Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — MUST STOP ATTACKS. [ARTICLE]

MUST STOP ATTACKS.

China Warns! to Pat Immediate Bad to Fit-Inc on Legations. The State Department Thursday morning made public the text of the note addressed to the Chinese government through Minister Wu. The dispatch is not in the form or nature of an ultimatum. It insists, however, that the firing on the legations cease and that the imperial governniient, if it desires to show its friendliness, shall co-operate with the relieving column. Following is the text of note: We are availing ourselves of the opportunity offered by the tuiperhil edict of Aug. 5 allowing to the fo.e gu ministers free communication with their respective goveinmehts In cipher, and have sent a communication to Mtuisier Conger, to which we await an answer. We axe already advlsbd by him, In a brief dispatch received Aug. 7, that imperial . troops are firing daily upon the mlnlsiers In I'cklug. We demand the immediate cessation of hostile attacks by Imperial troops ujfen the legations, and urge the exercise of every power and energy of the imperial government for the protect on of the leg.it.ous and all foreigners therein. We are also advised by the same dispatch from Minister Conger that, In ills opinion, for the foreign ministers to leave Peking, as proposed In the edict of Aug, 2, v.ould bo certain death. In view ot ths fact that the Imperial troops are now bring rp >u the legations, and In view of the doubt expressed by the Imperial government In Its edlet of Aug. 2 as to Its power to restore order nnd secure absolute safety In Peking, It Is evident that this apprehension Is well founded, for if your government cannot protect our minister In Peking, it wHi, presumptively, be unable to protect him upon a journey from Pekjn to the const. We therefore urge upon the imperial government that it shall adopt the course suggested In the third clause of the letter of the President to Ills Majesty the Euip“ror of China, of July 23, 1900. and enter Into communication with the relief expedition so that co-operation may be secured between them for the liberation of the legations, the protection of foreigners and the restoration of order. Such action on the part of the Imperial government would be a satisfactory demonstration of its friendliness and desire to attain these ends. ALVEY A. A DEE, Acting Secretary Department of State. Washrigton, Aug. 9, 1900.