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THE ALLIED TROOPS NEAR PEKIN.
Replying to the edict appointing Li Hung Chang Peace Plenipotentiary, the American Consul-General at Shanghai is prepared to negotiate the cessation of hostilities provided a' sufficient body of the allied troops, as the allied Generals may determine, may be permitted to enter Pekin unmolested, and escort Ministers and the foreign residents to Tientsin.
Sir Claude McDonald, in a message dated the 6th of August, declares the situation desperate. In ten days the food supply will be at an end and unless relieved a general massacre is likely. Remembering Cawnpore we refused the Chinese ofter of an escort to Tientsin.
The Daily Express states the Allies has reached Huohsienuation, 23 miles from Pekin.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1900, Page 2
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118Latest. Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1900, Page 2
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