The sun., 1900-11-14
|ORPyES STOP
| NAVIGATION ON
THE RIVER AMUR
rwelye Hundred Persons We're
Deliberately Drowned
in This Stream.
THOUSANDS PUT TO SWORD
horrible Slaughter of Chinese Graph
icalIy Described by Belgian
Traveller in Letter just
Published by Lon
don Newspaper.

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# lishcs a letter from Belgian gentle
# man who has been travelling to Peking
81 Via ihc Transsberan railroad. He de-
# serbcS what he saw in the Anur river.
8 hi, account surpasses in horror those
# previously published.
"lhc scenes | have witnessed during
# tae three days since the steamer left
Nj Rae0yestehpnsk," he says. ARE horrible
vi beyond tie powers of description. 1t was
# ihe closing tableau Of Il fearful human
II tragedy. Two thousand were deliberate
Il " drowned ut Moro, 1000 at Rabe and
n ,0oO around Blagovestchensk, Il total Of
N 120GO corpscs incumbcring the river,
among which were thousands of women
and children.
Navigation was all but impossible.
Lasl week boat had to plow her way
through tangled and mangled mass Of
4 cnrpscs lashed together by their long
hair. The banks were literally covered
with corpSes. In the curves of the stream
were dark, putrid smelling masses of
human flesh and bone, surging and sway
ing in the steamers wake and wash.
rhe captain vainly ordered full speed
ahead. The sight and smell will be ever
with us.
kilometers, numerous villages studded
the bank, with a thriving, industrious
population of over 100000. That of
Aigun was 10000. No one will ever
know the number of those who perished
by shot, sword and stream. Not a vii
lage is left. The silence of death was
around us. The smoking ruins Of Aigun
on the right, with broken down, crum-
bling walls and shattered, rooAess
houses"
Contoint Note by Powers.
semiofficial dispatch to Berlin from
Peking dated Nov. II gives the text of
the conjoint note of the powers to China,
confirming Il London Times dispatch dat
ed Peking, Nov. IL. Among the addition
al stpulations the note requires China to
erect expiatory monuments in every for
cign or international burial ground where
graves have been profaned.
The dispatch referred to above reads as
follows:
Pressed by the common desire for Il
speedy termination of present conditions.
the foreign envoys have finally agreed to
the following terms. to be presented in a
conjoint note, which, subject to the ap
proval of the governments, will be press
ed upon China as the basis of prelim-
mary treaty:
China shall erect a monument to Bar
on Won Ketteler on the site where he was
murdered and send an imperial prince TO
Germany TO convey an apology. She
Shall inflict the death penalty upon IL
princes and officials already named and
suspend provincial examinations for Ave
xsars where the outfsxss occurred. In
pntnss all officials fsili@g TO prevent anti
fssssn satrSgss withiH their tuFisttation
nAsa bs daarntsssa and punished. cfAis is
n as&aiicstion Of Mx. Congsf's prepossl.)
"laeemAity shsn be paid to tbs states,
oesporatseas ans individxAhs TAa tsuns-
s.yapsn shnA be sbslassss sxa fxs funa-
x@ns vssted IN foFssxs DaiuAster. Ra-
Hensi intsreeurss sAAn hs permitted with
ths emperor, as IN eiyikpad soRutFiss.
The forts at TRku and the other forts
"a the coast Of Chill shall be RACED and
the importation OF ARMS aad war mate
NAL prohibited. Permanent legation
guards shall be maintained and also
guards OF communication between Picking
ana the sea.
Imperial proclamations shall be post
ed for two years throughout the empire
suppressing Boxers.
'The indemnity is to include compen-
sation for Chinese who suffered through
being employed by foreigners, but not
compensation for native Christians. The
words missionary and Christians dc
not occur in the note"