Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-27
MEGO TIATIONS
ARE POSTPONED
Delay Due to Lack Of Final PreIim-
mary instructions from yari-
Gus Powers.
MINISTER conGER READY TO &C.!
Initial Meeting Will Relate TO tho
v~erification OF Credentials OF
Chinese Plenipoten-
tiarics.

Washington, Oct. 23.-Nothing has
come to the state department from
Minister Conger in regard TO the pro-
posed preliminary meeting for the con-
sideration of peace negotiations asked
for by Ii Hung Chang n Prince
Ching for October 20. The presump-
ton Of the officials, therefore, is tina
the press dispatches announcing that
1t had been postponed are correct.
This p-ostponement was due probably
to the unwillingness of the powers to
begin negotiations, the ministers In all
likelihood not having received their
final preliminary instructions from
their governments for their guidance.
The United States minister, Mr.. Con-
ger, is prepared TO proceed with the
| preliminary work, his instructions
from the state department beipg am
pie to cover all questions which It Is
expected will be raised at the begin
ming. !,
AS is understood here, the initial
meeting will relate mainly TO the veri-
fication of the credentials of the Chi-'
nese plenipitentiaries, and IL these be
satisfactory the base will be laid Tor
future conferences. Both Ii Hung
Chang and Prince Ching are In Pekin,
but the two great southern Viceroys
are supposed to be still in their own
provinces. conference Will lilSilh W
the Chinese now in Pekin will be large
ly by telegraph. Following the .veri-
| ication of credentials TO the satisfac-
ton of the powers will come the des-
ignation of plenipotentiaries by this
government to conduct the formal ne
gotiations, but as to their personnel the
| officials here are not yet willing TO
make any statement.
Russian Representative.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 2S.-The Official
Messenger formally announces and eX-
| plains the return to Picking OF the trlfs-
sian minister to China in the following
paragraphs:
IAN edict Of the Chinese emperor APP
pointing Prince Ching and Ii Hung
| Chang to be plenipotentiaries, the car
has ordered M. DeGiers to return to
Picking and to enter upon peace negS-
tiations, together with the representa-
tives of the other powers"
Picking, Oct. 23.-The new British
minister to China, Sir Ernest Mason
Satow, has arrived here, and Sir Claude
M. Macdonald, the retiring minister,
who has been appointed British minis
ter to Japan, will leave tomorrow.
-
Angio-G erman Agreement.
London, Oct. 23.-Germany and Eng
ldIlu UdNG lOIIllCa al u w 10
tain the territorial integrity OF China
and keep its ports open. The terms OF
the agreement, arrived at on the 10th
between Salisbury and the German
ambassador, Coun HatZfeldt, are ofn-
cially given out as follows:
THE German government and her
majesty's government, being DESTROYS
OF maintaining their interest In China
land their rights under existing treat
A. E2, 10 n -raAA fn .nhGnrNFa tho fnllONV-
ing principles regarding a mutual pol
icy in China:
Il. It Is a matter Of joint permanent
international interest that the ports on
| the rivers and littoral Of China should
remain free and open to trade and to
every other legitimate form OF eco
nomic activity for the peoples of all
| countries without distinction. The two
governments agree on their part to up
hold the same for all Chinese territory
SO far as they can exercise their infiu-
ence.
~. Both governments agree they will
not make use of the present complica-
tions to obtain for themselves any ter
ritorial advantage In the Chinese do
minion and will direct their policy to-
wards maintaining undiminished the
territorial condition Of the Chinese en-
pire.
20. In case OF another power making
use of the complications in China In
Iorder to obtain under any form What
exer such territorial advantages. the
two contracting parties reserve to
themselves the right to come to a pre-
liminary understanding regarding the
eventual step to be taken for the pro-
lection OF their own interests in China.
"A. The two governments will COM
municate this agreement to the other
! powers interested. especially Austria
Hungary, France, Italy, Japan, Russia
and the United States and invite them
to accept the principles recorded in It,"