Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — The Chinese Indemnity. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Indemnity.

The international committee on indemnity at Pekin has reported in favor of a total of $273,000,000. Large as is this bill of damages which China must pay for the Boxer riots, it is considered smaller than some of the European powers were at first inclined to demand. Credit for this reduction must be given to the United States. When the other powers were pressing claims amounting to a total of |400,000,000 the Americans urged that onehalf or one-quarter of that sum ought to be sufficient.