Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-03-02 | Page 1 | More to be Punished

HORE TO BE PUNISHED list Being Made Out by Diplomats at Peking London March 1 LA A dispatch from Pekin to Reuters Routers agency dated Feb 28 says sas the diplomatic meeting that day dy discussed the list of provincial officials whose punishment will be demanded which was wa not Ii t It was also decided that the Italians are to retain f the customs properly which they seized on the ground that the customs are area a a purely Chinese e institution and have hav havno no right to be within the legation area Hence the European customs staff who are really serving the foreign bondholders ers will be compelled to settle outside the fortified limits All the unofficial foreign residents are uneasy because the French the Ger German Germun German man mun and Austrian ministers maintain that none of them can live within the fortifications If the other ether ministers take the same view the merchants and ana missionaries will be forced to live among the Chinese who are no friend friendlier friendlier lier her than before on account of the re recent recent recent cent hostilities The American govern government government ment meat is the only government which has announced its intention to compensate compensate compensate sate the Chinese for the land required to t extend the legation grounds