China.

Manawatu Herald, 16 October 1900, Page 2

China.

THE PAOTING-FU EXPEDITION.

Major.General Sir Alfred Gaselee commands 5000 allies from Pekin, and General Bailloud, of the French force, 5000 allies from Tientsin. Both forces will effect a junction near Paoting-fu.

The two forces contain-no Americans.. Russians, or Japanese. General Bailloud's force includes Colonel Campbell's British horse artillery, pom-poms, Australians and Indians, and the Hong-kong Regiment. After junctioning and arriving at Paoting-fu, the supreme control will devolve on Major-General Gaselee. It is understood that the news ot the intended expedition to Paoting-fu led to the decision of the Dowager Empress to move westward. . \ TROUBLE IN THE SOUTH. The Times states that cities in six of the East River districts are in the hands of rebels. A considerable number of troops are protecting Canton, with one British and two German gunboats watching. The Chinese reformer, Sungasten, has unfurled a flag at Wai-chow, on the East river, hoping that the reformers could easily seize Canton if_ denuded of foreign troops. The British at Hongkong are patrolling Mirs and Deep Bays. Two companies of Bombay Infantry are in readiness to proceed to thejfrontier. Numerous members of the Triad Society have been arrested at Hongkong. General Su reports that the antiManchu rebellion is rapidly spreading in the south-western districts of Kwang-si, the rising being worse than the Taiping rebellion. Malcontents from Yunnan and Kweichau provinces are reinforcing the rebels. He says that 30,000 troops are in« adequate to cope with the outbreak, and asks for 70,000 additional men. APPEARANCE ON DISEASE. Typhus and Idisentry are prevalent amongst the troops at Pekin. Typhus has also broken out amongst the Russian troops in Manchuria.