The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-24
TERMS TO CHINA.
Text of the Proposed Basis For
Peace Negotiation.

washington, Dec. 24.-The state de-
partment has made public the terms
upon which China will be permitted to
settle the existing trouble. They are
embodied in the following:
'InasmUch as China has recognized
her responsibility, expressed regret and
evinced desire to see an end put to
the situation created by the aforesaid
disturbances, the powers have deter
mine. to accece to her rco'IesC upon the
iIr-Yocable corditio.as enumerated be-
To-. which they deem indispensable to
expiate the crimes committed and to
prevent their recurrence:
A. The dispatch to Berlin of an ex-
traordinary mission, headed by an i'm
pCrial prince, in order to express the
regrets of his majesty, the emperor of
China, and of the Chinese government,
for the assassination of his excellency
the late Baron Won Ketteler minister Of
Germany.
"B. The erection On the spot Of the
assassination of a commemorative mon
ument, BETTING the rank of the de-
ceased, bearing an inscription in the
Latin, German and Chinese languages,
expressing the regrets of the emperor
of China for the murder.
"a. The severest punishment for the
persons designated in the imperial de-
cree of September 25, 1900. and for those
whom the representatives of the powers
shall subsequently designate.
'B. The suspension for five years of
all official examinations in the cities
where foreigners have been massacred
or have been subjected to cruel treat
ment-
Honorable reparation to be made by
the Chinese government to the Japanese
government for the murder of Mr..
Sujyama-
''An expiatory monument to be erected
by the imperial Chinese government in
every foreign or international cemetery
which has been desecrated or in which
the graves have been destroyed
V
'"The maintenance. under conditions
to be determined by the powers, of the
Introduction against the importation of
arms as we'll as of materials employed
exclusively for the manufacture Of arms
and ammunition.
VI
Equitable indemnities for govern
ments, societies, companies and indi-
viduals, as well as for Chinese, who dur
ing the late occurrences, have suffered
in person or in property in consequence
of their being in the service of foreign
ers. China to adopt financial measures
acceptable to the powers for the purpose
of guaranteeing the payment of said in
IDENTITIES and the interest and amorti-
cation of the loans.
VII
1.-THE right, for each power, to main
tain a permanent guard for its legation
and to put the diplomatic quarter in
defensible position, the Chinese having
no right to reside in that quarter.
VIII
'The destruction of the forts which
might obstruct free communication be-
tween Pel1in and the sea.
''The right to the military occupation
of certain points, to be determined by
an understanding between the powers.
in order to maintain open communica-
tion between the capital and the sea-
''The Chinese government to cause to
be published du-i g two years in all the
sub-prefectures an imperial decree
(a) embodying a perpetual prohibition.
under penalty of death, of membership
in any anti-foreign society; (b) enume-
rating the punishments that shall be in
fiicted on the guilty, together with the
suspension of all official examinations
in the cities where foreigners have
been subjected to cruel treatment, and
fc), Furthermore, an imperial decree to
be issued and published throughout the
empire ordering that the governors gen.
eral (viceroys) and all provincial or local
officials shall be held responsible for
the maintenance of order within their
respective 5urisdictions-and that in the
event of renewed anti-foreign disturb
ances or any other infractions of treaty
occurring, and which shall not forth
with be suppressed and the guilty per-
shall be Immediately removed and for
ever disqualified from holding any Office
or honors.
XXI.
'sThe Chinese government to under
take to negotiate amendments to the
treaties of commerce and navigation
considered useful by the foreign powers.
and upon other matters pertaining to
their commercial relations with the OBJ
ject of facilitating them.
XII.
1.-THE Chinese government to deter
mine in what manner to reform the de-
partment of foreign affairs and to mod
ify the court ceremonials concerning the
reception of foreign representatives in
the manner to be indicated by the
powers
Until the Chinese government. has
complied with the above conditions to
the satisfaction of the powers, the un-
dersigned can hold out no expectation
that the occupation of Pelxin and the
province of Chi Ii by the general
forces can be brought to a conclusion"