The age-herald., 1900-07-09
AN OFFICIAL REPORT
 COMES. FROM CONGER
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 honor to communicate to Y. H. and Y. E. the text of a resolution prepared yesterday by the representatives of the foreign pow CTS accredited to Pekin.
 "The diplomatic body, relying upon the imperial decrees already published, which have ordered the dissolution of the Boxers, demand:
 1. The arrest of all persons practcing the drills of that association, provoking distur- bances upon the public highway, posting, printing or distributing pacards which may contain threats against foreigners.
 "2. The arrest of owners or guardians of temples other places where the Boxers assemble, and the treatment of these &C., complices and criminal abettors as Boxers themselves. 8. The chastisement of the public of- ficials who may render themselves culpable by neglecting to suppress any disorder with which they charged or who may con- hive with rioters.
 '4. The execution of the authors of out persons and property.
 ''5. The execution of persons who are supporting and directing the Boxers in the present disturbances.
 "6. The publication in Pekin, in Chi Ii and the other northern provinces of procla- nations bringing these measures to the knowledge of the people.
 T am, besides, charged by the diplomat ic corps to inform Y. H. and Y. E. that it expects satisfactory reply to this de- mand without unnecessary delay.
 'I improve the occasion to reiterate to Y H. and Y D. the assurance of my high est consideration.
 (signed) "B. COLoGAN,
 "Dean of the Diplomatic Corps" Enclosure No. 9
 Letter to French Minister
 Bishop Xavier to Mr. Pechon, French minister-(translation.
 Apostolic Vicarate of Pekin and North China, Pekin, May 19 19OO-Mr. Minister: From day to day the situation becomes more serious and threatening. In the pre- lecture of Pao Ting Flu more than seventy Christians have been massacred near Echao -only three days ago three neophytes have been cut in pieces. Many villages have been pillaged and burned; great many others have been completely abandoned
 More than 2,OOO Christians are fleeing
 
 shelter At Pekin alone about 400 refugees, men, women and children, are lodged at our house. and that of the sisters; before eight days we will probably have many thous- ands.
 We will have to dismiss the schools and the colleges, also use all the hospitals to make room for these unfortunate people. Upon the east of us pillage and incen- diarism are imminent: we are hourly re- ceiving the most alarming news. Pekin is surrounded on all sides; the Boxers are daily coming nearer the capital; delayed only by the destruction which they are making of Christians.
 Believe me, I pray you, MT. Minister, that I am well informed, and say nothing lightly.
 Religious persecution is only one object. The real purpose is the extermination of Europeans, purpose which is clearly set forth and written upon the banners of the Boxers. Their associates await them at Pe- kin where they will begin by attacking the Chinese and finish with the legations. For us at Pal Tang, the day is practical ly ended. All the city knows 1t; everybody. is speaking of it, and a popular outbreak Is manifest.
 Yesterday evening forty-three poor wo- men and their children, flying from the massacre, arrived at the house of the sis ters. More than five hundred persons ac- companied them, saying to them that if they had escaped this once they would soon die with the others.
 .Mr. Minister, I do not speak to you of placards without number. which are posted in the city against Europeans in gen. eral. Each day new ones appear more ex-