
SHIPMENTS.
BOXED FOR SHIPMENT.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE POW
ERS ENTER A PROTEST..
The Railroad to Picking is Once More
Open-The Emperor Said to Con-
template a Return to the Capital,
and if Well Received the Dowager
Will FoIlow-American Cavalry
men Escortng High Officials.

TEN TSIN, December 2, via Shang-
hal, December Protests and re-
quests have been forwarded to Field
Marshal Count Won Waldersee by the
representatives of the powers, urging
the prevention of the removal of the
astronomical instruments from the OBJ
servatory at Pekin. Most of the prin-
clpal instruments have been prepared
for shipments and labelled for Berlin
or for Paris.
The Chinese themselves do not pro-
test because, as members of Ii Hung
Chang's staff put it, their objections
would be useless, as whatever they
say, or do, in the way of protest only
ELECTS uncivil treatment.
The observatory is universally recog-
nized as one of the most interesting
sights in Pekin. Most of the instru-
ments now out of place are over 100
years old. Many of them magnificent
bronzes, and although not of modern
type, can still be used for the purposes
of astronomical observation.
The number of Chinese returning, has
been considerably augmented during
the last few days. Apparently they
are friendly.
The provosts marshal Of the various
nations are being daily informed as to
the whereabouts of the returning Box
ers, but only those arrested against
whom there are conclusive evidence of
having killed Christians.
The first locomotive since the siege
of the legations ran yesterday from
Tlen Tsin to Pekin. The line will not
be opened, however, for general use
until about December 18th.
LONDON, December 3.-Dr. Morri-
son, wiring to the Times from Pekin,
says:
'Tn pursuance of their regrettable
policy of appropriation, the French and
German generals, with Count Won Wal
dersee's approval, have removed from
the wall of Pekin the superb astro-
nomical instruments erected two cen
turies ago by the Jesuit fathers. Half
of them will go to Berlin and the rest
to Paris.
THE explanation of this act of van
dalism is that inasmuch as the return
of the court is 50 improbable, such
beautiful instruments should not be ex
posed to the possibilities of injury
when Pekin is no longer the capital.
Emperor May Return to 'Peking.
LONDON, December 3.-"Count Won
Waldersee expresses some solicitude,"
says the Pekin correspondent of the
Morning Post, concerning expeditions
into the surrounding country, but he
believes that they are necessary and
salutary. Most of the British officers
approve them.
'1Sir Robert Hart, in the course of
conversation, said he considered the
resentment against the foreigners to
be partly just and the outgrowth at
least sixty years of treaty relations. He
seemed to think the settlement would
be a difficult problem.
Chinese military forces are being
formed everywhere and even if the
importation of foreign arms is pro-
hibited a supply will be easily obtain
able from Chinese arsenals.
"a body of one hundred American
cavalrymen is escorting some Chinese
officials to Tien Tsin. I"
Chang Chin Tung has received
dispatch from Sian Fu," says the
Shanghai correspondent of the Stand
ard, directing him to stop the forward
ing of further supplies to the province
of Shen 81. 1t is rumored that EN-
peror Kwang Su will return to Pekin
Immediately and that the Empress
Dowager will follow, if the reception
given him is satisfactory"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times also reports that it is believed
in well-informed circles that the Chi
nese court is anxious to return to Pc
kin; but he says that such a course
will not be agreeable to Ii Hung Chang
who hopes to gain an advantage from
discussions among the powers.
Are still sanguine.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. = Admins
tration officials continue sanguine that
the ministers of the powers at Pekin
will soon reach a common ground OF
agreement, in the demands to be made
upon the Chinese imperial government
in satisfaction for the boxer outrages.
The State Department is in commune
cation with the ministers and ambas-
sailors Of the United States to the Eu-
ropean courts, and advices which have
come from them from time to time
lead the officials here to hope that the
powers will be brought to the position
maintained by the United States in
dealing with the Chinese, viz, that
there should not be demands made
upon the imperial government which
it is not able to fulfill. Our govern
ment has persistently held to this view
in the progress Of the negotiations be-