The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-04
CORRESPONDENT MAKES SERIOUS
CHARGES AGAINST MISSION
ARIES IN CHINA
PUNITIVE" RAIDS Arb A FARCE
TO THE CREDIT OF AMERICAN
TROOPS, THEY KEPT
OUT OF 1T
CHINA WILL COME TO TERMS
Acceptance of the Joint Note of
the Pekin ENJOYS Is Now Con-
sidered Practically
Assured.

LONDON, Jan 4-The Daily Mail
publishes a severe arraignment from Mr.
Willard, a correspondent in Pekin of
the European and American missionaries
in China Mr.. Willard accuses them OF
urging the military to send expeditions
TO different points of the country, osten-
sibly to protect native converts but
really to get an opportunity for whole
sale looting. He declares that the mis-
sionaries have had their share in all
the phases of loot and gives the evil
dence of American officers, whose names
he withholds; in support of his charges,
the whole going to show that in several
cases American officers declined to sane
uon the urgings of the missionaries.
AMERICAN HANDS CLEAN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Gen. Chaffee
, has cleared himself of any suspicion of
participating in any of the looting expedi-
uons which are said in some quarters
TO be going on in China under the dis
guise of punitive expeditions.
His report of the conditions under
which he took his last excursion from
Pekin has been received at the war de-
Partment by cable from Pekin. The Of
hclaIs here were surprised when they
saw the press reports stating that the
american troops in Pekin, which were
dlSunctly designated as legation guards
and as such were to have no part in
ordinary military operations, had gone
out into the country to cooperate with
German eXpeditionary force. From
the nature of Gen. Chaffee's cab!egram
1t would appear that the officials had
communicated with him on this sub
Ject and invited the explanation which
Is afforded in the following cablegran.
Pekln-AdJutant General: Washing .or.
Jan. Col Theo. J. Wint returned.
10 vnrifv
1ans had been murdered and secure ar
rest of guilty parties if allegation hound
true Germans from Tien Tsin
had been in country. Take no part in
ouenslVe operations. Patrol between
PeIin, Hoshi Wu and Chenk lIwiang
occasionally, for the purpose of order.
-"Chafitc."
] CHINESE WILL-ACCEPT.
PEHIN, Jan 2.-The foreign envoys
with the exception of the British min
lister, Sir Ernest Satow, met today to
consider the time and place for the ac.
ceptance and signing of the joint note
Nothing definite was decided. 1t seems To
be the opinion of some of the envovs that
the acceptance of the terms of the note
by the Chinese is not explicit enough.
Ihe Chinese desire for consultation re-
gafdlng the razing. of the forts and the
legation guards is open to misinterpreta-
lon and liable to lead to long and con-
unuous arguments, Which might, IN the
opinion of the ministers, simply mean
sparrng for time upon the part of the
Chinese.
Consequently the Chinese pIenipoten-
tiaries will be notified they must sign
the note before the meeting between them
and the foreign ENJOYS can be held
Sir Ernest Satow, who has been suffer-
ing from chills and fever, is better.
The military engineers of the allies,
nave agreed upon a plan for the future
defenses of the legations.
AT the meeting of the foreign ministers
To-Day 1t was announced that Ii Hung
g, Chang and Prince Ching were prepared
TO sigr an agreement as soon as it is
ready for signature.
Ii Hung Chang desires to conduct the
peace negotiations to a conclusion and
the physicians attending him think he
might be taken to the Spanish legation
where the conferences have been held
If the weather is favorable
tn Germans are reported to be return
ing to San Eo with a number of Prison
erS.
MORE SHANGHAI RUMORS.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 3-The Chinese
newspaper, Chung Wei Yei 40, makes
the following statement:
The imperial rescript accepting the
peace conditions instructs the Chinese
commissioners, when discussing noints
not specified, to gain as many conces.
slons as possible. The conditions involve
2VO debatable questions
WAIDERSFE HAPPY.
BERLIN, Jan. 3.-Count Won Walder-
see canied the countess New Years day:
Peace is in sight at last. Hurrah"'
The final peace negotiations will not
begin, 1t is understood in official circles
here, until not only the note of the pow-
erS but also the Chinese acceptance of
the preliminaries Shall have become a
formal international agreement on the
part Of the powers at present engaged
In this matter.
RUSSIAN PRESS SKEPTICAL.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3-The Rus
sian press either ignores the Chinese ac-
ceptance OF the peace terms or affects
skeptcism regarding Chinese sincerity.
Most Of tkG papers emphasize what
Ihey regard as the evidences of disssn-
sion among the powers, an extract of one
ol Dr: Morrison's dispatches to the Lon
ocn Ilmes' supplying the text of the
t'aT LerinT;- 81. Inc Novoe Vremya calls Count
Won Naldersee "a brutal old man"
The Vladivostock correspondent OF the
NoVoe VremYa te?egraphs that the Jap
enese and Russians are fraternizing the
japanese singing Russian songs
Inc Prince Paine, of Bourbon, the son
OF Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender.
who Is q lieutenant in the Russian i'm
AoInlraI Alexieff, has been sent to Ma
easakl' sCfeI1ng with typhoid fever.
DIR. MORRIsON'S LATEST
LONDON, Jan. 4.-Wiring from Pekin
yesterday to the Times, DIR. Morrison
- says he believes that Prince Zu. whose
palace was destroyed during the siege
of the legations, will be CHOSEN % go to
Berlin to apologize for the murder of
Baron Won Ketteler
Russia is negotiating with Germany
for a convention aiming to restore the
railway from Tien Tsin to Shan Hal
Kwan to Great Britain" says DIR. Nor
rison, "saddled with the following con-
ditions: Russia retains half of the roll
ing stock of the section from Shan lIai
Kwan to Niu Chwang and holds lien
on the railway for expenses incurred in
the repairs. She also appropriatas the
workshops at Shan Hal .Kwan with all
their contents.
Great Britain is trying to modify
these onerous conditions, which will
probably be agreed to by Count Won Wal
dersee as no German interests are in