The Trouble in China.
Hong Kong, September 13. * It was the Emperor's (not the Dowager's) edict transmitted from Paoling-?u that confers on Li Hung Cfhang extraordinary powers and absolute discretion to negotiate a full settlement. Mr Goodnow, American Consul i at Shanghai, has ascertained that 1 ninty- three British and American missionaries were massacred during the rising. One|aundred and seventy stationed in the Chi-li and Shansi provincies are missing. The massacring of Chinese | Christians everywhere continues in the interior. The provinces are convinced that the -Dowager has won great •victories. Four- thousand troops at Tientsin have stored for Paofcing-fu. - • ', The Emperor's edict mentionsonly Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang as negotiators. Prinoe Ching and Sir "Robert Hart had a meeting at Pekin. The Boxers are massing along the great canals. " , Dr Morrison states that the -Russians .hold an over-mastering position at? Pekin completely dominating the Japanese.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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146The Trouble in China. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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