Show ow OF Secretary tiny Hay tny Receives es Confirmation of Pact ny Have Huc Great heat Influence on International Affairs at Pekin Imperial Family May Now Return Washington April Ari secretary cf at f state received M I d a cablegram this rooming iota Mr United Slates chute e at al dated at Pekin April h 1 saying laying Winter Inter palace occupied pied Wd ky ty b Von Ven 00 accidentally dc do c by fire tre General chief 1 of a staff saT fatally burned fhI hi hl a nt may prove pro more mOrO serious than appears on the surface It Is l I I known kool from roro diplomatic communications received In Washington that Intense o K ha has 8 LeI bei aroused thu th I over u r the th occupation of tho the em eta dowager palace by h Count von on t ann an and his military staff This was ret rrt forth In a letter let re reo really received d here from rom ono one ot of o the foremost ot at m Pekin je lIe de do lii In 1 the manner r In ln Il which the had i been h turned lured over lo tO mIll tat tory us sad and commented upon the mi In It ft I Involved to 10 the Chi nce pepIe had and lo to the imperia twin family Moreover r It D Is known that thaI I I this military ot of this the l Palace was I a nu au e for tor the rejection of ot all ni oVertures far the h return ot of o the Imperial t I I From Krom ho the Chinese it t WM wU Impossible to 10 even the Ih of ot the Imperial fain am I ii so lung ln as on os the tie of the a liC f r was va In actual Pion f th press palace Now New that lh palace pala e ls Is I entirely de tie it II av a have a n bearing on the tho f th Ih l family fa While th I r is ra 10 5 ue the objection that the tho is I H by y the tle foreIgn com coin r JM yr 0 a new objection Is I created In the removal of the palace Itself for tor under Chinese usage the Imperial fain fam am ily ly must occupy oc those exclusive quarters quarters quarters reserved for them th n within the pro precincts GUN G GL SOl DEAL DEAD el II was Wil Consumed C In lii Ire Berlin April Apri iSField Marshal Count Counton von on Waldersee reports that thaI the IhU best be part of ot the winter palace nt at wak Wh ab destroyed by b fire last lal evening Hen Gen met 1111 lila his hil death in the tho lire fire fro the cause caus of which Is not explained lie 10 adds odds that tIC the Ihl French Fren h tend Ind Japanese troops pave gave the most prompt assistance The ikid feld marshal and ond the lie other of oC officers lout lost nearly nearl everything A dispatch from says S no hope ho o remains that lint Gen the chief of staff ot of Field von 01 wets was saved His Hs body boly bud hail ha not been found and It Is supposed to have been completely consumed da So o otar i tar lar na as known Gen Jen was the thI only victim A number of ot docu documents ments mentI were saved Tho The quarters quarter of oC six Fix besides those of and ant his start staff were gutted or ci Confirmed Washington ton April Apri IS The state stale de department has hns received a cablegram from train Mr Hr charge at lt confirming tIle the that Hint report the tho palace occupied by I Count Co nt von on Waldersee was vai wo totally by y fire anti that a member lember of Count von on staff star was sas burned to Ic death |