CHINA.
RESULT OF RUSSIAN CONFERENCE.!
! L&RGE ORDER FOR ARMS. BEATING A REFORMER TO DEATH. FLESH TORN TO RIBBONS. FOREIGNERS INDIGNANT. PUB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 3,10.15 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 3. As the result of the recent coni fereece of JRuss'an c fficials at Port Arthur, Ru=sir» >'s appropriating thirteen million rcub'es for the purpose of fortifying 30 miles of coast between Port Arthur and Dairy. Pekin, August 3. Yuuish'kai, anticipating an early withdrawal of th 9 Powers prohibition against t.Vin importation of arms, has ordered 20,000 rifles, 48 field pieces, and 50 machine gune. At the Dowager's special orders, Shenchinn, the journalist reformer, who advocated the assassination of a member of tho ruling dynasty, was beaten to death with bamboo rods at i Pekin. The 9 sh on the arms, legs, and back was torn in ( o ribbons. I The execution occupied two hours. I Sbenchien to the last proclaimed his willingness to die for his principles, Fore ; cners are intensely indignant at the Dowgers cruelty, whilst the Reformers are q'Jiet, being cowed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 182, 4 August 1903, Page 3
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173CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 182, 4 August 1903, Page 3
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