Show tflllLiYMUST f SUfFER I What the German Government Considers an Indispensable Preliminary to Peace S Negotiations With China < d 1 Demands that Those Persons Who Have Been Proved to be Original Origi-nal and Real Instigators of the Outrages Against International Law Which Have Occurred at Peking be Delivered UpNote to This Effect Transmitted o J S f S I Berlin Sept lSTI Foreign office has sent a circular note to al the powers pow-ers announcing that the German Government Gov-ernment considers that an IndIspensable Indispen-sable preliminary to the beginning of peace negotiations with China Is the delivering up of those who were responsible re-sponsible for the outrages The text of the telegraphic note as the North German Gazette gives it Is as follows The Government of the Emperor holds a preliminary to entering upon diplomatic relations with the Chinese Government that those persons must be delivered up who have been proved to he the original and real Instigators oC the outrages against International law which have occurred at Peking The number of those who were merely I Instruments In carrlylng out the outrages out-rages is too great Wholesale executions execu-tions would be contrary to the civilized tons cvl ec conscience and the list of sqch a group cannot be completely ascertained But a few whose guilt is notorious should be delivered up and punished The representatives of the powers at Peking arc in n position to give or bring forward for-ward convincing evidence as less l Importance Im-portance attaches to the number punished pun-ished than their characters as Instruments Instru-ments or leaders I The Government believes It can count on the unanimity of all the Cabinets Cabi-nets In regard to this point in so much as indifference to the idea of Just atonement atone-ment would be equivalent to indifference indiffer-ence to a repetition of the crime The Government proposes therefore that the Cabinets concerned should instruct thir representatives at Peking Jo Indicate Indi-cate those leading Chinese personages from whose guilt In instigating or perpetrating per-petrating outrages all doubt Is precluded pre-cluded VON BUELOW The note has been Bout to the German Gerran embassies at Washington London Paris St Petersburg Rome VIejina and TokJo 1 The publication of Count von Buelows circular note which was made through the Nord Deutsche Allgemaine Zeltung was decided upon because It Jsji deemed best t let the world stelutat Germany had nothing to hide regarding her real alms in China The diplomatic I corps here so interpret it The note shows also that Count von Buelows sober and moderate vicVg regarding the Chinese muddle and its solution have now triumphed over Emperor Wil lams more expansive plans Tomorrow the leading German papers will approve the note The Frelssinnlgc Zeltung calling particular attention to the passage declaring that wholesale executions will be contrary to the civilized civi-lized conscience will say This Is insignificant in-significant contrast with Emperor Williams Wil-liams instructions to the departing troops to spare no one and make no prisoners I I |