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THE EMPEROR'S EDICT. REPLY FROM THE KAISER. (Received October 4, 9 a.m.) Berlin, October 3. It is officially stated by the Government that the" Emperor has sent the following reply to the Chinese Emperor's edict to him : " I observe with satisfaction that Your Majesty is anxious to expiate, according to your religion, the shameful murder, yet as Kaiser and a Christian I cannot regard the oblations you propose as an atonement. Besides, my Minister, there have gone to the Throne of God many of my brethren of the Christian faith—bishops, missionaries, women and children—who, for the sake of the faith which is also mine, died as martyrs, and are appearing before God as Your Majesty's accusers. No oblations can suffice for all those inuoceut ones. I do not hold Your Majesty personally responsible, but your advisers and officials on whose heads rests the blood and guiltiness must expiate the abominable deed. When Your Majesty brings those officials to condign punishment, then I will consider it an expiation which satisfies Christendom." The Kaiser invites the Emperor to return to Pekin, promising him protection, and adding, " I yearn for a peace which atones for the guilt to the uttermost, which offers all foreigners in China complete security, and which offers above all a free exercise of religion." TROOPS IN PEKIN. ACTION BY GERMAN FORCE. SEVERAL VILLAGES DESTROYED. LARGE BOXER FORCE DISPERSED. (Reoeive.l October 4, 10 A.m) Hongkong, October 3. Two battalions and one battery of Eussians remain in Pekin. Owing to the attack ou a German patrol, "south of Pekin, General Hoffuer and 2000 troops and batteries burued several villages where arms were found. They subsequently dispersed a large Boxer force, killing 40.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 771, 4 October 1900, Page 2
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