Foreign.
CHINA. Many warships, sent by Powers interested in the Far East, have assembled at Tientsin, the river port of Pekin. Russian vessels predominate. The Powers are threatening to over-ride the Tsung-li-Yamen's opposition to their recent representation tnat the " Boxers" must be suppressed. A special train has left Tientsin conveying bodies of marines and blue jackets to guard the* British and Russians and other Legations at the capital. Five quick-firing guns were also sent on. The Tsung-li Yamen has reluctantly admitted a hundred marines from each Power represented to guard the various Embassies at Pekin. On Thursday seven hundred " Boxers •' attacked thirty foreigners, including six ladies, who were escaping from Pootingtu, eighty miles southwest of Pekin. Four of the foreigners were killed and many wounded. There are now twenty-three warships assembled off the Taku forts, at the mouth of the Peiho river. There are eleven thousand troops on board nine Russian warships. It is believed that Russia had hoped to seize a position controlling the Peiho river under the pretext of crushing the " Boxers." America and Germ?ny, it is stated, prevented this by insisting on international intervention.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19000605.2.11.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, 5 June 1900, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
187Foreign. Manawatu Herald, 5 June 1900, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in