The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 2 May 1901, Page 1

The Trouble in China.

London, April 28. N The Dowager Empress has appoint a Board of 3S"aMonal 4.(Jmjnistraliion, including Pr nee Ching and Li Hung Chanr, r in order to relieve her pnblic functions. The authorities in Washington interpret this as a prelude to her retirement, Germans defeated Chinese with heavy loss at Haishankwao, forcing them to retire »o Shensi. A jtbousand Boxers are raiding south y ofPaotihg'u, and another strong bar>4 '• threa' ens ihe German garrison at Mancheng. The worst claps of Chinese threaten to exterminate the converts 3 when the Allies depart, e Placards at Pekia urge the expulsion b of foreigners by the middle of May. The Chinese offered Indian officers two cart J;>ad of silver jif they would coneeaj the discovery ot the Krupp guns. Tbe Chinese have Accorded high posthumous ho- ours to three members c£ the Tsung-li-Yamea whom Prince Tuan; executed.. April 29. General Ke'tier's Brigade after an in? gagement at Faishaokwatt, seized the Great Wall. One column was engaged . for eleven hours expelling a portion of Lin'a force from the bastion overlooking one pass. Nineteen, including three oflj; cers, were wounde 1 and two killed. Another of General Ret'ler's column! dislodged the enemy from a strong poslr tion, Tuelman's' battalion at Tsingling. joining in the pursuit over the wall ht as Kukwan. Elevea old and two new quickfirers were captured. Twelve Germans were wounded and one killed. General Kettler is returning tq ' Paotingfu and has arranged for the French occupation of Kukwan. Lf HungCJhangdeelares that 11,000 ($1 persons are starving in China. Paoloff declares that Bassia is noji 1 interested 1b the Corean loan, Japan is fortifying'the naval poet aj) Mathmai. The victims executed by Prince Tnta t who have been posthumously iiononred, I were Hsu Ching Cheng, Yung Chaflg and Hsu Tungi. The reason of their being hojoonred if ; that they altered an edict for the maa> sacre of foreigners in Jane into an edkp : .enjoining the people to giro foreigners I all protection possible. ' The procession at.Shaughai behind thf remains of the three officials when they .were being transhipped io Hangouau fc* interment in their native province 0/ Ohekiang was a mile long. - , April 30. Wall-in-Mich'a and TaelmannV columns eaptared sixteen modern and- r *ihanjf old gojc&firerß. The heat jje / soorohing.* "The Chinese, fleeing troop Kukmn nnnibered 7000.. The Fnoojk ' and;<|ermjrnß brave rib'ir withdrawn....