WAR IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 215, 5 November 1900, Page 3

WAR IN CHINA

ARSOQBAHOI OI JRBSCH OFFICERS, PUHISHHBXT OF BOXEIB. ALUM HOLD THB EMPBROR'B HASKM. RUMOURED FLIGHT OF PRINCE TUAN. GOVBRNOR OF PAOTIN6-FU 6BNTENOBD TO DEATH. PER FMBS ABSOOIATIOS. Received 8, 9.14 p.m. Hoko Kohg, November 2. French officers at Yangtsun refused to leave a carriage in a special train intended to carry the 14th American Begiment to Tongkin, Colonel Daggett summoned the American guard and ejected the officers, who demanded an! apology. A Franco-German expedition has gone to the Ming tombs. Eight Boxers were shot at Paotingfu. One conf«ssed that he had helped to torture a lady missionary. The Allies hold possession of 100 members of tho Emperor's harem. Officials report that Prince Tuan shaved his head and fled to Mangolia disguised as a monk. An International Commission udar Balliod, sentenced the treasurer of the Tartar Government at Paoting-fu and a Chinese colonel to death, on the ground that they were accessories in the murder of English and American missionaries.

t PAOTINGFU DIBGBAOED. BDTOHIKT BY GERMANS—AN UNCONGENIAL TASK. ALLIES OCCUPY THB TMPKHUI. lOMB3, GRUESOME PROOFS, Kacoiyfed 4,5.13 p.m. Hoicq Kosq, November 3. General Gaselee, with a view to disgracing Paotingfu in the eyes of Chinese owing to the murders and mutilation of Europeans, destroyed the most venerated temple, also the city gale towers. Private letters from the German force at Peking deplore the butchery wherein the troops are engaged. They state that 16 Chinese were tied together by their pigtails, and ordered to shoot eight. One yoath was spared after digging his own grave. They exeouted 74 of those captured when shooting at the German patrol. All were bayoneted.

The Allies, including the British, have occupied the Imperial tombs, situated some 40 miles south-west of Peking,

Ab Imperial edict has been issued adding Loikinyi, Viceroy of Nankin, and Chaaoitung, Yiceroy of Waehong, to the Peace Commissioners.

The European diplomatists have asked to see Kangyi's head and Yrohien's body as preof of the statement that the latter committed suicide and the former being decapitated,

THB ANGLO-GERHAN OONOBBT. A CHINESE FORI STORMED. BENGAL CAVALRY DO GOOD WORK. Received 5,1.3 am. Hosa Kosa, November 4. The Anglo-Germans stormed Zekingkoan, on the Shansi frontier, after a stubborn resistance. The Bengal Cavalry rescued an advance party of 80 Germans, who got into a dangerous position. Five guns were e*ptured and fifty Chinese were killed, The European casualties were small.