ADMIRAL SEYMOUR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9833, 4 August 1900, Page 2

ADMIRAL SEYMOUR.

A Risky Interview. Secret Movements by Japan. Russia Advises. Germany's Patriotism. Third Brigade from India.

(Received Aug. 4, 1 a.m.)

Loxdok, Aug. 3

Admiral Seymour, insisting on paying a visit to the Viceroy of Nanking, the latter reluctantly sent a Chinese warship to escort the gunboat Alacrity past the forts. Great secrecy is being manifested over the movement of Japanese troops at Shanhaikwan, at the commencement of the Great Wall, at the entrance to the Gulf of Leoatung, west of Port Arthur. It is expected that a simultaneous advance will be made on Pekin from Shanhaikwan and Tientsin Russia reports that a majority of the Chinese troops and Boxers south of Pekin have concentrated at Yangtsan. There are 50,000 trained troops at Pekin, besides Boxers, and to march on Pekin before the end of the rains would be risky, as the climate is very changeable. . A. hundred, fetid twenty thousand Germans, and 3650 officers have volunteered for service in China. The T.lues's Tientsin correspondent says that the number of Chinese between Tientsin and Pekin is probably small. Dr Davenport, of Adelaide, succeeded in making his escape from Wuchang. India is preparing a third brigade for service in China.