Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-03
ALLIES TURN VAN DALS
GERMANS AND FRENCH. LOOT THE
PEKIN OBSERVATORY.
Representative of the Powers Lodge
Protest With WaIdersee
Against the Act.

LONDON, DECEMBER 3.-Dr. Morrison'
wiring to the Times from Pekin, says:
I'm pursuance Of their regrettable policy
of appropriation the French and German
generals, with Count Won Waldersee's APP
prevail, have removed from the wall OF
Pekin the superb astronomical instruments
erected two centuries ago by the Jesuit
Fathers Half of them will go to Berlin
and the rest to Paris.
''The explanation of this act of vandalism
is that inasmuch as the return of the court
is so improbable such beautiful instruments
should not be exposed to the possibilities OF
injury when Pekin is no longer the CAPT.
tall
Count Won Waldersee expresses some So
licitude" says the Pekin correspondent of
the Morning rc~' concerning expeditions
into the surrounding country, but ne be-
lieveS that they are necessary and Salutary.
Most of the British officers approve them.
''Sir Robert Hart, in the course of con-
versation. said he considered the resent
ment against foreigners to be partly just
and the outgrowth of the last sixty years
of treaty relations He seemed to think
the settlement would be difficult problem.
Chinese militia forces are being formed
everywhere, and even if the importation
of foreign arms is prohibited supply will
be easily obtainable from Chinese arsenals.
A body of loo American cavalrymen is es-
ccrting some Chinese officials to Tien Tsin.'
Chang Chin Tung has received dis,
patch from SIan-Fu," says the Shanghai
correspondent of the Standard, directing
him to stop the forwarding of further sup
plies to the province of Shen-oi 1t Is ru-
mored that Emperor 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 ii is believed in we'll
n m p6 oil lie hof fhn &c
anxious to return to Pekin. but he says
that such course would not be agreeable
to ii Hung Chang, who hopes to gain an
advantage from dissensions among the
powers
Administration officials continue sanguine
that the ministers of the powers at Pekin
will soon reach a common ground of agree
ment In the demands to be made upon the
Chinese imperial government In satisfac-
ton for the boxer outrages
The state Department is in cOmmunica-
ton with the ministers and ambassadors of
the United States to the European courts
and advfceS which have come from them
from time to time lead the officials here to
nope 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 i'm
perial government which it is not able to
fulfill. Our government has persistently
held to this view in the progress of the ne
EQUATIONS between the ministers at Pekin,
and If the principle of this contention can
be maintained in the combined note to be
handed to the Chinese plenipotentiares
decided advantage will be had at the start
The attitude of our government on this
subject has been made clear r. Con-
ger. The meeting between him (Mr Con-
ger) and the German and British ministers
at Pekinf presumably was in compliance
with the ministers latest instructions from
Washington Nothing has been heard from
Mr. Conger by the State Department for
several Gays.