Show CHINESE AGREEMENT TEXT OF ARTICLES ARTI CLEb PRESENTED AS A BASIS OF settlement severe penalties mint be mete here I 1 ot O t to guilty noble 1 NA I 1 0 dinote I 1 R ota if I ni aried con mercial pris I 1 lecea leges pema dema dod ded the follow folla lag ing engl sit h vers on of the ch nese agreement has been made public ba b ll 11 e secretary of state and is understood to be in sub stint al at valence with the french text of the note to be addressed to the govern ment of china as agreed upon by the representatives of tie tl e operating cooperating at peking and subsequently amended before s during tl e months of may june july and at aigist gust of tl tie e cut rent 3 e tr serious disturbances brol e out in the northern provinces of china in which atrocious crimes unparalleled in his tory and outrages outi ages against the la v of nations aga ast tl d e law lay of hi lit manity and against c vil bation were ere ca commit arnt ted under part e ilaray odious circum stances 11 ile e pr of these crimes were the following first on tl e oth of june his ex cel lency baron vun von het ketteler teler while on his way to the toung ll 11 yamen in the performance of I 1 is funch ons ong was murdered by soldiers of the regu regil lar arm acting under orders of their chiefs chief second on tl e same d ly the for e agn legat ons ong vt were ere attacked and be s eged the attall s continued with out interi ss as on 1 the of an gust on which date the ai at rival of tle foreign forces put an end to tl em these attacks vicie it ade by the regu lar troops who jo 30 ned tied the boxer abd wl 0 obeyed the orders of the court emanating from the imperial impel ial palace at the same time the chinese govern ment official ls declared declai ed by its depre benta senta tives tives i abroad that it guaranteed the security of the legations third on the alth of june mr chancellor of the legation of japan while in the discharge of an of facial mission was killed by regulars at the gates of the city in I 1 eking and in several provinces foreigners were murdered tortured or attacked by tl e boxers and the regular troops and such as escaped death 0 ved their salvation solely to their own deter mined resistance resi stence their establish ments were looted and destroyed fourth 1 bore ore agn ce ne teries at pe king especially were desecrated the graves opened and the remains scat seat broadcast these occurrences necessarily led the fore agn n powers to dispatch their troops to ch na to the end of protect ing the lives of their representatives and rational order restored during the march to peking the allied forces met with resistance resi stence from the chinese army and had to overcome it by force inasmuch as china has renoi need her real expressed regret and evinced a desire to see an end put to tl ti e situation created by the afore said disturbances the powers have de ter mined to accede to her request upon the irrevocable conditions enumerated below which they deem indispensable to expiate the crimes committed and to prevent their recurrence OF till I 1 A the dispatch to berlin of an extraordinary miss on headed beaded by an imperial pi pt ince in order to express the regrets of his majesty the em ent geror of china and of the chinese government for the assassination of hie his excellency the late baron von yon Ret ketteler teler minister of germany B the erection on the spot of the assassination of a monument befitting the rank of the deceased bearing an inscription in the latin german and chinese languages languages expressing the regrets of the emperor of china for the murder 11 II A the severest punishment for the persons des gnatek in the im ita penal decre of september 15 5 1400 1900 and for tl ti ose whom the re presenta lives tives of tl ti e powers shall subsequently designate B ahe suspend on for five years of all offic al at ex aminat ons ong in tl e cit es where foreigners have been massacred or have been subjected to cruel ti theat cat ment III flonoi ible reparation stion to be made by the chinese government to the japanese bovet ament for the mur der of mr air kujama IV an exp atory monument to be erected bv the imperial chu ese gov in every fore gri or interns dional cemetery which has been dese crated or in the gra graces es have been destroyed desti oyed V the maintenance under cond t ons to bt bc demerin ned tied by the power of tl ti e ingerd action against the imbor tation of arms as well adof as of matet als employed exclusively for tl e fac tire ture of arms ai at d ammunition IN I 1 table indemnity cafor gov soc et es companies and in divi duals as well as for chinese who during the late oce irren ces I 1 ave suf f ered in person or in propel proper ty in con sequence of their behag in tl ti e service of foreigners cl ina to adopt finana al at measures acceptable to the po vers for the pi 0 guarantee ng the pay ment of si st s i d inde unities and interest and amort bation of loans VII R glit for each howerto power to main tain a permanent guard for its lepa lega tion and to put the diplomatic quarter in a defensible cond tion the cl inese having no right to ies leg ie le in that quai ter I 1 VIII tl e destruction of the forts which might luct free comman ca ea tion between peking and the sea IX the light to a m litfiy mccu pation of certain po ants to be deter mined by an understand ng among tl ti e powers in older to maintain open communication between the capital and the tile sea X the chinese government to cause to be published during two year s in all the sub prefectures an imperial decree a embodying a perpetual ial tal prohibition tinder under penalty of death of a membership in any anti fore agn society b enumerating tl e punish ments that shall be anil acted on the guilty togeal er with the suspend on of all offic al at examinations in tl e c ties where foreigners have been murdered or have been subjected to cr er let ie treat ment and c furthermore an imperial decree to b issued and published throughout the emp re orde clug that tl e governors general 1 I ice roys and all provincial or local officials officials shall be held responsible for the ma n cenance nten ance of order within the r respective juris dictions and that in the event of 1 ie e dewed anti fore agn d sturt bances lances or any other infractions of treaty occur ring and which shall not forthwith be suppressed and the guilty persons pun shed they the said offie offic als shall be immediately removed and forever disqualified from hold bold ng rig any office or honors XI the chinese government to undertake to negotiate amendments to ta e treaties of commerce comme ice and nav ga I 1 on considered useful for tj tt e foreign powers and upon other matters per to vt ning to their commerce al at ons ong with the object of facilitate ng tl e n XII the ch nese trese government to determine in what macnei to reform the he department of foreign affairs ind to 0 o notify the court caremon als cou con berning the reception of fore agn impre i sen en tation in the manner to be ind bated by ay the po aers ers until the chinese government has complied om plied with the above cond eions to he the satisfaction of the powers the un der leis s ened can hold out no expectation hat that the occupation of peking and tl ti e provinces provinces iro vinces of chi li ll by the all ed forces ca an a be brought to a on |