THE FAR EAST.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11561, 14 June 1900, Page 3

THE FAR EAST.

BOXERS STILL ACTIVE PREACH ATTITUDE. MISSIONS GUAEDED. Roccived June 13, 9,5 a.m. London, June 12. M. Deleasse", French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a speeoh in the Chamber of Deputies dealing with the situation in China, declared that the Boxers must be regarded as a common danger to the civilised world. That view of the case was a guarantee that the Powera would act in accord, the problem being one for international treatment. The Embassies of the Powers were addressing a fresh warning to the Tsung-li-Yamen, calling upon that body to put down the insurgents. The French Gov-

ernment were prepared to send troops to the province of Yunnan, not with any idea of conquest, but simply to proteot the economic interests of France in that part of China. The foreign troops protecting the Tientsin line had to use their bayonets to keep the Chinese away from the railway, which it is their object to destroy. The Boxers have burned Sir Claude Macdonald's newly-built summer residence in the hills, although it was placed under the protection of the Taung-li-Ya-men. The missionaries at Peking are at present being protected by the foreign troops in the capital. The Viceroy, Chi Li, threw obstacles in the way of sending troops from Tientsin to Peking. He was applied to for permission to send a naval contingent from the Aurora by train to the capital, but declined to allow the train to be sent. Captain Bayley thereupon commandeered a traia to convey 350 German, 80 British, and 70 French troops to Peking. The driver of the train, a Chinaman, then bolted with the engine, and the mob commenced to damage the railway line. The foreign troops used their bayonets in order to proteot the line, and the train was allowed to proceed, the Viceroy also sanctioning the despatch of another train conveying 213 Russian troops with two guns and 62 French soldiers. The detachments of troops whioh left Tientsin for Peking on Sunday readied Lang Fang, 40 miles from the capital. Forty unarmed British and American Protestant missionaries, together with 400 native probationer converts, are assembled at the station of the American Methodists in Peking, guarded by 32 American and British marines. Fears are entertained with regard to the safety of the missionaries at Pao Ting Fa, who have not been heard of for three days, The Roman Catholic missionaries and converts are assembled in the rear of the Cathedral, guarded by a small force of French marines.