Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-06
POOR PRINCE YUAN
Many Grave Charges Laid at
 His Door.
FORMAL INDICTMENTS TO-DAY

1WeiSe Chinese O1nclalS Implicated
 Names of the Guilty Ones and the
 Crimes They are Charged With
 Having Committed.
 ranged, at the meeting of the foreign ministers and Chinese plenipotentiaries today the entire proceedings were conducted orally. no writings being presented to the Chinese. A formal 'lndlctment against the twelve officials whose punishment has been demanded pE the powers was read, however, though Rang Yf and u Ping Heng are dead. The officials whose punishment nas been demanded are:
 Prince Chuang. commander-in-chIef or the boxers, who had q large share Ill The responsibility for promises of rewards of fifty taels for the capture or foreigners and the death of persons protecting them; Prince Tuan. the principal insIigator of the troubles into Which he dragged the Chinese govern Ihent, Who was appointed president of the tsung-i-yamen after giving advice to. Ihe Chinese government; who was Eesponsiblea for the edicts against for o<Ehc1Ss 1SSdGu pSSW teH Uuo -sD ana Aatenss If: who was mainly responsi- bR for the massacres in the provinces, especially Shan-Si: who :, ordered the tfoapS To attack tle legations in op- lositIon 10 the advice of high man dai1nS who Were! looking to q cessa- lion of hosdlities: who secured the eX- ecution of members of the tsung-li- yamen who were favorable to foreign CTS; who is the recognized author of the ultimatum of June 19 directing the diplomatic corps to leave Pekin with iii tventy-four hours, and who or dered, before the expiration of this de- lay, firing upon all foreigners found upon the streets Of the capital, and who was practically the author of the assassination of Baron Eon ketteler, the German minister; Duke Ian, vice president of the police. who was ac cessory to the giving of orders for the capture of foreigners and was the first to open the gates of the city to the boxers; 1ing Men, who was criminal accomplice of Prince Chuang and Duke Ian in their machinat tions; Kang Yi one of the instigatorS and counsel lorS of the boxers, who always pro- tected them and was most hostile to any understanding looking to the re- establishment of peaceful relations with the foreigners; who was sent at the commencement of June to meet the boxers and endeavor to deter them from entering the city, but who, on the contrary, encouraged them to fol low tue work of destruction, and who signed with Prince Yuan anl AinS Men their principal notices and pre- pared the plan for the expulsion and ahnhilation of foreigners in the prov inces Of the empire: Chaos Su kiam. q member of the grand council and also minister of justice, who was one of the leaders against the foreigners and mainly responsible for the execu-. ton of the officials killed during the siege for having tried to stop the at tack against the legations and who tendered the boxers every encourage rnent; 4u Hsien. who reorganized the boxers was the author of the mas sacres in the Shan-Si province and as sassinated with his own hand foreign CTS. and missionaries, and who was noted for cruelty, which stained with blood the whole country over which he was governor: General Tung Fun Slang, who with Prince Yuan carried out in Pekin. tha plans against the foreigners and who commanded the attacks on the legations and the sol diers who assassinated the Japanese chancellor; Ii Ping Heng who used his influence to have the boxers recog- nized as loyal and patriotic men and Who led the government to use them With the object of the eNtermination of foreigners; Hsu Tung, who has. al ways been one of the officials most hostile to foreigners, who praised the boxers. Of whom he was an accom- plice. ands who used all his influence with high persons in the empire, being tutor to the heir apparent; Hsu Cheng 1u. who has the same responsibility; hih Siu, one of the officials most hos tile to foreigners and the minister at the rites of service of the boxers.
 The ministers then announced that these personages all deserved death. When this question is settled the for eign pfenipotentiaries will have to in- dicate who. to their knowledge, com mittad crimes in the provinces. pun ishment for which have to be inflict- ed,
 They will also present to the Chi neSe, in order to prevent miSunder- standing. the text of the edict referred to in article 10 of the collective note, before it's publication
 The ministers definitely decided, at 8 meeting held tonight, to demand tAe imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the Chinese off cials named in the list submitted, in clud1ng those who are dead. on ae- count of the moral effect upon the Chinese.
 The sentence on the living must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Yuan and Duke Lan, which the en- peror may commute to banishment to Turkestan.
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