Show TUNG IS S VAIN I Envoys Insist on Death for lor forS S Chinese General 5 TO rO BE BEUST B BAWO l 5 LIST MADE KADE UP HP OF OP TO BE PUNISHED 4 I Pekin f IThe The foreign ministers today gave for fr publication a secret Im ha Imperial portal edict handed ha to them theta yesterday by the Cb bine peace aries ark w which pleads plead especially for the f fe te of Tung TunK Fu lIu Sl Slang ng chief of the anny army It sa says s the only reason rea oa Is III on account of or the turbulent population p of ot the provinces of Shea Si and Kan Xa Sw lie who are devoted to him and might m I ht rise else and commit acts ac of violence against the missionaries and ad Christians Chrt which wilch the court urt would greatly deplore Conse Conae Consequently I his bis punishment requires cau can caution lion tion deliberation and careful eon con consideration The TIle emperor it Is III pointed out ot even een in the punishment pu lehment of princes of the thi blood tall Ins to not R t been moved by motives for their protection Why then th n should he do so in the case of Tung Fu Slang What had bad already I been n done should be taken into con consideration His army array had been re reduced reduced en to 5 5 men with the object of lessening his ht power and with the ulti ultimate ultimate ultimate mate t of ci his hie future punishment which will wi il be promulgated In tn an edict the language l KUa of which will not be too tuo patent After the I he deprivation of 0 his official rank the emperor will here hereafter hereafter hereafter after decided on OR a heavy punishment nt Plea Not Granted The rhe ministers definitely decided at a Il third meeting held last sIght Night to de demand demand mand maist the imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the Chinese e Uncials named in the list submitted including those who are dead on ac account account count of the moral effect upon the Chinese The sentence on the living must mut be inflicted except in the cases of ot Prince Tuan and Duke Lan Las wj w ich ch the em emperor emperor may commute to banishment I b to As bad had been arranged arr at the meet meeting meetIng ing lug of the foreign for lp ministers and aDd Chin Chinese Chinese Chinsee ese see the entire pro proceedings tn were conducted orally no writings being presented pre to the Chin Chinese Pile ese A formal indictment against the twelve officiate whose punishment had been demanded by hy the powers was read however though Kang Yi and Li LiPing LIPing Ping Heng are dead Names of Doomed Officials The officials whose punishment has bas been demanded are Prince Chung c of the tile Boxers Boxen who had a large share in the responsibility for promises of rewards of fifty Lads for fOl the capture of ot and ami the death of persons protecting them Prince Tuan Toan the principal in instigator instigate of the troubles into he dragged dra ged the Chinese Chin se government who was ap appointed appointed appoInted pointed president ot fit the atter arter giving advice to tile the Chinese guy gov government oV who was responsible tor for the edicts against the foreigners issued be between between between tween June M ao and amid Aug lt Iti ti and was mainly responsible for tOe tn massacres cres in inthe Inthe inthe the provinces especially Shan Si who ordered the troops troop to tack the lega legations thins in opposition to the advice of his high mandarins who were looking to a cessation of or hostilities ho who secured the execution of members of ot the yamen who were favorable to lo foreign fere eia nis who ho is the recognized recognised author of the ultimatum of June 19 B directing the corps to leave Pekin within hours and who ordered nIer d the expiration of this delay fir firing firing r ing upon all 11 foreigners found upon the I streets ot 01 the capital and was the author of the assassination na I lion tion of Baron von Ketteler the German I minister Others on en the List Duke Duke Lan vice viet president of the i JK O Olice lice department who wa was accessory ry to the giving of or orders for the capture of foreigners and was the first Cent to open the I at atea of or the city to the Boxers who was criminal access accomplice accomplI I pilot of Prince Chuang and Duke Lan Lanin Lanin in Irl their machinations Hang Kang Ian YI one of the instigators and I counselors of the tbt Boxers who always alwy protected them and anti was most t hostile I Ito Ito to any an understanding looking to the re l reestablishment i 1 i establishment of peaceful relations with tile foreigners who was sent at the commencement of or June to meet t the Boxers Boxen and endeavor to deter them from entering the city but who on the contrary encouraged en them to follow the work of tf destruction and who signed with Prince Tuan ruan and aDd their i principal notices and prepared the plan I for the expulsion and end annihilation of foreigners in the provinces of the em empire empire empire I pire Chaos Su Kiani KIam a member of the grand council and also minister of jus justice justice justice tice who was as one of the leaders against a n the foreigners fo nera and mainly responsible for the execution of the tha officials o killed during deems the toe siege sae for having tried to stop the attack against K the legations and who tendered the Boxers every en encouragement encouragement Ou ment Yu Yn listen Bitten w who ho re recognised the Boxers Boasts and was 8 author of the massacres in the Shan SI St province and assassinated with his awn hand foreigners and on I iee isa and bad who was noted for lor cruelty I I which stained with th blood the whole I country over ver which he was w governor K vernor I I General Tung Included J I General Tung Tun Fu Saing who with Prince Tuan Tuii out in Pekin the plane against foreigners and who commanded commanded com corn the tack sMacks at on the and the soldiers who assassinated the J e chancellor Li Ping Heng Hong who used WIed his influence to have the Boxers ox recognised as an loyal and patriotic p men and who led the gov government government to use uee them with the t object of f extermination of oC foreigners forel nen Hsu Tung Tong who has IMS always been one 1 of the tb officiate most mo t hostile to in foreign foreigners ers era who praised the Boxers BOKe of whom he was an accomplice who used all aU his influence with high persons in ht the em empire empire pire being tutor to the heir helT apparent Hsu Him Cheng Yu Yo who has haz the seine same responsibility Kin Kilt Su Suo one of the tilt officiate most t hoe hos hostile tile to foreigners and the minister at atthe atthe atthe the rites of service of oC me e Boxers Bo r The ministers then announced d that these personages es all deserved death When this question is settled sewed the for tw foreign foreign eign sign plenipotentiaries will have to indi hull indicate Indicate cate who to their knowledge com corn committed committed crimes in hit the tile provinces punish punishment punishment ment for will have hae to be inflict Indict inflicted Indicted ed They will also ateo present to the tIIe Chi Chinese hl ness nese In order to prevent misunderstandings misunderstandIngs standings the text of the edict referred merred to in article 1 10 of the collective note before its Ibi publication |