Show i 11 OVER MEDIATION 4 v V July following between this the ct t of the United States and the emperor i of l Chima Chine was made public b by the state 1 nt toAY today s Fi of a cablegram received I b by Minister Wu Vu Tuly Jub 20 11 from the t te Tao Tso Tal of Shanghai dato dated July 19 f t 1 Have received n a tele telegram m from rom Goo Gov 1 Yuan of Shan Tung dated b I dayo day of this mon moon Jul July o 19 who having received from the privy f counci council at Pe Pc IL kin 8 a dispatch embodying an imperial t I f leter letter to te the president of the United j States ba has Instructed me to transmit t it to your excellency The Imperial H re message is respectfully o transmitted as i f 1 follows I 1 i The Emperor of China Chipa t 4 To His Excellency the President of i fl r the Unie United States i h has long maintained friendly relations f t ns 1 with Un Ui United State States and is deeply that the object 01 of the UnIted 1 States is international t f Neither country entertains the leat least t suspicion or distrust t toward towards t the other fr Recent outbreaks ot of mutual antipathy TL t between the people and Christian mis I sums clone cuse caused the foreign pwe powers to vIew n wih with suspicion the position of the im 1 penal government as favorable to the t people ld al to o the missions t r I wit with the result ta that the Taku fort forts were Ii I at ad and captured Consequently tt tero there hn ha ben been clashing of forces farces with i wih il i calamItous calamitous consequences t I TIle The situation ha has and more serIous ad and critical We Ve have 4 i just received a tele telegraphic memorial i I envoy Wu Vu Ting Fang and i it itI I I is highly gratifying to us to learn that the United States government ha having vinS I In vIew the frIendly relations between J the two countries has taken adeep In i tU t teet In te the preSent present situation Now ChIna driven by bj the Ire j i ibl cour courie if tf cent events has unfortunately i wel well night nigh universal indignation i ton tion For the prent present difficulty 1 China places special reliance in the r United States We Ve address this J addess thi message 11 1 r l to your excellency in al all sincerity and candidness with toe the hope that your excellency wi will devise measures and take the initiative in bringing about a concert of the powers for the retora restora restoration ton tion of order and pece peace favor of ofa ofa a kind reply Is earnestly requested and awaited with the greatest KWANG year sixth moon rd day July 19 I It is therefore my uty to transmit the above aboe wih with the re request that your excellency in respectful obedience ot of imperIal wishes wi will delver deliver the same to is its high destination and favor me wit with a reply Y vu LIEN YUEN Tao Ti Tat at Shanghai Shanghai Kwang Him Hsu year sixth moon day July 19 1900 This cablegram Was at once communicated n to the president at Canton 0 and a nd the following Is hIs reply The President of the United States To tle the Emperor of China have receIved your m message of July 19 and am glad g lad to know that your majesty recognizes izes n the tact fact that the government and people eople p of the United States desire of Ce China hina C nothing but hat is just and e The purpose for which we landed i troops In China wa was the rescue of o f our legation from gave grave danger and the he t protection of the lives and prop t of Americans who were sojourn sojourning ing l ug In China In the enjoyment of rights g them by treaty and by In t law The same purposes are a re publicly declared by aU all the powers which w have landed mitar military forces in your y our empire I am to infer from your leter l etter that the malefactors who have disturbed d the peace of China China who have murdered the minister of Germany and anda a member of the Japanese legation and a nd who now hold besieged in Pekin t hose thos foreign diplomatists who sti still s have not only not received any a ny favor tavor or encouragement from your majesty but are actually in rebellion against a the he imperial authority I If this be the case I most solemnly urge rge u upon your government to t o give public assurance whether the f ministers are alve alive and if so son in i n what con iton 2 To put the diplomatic t of the powers in immediate and andree fre f ree communication wih with their t governments and to remove al all L danger d anger to their lives and liberty 3 To place the imperial authorities of o f China in communication wih with the r elief expedition that cooperation may be secured between them for the lb fib erton e ration of the the ton t ion of f foreigners and the L Lf of o f order I If those these object objects are accomplished it ii itis is i s the belef belief of this government that thai no obstacles obstacle wi will be found to exist or on I Ithe the part of the powers to an amicable i settlement of al all the questions arising out of the recent troubles and the thi friendly f good offices of this wi will with the assent of the other pow powers ers erg be cheerfully placed at your tys disposition for that purpose WILLIAM By the president JOHN HAY Secretary of State July 23 1900 |