The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 89, 27 December 1900, Page 1

The Trouble in China.

London, December 21. A Joint Note, signed by Ihe representatives <jf the Powtrs interested, has been addressed io the Chinese Government. No mention is made of capital punishment, which it was at first thought advisable to insist upoa in the case of the most reactionary leaders. The severest penalty China hns power to inflict is, however, insisted upon. The Note declares th<-j at the instance of Britain the foreig-a troops in Pekin and -elsewhere m the province of PechiJi will .not. hi withdrawn until the demands o£ Lhe Powers have been coinmiod with. •

December Sii. A joinfe note to China unpesujbetf the Government for treachery and duplicity in ordering the Imperial Lroops and Boxers to besiege Legation -under pretence of ailbrding protection. All tha outrages are reviewed, and the note points out that the Allies were compelled to march on Pekin in order to vanquish the Chinese force. The Allies could not accede to the Chinese petition for peace except on the following irrevocable conditions :—lndispensable: — Indispensable reparation must be male for crimes^ prevention of the recurrence ; the most severe punishment befitting the ringleaders of the primes ; reform of the Tsung Li Yamen % fortification of the diplomatic quarter ; revision of commercial treaties to promote trade relations. The remainder of the note .reads as the cabla of November 13th. The Allies add that until thfl conditions are complied with they can hold out no hope of the withdrawal of their troops.