WAR IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 224, 16 November 1900, Page 3

WAR IN CHINA

CABLE NEWS (B* XLWIBIO THLaaBAPH.—COFYBIQHI.)

BOXES SURROUND A RUSSIA# COMPANY. If* GMTBBAL ZIBmZKI TO IHK RESOUS. [RUSSIAN ABBOGANCE AT TONGKU. RAILWAY OFFICIALS NEED wutibh PROMOTION. OHIMEBB RHTUBB CONSBKI TO EXECUTION OF PRINOBBAND OFFIOIALB. m PUSS ASBOCMTIOIf. Received 15,9 ajn. Horn Koiq, November 14, Asmall Bussian cempany, after rescuing a number of French missionaries under Bishop Abelson, was surrounded north of Shanhaikwan by 6000 Boxera. General Zirpitzki, with two columns, reacaed hi* beleagoered countrymen, who had two killed and sixty wounded, Bussiaas have ordered foreign official* to vacate houses occupied by them at Tongku in connection with the railway. The British have seat a body of Inhntry and cavalry to protect the officials. Loidoh, November 10, The Timed Peking correspondent ■tates that China will willingly concede •verytlung demanded by the Ministers excepting the ezecutein of the princes and officuds, which is impossible when the Imperial ceurt is in their hands, RUSSIAN COMPLAINTS AGAIKoT GERMANS AND FBENCiI. GERMAN REINFOROEMEHTS. ; SEQRET OPERATIONS BY JAPAN. l \ Beoiired 16, 9.3 ajl Si. Pkbbsbubg, November 14, The Busaian press accuse the Germans of pillaging and unnecessary violence in China. The paper Nwm Vremya strongly blames France for co-operating with Count Yen Waldersee in the savage •einure of the Ming tombs. Biblw, November 14. ■Germany is mobilising 6000 reinterewnents to send to China. Ho»aK.oso, November 14. Another small German expedition is Starting for the Ming tombs. Beporters are forbidden to accompany it. The Japanese troops have largely been withdrawn from Peking and Tientsin. They will not re-embark for Japan, but will operate secretly, riTfTWA NEGOTIATING FOB PEACE. ATJ.rg.ri fOBOK TO ATTACK CHINESE TROOPS. (Beoeived 15,11.43 p,m.) Hono Kong, November IS. China has commenced to negotiate tor peace on the basis of Ministers demands. A force of Germans, Anstrians, and Italians have been despatched agaiast the Chinese troops which recently garrisoned Peking, and who are encamped 78 miles north-west of Peking.