The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1900-11-15
FURNISHING BOXER CHIEFS.
Many of Those Engaged in outrages Have
Suffered Death-Prince Tuan is Reported
in Mongolia

Many of Those Engaged in outrages Have
Suffered Death-Prince Tuan is Reported
in Mongolia.
The Boxer leaders and sympathiZing
Chinese officials are faring rather hardly
at the hands of the foreigners. 4 British
column, under Gen. Richardson, left Pao
ting-fu Oct. %, marching in the direction
of Peking. At Tung My Ing they tried
three Boxer chiefs, destroyers of chapel
and killers of native Christians. and as a
result shot the chiefs. Proceeding, Rich
ardSon burned two villages, the places
where Robinson and Norman, missiOnar-
les, were murdered, and demanded that the
city of Yang Ching should pay 10000 taels
as compensation to the families of the vic
tins, and the payment was guaranteed.
Three other villages were burned near San
Fang Nov. /.
Ii Hung Chang made strenuous efforts
to get the diplomatic representatives of
the Powers to intercede with Field Mar
shall Won Waldersee, with q view to delay
ing the execution of the PaO-ting-fu off
cials responsible for the massacreS there.
Minister WI called at the State Depart
ment about the matter, being much con-
cerned over the attitude of the Germans
towards these officials. But the dispatches
announced on Nov. s that Ting Yung, act
ing NicerOy of Chi-Lu: the Tartar General,
Kuciheng, and Col. Wang Chaume had
been shot at Pao-ting-fu by-order of court
martial, Won Waldersee approving the sell
tence. 1t was also announced that Chung
Ii, President of the Board of Revenue
had been arrested by the French near
Picking, and that Prince Tuan, disguised
as Bhuddist priest, was travelling in
Western Mongolia.
About the time these latter executions
took place an appeal was issued at Hong
Kong urging the assassination of certain
missionaries, the Chinese alleging that
they instigated the rebellion. The appeal
is otherwise incendiary.
The expedition to Pao-ting-fu by the al
lies was made the subject of a circular
note to the foreign Ministers, protesting
against the conduct of it, alleging various
acts of violence and severity on the part
of the soldiery, reminding the Ministers
impertinently that the sole object of the
foreign Governments in sending troops to
China was the relief of the legations and
protesting against the sending of a punt
tive expedition into the interior.
Progress is rather slow with the nego-
tiations for a peace settlement. Our Gov
eminent takes the ground that while the
Ministers themselves are trying to get to-
gether on common ground to present u
united front to the Chinese in the negotia-
tons it would be highly impolitic'to make
public any of the little differences that
have arisen, nor is it best that the Chi
nese should gain any information about
them.
Russia, it is said, has officially annexed
the land on the river side, opposite the
British and German settlements, at Tien
Tsin, and hoisted its flag over Ching-wang-
flu Station. This is supposed to be simply
an requirement by Russia of a settlement
similar to those of Great Britain, Germany
and France.
1t is said that Won Waldersee's plan of
campaign principally contemplates forcing
the return Of Emperor Kwang Su and the
Empress DOwager to Picking by pushing
expeditions nearer to them, cutting off
their supplies and preventing large rein
forcements reaching them.
Letters from German soldiers in China
reveal continued cruelties to Chinese
where the German military meet them. All
Boxers, one writer says, caught in Picking
are shot. Each one must dig hole and
kneel behind it so as to fall directly into it
when shot In one instance 300 to 400
Chinese were part of them killed outright
and others executed later by trial
1t turns out that Yu Hsien, Governor of
Shensi, who the Chinese Government an
nounced had committed suicide by swal-
lowing gold leaf, has disappeared from
Shensi, but there is no confirmation of the
news as to his death.
y statement from GekinS Is that III
Hung Chang has received note from EN-
peror Kwang Su refusing to accede to the
demand for the punishment of Tung Flu
Hsiang and consenting only to the Danish
ment of Yu Hsien.
The latest is that the Ministers have
so far progressed as to agree to certain
terms, to be embodied in joint note which
is subject to the approval of the several
Governments, and is to be pressed upon
China as the basis of preliminary treaty
These terms include the erection of a mon
ument to Baron Won Ketteler at the site
Of the murder and send an Imperial Prince
to China to convey an apology; that China
shall infiict the death penalty on all guilty
high officials and Princes where the out
RACES occurred; and hereafter all officials
who do not make proper effort to prevent
outrages on foreigners shall be immediate
ly removed and punished; the Tsung Ii va
men shall be succeeded by Minister of
Foreign Affairs; that Taku forts and other
forts on the Chill shall be raZed and the
importation of war material prohibited !:
permanent legation guards shall be main
tanned, also guards of communication be
tween Picking and the sea; Imperial pro-
carnations shall be posted for two years
suppressing Boxers, and an indemnity for
Governments and individual foreigners.
1t is stated that the Chinese have been
much impressed by the reprisals at Pao-
tlng-fu, and much exercised over them.