Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-08-02
CHINA APPEALS FOR AID,
Message from the Emperor Requests
President Mckinley to Act as
Mediator with Powers.

President Mckinley to Act as
Mediator with Powers.
WILL % so ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
Aid Depends Upon the Safety of For
eign Ministers-If Terms Are
Agreed To nm Amicable settlement
Is Expected-Text OF the Message
and the Reply.
Washington, July 25.--The state de-
partment is again in a waiting atti-
tude regarding China. It has frankly,
promptly and fully answered the Chi
nese emperor's appeal for mediation,
and the correspondence given public
! ity Tuesday makes it appear that the
next move is tor the Chinese govern
ment. It is expected to accept or re-
iect our terms at once. and in either
case tn, answer must convey tidings
: of the state of affairs at Picking and
the welfare of the legationers.
Correspondence Published.
! I. Washington, July 25.-The following
correspondence between the president
of the United States and the emperor
of China was made public by the state
department Tuesday:
I Translation of a cablegrarn received by
Minister WI on July 90 1900 from the
taotai of Shanghai. dated July 10. 1900:
! Have received a telegram from Gov
Yuan (of Shantung), dated 23d day of this
moon July 1917, who, having, received
from the privy council Cat Peking) dis
president Of the United States, has in
structed me to transmit it to your ex-
cellency.
| The Emperor's Message.
The imperial message is respectfully
transmitted as follows:
THE Emperor Of China to His Excel
lency. the President of the United States.
friendly relations with the United States,
and is deeply conscious that the object
of the United States is international COM
merce. Neither country entertains the
least suspicion or distrust towards the
other. Recent outbreaks of mutual an
tipathy between the people and Christian
missions caused the foreign powers to
view with suspicion the position of the
imperial government as favorable to the
people and prejudicial to the missions,
Will TIE result lQdL Inc esldku IOTtS were
! attacked and captured Consequently,
there has been clashing of forces with
calamitous consequences. The situation
has become more and more serious and
critical We have just received tele-
graphic memorial from our envoy, WI
1 Ting Fang, and it is highly gratifying
to us to learn that the United States gov
! ernment having In view the friendly re-
lations between. the two countries. has
taken a deep interest in the present sit
uation. Now China. driven by the ire
sistible course Of events. has unfortun-
ately incurred well-nigh universal indig-
nation. For settling the present difficulty
| China places special reliance in the Unit
! ed States We address this message to
your excellency in all sincerity and can
didness. with the hope that your excel
lency will devise measures and take the
initiative in bringing about concert OF
the powers for the restoration of order
! and peace. The favor of kind reply is
earnestly requested, and awaited with the
greatest anxiety.
'Kwanghsu, twenty-sixth year. sixth
moon, 23d day (July 49,
1t is therefore, my duty to transmit the
above with the request that your excel
lency, in respectful obedience of imperial
wishes, will deliver the same to its high
destination and favor me with reply.
YU LIEN YUEN,
Taotai at Shanghai.
moon. 2sd day (July 10, 1900.
The Presidents Reply.
This cablegram was at once communi-
Gated to the president at Canton, O., and
the following is his reply:
THE President of the United States to
the Emperor of China. Greeting: have
received your maiesty's message Of the
18th of July. and am glad to know that
your majesty recognizes the fact that the
pnv Of ho MT
States desire of China nothing but what
is just and equitable. The purpose for
which we landed troops in China was the
rescue Of our legation from grave danger,
and the protection of the lives and prop
erty of Americans who were sojourning
in China in the enjoyment of rights guar
anteed them by treaty and by interna-
t1onal law. The same purposes are pubs
licly declared by all the powers which
have landed military forces in your ma
jestyS empire. z ~ ~ z sR ia $50
IT am to infer from your majesty's let
ter that the malefactors who have dis
turbed the peace of China, who have MUIR
dered the minister of Germany. and
member of the Japanese legation and
who now hold besieged in Picking those
foreign diploma lists who still survive,
| have not only not received any favor or
'encoura cement from your majesty, but
are actually in rebellion against the inn
/ perial authority. If this be the case, Z
most solemnly urge upon your majesty's
/ government, a. To give public assurance
I whether the foreign ministers are alive,
and. If so. in what condition. (2) To put
the diplomatic representative of the pow
/ ers in immediate and free communication
with their respective governments. and
! to remove all danger to their lives and
liberty. (3) To place the imperial author
tiles Of China in communica ton with the
| relief expedition so that cooperation may
| be secured between them for the liberia
j ton of the legationers the protection OF
i foreigners and the restoration of order.
IF these objects are accomplished 1t is
/ the belief of this government that no
! obstacles will be found to exist on the
part of the powers to an amicable set
Element of all the questions arising out OF
the recent troubles and the friendly good
Offices of this government will with the
assent of the other powers, he cheerfully
placed at your majesty's disposition for
that purpose.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY. July %. 19oo.''
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