THE REBELLION IN CHINA.
A PARTY OF FOREIGNERS ATTACKED BY THE BOXERS. A RUSSIAN MOVE THWARTED, (PER PREBH ASSOCIATION.) (Received 3, G p.m.) Hong Kono, June 2, Seven hundred Boxers on Thursday attacked thirty foreigners, including six ladies, who were escaping in boat! from Pooticg-fu, eighty-miles southwest of Pekin. Four foreigners were killed and many woundedj It is believed that Russia hoped to seize a position controlling the Pei-bf River by a pretext of crushing the Boxers. America and Germany, however, prevented this, inri«tiwg qq international intervention. A LARGE NUMBER OF WARSHIPS OFF TAKU. Ill' 'SIAN TROOPS IN FORCE. (Received 3, 6 p.m.) Honu Kono, June 2. The Tsung-Li-Yamen reluctantly admitted one hundred marines from each Power to guard the embassies at Pekin. There are 23 warships assembled off Taku. Eleven thousand troops are aboard nine Russian warships.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 4 June 1900, Page 2
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138THE REBELLION IN CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 4 June 1900, Page 2
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