GERMANY'S POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11536, 22 November 1900, Page 5

GERMANY'S POLICY.

SPEECH BY COUNT VON" BULOW. Berlin, November 20. Count Von Bulow, in a powerful speech in the Reichstag, in asking for a bill of indemnity to cover unsanctioned expenditure on account of their China expedition, and for a supplementary credit, denounced the equivocation and inaction of the Tsung-li-Yamen. He stated that on the members of that body rested the responsibility for the spread of the Boxers, and on the latter the responsibility for the general assault on Europeans and civilisation. The Allies, he said, were acting in selfdefence. Germany was seeking no conquest, but she desired to maintain the influence accruing from the present movements and a fair share of what was to be won in China without overreaching anyone, and without permitting anyone to overreach her. Germany, however, preferred that China should remain unpai*titioned, well ordered, and solvent. Germany had no need to acquire territory or to overstrain her resources, nor had she any reason to be confined to a given territory, inasmuch as German trade, now ranking second in amount in China, was widespread long anterior to the acquisition of Kiaochau. Germany would not alallow any infringement of her rights, but would continue in peaceful competition with the other nations on the basis of live and let live. That was, he added, the object of the Anglo-German agreement, to whose principles the other nations had straightforwardly agreed. PUNISHING THE GUILTY. THE COURT AND THE OFFENDING PRINCES. DEGRADATION AND IMPRISONMENT. THE ALLIES DEMAND THEIR EXECUTION. London, November 20. Dr. Morrison, the Times' correspondent, reports that Li Hung Chang has declared that the edict of the Emperor of China, depriving Prince Tuan and Prince Chuang of their rank and offices, imprisoning them for life in Mukden, and degrading other officials, contains the utmost punishment which the Imperial Court is able to inflict on the ringleaders of outrages on Europeans. Li Hung Chang has also declared that Prince Ching and he himself are threatened with punishment by the Emperor if they do not induce the Allies to accept a compromise. Dr. Morrison states that the Chinese edict is ridiculed, and that it has strengthened the determination of the Ministers to demand the death of the ringleaders. Mukden is the ancestral home of Prince Tuan. The name of Tungfuhsiang was omitted from the edict owing to his military power. CAPTURE OF PASSES. Hongkong, November 20. The Allies have captured two passes leading from Chili into Shansi.