Tt may be of some value to note just what is accomplished by the Supplementary. Protocol. It is based on the, Twelve Articles of the Preliminary Protocol signed last December. It may be recalled that the Chinese Plenipotentiaries handed the ¢igu Ministers their interpretation of the Protocol which they desired 10 incorporated as commentary to the tex This Supplementary Protocol is the real and final Commentary, on the Twelve Articles of Faith.
1a.—Prince Ch'un, brother t" the Emperor, has been dispatched to Germany on Mission of Apology for the murder of the late German Minister.
1b.—The foundation is being laid for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late German Minister on the site of the murder, in the Hitamén street. Lhe inscription will be hereafter prepared and engraved.
2a.—Punishment has been inflicted on eleven high nobles and mandarins for the crime of last year, in the attack on cigners:—Yu "Hsien, Ch'i Hsin, Hei Chifeng-vii, decapitated; Cha" Shu-chao, Prince Chuang and Ying Nien strangled Prince Tuan and Duke Lan banished Pang Fu-hsiang degraded; and Hsit Tean: Kang Yi, and Li Ping-bony, who have died, have been deprived of posthumous honours, A supplementary list of 95 guilty pro: vincial officials has been presented to the Chinese Emveror. One edict was issu punishing some 50 officids, four ordered to be beheaded. Another e has just been issued, stating what. purus! ment is to be inflicted on the officials pr viously omitted.
2b,—An edict has been issued, and is to be published, forbidding all examinations in certain specified places, including Peking, on account of foreigners therein being.killed or maltreated.
3.—Na T'ung has been dispatched to Japan on a mission of apology for the murder of Mr. Sugiyama.
4.—Arrangements have been made to erect, at China's expense, expiatory monuments in the cemeteries of foreigners, owlier graves have been molested, 6.—Arms, "ammunition, and machinery for manufactming sneb, are to be pr—hibited imports for two years Ga.—An indemnity of 450,0-10,000 taels is to be paid by China for the losses of foreign individuals, societies and States, and of Chinese in foreign employ. due payment of the indemnity, bonds are to be issued by the Chines- Government to each country proportionate to its claim: and an interest of 4 per cent is to be paid by China, until the whole amount is met. The first semiannual instalment to be paid January Ist sill be distribut-d in the payments of 1003, and 1904, and so the first real payment will be made July Ist, 1982.
urity for principal and_ interest, the silt gabelle will he utilised, and also the revenue of the native Customs at the treaty ports, the evllection of which wil! be under the control of the Imperial M-ritime Customs. The tariff will be incre-sed to effective 5 per cent ad rulorem, 10 be hereafter transmuted into dD per cent specilie as determined by a special eu mittee. Certaia arvieles named on free lis will pay duty. The amounts of semiannual payment will vary according toa tabulated sea'e. The first payment on the sinking fund will he delayed rill 1904. "The last payment will be made in 1940.
In retura for raising the tariff China authorises the improvements of water ways, especially of the Peiho and the Huangpu, The latter will be under the control of a special committee, the forei countries to he represented thereon being those hav a certain amount of shipping. d of 2,000 will be stationed ions. These legations have for-tilled themselves; and Chinese are exclude ed from the legation area already determin= ed upon.
.—The and other forts specified, between Peking and the sea, are to be <d, An edict has been issued ordering that this he done.
9.—Military occupation by the Powers Howe by China at Tientsin, Shanhai-and other places between them and ug 101.—An elie already published, recite ug the punishment of guilty oflicinis, the hibition of examinations, and the prohibition under pain of death to belong to any anti-foreign society, is to be posted in all cities of China for two years.
10b,—An edict, already "approved by the Powers, is to be published thronghout the Empire, holding all efticinls responsible for order in their limits, and threatening their removal from ofice for life, in case of failure t+ maintain order, 11.—Questios-s of further modifying the tariff or Pegulating trade are postponed to such time as all the Powers agree to consider them.
12.—The Tsungli Yamen is changed to the Waisrupu (Foreign Ottice), consisting of one Prince, two persons of rank of Presivent, one of whom shall he a member Grand Conseil, and two of sank of Vice-President, one of whom shall know a foreign langnege, The secretaries shall hold no "ther off In audiences at Court Foreim Ministers shall go in chairs of Imperial colour (sallow) and shall be receive? in the m: Xudience Hall, The Emperor will receive standing The Allied Forces evad and the province soon after th" signing of the Protocol by the foreign Ministers and the Chinese Plenipo: entiaties, 97th August.
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