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Show BOXERS MUST BE PUNISHED. German Maintain a Firm Position, la ' Chinese Troubles. The German foreign office has sent a circular note to all the powers announcing an-nouncing that the German'government considers that an indispensable preliminary pre-liminary to the beginning of peace negotiations ne-gotiations with China is the delivering up of those who were responsible for the outrages. " The text of the telegraphic note is as follows: , . ,. - " , The government of the emperor holds as preliminary "to entering upon diplomatjc relations with the Chinese government that those persons must be delivered up who have been proved to be the original and real instigators of the outrages against international law -which have occurred at Pekin. The nnmber of those who were merely instruments in carrying out the out- rages is too great. Wholesale executions execu-tions would be contrary to the civilized conscience, and the circumstances of such a group of leaders cannot be completely com-pletely ascertained. But a few whose guilt is notorious should ba delivered op and punished. The representatives of the powers at Pekin are in a position to give or bring forward convincing evidence, as less importance attaches to the nnmber punished than their characters a in-. in-. atruments or leaders. The government believes it can count on the unanimity of all the cabinets in regard to this point, insomuch as indifference in-difference to the idea of just atonement atone-ment would be equivalent to indiffer- euce to a repetition of the crime. The government proposes, therefore, that the cabinets concerned should instruct those leading Chinese personages from whose guilt in instigating or perpetrating perpe-trating outrages all doubt is precluded. (Signed.) '' VON BUELOW. The note has been sent to the German Ger-man embassies at Washington, London, Paris, 8t. Petersburg, Rome, Vienna and Tokio. |