PROPOSED MILITARY CONTROL OVER CHINA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7048, 9 October 1900, Page 3

PROPOSED MILITARY CONTROL OVER CHINA.

Per Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

Received October 9, 0.55 aim. Hong Kong, Ootober 8. Shanghai attaohes importance to the British gunboats Woodoock and Woodlark surveying respectively the Hau River and landing men in the vicinity of the Kangyin forts. The Germans are building a branch railway line between Tangho and Chingwantao.

Paris, Ootober 8. M. Delcasse s Note is interpreted in some quarters as a proposal for a military control over China. Received October 9, 0.35 a.m. London, October 8.

The British police on the Kaulung border has been reinforced, owing to an outbreak of Chinese rebels in the vicinity. Dr Morrison, in a despatch to The Times, says that the Russians, after sacking, handed the keys of the Summer Palace to the Chinese. Prince Tuan and other Boxer leaders are the mainstay of the Court, and probably dictated the decree appointing their.pseudo punishment. Reoeived Ootober 9, 0.40 a.m. Hong Kong, Ootober 8. Huantapu, the Dowager's nephew, who was dismissed by the Emperor in 1898, has succeeded Prince Tuan on the TBung-H Yamen, and has also succeeded Yung Ln as Generalissimo. Five hundred Germans, with two guns, had a sharp encounter, southwards of Tientsin, with 8000 Chinese described as Boxers, but it is believed they are Li Hung Chang's veterans. The Germans returned to Tientsin owing to their transport service being incomplete.