The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-13
Death Penalty to BE Inflicted on All
Ringleaders of the Uprising
Against Foreigners.
CHINA MUST PAY INDEMNITY
TO ALL GOVERNMENTS AND PERSONS
FOR PROPERTY LOSSES.
Must Also Erect a Monument to Baron
Won Ketteler and Send a Mission
to Berlin to Apologize.

LONDON Dec 12.-The negotiations OF
the powers in regard to the joint Chinese
note were concluded satisfactorily yester-
day, all agreeing to the conditions identi-
cally as outlined by Count Won Buelow,
the imperial chancellor of Germany, Nov.
10. with the exception of the Introductory
clause saying the demands are irrevocabie'
which is eliminated.
The Peking correspondent of the London
Daily Mail, wiring Tuesday and confirming
the reports of the agreement as TO the col
lective note, says that a committee OF rep
resentatives of the powers has been chosen
to regulate the conferences with the Chi
nese plenipotentiaries.
Count Won Buelow, on the occasion Of his
first appearance In the Reichstag as i'm
perial chancellor Nov. 19, after making a
statement defining Germany's policy to-
wards China and outlining the Anglo
German agreement, proceeded to give the
complete text of the demands which the
representatives of the powers in Peking
had at that time agreed to recommend to
their representatives to embody I'm col
lective note for presentation to the Chi
nese government, as follows:
Article 1. An extraordinary mission
headed by an imperial prince shall be sent
to Berlin in order to express the regret of
the Emperor of China and of the Chinese
government for the murder Of Baron Won
Ketteler. On the scene of the murder a
monument worthy of the assassinated min
lister shall be erected with an inscription
in Latin, German and Chinese. expressing
the regret of the Emperor of China.
Article ii. (a) The death penalty is to
be inflicted on Princes Tuan and Chuang.
upon Duke Ian. and further, upon Wing
Men, Kang vi, Chao Shu Chiao, Tung Fuh
Slang, Yu Hsien and other ringleaders
whose names will be given by the repre-
sentatives of the powers. (b) In all places
where foreigners have been killed or mall
treated official examinations shall be sus-
pended for five years.
Article III. The Chinese government
shall erect monument in every foreign
desecrated or where the graves have been
destroyed.
Article w. The prohibition of the i'm
port OF arms into China shall be main-
tained till further notice.
Article V. China has to pay just IN
demnity to governments, corporations and
individuals, as well as to those Chinese
who suffered during the recent events i'm
person or in property in consequence of
being in the service of foreigners"
GCount Won Buelow here interpellated the
remark that 1t was intended TO effect a
further understanding among the powers
with regard to the principles on which
claims for compensation should be pre-
ferred. This particularly applied to the
case of missionaries
Article vi. Every single foreign power
is granted the right of maintaining a per-
manent legation guard and of placing the
quarter of Peking where the legations are
situated in a state of defense. Chinese
are not to be allowed to live in that quar-
ter of Peking
article VII. The Taku forts and those
forts which might prevent free communi-
Cof hnfx palrf a .-1,,n N
raZed.
Article VIII. The powers acquire the
right of occupying certain ports upon which
they agree among themselves for the object
OF maintaining free communication from
the capital and sea.
article TX. The Chinese government is
bound to post imperial DEGREES for two
years at all subprefectures. In these de-
crees (a) to belong to any foreign sect IS
forever forbidden Under penalty of death.
(b) the punishments inflicted upon the gull
ty are recorded; (c) to prevent fresh dis
turbances it is declared that the viceroys,
as well as the provincial and local authori-
ties, are made responsible for the main
tenance of order in their districts. In the
event of fresh anti-foreign disturbances or
other infringements of the treaties which
are not at once stopped and avenged by
punishment of the guilty those officials
shall be promptly deposed and never again
intrusted with official functions or Invested
with fresh dignities.
Article X. The Chinese government I'M
dertakes to enter upon negotiations with
regard to such alterations in the existing
commercial and navigation treaties as the
foreign governments consider TO be desir-
able, as we'll as regarding other matters
which are concerned with facilitating COM
mercfal relations.
Article XI. The Chinese government
shall be bound TO reform the Chinese For
eign Office and the court ceremonial for the
reception of the foreign representatives
and to do so in the sense which shall be de-
fined by the foreign powers"