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Show REASONS OF GERMANY. Kaiser Feared China Would Palm Off Wrong Men. Berlin, Sept. 19. It is understood that the immediate cause for the issuing by Germany of the circular note to' the powers regarding the Chinese settlement settle-ment was the fact that Li Hung Chang, during his recent Interview with Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the German Ger-man minister to China, mentioned a number of names of alleged high mandarins, man-darins, hitherto wholly unknown, as those resnpnsible for the Pekin outrages, out-rages, and said that China was willing to punish them. This explanation seems to be borne out by the following statement made by the German foreign office today to the correspondent of the Associated Press in Berlin: "What we want to avoid is an opportunity op-portunity for allowing China to impose im-pose any sham concessions upon the powers by delivering up for punishment persons who had nothing to do with the Pekin atrocities. Hence it is advisable ad-visable for the representatives of the powers in China to designate beforehand before-hand all who are notoriously guilty. Germany does hot wish td prejudice the case in any way. She wishes to reach an agreement with the powers regard-I regard-I ing the guilty and their punishment." 1 Sato, first secretary of the Japanese legation here, said today: "I think there will be no difficulty in getting the powars to agree In principle to the German position to punish the guilty. The real difficulty will be on deciding how high to go. If they decide to include Prince Tuan, then th'ey will find that the empress regent was back of him. "Russia, in my opinion, will not now withdraw her troops from Pekin, inasmuch inas-much as Germany and the other powers pow-ers remain. She will decide that circumstances cir-cumstances have changed, and that she must remain also." |