CABLE NEWS.
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4* MISSIONARIES MASSACRED.
The Dowager's Movements. -
Warning by France.
United Press Association % Electee Telegraph, — Copyright.
{Received Dec. 11, 12.39 a.m.) London, Dec. 10. Twelve Scandinavian missionaries and 100 native converts have been tortured..to death in the Kekeihawaching province and Shan-si. Further west the Boxers and regulars are still besieging the mission stations, where the priests and converts are resisting. There are persistent native reports in Shanghai that the Dowager is. retiring to Ching-tufu, capital of the province of Suchwan. M. Pichon, French Ambassador, has informed Prince Chiug that France will not allow the importation of arms and the massing of Chinese troops on the Indo-Chinese frontier.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9940, 11 December 1900, Page 2
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108CABLE NEWS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9940, 11 December 1900, Page 2
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