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Show CHINA SUES FOR PEACE. ASKS FOR APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION. President May Decline to Consider Bequest International Comt lsslon Mar be Suggested. The Chinese government has made formal application through Li Hung Chang as its envoy, for the appointment appoint-ment of an American commissioner, to bring about the cessation of hostilities in China and the restoration of general peace. This, coming since the capture of I Pekin, is the first showing of China's complete weariness with the struggle and her desire to make terms. No reply has been made to the re- . i . . i : tA believe that the overtures will, in effect, be rejected, on the ground that the conditions con-ditions laid down in the American note of August 12 have not been complied with, and unless complied with the government's course must proceed without with-out reference to China's appeal for a halt in the proceedings. The dispatch of August 12 said specifically that the United States was ready to enter into an agreement between be-tween the powers and the Chinese government gov-ernment for a cessation of hostilities, on condition that the relief forces should be permitted "to enter Pekin unmolested," and escort the legation-ers legation-ers therefrom under such circumstances circum-stances as the commanding general might lay down. But up to the present time there is no evidence that the allied forces are unmolested at PeUin, or have received the sanction of the imperial government govern-ment to convey the legationers to Tien Tsin without further trouble, and under un-der the conditions laid down by the commanding general. |