Willmar tribune., 1900-08-01
CHINA WANTS HELP>
Appeals to President to Serve Her
+" in Her Trouble.

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| Appeal of Yu Lien .Yuen for Media
ton ON Part of United States
- Mckinley Lays Down Con-
ditions of Compliance.
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.
Translation of cablegram received by
| Minister WI on July TO- 1900, from the
taotai of Shanghai, dated July 10, 1900:
Have received a telegram from Gov.
Yuan COT Shantung), dated 23d day of this
moon (July 49,, who, having received
| from the privy council (at Peking) a dis
patch embodying an imperial letter to the
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.
Greeting: China has long maintained
| friendly relations with the United States,
and is deeply conscious that the object
| Of the United States is international COM
merce Neither country entertafns 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,
Vx,ifh no kI,o% ~ Vol
attacked and captured. Consequently,
there has been clashing of forces with
calamatous consequences. The situation
has become more and more serious and
critical. We have just received tele-
graphic memorial from our envoy, WI
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 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 a concert of
the powers for the restoration of order
and peace. The favor of a kind reply is
earnestly requested, and awaited with
the greatest anxiety.
"Kwanghsu, twenty-sixth year, sixth
moon, 23d day (July 10."
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 it's high
destination and favor me with a reply
YU LIEN YUEN,
Taotai at Shanghai.
Kwanghsu, twenty-sixth year, sixth
moon, % day July 10, 1900.
The President's Reply.
This cablegram was at once communi-
Gated to the president at Canton, O., and
the following is his reply:
1.-The President of the United States to
the Emperor of China. Greeting: 1 have
received your majesty's message of the
18th of July, and am glad to know that
your majesty recognizes the fact that the
government and people of the United
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 right guar
anteed them by treaty and by interna-
tional law. The same purposes are pub
licly declared by all the powers which
have landed military forces in your ma
jesty's empire.
II 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 a
member of the Japanese legation, and
who now hold besieged In Peking those
foreign deplomatists who still survive
have not only not received any favor or
encouragement from your majesty, but
are actually in rebellion against the i'm
perial authority. If this be the case, I
mcst solemnly urge upon your majesty S
government, ~ To give public assurance
whether the, foreign ministers are alive.
and, If so. in what condition. (2) To put
the diplomatic representatives of the pow
ers in immediate and free communica ton
with their respective governments, and
to remove all danger to their lives and
liberty. (3) TO place the imperial author
tiles of China in communication with the
relief expedition so that cooperation may
be secured between them for the liberia
ton of the legationers, the protection of
foreigners and the restoration or order.
IF these objects are accomplished. it is
the belief of this government that no
obstacles will be found to exist on the
part of the powers to an amicable set
tlement 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, be cheerfully
placed at your majesty's disposition for
that purpose.
civilian M'K1NLEY, July %, 1907
'By the President, JOHN HAY, Secre-
tary of State.''
Germany's Answer.
Berlin. July 25.-Count Won Buelow,
the minister of foreign affairs, made
reply Tuesday to the appeal of the en-
peror of China for German media tion
between the powers and the Chinese
government, In substance, Count Won
Buelow said he would not submit the
telegram from the, Peking government
SO long as the fate of the legations and
other foreigners in Peking were not
ascertained and as long as the Chinese
government had not atoned for the
murder of the German minister to Pc
king, Baron Won Ketteler, and given
guarantees that in future it's conduct
will be in harmony with international al
law and the usages of civilization.
Washington, July 26.-The postmas-
ter general has made public the re-
port of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General B1istow, who investigated the
Cuban postal frauds. Mr.. Bristow
finds that Neelv's embezzlements ap-