The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 40, 1 September 1900, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

Hong Kong, August 28. Pekm is ckjai,' of tho enemy. Li Hung Chuag has asked the Dowager Lo arrest Tuan and disarm the Boxers, and thus open a way foL 1 negotiating with the Powers.

August 20. The French Adraiiral Oounrejoiles announces that the Admirals have decided to detain Li Hung Chang as a prisoner in the roadstead pending a settlement of the question, of negotiations. ,- The besiegers had almost completed a long tunnel towards tho. American Legation when relief came. ~

-August 30. A French gunboai is ascending the Yangtze. Twelve hundred Japanese are at Formosa, &nd are expected to proceed to kmoy. The body of Here Kfttteler was buried in the roadway, although the Tsung Li Yamen declared that his remains were interred in the foreign cemetery. The Japanese have occupied the . Summer Palace. The Russians widh to destroy the Winter Palace, but the Japanese are aaxious to save it. The relieving force was greeted with wild enthusiasm at Pekin, there being much cheering and hand-shaking. The food supply did not Ml, although the besieged; were compelled to eat horseflesh. The allies executed a military march through tho palace, dispersed bhe Chinese, and established ( sentries. It is reported at Ohefoo that 500 foreigners who had accepted the proffered protection of Yu, Governor of Shensi, were massacred last week. The pursuit of the Dowager ha 3 been abandoned. Houses within thirty yards of the rogations were pierced with tiers of loopholes, allowing a continuous fire. The whole attack was pushed with fiendish vindictiveness. • St. Petersburg, August 28. Russia has ordered from America 6,000,0001bs of beef on the hoof to food the troops in China. Eighteen hundred Russian infantry, ,300 artillery and 24 guns sail from Kieff. They have been engaged for three years to guard the Charbin-Port Arthur Railway.

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