The true northerner., 1900-09-21
PUNISHMENT
TO BE FIRST
GERMANY WANTS THOSE REsPoN-
'srBLD FOR oUrR,GEs PUNISHED.
POWERS EXPECTED TO INDoRsE
THIS LINE or POLICY.
GERMANY's NOTE TURNS THE IA
nLE o. RUSSIA.

Berlin, September f9.-The foreign
office has sent a circular note to all the
powers announcing that the German
government considers That an indispen-
sable preliminary TO the beginning or
peace negotiations with China Is the
delivering up Of those VINO were re-
sponsSble for the outrages. The text
of the telegraphic note. as ne North
German Gazette gives it, is as follows;
'',rhe government of the emperor
holds as preliminary TO entering upon
diplomatic relations with the Chinese
government that those persons must be
delivered up who have been proved TO
be the original and real insugators OF
the outrages against international law
which have occurred in Pekin. The
number of those who were merely in
struments IN carrying out the outrages
Is too great Wholesale executions
would be contrary TO the civilized con-
science, and the circumstances OF such
n group of headers cannot be complete
ly aScertained. But u rev whose guilt
is notorious should be delivered up and
punished. The representatives OF the
powers at Pekin are in position to
give OF bring forward convincing evl-
dence. Less Importance attaches To the
number punished than To their charvic-
ter as chief instigators and leaders
The government believes that 1t can
count ON the unanimfty OF all the cab
inets In regard TO this point. insomuch
as indifference to the idea OF just
utonement would To- equivalent TO in
difference 10 a repetition OF the crime
The government ITVposes. therefore.
that the cabinets concerned should in
strSlcf their Representatives at Pekin
to Indicate those leading Chinese per
sonages from whose guilt in instigat-
ing or pcrpetTatfng outrages all DOUBT
is excluded"
The note has been sent TO the Ger
man embassies at Washington. Lon
don. Paris. St Petersburg, Rome vi
emma and Toxic.
The German steamer Sachaen, hav-
ing on board Field Marshal Count Won
Waldersee, comnander-n-chief of the
International forces in China and his
staff, has arrived at Hong Kong. The
field marshal landed and was received
by a guard OF nonor OF British troops.
He made tlbe usual official calls. Count
Won Waldcrsee Will proceed To Shang-
hal, and from there to Taku on board
the German steamer Hiertha
Washington, September 1S.-A copy
of the German note demanding the
punishment OF the leaders Of the re-
bellion ia China was presentcu TO Act
ing Secretary Adee at the state de-
partment during the day rom, the Ger
man embassy. The state department
has been all along directing its efforts
TO the speedy opening Of negotiations
for a final settlement with tie Chinese
government and has SO far not been
heard from relative to the matter Of
puniShments beyond the indirect refer
ences contained in the notes that have
defined the governments purpose. The
question is now presented plainly,
whether or not t..e negotiations shall
be preceded with "a decision on this
point.
London, September 19.-As might
have been expected coincident with the
arrival oI Count Won Waluersee in Chi
ma comes the most important declara-
ton OF policy yet issued 10y any Of the
allies. As the Deniy News remarks.
Germany's circular nate has turned the
tables on Russia. whose evacuation
proposal has put Germany in an awk-
ward corner. Now. if Russia assents
70 the German note She will be unable
To continue, says the Daily News, to
pose as China's ienient and fOrgiving
friend, while ii she dissents. Russia
will lay herself open TO the charge OF
reducing TIE punitive expedition TO a
farce.
The London morning papers have lit
tie but praise for what is called Ger
many's admirable note" The Times
goes so far as 20 wish that the credit
for making such proposal belon.-ed
TO Great Britain. The Morning Post
alone, In a cogcnt and well-reaSOned
editorial, points out a grave objection.
namely, that If the real authors aud
inst1gators OF the uprising should prove
To De identical with the personnel OF
the Chinese government, it can hardly
be expected that they will dellve.
themselves up, and tnat, if the Chinese
government should be designated as
guilty. II would be under tae ban of
the powers, condition of things only
terminable by the conquest Oh China
or revolution producing a new gov
ernment Therefore, says the Morn
ing Post the powers should carefully
weigh the matter before committing
fl