Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-09-19
.EyP|ATION DEMANDED
Germany Makes It Condition
Precedent to Diplomatic Re-
5.g Iations With China.
LORD HIGHEXEoUTIoNERs WANTED
No Small Fry :riT Satisfy the Kaiser
Leaders OF the Boxer Devil
tries To Be Punished.

| Washington, Sept. 19.-Ihe gen
eral impression here is that the Ger
man note published yesterday de
mandiug the punishment of Chinese
officials is responsible for the out
RACES upon foreigners. 1t ha:
brought the Chinese trouble to ar
acute crisis, as far as the United
States is concerned This conclu.
sion is based upon the belief in Official
circles that the Chinese government
cannot accept the German PROPOSE
tion, so that it is necessary now for
the United States either to withdraw
its forces from China Immediately OF
join with Germany. England, and
perhaps some OF the other allied pow
ers. in prolonged war with China.
Washington, Sept. ia copy Of a
German note demanding the punish
ment of the leaders of the rebellion
in China was presented to Acting See
retary Adee at the state department
yesterday from the German embassy.
The German charge, Baron Sternberg,
being temporarily absent from the city
there could be no attempt at discussion
of this most important communication.
The baron is expected to return today.
when the subject may be taken up
with him. Meanwhile the note itself
will receive the earnest attention of
the president and such members of
the cabinet as are in Washington to-
day, the president at this writing being
en- route from Canton, o.. to the Capt.
tol. The German note was sent to the
German embassies here, at London.
Paris, st. Petersburg, Rome, Vienna
and Toxic.
States a Condition Precedent.
The text of the note is rs follows:
"The government of the emperor holds
as preliminary to entering upon diplo-
matte relations with the Chinese gov
ernment that those persons must be
delivered up who have been proved To
he the original and real instigators OF
the outrageS against international law
which have occurred at Peking. The
number of those who were merely i'll
struments in carrying out the OutraScs
is too great Wholesale executions
would be contrary to the civilized con-
science, and the circumstances of such
q group of leaders cannot be complete
ly ascertained. But Il few whose guilt
is notorious should be delivered up and
punished.
Kaiser Is Fishing for Whales.
THE representatives of the powers
at Peking are in Il position to give or
bring forward convincing evidence.
Less importance attaches to the num-
Der punished than to their character
as chief inStigators as leaders. The
government believes Ii can count on
the unanimity of all the cabinets in
regard to this point, insOmuch as i'll
difference to the idea of just atone
ment would be equivalent to indiffer-
ence TO a repetition of the crime. The
government proposes, therefore, that
the cabinets concerned should instruct
their representatives at Peking to in
dicate those leading Chinese person
ages from whose guilt in instigating
or perpetrating outrages all doubt is
excluded.
TSignedl "NON BUELOW."
1t Is Now Up to Your Uncle Snm.
The state department has been all
along directing its efforts to the speedy
opening of negotiations for final set
tlement with the Chinese government.
and has so far not been heard from
relative to the matter OF punishmentS
beyond the indirect reference con-
tained in the notes that have defined
the governments purposes. The ques-
ton Is now presented plainly whether
or not the negotiations shall be pre-