Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — EMPRESS OPPOSES EXECUTIONS [ARTICLE]

EMPRESS OPPOSES EXECUTIONS

Thintca Powers A»k More of China than Peace Proposals Warrant. The Dowager Empress of China is inclined to l»e argumentative regarding the infliction of capital punishment on the guilty officials. She telegraphed to Li-Hung-Chang deinandiug to know what the foreigners mean by changing the terms of the pence proposals. She says that the terms demanded the severest punishment of the lenders in proportion to their erimes. That was what China agreed to inflict, yet now come tin- foreigners with n new demand for tiie heads of all. Tiie Empress adds she fails to see anything proportionate about that, and declares that she will carry out her agreement, but will go no further. She directs the commission»rs to sec the ministers. anil call attention to the original agreement.