China.
Owing to the attacks of the Ohinese upon the British Legation and the officials of the United States Legation, as well as upon the Ameri can missionaries at Pekin, a force of marines belonging to the British jquadron has been ordered to proceed from We-hai-wei to the Chinese capital to protect the foreign legations.
Bussia is also sending a small detachment of Cossacks from Port Arthur for a similar purpose.
Drunken crowds threw mud at Europeans in Pekin. Sir Claude Maodonald, British Ambassador at Pekin, reports that there is a dangerous feeling prevalent. An American syndicate, at a cost of 40,000,000 dollars, will construct the Canton- Hankow railway.
In consequence of the outlook in China, the American cruiser Ba tirnore (4413 tons), one of the China squadron, ha? been hurriedly despatched to the mouth of the Peiho river.
The servants of the Dowager Empress arrested the Emperor when he was trying to escape from the Palace.
He was ill and helpless at the time.
It is reported that he ha 9 sincp committed suicide.
The anti.foreign feeling is spread ing at P»kin.
The fleets of the various Powers ire assembling at Tientsin. The American gunboat Petrel icoompanies the Baltimore to China.
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Manawatu Herald, 6 October 1898, Page 2
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202China. Manawatu Herald, 6 October 1898, Page 2
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