WARIN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 207, 11 October 1900, Page 3

WARIN CHINA

BRITISH TROOPS HOLD THE SUMMEE PALACE. VICEROYS' PLAUSIBLE EXOUSEB. JAPAN CONSIDERS THE OOURT IN-. SINOERB AMD UNOONOILIATORY. AMERICAN COMMISSIONER PRBDIOTE RIOTING IF PEACE DELAYED. MORS PROMISES BY LI HUNG CHANG. [fib fuss association. I Received 10,9.Z5 a.m. Hono Kong, October 9. Six hundred British troops held the Summer Palace. The Russians have quitted'the Imperial pleasure grounds outside the purple city, Germans occupying their

position. The Viceroys of the southern provinces hare communicated the terms of the Imperial edict issued on October 2nd. It states that the scarcity of food is the cause of the removal of the Imperial Court to Singanfu, and that Taiyuenfu is almost deserted, owing to the ravages of the Boxers. Yu, Governor of Shansi, has been impeached for encouraging the Boxers. It is further argued that the Sovereigns will be more accessible by t telegraph in Shensi than in Shansi, owing to there being lines from the former place to Shanghai.and elsewhere. Washington, October 9. Wutingfang, Chinese Minister at Washington, declares there are no Boxers in the provinoe. Mr. Rockhill, special American Commissioner in China, now on a journey up the Yangtsze, has informed the Government here that serious rioipg will take place in the southern provinoes if negotiations for peace are further delayed. Hong Kongi, October 9. The American troops did not join in the new expedition of the Allies. to Paotingfu, as the Commander considered it a useless display. The Viceroys declare that the temporary postponement of the date of return of the Court to Peking is due to the continued presence of the Allies there and to the dread of the Imperial personages that an epidemic will follow upon warfare. The hope is expressed that the Allies will take up a considerate attitude. Li Hung Cbang has promised that towns on the route to Paotingfu will surrender to the Allies. Tokio, October 9. The Japanese Government interprets . the further withdrawal of the Sovereigns from Peking to mean that tael mperiaT Court is insincere in its professions of ..peacefulness, and is unconciliatory.

GERMANS AND RUSSIANS HOLD THE PEITANG' FORTS. COAL SUPPLY HELD ££ ALLIES. THE DANGER OF DELAY IN ANNOUNCING BRITISH POLIOY, RUSSIA DIBCLAIMS ANNEXATION, : BeceWed 10,10.55 p.m. London, October 10. The Times'"Shanghai correspondent states that the Russians and Germans hold the Pietang forts, and the Tangshan and Kaiping mines, thus monopolising the coal supply of North China. All strategic positions are in the hands of the Allies, none in oars, It is feared that Great Britain's delay in announcing her policy will cause irreparable damage to her prestige. The Czar has reiterated that Russia is not annexing territory, bat merely securing the peaceable use jof the railways and undisturbed navigation of the Amur, RINGLEADERS OF ASSAULTS ON LBQATIONS. R«c«tT«d 10,11 p.m. W ABHIHGXON, October 10. Mr. Conger reports there were ten ringleaders of assaults on the Legations. AMERICAS TROOPS QUITTING CHINA. A POLIOY OF STARVATION. ANOTHER IMPERIAL EDIOT. PLOT TO DESTROY THE MISSIONB. (Received 10, 10 p.m.) Hong Koxa, October 10. All Americans, except a guard, quit Ohina in a fortnight. Count Waldersee favours isolating and depriving the province of Pechili of food supplies, thus compelling the Court to intervene and prevent starvation. The Emperor, in an edict dated Ist inst., promises to return when negotiations take a favourable turn, adding that the Chinese alone are able to cope with the unlawful acts of the Chinese. A Peking report states that 12,000 regulars are at Paoting fu. Alarm is felt at Falstaf, in the province of Kwangtung, owing to a plot to destroy the' London and Wesleyan Missionary Societies' Missions.