China.

Manawatu Herald, 10 November 1900, Page 2

China.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. The Foreign Ministers at Pekin insist that the Legations shall be fortified, and that no Chinese shall reside in the diplomatic quarters. Dr Morrison, correspondent of " The Times" at Pekin, states that General Alexieff, commander of the Russian forces, has, through Li Hung Chang, invited the Chinese authorities to resume the government of Mauchuria under Russian protection. This is looked upon as another step in the direction of absorption. ' A PAOTING-FU HORROR. The American lady who was executed at Paoting-fu after being taken naked through the town, was slowly dismembered, her feet and hands being cut off first. Other similar outrages are reported. MILITARY OPER\TIONS. Three hundred and fifty Italians and Germans, while marching from Paoting-fu to Pekin, occupied Kuanhsien, after encountering a hot fire. Fifteen hundred Chinese were disarmed, and eight guns captured. Another force under Colonel Richardson, of the Bengal Lancers, making a similar march, met 500 Imperial troops under General Fan Parleying commenced, but an Indian trumpeter shot the Chinese general dead by mistake. Expressions of regret were tendered and accepted. > Several Boxers' villages were destroyed, and three Boxers who had murdered Chinese converts to Christianity were shot. The temples at Yang-chau, where two missionaries, Messrs Norman and Richardson, were recently mur- ! dered, were burned. Co'onel Rich- [ ardson obtained a promise that 40,---000 taels wou'd be paid as compensation to the families of the victims. A column has been despatched by Count von Waldarsee, the Oomman-der-in-Chief of the a' ied troops, to occupy the passes leading to Tai-yuen-fu, in the province of Shansi, in order to stop the provisioning of Si-ngan-fu, whither the Court is supposed to have gone.