The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-10-25
lie is Prepared to Proceed With
the Preliminary Work in the
Peace Negotiations.
HE has BEEN AMPLY INSTRUCTED.
The Initial Meeting Will Relate Main.
ly to the Yerilcation Of the Chinese
PlenipOtentiaries' Credentials.
Following This VIII Come the Der-
iEnation of Pence mni-sIoners
to Conduct the Negotiations,
the Formal Treaty.

" Washington, Oct. 22.-Nothing cam
- TO the state department Sunday from
Minister Conger in regard to the pro
posed preliminary meeting for th'
consideration Of peace negotiation.
~ asked for by Iii Hung Chang anC
= Prince Ching for October 20. The
presumption of the officials, there,
/ fore, is that the press dispatches an
y nouncing that it had been postponed
u IS correct This postponement was
due probably to the unreadiness OF
the powers generally TO begin ncgo-
tlatiOns, the ministers in all likeli-
hood not having received their final
preliminary instructions from their
government for their guidance
r The United States minister. Mr..
Oonger, is prepared TO proceed with
the preliminary work, his instruc-
tions from the state department be-
ing ample 70 cover all questions
which ii is expected will be raised at
the beginning. As is understood here.
the initial meeting will relate mainly
10 the vcrificatlon OF the credentials
or the Chinese plcnipotcntiaries. Both
III Hung Chang and Prince Ching are
IN Peking, bnt the two great southern
Viceroys are supposed to be still in
| their own provinces. Conference with
them by the Chinese now in Peking
VIII be largely by telegraph. Follow
Ing the verification of credentials will |
come the designation of plenipoten-
tlarieS by this government TO conduct
the formal negotiations, but as TO
their personnel the officials here are
not yet willing to make any state
ment
Washington, Oct. 22.-The state de-
partment has received copy of the
Anglo-German agreement regarding
China published in London. 1t was
sent to the department by Count de
Ouadt, the German charge d'afrnires
who earlier in the day had received
IL by telegraph from Count Won Bue-
low, the German chancellor at Berlin.
ne official version is identical in
terms with that already published.
and II was communicated to our gov
ernment with only formal letter OF :
Count de Quadt is very q
much gratitied over the agreement !,
between the powers, and believes 1t >
'ugurs well for the prompt beginning .
u peace negotiations in China. y
Nothing has yet come to our gov :,
'rnment from the American embassy
u Berlin touching the agreement be- q,
ween Germany and England. The :,
ceiling on the subject of state DEPART /,
leht olhclalS was made known i'm the II
ress dispatches, the document piyino
cry general satisfaction and being
ecognied as in line with the attitude
+ the United States toward China AZ II
lready defined by Secretary Hay and
y other great powers.
Lhc note issued by the British for
gn officers relating to the agreement
IN four parts as follws:
l. AS Il matter of joint permanent r.
ternational interest, the rivers of -
-toral China should remain open 10 h.
ade and to every Other Legitimate 7.
I'm OF economic activity for the na- ~
onaIs OF all countries. The two goy- "a
agree 20 uphold the same sr,
all Chinese territory so far as they w;
We influence. i"'
Z. The governments of Great nrj,. 49,
and of Germany will not odvan. -.
&c themselves of territory on ac-
unit OF present. complications.
s. In the case of another power us Y
the complications TO obtain fer. OF
oral advantages under any form cal
a'ever' England and Germany will 10
ne to the preliminary understand. -
as TO the eventual steps TO be tak- the
to protect their own interests IN yest
ina.
: England and Germany will invite 20
powers especially Austria. France mer
~ Japan, Russia and the United sto,
teS' to accept the principles of this
cement.
lctoria, b. C., Oct 22.-AccordinG 1t
a correspondent of tba Shonan1 dem
curry, Bishop Fontosati in Soutb Oh
IAN was tortured four hours bv Seer
hese. His body was dismembered ate
e oy piece and he was disembow- Y
Two priests were covered with
oil and placed in sticks. which The
then set afre. Others were n
httuily tortured. Three thousand
'erts' led by French priests. while
were defending their church Ue'
, massacred. in tn
, - murd
r. morton as n Commfssioper rarJ;