CHINA AND THE POWERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4207, 16 November 1900, Page 5

CHINA AND THE POWERS

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MILHARi OPERATIONS. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS. JAPANESE LEAVING PEKIN™ (Received November 15, 11.43 p.m.) HONGKONG, November 15. A force of Germans, Austrians, and Italians is being despatched against the ' Chinese ' troops ’ which recently garrisoned Pekin, now encamped seventysix miles north-west of the capital. . BERLIN, November 14. The Government is mobilising five thousand troops to reinforce the German army in China. LONDON, November 14. Another small German expedition is starting for the tombs of the Ming Emperors, at Shi-sari-ling, twenty-five miles north of Pekin, Reporters are forbidden to accompany it. The Japanese troops have been largely withdrawn from Pekin and Tientsin. They will not- re-embark for Japan, but will operate secretly. A small Russian company, after rescuing a number of French missionaries under Bishop Ahelson, was surrounded north of Shan-hai-kwau, the port in the Gulf of Liaotung lately occupied by the allies, by 6000 Boxers. General Zerpitzki, with two columns, rescued his beleaguered countrymen who had two killed and sixty wounded.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 14. The Russian press accuses the Germans of pillaging and unnecessary violence in China. The “Novoe Yreinya” strongly blames France for co-operating with Count von Walderseo, the Commander-in-Chief, in the savage seizure of the Sling tombs. FRICTION WITH - RUSSIANS. ■ LONDON, November 14. The Russians ordered the foreign officials to vacate houses occupied by them at Tong-ku in connection with the railway to Shan-hai-kwan. A body of infantry and cavalry was sent by the British to protect the officials. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. (Received November 16, 0.22 a.in.) LONDON, November 15. China has commenced! to negotiate for peace on the basis of the demands put forward by the Ministers. The Pekin correspondent of “The Times” states that China will willingly concede everything demanded by the Ministers excepting the execution of princes and officials, which is impossible where . the Imperial Court is in their hands. • ■