RUSSIAN AND FRENCH BRUTALITY.
GALLANT DEFENCE OF PJSITANG.
Received October 9, 10 a.m.
Sydney, Ootober 5
News from China states that, in con* nection with Russian brutality in Peking, Sir Claude Mac Donald (British Ambassador) went to the Russian Ambassador to remonstrate, but found him impotent to do anything to stop the outrages. The French, it is reported, were not far behind the Cossacks in cruelty. It is asserted that women and children were murdered without mercy.
Tho defence of Peitang by a few brave Italian and French soldiers and 2000 native converts was most gallant; indeed, the defence of the Legations pales before it. The enemy exploded five mines under the place, one killing 80 (mostly women and children). The Japanese relieved the place just in time to prevent the garrison succumbing to starvation.
Sydney, Ootober 9,
News from the Australians in China shows that the Victorian Contingent mans the north-west fort at'Taku for the winter, while the New South Welshmen winter in Peking. The story that the British were the first to enter Peking is incorrect. The Russians were the first, bat the British were first at the Legations.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7048, 9 October 1900, Page 3
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