CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, 21 August 1900, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

China. RELIEF OF THE LEGATIONS. The German Foreign Office has received a report that the Legations at Pekin have been relieved. Li Hung Chang and other Chinese officials state that the allies entered Pekin unopposed on Wednesday. Admiral Remy has cabled to the Secretary for the Navy that the Legations were safe. The Commissioner of Customs at Chee-fu telegraphs that Pekin was relieved on the night of the 15th. The Japanese admira 1 reports having received a despatch that the allios attacked Pekin from the eastward on the 15th. An obstinate resistance was offered, but during the evening the allies surrounded the Legations and rescued the inmates. The Japanese loss was 100 ; the Chinese lost 300. Prince ( hing welcomed the allies. The Imperial Court, with Prince Tuan and other Manchus, went to Shansi on the 11th, while General Kansu's troops went towards the south-west, hoping to ' attract the allies and prevent them pursuing the Court. YANG-TSE PROVINCE. The lending by Great Britain of £75,000 to Chang Chi-Tung, Viceroy of the Yang-tse provinces of Hupei and Hu-nan wherewith to pay the provincial troops, haa irritated

the French newspapers immeasurably. The Right Hon. W. St John Brodrick (Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office) has repeatedly repudiated the principle of the definition of spheres of interest in China. The "Times" blames Great Britain for not exercising ordinary prudence and foresight in her treatment of the Chinese question. FRUITLESS LABOUR. The Chinese evacuated ten thousand tons of earth at Ho-si-wu, the scene of a recent engagement, with the object of cutting the Jbanks of the Peiho. Had they been allowed to work for three additional days they would have been enabled to inundate the country sufficient to arrest the advance of the allied army. MINOR ITEMS. The capture of Hai-ching by the Russians is confirmed. A number of British transports have been recalled from Wei-hai-wei to Woo-sung. The Powers have agreed that their respective admira's, instead of RearAdmiral Seymour alone, shall watch the Chinese fleet in the Yang-tse-kiang, to prevent it attacking transports.