Germany, in a Circular to the Powers, says that she considers the delivering up to punishment of the instigators of the recent outrages to be a necessary preliminary to the Jopening of negotiations with the Chinese Government.
Germany suggests instructing the Ministers at Peking to indicate the personages whose guilt is indisputable, Iv is impossible to punish the numberless instruments who executed the outrages: it is necessary to strike at the instigators.
Germany is convinced that the Powers will agree to this, since indifference to exacting rightful atonement would be equivalent to indifference to a repetition of the outrages.
London, 20th September.
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