THE WAR IN CHINA.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIX, Issue 2115, 13 November 1900, Page 2

THE WAR IN CHINA.

* ALLIED TROOPS ACTIVE. I ■*** | OPERATIONS EFFECTIVE. AN UNFORTUNATE SHOT. CHINESE COURT ALARMED. ; LONDON, Nov 7 Column despatched by Waldersee to occupy passes leading toTaiyuenfu, province of Sbagsi, in order to stop provisioning of Singanfu, whither the Court is supposed to have gone. Officials shot at Paotingfu included Tingyuan, Acting Viceroy of Chili. Three hundred and fifty Italians and Germans, while marching from Paotingfu to Pekin, occupied Kuanhsien, i after encountering hot fire. Fifteen hundred Chinese were disarmed, and 8 gnns captured. Another force under Colonel Richardson, Bengal Lancers, making similar march, met 500 Imperial troops under General Fen. Parleying commenced, but Indian trumpeter shot the Chinese General dead,, by mistake. Expressions of regret were tendered and accepted. Several Boxer villages were destroyed, and 3 Boxers who murdered Chinese converts to Christianity were shot. Temples at Yangchau, where 2 missionaries, Norman and Richardson, were recently murdered, were burned. Colonel Richardson obtained promise ‘ that 40,000 taels would be paid as , compensation to families of victims. ! The Court is alarmed by sudden appearance of Allies at intersection of j Imperial canal and Hoangho, and has sent 20,000 Chinese troops to oppose ! them. | Ministers at Pekin insist Legations 1 shall be fortified and that no Chinese i shall reside in the diplomatic quarters. ; Morrison states Rnssian Admiral, j through Li Hung Chang, has invited ' China to resume government of Manchuria under Russian protection; | another step in direction of absorption. | An American lady murdered at Paotingfu, after being taken naked through streets, was slowly dismem- 1 bered, her feet and hands being cut off first. Other like outrage* reported,