China.

Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1899, Page 2

China.

The following item* of Eastern new* were received in Sydney by the steamer Airlie od April 6 : — An accident happened to the French nuil s'eamar Sydney at Shanghai on the 2id alt,, resulting ia the Sydney being damaged by colliding with the P. and 0. steam tender Gu'zlafif, and then grounding on the bank. Fiva tuga were employed to tow th* Sydney off. Some extraordinary occounts from Minchuria are reaching Hang Kong of Russian tyranny i hare. A Kinchow an unarmed deputation, carrying a petition for the reduction of tha new hnd tax imposed by the Radians, was fired upon by Ritnian soldiers, 100 b^ing killed or w >uoded 0 her airn.Ht mc eiible stories ol outrages perpetrated in enforcing tb new laws ara being pib'i-h d in ib~ China papsri. Referring to whit ia describ.:d as" tha m v^acra a Liuchiatien," the rep irt sayi '• over 40 dead have been rep 3 r ted to ihf K nohow magistrate, and these, it ibelieved, do not exhaust the list. Among them are women, children md others quite unconnected with the meeting, fired upon by Russian soldiers, who ware hunting for fugitives, and, coming aero-* thes* helpless people, cut them down." The Tsung-liYim-n has brought tie m itter before tha Russian Minister at Pekin. The interior of China seems to b in a ferment of rebellion. At Aphui the rebel chief- of which has jmt baen oaptured and bahaaded, 4000 rawn raided three market towns and butchered the inhabitant). A missionary of the British and Foreign Bibb Society, has written a description of what he saw at one of thm«naced town 3. He Bays: — •• O.» nearing the city what a scene me a^j I shall never forgat it. Cowd >n crowds flocked to seek refugf within the walls. The city wan already full ; yet there ware enough mtsida to fill another. Waggons on waggons, loaded with the precious year's harvest of rice and household gooda tied outside, women and child fen on top, were in sight as far ache eye could reach, and this wen* on day and night. They wer. cursing and swearing, and over all was thrown an atmosphere of Bubdued, excited, terrorised anxiety, htrd to describe, but awful to feel." O.itside th* waat gate of another city he saw 70 queues hinging up and jome with ears attached, and outside thd sour,h gata were somt 200 more, which had been cut off the heads of the killed, and sent on to the city to help to settle the hearts of the people. There is a prospect of the British taking action to spoure the remova: of Kmg-Yi, Vic?-P«*esident of the Chinese S*<ate Council, from th) lirectorsh p of the Niuchwang railway. Mrit lin U apparently actiag with ft'isaia ia the matter siooe Bussift

withdrew her protest against the terms of the Niuchwany railway loan.