WAR IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 300, 18 December 1900, Page 3

WAR IN CHINA

TBBXUFSROB BECOMING BKASONABLB. m . UUSOBIBVOUB AOTivrry of ths mna assooumoh.j (Beeeivad 17, 8.52 a.m.) Lqsdoh, December 16. ~ BoabyrV Tientsin correspondent ■(•tea that s credible Chinese source asserts that tb« Emperor has agreed to an' indemnity of seven hundred mil--1 lioa taeta (about £100,000,000), payable in about sixty year*, guaranteed en tiki* revenue*; the erection of * monument to Bun Kettlerj at Peking; an'luipuial prince to visit Berlin and express regret; and the Power* to hold the lints between Taku and- Peking. Ho will also punish the Baxers and officials, while candidates front districts where foieigners ft ere nultmted will be forbidden to comnete iu examinations- for official appointments for five years. The Teung- ' G-Taaea will be abolished, and Foreign will always have access to the Baperor. . The importation: of arms • isill bo stopped by land and asa, and the forts between Shankaiwar, Taku, and • PekucwQl.be abolished. Englishmen in dhiaa condemn the arfoßhTnevi activity of the Germans,

'-■''"'"'iUXU ALLOTTSD BPHERKS OF pacotoation: . BBITIBH iXPKMIIONABY FORCE \' ' . ATTAOKBD. X PIDOKY OfPIOBR SOAUSS A , BOXSB BTKOJiQHOLD. BOXIBS DBFBATED. < ' :, '."•'. (Beeeired 18,0.10 a.m.) ,v r . . Lokdos, December 17. ' It Jftaphiaad that owing to the 1 r ' MerßoWW* of anarchy aroand Fekuap, .' Count WaMersee has allotted spheres ff pacification to the allied exp<ditionny fercee, which they unanimously accepted. . ' A Biitiah forfi« under Major Tulloch, -'" rseoantitrißg eight miles north east of Pikin, «eountered fire from smokeless jnwder, The assailants were not dhoerered. Major Tulloch 10 miles farther on was subsequently attacked from fc Boxer stronghold. Lieutenant MacPhereon soiled the wall by means '■■■■■•* «f a ladder, jumped down en the other side and held the Boxers at bay thus •nabling the others to scale the wall \ jud 1 storm the place. .. '. Major MacPhemn escaped seathless. Boxara were killed, and a num- '%« bV°* nt t0 Pek»g' A French force operating *° t»f(wuthward and westward came into Matact witfc the yanguard of 10,000 Oniaese, who wave inarckiug on Pek£o£