THE FAR EAST.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11560, 13 June 1900, Page 3

THE FAR EAST.

AFFAIRS~REACHING A CLIMAX. PEKING EXCITED. COMBINED FORCE OF MARINES DESPATCHED. OUTRAGE ON MISSIONS. Eocoivoii June 12, 10.35 a.m. London, June 11. The news cabled from Hong Kong with regard to the latest aspect of the situation at Peking is of a serious nature. Poking is greatly excited, and dangerous crowds are assembled round the foreign Embassies. Owing to the threatening oondition of affairs the United States missionary college at Fungchau has been abandoned. Two chapels in connection with the mission were burned by the Boxers. Awful outrages were committed, 75 native converts to Christianity being massacred. Many were burned alive. The insurgents and the authorities may be regarded as aoting together, for the Tsung-li-Yamen are supplying the Boxers with arms. A strong force entrained at Tientsin for Peking yesterday, and arrangements are perfected for the despatch of further troops to the capital. The contingent was made up of marines as follows : — British GSO, American 100, Italian 40, Austrian 25. The British detachment, who were under Commander Fremantle, took with them a Hotchkiss gun and several other pieces of artillery. Two other trains laden with troops and warlike material were subsequently despatched from Tientsin. The first of these carried 600 marines made up of -drafts from the British, Japanese, Euseian, and French warships lying oil Tientsin. The third train conveyed a detachment made up of German, British, and French marines.