Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-12


Receives the Text OF the Protoeso
Obtained by Peace Plenipotentt-
aries at Peking-some Provisions
Not Hitherto Made Public.
Important concessions, some of which
have not as yet been made fully known
says the Washington correspondent 6
the New York Herald, were obtained
from China by the peace plenipoten-
tiaries in Picking and inserted in tla
protocol signed last month.
The American copy of the CONVEX
ton has been received by the state de-
partment and will be laid before this
senate for action when congress meeh
ip December
The protocol consists OF twelve artt~
cles the first and third relating to ting
missions of Prince Chun and NJ Tung.
vice president of the board of revenue.
to proceed to Germany and Japan to
express the imperial apology for the
murders during the Boxer outbreak OF
the German minister and the cham
cellor of the japanese legation. !
The second article requires the pun
ishment of the chief instigators Of the
outbreak A monument Is now being
erected to the memory Of Baron vor
Ketteler, the German minister. aN
tablets are being placed by the CiA-
nese government at the cemeteries u
the various nationalities containin&
words repudiating all libels and coz-
temptuous epithets that have been.
hitherto current against foreignezx
among the masses.
The fourth article requires the Il
suance of an imperial edict forbiddtns
for the period Of two years the impor-
tation as well as the manufacture tn
China Of all arms and munitions N
war.
China codes by article I an aten Ct
land in Picking for the independents
use Of the legations of the various pow
ers and permits steps to be taken Toe
| its defensn and the retention of guards
| She also agrees to the raZing Of fls
| Taku and all forts, giving free prog
ress from Picking to the seacoast. and
grants liberty of action to the VARIOUS
powers to retain troops at ccrEalE
| points to protect free progress between
the capital and the sea.
BY article II China consents to FREE
commerce and navigation in the conD-
| try, most important concession to Isxs
United States, Great Britain and othx
commercial nations.
Article - relates to the establish
ment of the new foreign board 1t pre-
scribes that in future all official CORE
spondence between the foreign minis
tiers and the Chinese government sha!&
| be in French and describs the ce,ri,9.
| MES to be observed when the f0E ~
ministers are received In audienc.. ~
the throne.
| The settlement of the indemn1s.
question arrived at Is set forth IN hrts~
Gle 6. This article reads:
ION May 20. 1901, an imperial edlcr
| was issued consenting to the payment
of an indemnity to the various powsrF
| to the total sum of haikwan taels 45ls~
| 100000 The interest on this sum wiE
be at per cent, payments to be divM-
| ed into thirty-nine annual install1nenxA
| The principal and interest on each ias-
| stallment is TO be In gold, calculated I'M
the exchange of the time and at the Pc
| RODS agreed upon. The first instsIs-
ment is to be on Jan. 1. 1902, the intsr-
| est to commence on July /. 1901. The
| Chinese government may calcltale fxS
| first six months interest down TO the
| end of December. 1901, and thcL begin
| from Jan. I, 1902. but this interest,"
must be paid within three years AMI
| also calculated on Il basis of per cent
| per annum. ~
"China shall draw up guarantee pa
pers which when paid up shall he &c
posted in the hands Of said directors u
banks. The following are the terms ~
the said guarantee papers:
"First.-After deducting such Of tbs
customs revenues as had been agres1s
upon before in guarantee for the pay
mcnt of previous loans the balance is IT.
go toward payment Of the ilden nifty,
together With the revenues arising
from the increasing duties of : s,e. cent
| ad valorem on imports and also tie adj
| ditional revenues derived from the tax
| alton Of imports hitherto duty free, cal
culated at per cent ad valorem, with
| the exception Of rice, cereals, flour, gnE
| and silver money.
"Second.-All import revenues co.
lected by the usual native customs at
the various treaty ports must be t,rr~
ed over to the management of the l1axss
time customs"