TROUBLE IN CHINA.

Evening Star, Issue 11265, 12 June 1900, Page 5

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

GOVERNMENT COLLISION WITH "BOXERS." Pasmi Aajod»tfon—By Telegraph—Copyright HONGKONG. June 11. There are thirty-one warships at Taku. The admirals will discuss the expediency of seizing a strip of coast as an inviolable refuge for foreigner?. la accordance with the Viceroy of ChiLi'B recommendation, the British were allowed to proceed. The railway was found damaged beyond Kangtsan, but the track is safe. An Imperial edict has been issued in which General Nich was denounced for killing the " Boxers," and ordering him to withdraw the troops to Lutai, eighty miles away. The " Boxers " are surrounding and interrupting General Nich. The latter telegraphed to Pekin that he had vainly urged the "Boxers" to disperse, and that he had no alternative but fighting. He relies on the Emperor's mercy, adding that there -will bo serious trouble with the Powers unless the " Boxers " are suppressed. LONDON, Jiuie 11. Sir Claude M'Donald (Great Britain's Ambassador to China) has telegraphed : "The Throne strongly sympathises with the 'Boxers.' The spirit of the Native troops is doubtful. The Tsung-li-Yamen do not intead the summary repression of \he* Boxers.'" MASSACRE AND BURNING. HONGKONG, June 11. The American Missionary College at Tung - chau has been abandoned. Two chapels were burned by the " Boxers " and seventy-five converts were massacred, many of them being burned alive. The Tsung-li-Yamen aro supplying arms to the " Boxers." ° A big detachment of foreign marines, with guns, is expected to reach Pekin tonight. FOREIGN TROOPS PUSH FORWARD. HONGKONG, June 11. A British force of 650 marines, under Commander Fremantle, with a Hotcbkiss battery and other guns, 100 Americans, forty Italians, and twenty-five Austrians were entrained at Tientsein yesterday. Another train took 600 British, Japanese, Russian, and French marines, whilst a third train, with 500 Gcrmarj British, and French marines, has started for Pekin. Dangerous crowds are assembled round the various foreign embassies at Pekin.