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WI WANTS TONBS SAVED
Minister at Washington Says Pro
posal to Destroy Them Is Too
Horrifying to Contemplate.
IMPERIAL 1onBs OCCUPIED BY TROOPS.
Commander in Chief Won waidersee
Demands Withdrawal of Chinese
Troops from Vicinity of Allied
Forces-Promiscs When This Is
Done to Stop Punitive Expeditions.

New York, Nov. 19.--Wu Ting Fang,
the Chinese minister, is quoted in u
Herald dispatch from Washington as
saying of the Chinese situation:
THE imperial government is anxious to
meet the views of the allied powers. Sc
we're penalties have been imposed upon
those whom 1t is safe for the imperial
government to punish at this time and
consideration should be shown to China
in her present unfortunate position and
she ought not to be pressed too hard.
Il am in hopes that no attempt will be
made to destroy the Ming tomb. Such
proposition is horrifying to contemplate.
AS works of art they are beautiful. They
are not the tombs of the emperors of the
present dynasty. When the ManchGs con-
quered China, in Difference to the feelings
OF the Chinese, they permitted the tombs
to remain without dissertation. They form
one of the sights OF China and have given
much pleasure to foreign sight-seers.
Troops Occupy Imperial Tombs.
Paris, Nov. 19.-At council of the
ministers Saturday, NJ. Delcasse the
French minister of foreign affairs, an
nounced that the ministers at Picking
had transmitted to their respective
governments number of articles of
joint note and that they contem-
plated adding six points to those al
ready reached as a basis for peace
negotiations.
a dispatch from Gen. yoyron, the
commander of the French forces in
China, said the French column. re-
turning from Pao-ting-fu. had occu-
pied the imperial tombs 100 lsilometers
southwest of Picking. French and
Russian forces, the dispatch also said,
occupied the tombs situated at the
same distance east of Picking.
The French commander also an
nounced that Tartar marshal and
a Chinese officer had been condemned
to death by an international commits
sion for having participated in the
massacres. The conditions were
quieter in the vicinity of Pao-ting-fu,
though some Boxers We're still there.
Demands withdrawal of Chinese,
Picking. Nov. 15.-The commander
In chief of the international forces.
Count Won Waldersee. received Prince
Ching and Ii Hung Chang, the Chi
nese peace commissioners, to-day at
the imperial palace. Won Waldersee
demanded that the Chinese troops be
withdrawn from the vicinity of the
territory occupied by the allied forces,
adding that if this was done the dis
patch of military expeditions by the
allies would be discontinued.
Prince Tunn Arrested,
London, Nov. ia news agency
dispatch from Shanghai says Prince
Tuan is under arrest at Nighsia,
province of Shan-Si, that Gov. Yu-
a % esVeus- aB-,-ranan
near Sian-Fu, and that Sheng, the d.
rector of telegraphs and railroads, has
memoralized the throne, denouncing
YuHsien.
The dispatch adds that an edict is
expected condemning Yu-Hsien to
death.
Orders Payment Made.
Canton, Nov. l9.-The American
consul here has been notified that the
board of reconstruction has been Or
dered to pay $4,000 as the first INSTALL
ment of American claims. All the
consuls are pressing for indemnity
for the destroyed missions. A special
deputy has been appointed for each
district to estimate the damage done,
the Chinese apparently realizing that
settlement of the claims is the only
method of Kidding Canton of foreign
gunboats.