The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-24
CHINA'S PLAN.
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang
Submit Proposal
Looking to Beginning NegOtia-
tiOns For Settlement.
FAULTACKNOWLEDGED
And a Promise Included to Do
So No More.
Willingness to Pay All the
Damage is Expressed.

New York, Oct. PA dispatch to the
Herald from Pekin says:
A preliminary convention between
China and the combined powers has
been proposed by Prince Ching and Lii
Hung Chang. It is as follows:
Article Laying siege to the lega-
t1onS of foreign ministers is a high
offense against one of the important
principles Of international law No
country can possibly tolerate such a
thing. China acknowledges her great
fault in this respect, and promises that
it will never occur again.
Article 2-China admits her liability
to pay an indemnity for the various
losses sustained on this occasion, and
the powers will each appoint officials to
examine and present all claims for a
final consultation and settlement.
Article 3-As to future trade and gen
era1 international relations, each power
should designaTe how these matters are
to be dealt with, whether the old treat
les should continue or new conventions
treaties or cancelling the old treaties and
negotiating new ones. Any of these
plans may be adopted, and when China.
has approved them further special reg
ulations can be made in each case as re-
quired-
Article 4This convention will be
made by China with the com mbined
powers to cover the general principles
nent, the foreign ministers will remove
the seals they caused to be placed in
various parts OF the tsung Ii yamen, and
then the yamen ministers may go to the
yamen and attend to business as usual
And further, each power should arrange
it's own special affairs with China, so
that separate treaties may be settled in
due order. When the various items of
indemnity are all arranged properly, or
an understanding has been reached
about them, the powers will successfully
withdraw their troops.
Article 5-The troops sent to China by
the powers are for the protection of the
ministers and no other purpose, so when
the negotiations begin for the treaty of
peace each power should first declare
an armistice
REBEL ARMY GROWS.
Canton Oct 24.-According to official
reports all the cities in the Hui Chow
prefecture are still holding out, the reb-
els confining themselves to capturing
villages and slaughtering isolated bod
les of imperial troops The rebels are
also actively recruiting, and are now es-
timated to number 10000 There has
been no pitched battle The Chinese
general commanding at Hui Chow is
afraid to leave the city for fear of be-
ing cut off.
IN CONGER'S HANDS.
Washington, Oct. 24-Based on Gen.
Chaffees advice the war department Of
ficials are of the opinion that all the
American troops included in the order
of evacuation have not only lett Pekln
but probably are now at Tien Tsin, or
nearby. The quartermaster'S depart
ment has made all arrangements for
taking them aboard ship so there is no
longer much danger of the troops being
prevented by ice from leaving north
China 1t is now said that in all proba-
bility Gen. James H. Wilson, the second
in command in China will soon be de-
tached and will not remain in Pekin ac-
cQrding to the original programme. In
stead of having the NEGOTIATIONS for a
final settlement conducted through a
fully organized commission in behalf Of
the United States government as at first
proposed, it begins to appear that they
will be conducted, if there are to be any
formal negotiations, through the simple
mechanism of the American legation at
Pekin, proper credentials for the purpose
being dispatched to Minister Conger.