The Chinese Question.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 11339, 4 October 1898, Page 2

The Chinese Question.

! IBBITIBH MARINES SENT #6 " ''! ; ', , PEKIN. ; tj A DANGERQUS FEELING !'* PREVALENT. A ; onite4> Press r Aßsotiia*ion<-JBy Ulectric ■ I Telegraph.— Copyright* \ , . - . Received October 3, 11.50 p.m. , L L . , SaASOHAt^;X)ctober 2.— Owing to tHa attacks of Chinese upon the British I Legatirc dad the officials .of. the United StateaJUeg^tiDn^aaiwell. as. upon. American .missionaries at Pekin, a force of mariaesbelooging to the British Squadron, ! has been ordered bo proceed from Wei-." hei-wai to the Chinese capital to protect the foreign Legations . Russia is alao sending a detachment of - Cossacks from Port. Arthur for a similar s purpose. „. .Received October 4, 1.30 a.m. < < • Shanghai, Octobar 3. f — 'Drunken*; * crowds threw mud at Europeans 'in' • Pekin. • - - "-•.■»'>■■ * Sir Claudd' McDonald teporffid ~shkt there is a dangerous feeling prevalent. J ~* An American' syndicate, at -a ?/ c6sfe 6tf forty million dollars, will cbostf dot- the*-Cantcn-Bankow railway. ' ' ay "' : -'- 3n ' m Received October 4r4 r 7*7 * V*" 77 Washington, October quence of the outlook in'l'Cß^uiJ^ |ng G cruiser Baltimpre has been . buniedjiy despatched to Tientsin, _, Si h[** .. ft