The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 50, 25 September 1900, Page 2

The Trouble in China.

t Hong Kong, September 20. ! The Allies to-day attacked the Peitang forts, north of Tientsin. Heavy cannonading is proceed ing. An order of Literati are circuiat- | ing leaflets in Canton, announcing Chinese victories, and that tho* j Powers are craving for peace. Prince Ching insisted on the retirement of the Dowager and the reinstatement of the Emperor to supreme power. Router's correspondent at Pekia states that the Dowager is willing to return to Pekin if protected. Sir Claude MacDonald exchanges posts with Sir X M. Satow, Minister to Japan.

September 21. The refusal of the Allies to with* draw from Pekin is based on information that the Boxers are prepared go return in strength. f Gjfleral Wilson, with 809 A'n^fricuu and 600 British troopg and"* six guns, has left Pekin to capture Santaitien arsenal, disperse the Boxers and open the northern parses so as io ensure coal and food, supplies for the capital. The Dowager has ordered the Governor of Sh&nsi fco raise money for the erection of a palace at Hsknfa, which will be the future capital. Li Iluag Ohang 13 now at Tien» tsin. Sh&ng, Chinese Director 0$ Telograi)hg, has been added to the Peace Negotiations Commi&aion. The Allied forces which captured Pietting, iacludod 4000 Germans,, and 400 other troops. Germany ha** boon invited t<j capture i-\-,it;»chin, and to disperse tho ISo^er-a w ich the co-oporaUon of Lioatouanti - C-rcnoral V/}!son's column, prior to the lafcser attacking Hanhaitcn. The South Australian gnnboajj Pcotootoi' ha 3 been ordored to ohanghai.

September 22. Sir Claude MaoDonald'a with--drawal from Pokin on account of his health, was arranged lusi April. The American expedition undei? Lieutenant WiJson rescued the Chinese Christians and succescfnlly scooted 40 miles north-east of Pokin, rescuing 14 converts. Count WalderssG and sfeafi have arrived afc Shanghai. Professor Wright, of Oborlin College, Ohio, writing from jManchuria, explains that the Chinese outrages were created by terror. The Cossack 3 ac Blajovestcheusk beci.ine frenzied and pushed 8000 Chinese on a raft, which was Liadeqnate to carry them, out on the Amur Eiver. The majority were drowned. The country wag scoured, and all Chinese were shot.. TCvery hamlet along 500 miles o£ the river was burned. A total of 4000 were killed. The Russians declared these measures w^re a military necessity. Liukiniyi, Viceroy of Liangkiang province, fearing the German fleet ,will ascend the Yangtze, is blocking the -channel At Kiangyenhien; aj; the mouth of the river, excepting s, narrow passage.

,' London, September 20. European papers generally approve of Germany's suggestions. Tho French newspapers unan'^ mously support the Emperor of Germany, The Daily News Berlin .oorrf-e-pondent says the Emperor's plan is intended to prevent any po3Ve.jE playing a double game.

September 21. The Standard's Moscow correspondent states that the Russians disarmed five thousand Ghinese at BJagoveschenck, and led them ia small batches to the river 4mur, ordering them to cross to the Chinese side. There were no boats and the river was rapid, and a mile wido. At the least sign of hesitation the men, women and children were stabbed or shot, and the -bodies fiung into the stream. There were similar occurrences elsewhere, and ii is believed that altogether twelve thousand were thus killed*

September 23. Berlin advices state thafc Germany's demand is intended to show that the Dowager's position in her refusal to surrender the ohief instigators, will be equivalent to assuming the responsibility for the crimes. France, Italy and Austria have adhered to the demand.

- Washington, September 20. The authorities here fear that the result of Germany's proposals will be a prolongation of hostilities, | and the American Government has I declined to support them oa th£ ground that they impose impossible conditions.-Wuting-fang, Chinese Minister I here, declares that Germa#yji proposals, enunciated)in ajagj®^ I the Powers, ata ixoposaiihia,

Berlin, Sepember 21. Reports received here state thnt it, e Allies captured the Peitang and tobai fort?, though the losses are JicavySnvNttHVi, September 20. There is immense satisfaction here fiTer the Emperor of Germany's St. Pbtkesburg-, September 22. The lender of the expeditionary E p S in Manchuria vainly beseeehed jjio Russian Government for permission to spare the peaceable Cbine.v cozens. bvnNEY, September 21. Pstaii 0 . of the journey of a party of ]3 iv' c sioaarios, belonging to ffco Ohmi Inland Mission, "who pAchcd Shanghai after 50 flays' (Ji imey from the province of ihau'i) 'we boon vcen-ed here. r h c',>i' J C^r^» *lis? Pico, SMr 1 ? nons f on nnr 1 two children, and founders, perished en route. Ehcrtly after starting they were strippe 1 ? of overy thing, leaving all, including the ladies and children, \rith only a pair of native drawers. ;i | -iph bl^inq sun burned us to the lone. At evory village wo v.-eire atiackcO and driven one to the other y w rh |ii J ov.*:-« and curses, K cither lood nor water could bo obtained for diA"- and tho only support was hilhy ]juddles on the roadside. Mi.s lj ' ice an & Mi?^ Houston sat aown ou the roadbide, saying they ti\;lu willingly die, but walk another stop thoy could not. siis3 Rioe v;ae beaten, thi-ovni 4offii, Mil a heflvy cart drawn fcoUfii-l^ and forv, T AL'<!s over hat' to cm^K roj lifo out ; bob soi eKtiG^ this, tho Chineao devils dr. o^ecl bor aside and baafc hnv t? ui clubs, oniy to tbrjv Lor voder the cart again. Thi'j h^ppened reppatodly, until at last sho died. Miss Houston, roraaineu vitb !Mi«s Rice to tho end, was ■ Hied/iraed with horror, and riinfrom the place, but wa.3 recaptured, and , jtuiamod for twenty clay-3_ in {be ham!'- of the Cninese. How shecaur oat she never knew ; bnt sompbo.v rho rp joined the party in a fearfvl slate H>r eku'l was {roctuttd, and she lingered for days Tith her brain exposed, till nioitiHc 'J/ion pet in, and she joined iei fi'.3i'Jo in death, Mrs Cooper had fi.ll her upper clothing torn from her. The fierce sun blistered hpr?!:cuider3 and breast, and the ssin peeled olf, and flies cair>e m swarms. I^fore her death the snrfacc of the upper part of her bay va,s a mass of maggots. Vihen the children arrived oi Hankow, so emaciated wore they tfol toeir bones were ail showing no flesh being on the limbs. They tad no food on the way, and for four days they lived on grass."