The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-25
Suggestion that Peace Negotiations
Be Opened and Outrage Cases
he Considered at Once.
UNITED STATES CRITICISED
ITS ANSWER NOT RELISHED BY GER
MAN NEWSPAPERS.
France and Russia Opposed to the
Proposition-'Inspi Article
In the KoInische Zeftung.

LONDON, Sept. %. $50 a. ma semi-of-
fetal announcement has been issued in st.
Petersburg that the European cabinets are
engaged in an endeavor to induce Germany
to abandon her demand for the surrender
OF the instigators of the anti-foreign out
RACES as preliminary to peace nesotia
tons. The Vienna correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle asserts that Austrias re-
ply TO the German note is very friendly,
but that, although 1t appears to consent to
Germanys proposal, it practically disap-
proves IL by asking whether 1t would not
be best to open peace negotiations first and
to make the punishment of the instigators
CT the outrages the first subject of discus
sion.
According to the Berlin correspondent of
the Daily Express, Germany will make
new proposal, namely, that the great pow
ers form an international court to try the
Chinese officials accused of completely in
the outrages.
The Morning Post has the following from
its Shanghai correspondent, dated yester-
day: 1.-THE Russians recently organized an
expedition towards Mukden, which has al
ready reached Liao-Yang. about midway
beween Nieu-Chwang and Mukden. 1t will
probably encounter opposition. Prince Tu-
ans ascendency creates very grave dan
ger. The only hope for foreigners is that
the pro-foreign viceroy of Marking has
not yet been removed. Tuan's emissaries
are working hard to get him out of the
way by murder or suicide
The British and continental press is still
discussing Americas reply, which is gem
orally regarded as encouraging Lii Hung
Chang to delay the negotiations.
General Gribsky, military governor of
Amur, has published elaborate regulations
placing all the regions along the Amur riv
er. now occupied by the Russians, entirely
under Russian law and authority. The Chi
nese are forbidden to return to the left
bank of the stream. He has also issued
proclamation declaring the annexation of
Manchuria to be punishment for the at
tack made on Blagovestchensk and exhort-
ing the inhabitants hereafter to respect
Russia's power and to live in peace and
quietness on their fields.
A semi-oficial communication to the
Cologne Gazette disavowing any desire on
the part of Germany to execute the insti-
gators of the outrages on the strength of
the testimony of the foreign ministers,
says: '"The international court of justice
would decide upon the question of guilt and
would pronounce sentence. To look on COM
placently while mockery Of justice, such
as the United States demands. was being
enacted would mean a renewal of the
massacres."
Commenting upon the reproaches which
the Cologne Gazette and other German pa-
pers have leveled against the United States
the Berlin correspondent of the Times says:
Whatever may be thought of the attitude
of the United States, it hardly seems wise.
from a diplomatic point Of view, TO hurl
these tauts at a nation which. as expert
ence has shown, is by no means in the hab-
it of pocketing or forgetting such atten-
tons"