Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

jxiarsnai uampo3 nas sentenced an American captain to ten years' imprisonment for running the Cuban blockade. The Belgian Government, in the light of the new evidence which has come forward, admits that Major Lothaire is culpable, and he will be tried by the law Courts for the illegal execution of Mr Ptokes, an English trader in the Congo Free State. It. is reported that the Chinese occupation of the Liaotong Peninsula will be resumed in October, also that the reward to Buasia for securing the evacuation of that territory by the Japanese will be the privilege of raising a Chinese loan of one hundred million taels. The fleue Freie Presse publishes a telegram, said to be from a reliable source, that Russia, with China's consent, occupies Port Arthur. News by the China steamer states that Chinese prisoners have been subjected by the authorities to revolting tortures, and as the result confessions had been wrung from them. Six of the actual murderers of the women and children in Kucheng were convicted. A decree attributed to the Emperor of China is being largely circulated among students commanding the faithful followers of Confucius to stone and hoot Christians and behead them without mercy. The decree goes on to say that authorities must eradicate such vermin and throw them to wolves and tigers.