China.

Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1900, Page 2

China.

MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLIED TROOPS. When approaching Shan-hai-kwan the Russian troops, mistaking French troops for Boxers, fired on them. The French replied, and there were casualties on both sides, including ten killed. Reuter's correspondent at Tientsin states that a British force has occupied Ching-wan-tao, in the Gulf of Lian-~ tong, a few miles south of Shan-hai-kwan, and commenced the construction of a railway pier, with a view "to making the harbour a winter port. GERMAN TROOPS IN TROUBLE. Five hundred Germans, with two guns, have had a sharp encounter southwards of Tientsin with 8000 Chinese, described as Boxers. It is believed, however, that they were Li Hung Chang's veterans. The Germans returned to Tientsin, owing to their transport service being incomplete. MISCELLANEOUS. The British police on the Kanlung border have been reinforced owing to an outbread of Chinese rebels in the vicinity. Dr Morrison, the correspondent of " The Times," at Pekin, says that the Russians, after sacking the Summer Palace, handed the keys to the Chinese. Prince Tuan and other Boxer leaders are the mainstay of the Court, and probably dictated the decree appointing their pseudo-punishment. Huan-tapu, the Empress Dowager's i nephew, who was dismissed by the } Emperor in 1898, has succeeded Prince Tuan on the Tsung-li-Yamen, as Generalissimo* The Germans are building a branch railway between Tung-ko and Ching-wan-tao. Importance is attached at Shanghai to the survey by the gunboats Woodcock and Woodlark of the Hau River, and the landing of men in the vicinity of the Kangyin forts. FIGHTING IN THE NORTH. Reports trom St Petersburg state that General Subbotitsch, with a dozen battalions of infantry and forty guns, has captured Mukden, eighty miles north of Newchang. many modern guns were secured. ! GUARDING SHAN-HAI-KWAN. British, French, Russian, German, Italian and Japanese troops guard the gates and forts at Shan-hai-kwan, on the western shore of the Gulf of LiaoTong. There are ten Russian warships in the roadstead, and Russian troops occupy the whole of the Tong'ku-Shau-hai-kwan Railway. Portion of the Russian force has gone north. A WINTER STAY. Fifteen hundred Americans and the same number of Russians will winter at Pekin. Supplies are being stored at the capital for the troops and six months' rations have been requisitioned. JAPANESE TROOPS' Half of the Japanese forces in China are withdrawing. Several Japanese trains, said to contain much treasure, have left Pekin. The withrawal of Japanese troops on a large scaie has been suspended. General Lukamato commands a reorganised Japanese brigade of ten thousand. Two thousand are winter-

ing at Pekin and eight thousand occupying positions between Taku and the lines of comiEunications.