The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 59, 16 October 1900, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

Lonuom, October 11. The Standard's Shanghai correspondent says that; General Yu has been suspend ed because the Dowager j discovered thai; his supposed army i of 60,000 consisted of only 4000. ' Sir E. M. Satow, K.C.M.G., ; Minister to Japan, succeeds Bit* 0. \ Macclonald as iilinisber to China. October 12. ' Lord Salisbury has acoc-r>ut>d M. Deieasaa's proposal jn principle. It <3u»gest^(l that each nationality should girrison one placo. Japan has adhered to the principle. President MeXinley, despite his reservation, cordially supports the proposal as tiae basis of uugociations. Hong Kong, October 11. Count Walderoee recognises that the Allies possess insufficient troops to advance to the new capital at idiugaufu. General Cbafiee repoi'H that Li Hung Chang has demanded that \ the Americans should return loot to the value of 200,000 dollars. October 12. The Brifcsh are sending an expodition to the coal mine hills, to the westward of Pekin, to investigate the supply. The intended expedition to Paotingf u led to the Dowager's decision to move westward. The Yangtse Viceroys are suppressing secret societies and pardoning those resigning from them. General Gaselee commands 5000 of the allies at Pekin, and MajorGeneral Baillond, of the French force, 5000 Allies at Tientsin. Both forces will effect a junction near Paofemgfu. The two forces contain no Americans, Russians, or Japanese. General Baillond's force includes Colonel Campbells British horse artillery and pom-pom, and the Australians, Indians, and the Hongkong Regiment. After junctionmg and arriving at Paotingfu the supreme control will devolve on General Gaselee. October 13. Typhu? and dysentery are prevalent among the troops at Pekin. October 14. General Su reports that the antiManehu rebellion is rapidly spreadiug to South- western Kwangsi, and that it is worse than the Taiping rebellion. Malcontents from the Yunnan and I£weichau provinces are reinforcing the rebels. His 30,000 troops are inadequate to i cope with them, and he asks for 70,000 additional men. The notorious anti-foreigner Yuchang, Governor of Honan, has been appointed Governor of Hupeh. St. Petersburg, October 12. A rescript has been issued demobilising a great part ol the Russian troops, specially summoned in connection with China.

Miss Khtish (singing) : " O promiee me ! O promise me 1 " Mr Spudds : " Couldn't think of ii. It cost me £2,000 to break "the last promise I made to a woman." A little girl who was trying to tell a friend how absent-minded her grandpa was, said, " He walk about thinking about nothing, and when he remembers it he then forgets that what he thought of was something entirely different from what he wanted to remember, "