Japanese Consulate Now Proved Have Been Looted Peking, June 10.
The report that the Japanese Consulate at Ichang had escaped looting is contradicted in a later telegram received in Peking which says that the Consulate was damay A Japanese gunboat has arrived at Ichang from Hankow.
It is a coincidence that the looting of Ichang took place just at the time when negotiations were due to open at Hankow on the subject of the indemnity for the foreign r sidents who suffered through the looting last year. The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Ichang was already on his way to Hankow to confer with the Consuls of the countries concerned, when the outbreak took place and he has now returned io Ichang. When General Wang Chan-yuan was in Peking he was approached by the} Legations of the Powers concerned, namely, Great Britain. America. France and Japan, and as a result he decided to form _a Committee to decide on the question of indemnity, while the Legations instructed their consuls at Hankow to enter into negotiations with the Committee. The settlement of the indemnity question will now have to be
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