The Trouble in China.
London, February 19. The American Government strongly objects to Count von Waldersee’a activity, especially in the proposed expedition to Taiyusufu. An Imperial edict which has been issued declares the action of the Princes and officials in resisting the proposals i;o suppress the Boxer movement imperilled the safety of the Court. The edict admits that the previous .sentences en the offenders were inadequate. The Princes, including Tuan, can accordingly be banished. The foreign Ministers yesterday decided that China’s reply to the Powers’ demands is unsatisfactory, and determined to insist on compliance with the original demands. The German, commissariat in China has been ordered to have a thousand transport waggons in readiness in three weeks’ time for an eighty days’ expedition. Colonel Hoffmelster has been sent with an expeditionary corps to Inomakwan, north-westward of Paotingfu. The German naval authorities are engaging pilots for an expedition on the Yangtse. February 20.
In the House of Commons Earl C ranbourne said that the question of the future protection of the Legations at Pekin was still undecided as far as Britain was concerned, but the fixing of reasonable limits was expedient.
Li Hung Chang and String- have announced that the Court agrees to inflict the punishment demanded by the Ministers.
It is understood at Shanghai that Count Walderseo’s proposed international expedition to Taivuenfu will consist of 15,000 troops, intended to escbrt the Emperor to Pekin, or make a demonstration throughout Chi-li, if the Court shows a desire to procrastinate in accepting the Powers’ demands.
February 21. The British, German and Japanese Minister ."warned China that noncompliance with the Powers’ demands would entail an expedition being sent to Sin mania.
China then ‘ yielded, and the Ministers then agreed that Chaoshuehiao and Yinguien should be strangulated instead of being decapitated.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 23 February 1901, Page 3
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297The Trouble in China. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 23 February 1901, Page 3
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