The Trouble in China.
London, February 26. Chinese losses in the recent fight westward of Pao-ting-fu included 300 killed. February 27. Cbehsin and Hsuchengu were publicly beheaded at Pekin in the presence of the Allied troops. The former maintained a dignified, calm and fearless attitude, but the latter was stupefied with opium. The Chinese assert that Yingnien and Chamshuchiam suicide on Friday. The Foreign Ministers are preparing a list of the provincial officials implicated with the Boxers, preparatory to demanding their punishment. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent states that the Welsh Fusiliers relieve the Australians in the middle of March, and adds that the Australians have created . an exceedingly good impression by their smart soldierly hearing and invariably good conduct. In the House of Commons, Lord, Grahbourne said that the undertaking given by Russia that her administration of Manchuria would be only temporary and provisional was only a verbal understanding. The Standard states that trustworthy reports have been received that Princes Tuan and Lan Chuang and General Tung-fuh-siang had taken refuge in Ringsia, 800 miles north-west of Singanfu.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 2 March 1901, Page 4
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176The Trouble in China. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 2 March 1901, Page 4
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