The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-28
10 RETAKE PICKING
Are the Instructions the Dowager EN-
press is Reported to Have Given
LII Hung Chang in Royal Edlct
BY scrlpps-McRae Press Association.

BY scrlpps-McRae Press Association.
Shanghai, Sept. Pit is rumore d
here that the dowager Empress ha $
issued secret edict commanding Ii
Hung Chang to retake Pekin. Ii re-
mains at Tien Tsin.
London, Sept. %, $3.50 a. ma
semi-oilicial announcement has been
issued in st. Petersburg that the
European cabinets are engaged in an
endeavor to induce Germany to aban-
don her demand for the surrender of
the instigatOrs of the anti-foreign out
RACES as preliminary to peace ne
! gotiations.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle asserts:that Russia's
reply to the German note is very
friendly, but that, although it appears
to consent to Germany's proposal. it
practically disapproves by asking
whether it would not be lbest to open
peace negotiations firstl and to make
the punishment of the instigators of
the outrages the first subject of dis
cussion. According to the Berlin cor
respondent of the Daily Express,
Germany will make a new proposal,
namely, that the'great powers form an
international court to try.the Chinese
officials accused of completely in the
outrages.
The morning Post has the following
from its Shanghai correspondence dated
yesterday:
prince Tuan's ascendancy creates
very grave danger. Thelonly hope
for foreigners is that the pro-foreign
viceroy Of Marking has not yet been
removed. Tuan's emissaries are work.
ing hard to get him out of the way by
murder or suicide"
The British and Continental epress
is still discussing America "a reply,
which is generally regarded as en-
couraging Ii Hung Chang to delay
the negotiations.
\ semi-ofiicial commuique to the Co
logne Gazette disavowing any desire
on the part of Germany to execute the /.
instigators of the outrages on the |
strength of the testimony ofthe foreign |
says:
1.-The International court of Justice !
would decide upon the question of |
guilt and would pronounce sentence. /
To look on complacently while a mock |
cry of justice such as the United States |
demands was being enacted would |
mean a renewal of the massacres."
Commenting upon the reproaches
which the Cologne Gazette and other
German papers have leveled against
the United States, the Berlin cores
pondent says:
whatever may be thought of the
of the United States, it hard
ly seems wise from diplomatic point
of view to hurl these taunts at a ma
ton which, as experience has shown.
is by no means in the habit of pocket
ing or forgetting such attentions.
Berlin, Sept 24-The refusal of the
United States to accede to Germany's
regarding the Chinese set
Element is prominently commented
upon by the entire German press. In
spite of the previous limitations
through Washington cablegrams,
the refusal has come as great sur
prise.
a high foreign Office official, refer
ring to the matter today said;
Germany adheres firmly to her pro-
position. She has no occasion to
doubt that favorable answers will
come from all the other powers. We
have received hints that Russia will
agree to the German note and the
same course is confidently expected of
apan and Great Britain. We hope
the answer of the United States is not
inal, especially in view of the posi-
Dility that it was influenced by tenn
Dorary conditions"