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wALDERsEE AT HoNG-KoNG
RECEIVED WITH MILITARY HONORs
AT THE BRITISH PORT.
Later Proceeded to Shanghai - No
Crisis Necessitatfng the Presi-
dents Return to Washington.

BERLIN, Sept. 1S-The Foreign Office
has sent a circular note to all the powers
announcing that the German government
considers an indispensable preliminary to
the beginning OF peace negotiations with
China is the delivering up of those who
were responsible for the outrages. The
text Of the telegraphic note follows:
1.-The government of the Emperor holds
as preliminary 10 entering upon diplomatic
negotiations with the Chinese government
that those persons must be delivered up
who have been proved to be the original
and real instigators of the outrages against
international law which have occurred at
Peking. The number of those who were
RACES is too great. Wholesale executions
would be contrary to the civilized con-
science, and the circumstances of such
group of leaders cannot be completely as
certained. But few whose guilt is no.
torsous should be delivered up and pun
tsled- The representatives of the powers
at Peking are In a position to give or bring
forward eoasinains-evidence Less inn
portance attaches TO the number punished
than to their character as chief instiga-
tors and leaders.
"The government believes that 1t can
count on the unanimity of all the cabi-
nets In regard 10 this point. inasmuch as
indifference to the idea of just atonement
would be equivalent TO indifference to
repetition OF the crime. The government
proposes therefore that the cabinets con-
cerned should instruct their representa-
uves at Peking TO indicate those leading
Chinese personages from whose guilt in
inst1gating or perpetrating outrages all
doubt Is excluded. Won BUELOW."
The note has been sent to the German
embassies at Washington, London. Paris,
st. Petersburg. Rome. Vienna and Toxic.
The publication Of Count Won Buelow's
circular note, which was made through the
Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, was
decided upon because it was deemed best
to let the world see that Germany had
nothing to hide regarding her real aims in
China The diplomatic corps here so in
terprets It The note shows also that Count
Won Buelow's sober and moderate views
regarding the Chinese muddle and its solu-
ton have now triumphed over Emperor
Williams more expansive plans.
Tomorrow the leading German papers
will approve the note. The Freisinnige
Zeitung. calling attention to the passage
declaring that wholesale executions would
be contrary to the civilized conscience, will
say: This is in striking contrast with
Emperor Williams instructions to the de-
parting troops TO spare no one. and to make
no prisoners
Ii Hung Chang. according to Shanghai
dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, promised
DIR. Mumm Won Schwartzenstein, German
minister to China, that Emperor Kwang
Su would return 10 Peking. but he said
that this would lead TO the establishment
OF another government In Sian-Fu. "As
proof or this" says the correspondent,
Earl Ii pointed out that the conspiracy
recently discovered at Han-Kow, whose
aim was the re-establishment Of the EN-
peror. the dethronement of the Empress
regent, and the execution of Prince Tuan,
who therefore coincided with the aims of
the allies. was squeiched by the Yang-Tse
viceroys because they all sided with the
Empress regent and Prince Tuan."