TROUBLE IN CHINA.

Evening Star, Issue 11266, 13 June 1900, Page 6

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

FOM.Y OF THE CHINESE. THE EMPEROR'S APPEAL. Prtwa Astoetettcn—By Telegraph—Copyright. HONGKONG, Jane 12. The Chinese soldiery thrashed the secre- \ tary of the Belgian Legation in the streets of Pekin. In pursuance of an raternational understanding 6,000 troops at Port Arthur are held in readiness to eofbark. Mr Long, the American Secretary of the Navy, has ordered 100 marioes from Manila. LONDON, June 12. "The Tkoes' Pekin correspondent states that one of the Chinese members of the Tsung-li-Yamen has been retired for being a reactionary. A Manchu member has been appointed president. Prince Chung has been superseded by Prince Tuan, the Crown Prince's father, a powerful supporter of the " Boxers." ' The Times,' commenting on this, gays that the Dowager Empress is insolently staking everything on an anti-foreign policy. Chung was only a moderate member of the Tsung-li-Yamen, and inexperienced in foreign affairs. It adds that there is a unanimity of opinion that the Powers must bend or break the Empress. Intervention' would undoubtedly receive the support of the Chinese proper. The Emperor of China, through the Shanghai correspondent of the 'Daily Express,' appeals to Europe to depose the Dowager Empress, enthrone him and Nanking jointly, to protect and regenerate the Empire, governing through him, a.id to control the Customs and open China's door to those guaranteeing the integrity of the Empire. The appeal came through Wengtungho, the Emperor's confidant in bis exile, and three of the Viceroys support it. FRANCE'S" POLICY. SIR CLAUDE MACDONALD'S HOUSE BURNED. PARIS, June 12. M. Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that the "Boxers " were a common danger, and that fact was a guarantee of international accord. The Embassies were addressing a fresh warning to the Tsung-li-Yamen on the necessity of putting down the insurgents. France was prepared to ssiid troops to the province of Yunnan, not with the idea of conquest, but simply to protect her economic interests. HONGKONG, June 12. The foreign troops had to point their Inyonets to keep the Chinese away from tlii" railway track. The " Boxers " have burned Sir Claude Macdonald's new summer residence amongst the hills, though it had been placed under the Tsuug-li-Yamen : s protection. The foreign troops are protecting the missionaries at Pekin. TO3ITION OF TPIE MISSIONARIES. MORE TROOPS SENT TO PEKIN. HONGKONG, Juno 12. Forty unarmed British and American Protestant missionaries are collected in the American Methodist station at Pekin, with 400 Native probationers. They are guarded by thirty-two British and American marines. Nothing has been heard of the Paotingfu missionaries for thtee days. The Catholic missionaries and converts are' assembled near the cathedral, guarded by the French marines, as the Viceroy of Chili refused permission to a naval contingent from the warship Aurora to proceed. Captain Bayly has commandeered a third train to convey fifty German, eighty British, and seventy French troops to Pekin. The Chinese driver bolted with the engine as tha mob were damaging the track. The foreign troops used their bayonets to keep the Chinese away. The-Viceroy sanctioned the despatch of a fourth train to Pekin, which carried 213 Russians, with two guns and sixty-two French troops. The detachments which left Tienstin on Sunday have reached Langfang, forty miles from Pekin.