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China Objects to Executions

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 9.

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China Objects to Executions

The government of China objects to the beheading of all the officials named by the Powers. They say that the original terms demanded were that the leaders of the Boxers should be punished “in proportion to their crimes,” and that “that was what China agreed to, yet now the foreigners demand the heads of all.” But the dispatch from Peking coolly says: “All that is needed now is to tighten the screws, and the empress will capitulate.”