The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-11-22
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Demands of the Powers Soon to Be
Presented to China.

| Picking, Nov. II, via Shanghai, Nov.
19.-The belief that the note of the
powers to the Chinese commissioners,
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang, will
be completed soon is strengthened by
the results of the recent informal con-
ferences of the ministers of the
powers. Mr.. Conger, the United
States minister, said Sunday:
'"rhe situation is apparently very fayora-
BILE to the early beginning of negotiations
for preliminary settlement. believe that
the next meeting of the foreign ENJOYS will
virtually settle all points of difference be-
tween the representatives Of the powers,
who will lose no time in presenting the de-
mands. What the result will be it is i'm
possible to foretelL Events have placed
China in very critical position. Whether
she viii be able to preserve her integrity
and to save her trade relations with the
rest of the world viii depend upon what
the powers demand in the final settlement
and upon her willingness to accept prompt
ly the conditions proposed. 1t is quite I'M
likely, If not impossible, that the Chinese
court will return to Picking before next
spring, but l do not anticipate any serious
delay In the progress of the negotiations
with the Chinese commissioners, as they
are in Geographic communication with the
court"
Says Ministers Are Weakening.
London, Nov. 19.--Dr. Morrison, wir-
ing to the Times from Picking, under
date of November IS, says: THE for
eign ENJOYS have reopened the discus
sion of the death penalty for the
princes and other high officials. 1t is
evident that the ministers are weak
ening, as they have reduced their pro-
posal from execution to the severest
punishment provided by Chinese law,
forgetting that princes lie beyond the
reach of Chinese common law. The
news from the southern provinces is
more reassuring. Ii Hung Chang says
that Prince Tuan has fed for safety to
the residence of his father-in-law at
Ming Hal Hsien, ON the Mongolian from
tier of the province of Kan Su.
WI Wants Tombs Saved.
New York, Nov. 19.-Wu Ting Fang,
the Chinese minister, is quoted in a
Herald dispatch from Washington as
saying of the Chinese situation:
1.-THE imperial government is anxious to
meet the views of the allied powers. Sc
we're penalties have been imposed upon
those whom it 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 Manchus con-
quered China, in Difference to the feelings
of the Chinese, they permitted the tombs
10 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 a number of articles of
a joint note and that they contem-
plated adding six points to those al
ready reached as basis for peace
negotiations.
A dispatch from Gen. Voyron, 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 kilometers
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 a 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 -ting-fu,
though some Boxers were 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 WaIdersee
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.
Orders Payment Made.
Canton, Nov. 19.-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.
A fire has occurred here which de-
stroyed between 200 and 300 houses.
A Robber Republic.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 19.-The Rus
sian troops are encountering a robber
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