The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 113, 26 February 1901, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

.London, February 21. Ibe Morning' Pqst". state# that inistera consent' to the Court ateneing Tuan Tari Tung luh-siang decapitation (then commuting the itence to banishment for. life), mng Chaoshuchiao Yiagnien to raagulation, and Yuhsien to decapitiocu .

February 22. Yeungkawatl, a reformer and sdjutor of the .reformers Kangyuwei, is been murdered in Hong Kong, ler the Chinese authorities had laced a price on his head. The Morning Post states that ioisters have consented to the Court atencing-Ohihsin and Henchenyi to (capitation; that- an edict has been gaud under which Tung-fah-siang is Egruded and deprived of hia rank; uan, vdio was lately disgraced, is died; Chuang, Yingnien, and Chaojcbiao are ordered to commit suicide, id three other leaders are sentenc' d j decapitation. It is understood that img-fuh-aiang’s life will be confiscate rhen possible. The European and Chinese secrecies at the - Legation at Pekin onsider the result a t-hinese triumph, ! the Court is only beheading fnhsien. It is pointed out that the doidas are not disgraced. Coant Waldersee’s arrangements jr an expedition into the interior have sot been cancelled., as he still believes {inevitable.

At America’s instance the Allies

have accepted the principal that no Power shall seek individual conressions of Chinese territory without m international assent.

f ’ February 28. ■ I The Germane have begun the [transfer to the British of the PekinKhanbaikwan railway. I The British haVe assumed control of RhePekin-Tientsin section. I An Imperial edict has been issued [ordering the Palace in the Forbidden City to be prepared for the Court’s return to Pekin at the end of March.

The foreign Ministers consistently ignored the Empress Dowager throughout the negotiations, recognising - the Emperor alone. Four hundred Welsh Fusiliers,' ilationed at Hongkong, have been ordered to Pekin to relieve the Australian contingents. A British officer who was .captured at Zand Drift, and subsequently released at Hontenkraal, declares that De Wet treated his prisoners on the march with the utmost callousness, md released them only when they dropped from exhaustion. He ’saw De Wet personally sjambok a British officer for expostulating against his cruelty.