THE REBELLION IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 102, 13 June 1900, Page 3

THE REBELLION IN CHINA.

AH ALARMING STATE OF AFFAIRS. FOREIGN TBOOPB ASSEMBLING. [m nua association.] (Received 12,12.35 a.m.) Hokq Kobo, Jon* 11. Dangerous crowds are assembled round the Foreign Embassies at Peking. An American mission college at Tung-chau has been abandoned. Two chapels were burned by the Boxers and seventy-five converts massacred, many of them being burned alive. The Tsung-li-Yamen is supplying arms to the Boxers. A big detachment of foreign marines, with guns, is expected to reach Peking to-night. A British force of 650 marines, under Commander Freemantle, with a Hotchkias and other guns, a hundred American, forty Italian, and twentyfive Austrian marines, entrained at Tientsin yesterday. Another train took 600 British, Japanese, Russian, and French marines. A third train with five hundred German, British, and French marines has started for Peking. BELGIAN SECRETARY THRASHED BY BOXERS. AMERICAN MARINES ORDERED FROM MANILA. (Received 13,1.20 ajn.) < Hona Koho, June 12. i The Chinese soldiery thrashed the t Secretary of the Belgian Legation in I the streets of Peking. i In pursuance of an international < understanding, six thousand troops at « Port Arthur an held in readiness to ( embark. 1 Mr. Long, Amariwtn Secretary to I the Navy, has ordered one hundred { marines from Manila. Lohsoh, June 12. The Timed a Peking correspondent states that one of the Chinese members 5 of the Tsung-li-Yamen has retired, and i four reactionary Manchu members have been appointed. President Prince s Ohung has been superseded by Prino c Tuan, the Grown Prince's father, a u powerful supporter of the Boxers. 'J he Timet, commenting, says the Empress v is insoleutly staking everything on the t anti-foreign policy. Chung was tht only Moderate member of the Tsung <' li-Yamen experienced in foreign aflaira, I and adds that there is a unanimity ol r opinion that the Powers must bend oi s break. The Empress's interventioi £ weald undoubtedly receive the support > of Chinsee proper. j THE EMPEROR APPEALS TO EUROPE. (Received 13, 1.40 a.m.) Lohdon, June 12. The Emperor of Obioa, through th Shanghai c jrrespondenG of the Daily Exprtts, appsals to Europe to depos< the Dowager-Empress and enthrjnt him,