CONTRADICTORY REPORTS.
PROOF OF FOREIGNERS BEING
ALIVE WANTED. HONGKONG, July 26. (Received July 27, at 1 am.) A Chinese interpreter' employed by Sir Claude MacDona-ld has reached Niuoiiwang. He reports that Sir Robert Hart, in charge of the customs, perished on Monday, the 2nd inst. A majority of those in the British Legation were dead, and the rest hopeless. Taksu, the anti-foreign Viceroy at Canton, declares that the foreigners at the Legations were alive on Sunday last. Li Hung Chang asserts that the Tsung-li-Yamen will convey the 'Ministers to Tientsin if the advance on Peking is abandoned, i The consuls, before opening negotiations, insist on being supplied with' indisputable evidence that foreigners are alive.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11796, 27 July 1900, Page 5
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