The Governor of Shan-Tung had been removed and would be forever barred from holding another public office.
Six officials, accused by Germany of taking part in the murders, had also been degraded and punished, and the actual perpetrators of the crimes would be treated as they deserved.
China had promised to pay heavy damages for the injury done to the mission, and would, moreover, provide for the erection of three churches, each marked with a tablet to indicate that they were under the protection of the Emperor.
China would also furnish the money necessary for the erection of seven residences for the Catholic prefecture of Tsao-Chou-Fu.
The Chinese Government finally agreed to issue a special Imperial edict to insure the future protection of the German missions.
Major Williams, who was sent to London by the Treasury Department to inquire into the means for enforcing the new sealskin exclusion act, has acknowledged that his inquiries have discouraged him. He believes it will be impossible for the Government to enforce the law in its present form. Comparatively few of the sealskins can be identified after they have passed through the hands of the wholesale and the retail dealers.
So it looks as if the Government would have to find some other way to protect the seals from threatened extinction.
The observations of the eclipse of the sun on the 22d of January, taken at Talni, India, are said to have been completely successful.