WAR IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 197, 24 September 1900, Page 2

WAR IN CHINA

ALLIES REFUSAL TO WITHDRAW BASED ON GOOD REASON. EXPEDITION TO OPEN UP NORTHERN PASSES. DOWAGER ORDERS A NEW PALACE AT HSIANFU. [FEB PEBSS ASSOCIATION.] Reoeived 2Z, 9.15 p.m. Honq Kong, September 21. The refusal of the Allies to withdraw from Peking is based on information that the Boxen are prepared to return in strength. General Wilson with 800 American and 600 British troopi and six guns left Peking to capture Santaitien arsenal, disperse the Boxers, and open up the northern passes so as to ensure coal and food supplies for the capital. The Dtfwager has ordered the Governor of Shansi to raise money for the erection of a palace at Haianai which is to be her future capital. LI HUNG OHANG AT TIENTSIN. THE CAPTURE OF PIETACHIN. THE GUNBOAT PROTECTOR ORDERED TO SHANGHAI. Received 22, 9.15 p.m. Hono Kong, September 21. Li Hung Obang is now at Tientsin. , Sheng, Chinese Director of Tee- . graphs, has been added to the peace I negotiations. The Allied forces which captured i Pietachin included 4000 Germans and ; four thousand other troops. Germany was invited to effect the capture of Pietachin and disperse the i Boxers, with the co-operation of Lieut. ' Wilson's column, prior to the latter 1 attacking Sanhaihen. The South Australian gunboat Proi teotor is ordered to Shanghai. , LIEUT. WILSON'S SUCCESSFUL EXt PEDITION TO RESCUE CONVERTS. OOUNT WALDERSEE AT SHANGHAI. THE AMUR MASSACRE. 1 4000 KILLED. EVERY HAMLET FOR 55 MILES BURNL i RUSSIA DECLARES IT A MILITARY [ NBOESBITY. Received 23, 5.5 p.m. Hong Kong, September 22. Sir Olaud Macdonald'a withdrawal frrm Peking on account of health wat arranged last April. The American expedition, under Lieut. Wilson, to rescue Chinese Christians, is successful. He scouted 41 miles north-east of Peking ana • rescued 14 converts. ; Count Waldersee and staff have arrived at Shanghai, i Professor Wright, of Oberlin College, , Ohio, writing from Manchuria, explains • that the Chinese outrages created i terror. The Cossacks at Blajokei stcheaak were frenzied and pushed i 3000 Chinese on rafts, which were i made to carry them, out on the Amur i River, and the majority were drowned. i The country was scoured and all , Chinese shot. Every hamlet along 55 i miles of the river was burned.. Alto- - gether there was a total of 4,000 killed, i Russia declared these measures were a i military necessity. * MOUTH OF THE YANG-TZE BLOCKKD TO PREVENT GERMANS ASCENDING. Received 23, 6.15 p.m. Hong Kong, September 22. Liukiniyi, Viceroy of the Liamg--1 kiang provinces, fearing that the Ger- ' man fleet would ascend the Yang-tze, 1 is blocking the channel at Kiangyenhien, the mouth of the river, ' excepting a narrow passage. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO SPARK PEAOKABLE CITIZENS IN I MANCHURIA. (Received 23, G. 15 p.m.) Si. PiaiitsßVßa, September 22. The leader of expeditionary csrps to Manchuria vainly beseeched the llus- ■ sian Government's permission to spare the peaceable Chinese citizens. i _^_ l GERMANY EXPLAINS. , EMPRESS DOWAGER TO TAKE THE , RESPONSIBILITY OR GIVE UP INSTIGATORS OF MASSACRES. FRANCE, ITALY, AND AUSTRIA IN AGREEMENT. (Reoeived 24, 0.40 a.m.) London*, September 23. Berlin advices state that Germany's demand is intended to show the Dowager's position, as her refusal to surrender the chief instigators of the late massacres will be equivalent to atsuming the responsibility of the crimes. France, Italy, and Austria adhere to their demand.