MASSACRE IN SHANSI
Forty Foreigners Killed. The Allies' Forces. In Memoriam. (Received July 19, 10 a.m.) London, July 18. Forty foreigners and a hundred converts were killed at Taiyonfu, in the province of Shan si. The Emperor of Germany has promised the Germans at Hankow that German warships will be sent to protect the Yangtze Valley, An additional six thousand native troops will be sent from India to China. The entire Japanese force, of 22,000, has been landed. The Times publishes a laudatory notice of Mr Morrison, a native of Victoria who was massacred at Pekin, where he was acting as special correspondent for The Times. Altogether there were 21,000 troops representing the allies at Tientsin and Taku on the 11th inst.
It is calculated that at the end of August the number will have been increased to 80,000.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9819, 19 July 1900, Page 8
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