IN THE YANG-TSE BASIN.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 18, 21 July 1900, Page 5

IN THE YANG-TSE BASIN.

MISSIONARIES MURDERED IN A RIVERSIDE TOWN. WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO BE CALLED IN. PROVISION FOR REFUGEES. LONDON, 19th July. Several missionaries have been killed at Kiu-kiang-fu — a town in the south bank of the Yang-tse river, midway between Hankau and Nankin — and their houses plundered. The foreign women and children have been requested to leave the river ports. Speaking in the Housb of Commons, the Right Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, stated that vessels had been hired on the Chinese rivers to assist foreigners in fleeing to the coast. The gunboats on tho Upper Yang-tse were in readiness to proceed to any port. He further explained that Mr. P. L. Warren, the British Consul-General at Han-kau, had been empowered to make whatever provision the naval commander on the station considered necessary to bring away refugees. THE FORTS AT SHANGHAI. REPORTED IMPOTENCE OF, THE VICEROY. (Received July 21, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, 20lh July. Liv kun-yi, of Nankin, Viceroy of the three provinces of Kiang-su, Kiang-si, and Nean-hwei. between which runs thu

lower portion of the Yang-lse, is stated by a Shanghai coi respondent to have forbidden the strengthening of the Woo&ung forts — which command both the approach to {Shanghai and the entrance to the Yang-tse. The correspondent adds that in Nankin the authority of the Viceroy is not regarded as a sufficient guarantee of the maintenance of order north of the Yangtse.