China.

Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1900, Page 2

China.

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS.

Rear-Admiral Seymour cables that the enemy's position to the south-west of Tientsin was attacked at dawn on the 9th instant by Japanese troops, who, making a flank movement, expelled the Chinese, and captured four guns. The rout was completed by cavalry. There were 350 Chinese soldiers and Boxers killed.

The allies subsequently captured two guns, and burned an arsenal, the eaiualtlM bting nominal.

On the nth the Chinese made a determined attack on the railway station, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The European casualties numbered 150. One of the Chinese forts as afterwards demolished by British and French troops. ANTI-FOREIGN GOVERNORS. Owing to the anti-foreign attitude of the Governors of Shan-si and Honan provinces on the north and south banks of the Hoango-ho river, the Consuls at Shanghai have warned them that they will be held responsible for the protection of foreigners in their districts. MISSIONARIES KILLED. An Italian bishop and two missionaries have been killed in HunI an, one of the southern province. AMERICAN FORCES. Fifteen hundred American troops have arrived in China. TERRIBLE TORTURE OF A MISSIONARY. In an interview a Sydney merchant who was at Tientsin before egress was cut off, states the " Boxer 3 " are held in awe by the Chinese, as they are believed to be supernaturalOne of the two missionaries (Robinson and Norman) was skinned alive and his eyes gouged out with hot irons. He states the Chinese are well armed and the gunners, owing to European instructors, accurate. VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE. Sir Claude Macdonald (the British Ambassador), Lady Macdonald, their two children and five members of the staff were among those massacred at Pekin. Dr George Morrison, a native of Victoria, the correspondent of the Times also fell a victim. Among the others butchered by the Chinese were the Rev. Mr Allardyce and the Rev Mr Russell, both of them South Australians. Mrs Allardyce, accompanied by her children, recently went to Shanghai. AN INTERPRETER'S STORY. A student interpreter, writing on July 10th from Pekin, declared that the threat of the Dowager-Empress to massacre the foreigners induced part of them to send all the Customs officials and ladies to the Legations. The crisis was precipitated by the repulse of Rear-Admiral Seymour's expeditionary force from Tientsin. The native servants in the employ of Europeans, together with the native converts, were massacred. Then the Boxers set fire to many of the finest buildings in the city and attacked the Legations. The Government, adds the writer, appeared to be paralysed.