CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9823, 24 July 1900, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE ¥fH~IAR.

CHINESE CENSORSHIP.

Looting at Tientsin.

What Diplomatists Believe.

British Troops at Hong Kong.

State of War in Russian Territory.

Coreans Fighting the Chinese.

United Press Association

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(Received July 24, 1 a.m.)

London, July 28

A responsible Chinese official admits that it is possible to communicate with Pekin in three days.

Telegraph officials are threatened with death if any disclosures in reference to the massacres are made.

Property worth millions of taels was looted at Tientsin, also two official treasuries containing 2,000,000 taels. The Japanese, British, and American officers restrained their men and recovered a considerable quantity of loot. They compelled one civilian to disgorge 10,000 dollars.

The Russians defeated 4000 Chinese at Aigan, capturing 40 guns, and also repulsed an attack on -Huchang. The Russian troops have occupied Lika arsenal, north of Tientsin. Diplomatists believe that the maintenance of secrecy is designed to facili tate Li Hung Chang's negotiations to foster international jealousies, enabling the Court to remove to Siangfu, the capital of the province of Shensi. Great Britain's decision to hold 3000 troops at Hong Kong in readinest to operate in the Yang-tze provinces has allayed the panic at Shanghai. A strike of fitters aboard the transports at Hamburg is delaying the [despatch of the German contingent to China.

An Imperial ukase proclaims that a state of war exists in Siberia, Turkestan, Semiryechensa province, and Russian Turkestan. The Corean troops have had an encounter with the Chinese on the Corean frontier. Sydney, July 23. Two hundred of the Naval Brigade and Naval Artillery hare volunteered for China.