CONDENSEE CABLEGRAMS.
♦. . .- ; China. As the Viceroy of Cbi-li refused permission for a naval dontingeni H.M.S. Aurora to proceed to Pekin, Captain Bayly commandeered the third train mentioned in yesterday's cablegrams. By it 350 Canadian, 8. - British, and 70 French troops were sent on to the capital. The Chinese eigine-driver bolted with the engine, the European troop used their bayonets to keep tht Chinese troops away from the line. The Viceroy sanctioned ' the des patch of a fourth train, which carried 113 Russians (with two guns) and 62 French troops. The detacnments which left Tientsin on Sunday have reached Langfang, within forty miles of Pekin. Japan is ordering the embarkation of four thousand troops. She demands that her sphete of influence in China shall include the provinces of CheKiang, Fo-Kien, and. Kiang-Si, all three being south of the Yang-tse-Kiang, the two latter on the southeast. The Tsung-li-Yamen announces that Russia is bringing a large force to Pekin. S.x thousand "Boxers" have attacked the convent at Pao ting-fu. about fifty miles north east of Tientsin.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1900, Page 2
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173CONDENSEE CABLEGRAMS. Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1900, Page 2
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