The sun., 1919-07-30
WILSON CALLS PACT
WITH FRANCEADUTY


an open session will be held and Ber-
nard Baruch. a financial and economic
adviser Of the peace commission, will
appear.
Senator Hitchcock (Neb.). Swanson
(Va.), Democratic leaders in the treaty
fight. held a conference with the Presi-
dent last night at the White House and
reviewed the League of Nations situa-
ton. Senator Hitchcock assured the
President that the outlook was favorable.
He estimated there were forty Demo-
Gratis who would stand by the Admins
tration through everything for ratifica-
ton and against all reservations or
amendments. The opposition, he told
the President, would be unable to con-
centrate enough votes on any particular
amendment to ADOPT It. Thus there will
be a large number for reservation as
to Article X another group who will
regard II as highly important to insert
a Monroe Doctrine amendment; still
others insisting on reservations to do
nestle questions. But he said conf
IDENTIFY that on no single amendment
would enough unite to adopt 1t.
MIR. Hitchcock also insisted to the
President that the Foreign Relations
Committee as matters now stood could
not even unite an a procedure to bring
the treaty out to the Senate.
Knox Corrects Taft.
Senator Knox CPa.) to-day took oc-
casion in a brief statement to the
Senate to correct citations of recent his
tory by william II. Taft He drew at
1 tention to a published article by Mr..
Taft which declared that what Ger
many had In China was granted her by
China at the time Of the Boxer troubles
by way OF indemnity for the killing of
her Minister. Baron Won Ketteler. and
was enc of the concessions to foreign
powers which grew out of the rising
against the foreigners in the time of
Dowager Empress"
To this Mr.. Knox took decided ex-
ception. The facts, he said, were pre-
cisely the reverse. He proceeded to
explain:
THE Boxer instruction occurred In
1901. 1t was the result of the cour
d'etat of the Empress Dowager. Shan
tung was leased to Germany in 1897
or 1898. three or four years before the
Boxer instruction occurred. 1t wal
known as early as 1896 that Germany hat
developed the policy and It was sc
publicly stated in the Reichstag thai
she must have a. port and a sphere Of
influence in China and that was {, bt
the Bay of Kiachau and the environ
ment of the Shantung Peninsula. Ger
many's opportunity came In 1897 wher
two missionaries, not two diploma tit
Ministers, were murdered in the neigh
borhood of Kiachau by highwaymen.
These highwaymen were not repre-
sentatives of the Government: they wer,
mere outlaws, and Germany's right I,
demand indemnity for their death or ;
vast cession of valuable territory il
China would be just as great as Grea
Britain's right would be to demand
cession Of the State of Maryland IL tw'
Of her subjects had been killed. as the.
might have been, by outlaws in thi
city last week.
How Kettcler Was Murdered.
when the Boxer instruction brok
|, out we all remember how the repre-
sentatives of foreign countries wer. i'm
pounded in the city of Pekin. The
were given by the Dowager Empires
in June. 1900. twenty-four hours to leav
the city. At a conference held on tn
' night OF the 18th of June in the con-
2 pound It appeared that majority c
: the Ministers and majority of the fel
, eigners Of our nationality had PRACTICAL
l decided they would move OF to Tientsi
on the following morning. or within tn
Q twenty-four hours.
: Tho British opposed this move b'
n cause Tentsin was long distance ava
i and 1t would take a mile Of carts
g transport those foreigners to the city {
= refuge, and It was through thickl
populated country where the Boxers wer
A., having 1t all their own way. and the
l urged and pleaded and argued with the
e conferees not to risk the danger! as
e meant certain death to them. Baro
0 Won Ketteler. who represented the Gel
{ man Government. took It upon himsel
a brave man that he was. to visit alor
h with his private secretary and two Oh
| nese servants, the Chinese Foreign o
fice TO see IL there could be some mod
fication of this order for them to leav
y within the twenty-four hours On h
way to the Foreign Office he was mul
dered by imperial soldiers. The legs
3 lions at once determined that II the in
t perial army OF China could not protet
/. the Foreign Minister in walking froi
4 the compound to their own homes
:. would be worse than madness to undel
. take this journey to Tientsin. So 1t wa
: given up and the life OF Baron Won Ke
; teller was what saved 1000 lives With
l that compound.
, Four Years After shantung.
1.-THE indemnity demanded for III
4 death was determined in the protocol {
n 1901, four years after this cession ha
been made to Germany OF Shantung, an
=, that indemnity consisted Of Germany
l share In about $3.50. 000. 900 in gold. tn
I only mention OF Baron Won Ketteler
. the protocol was that the Germans d.
!, manded that a monument should
: erected to his memory on the spot wheel
a he was killed. and to-day beautif'
arch spans the street upon the spot o
which is inscribed in Chinese and
German inscriptions of the deepest regr'
and modification for the act.
''Mr. Taft would have been right In d.
Tending that indemnity II that had bee