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NATIVE CHRISTIANS FLOCKING TO CANTON.. 20,000 MEMBERS TRIAD SECRET SOCIETY IN THE VICINITY. GRAVITY OP THE {SITUATION INCREASING. (Received September 27, 10.10 a.m.) Hongkong, September 26. Native Christians are flocking to Canton in great numbers. The gravity of the situation is increasing. Twenty thousand members of the Triad Secret Society are in the vicinity. CHINESE TROOPS ORDERED NORTH. PRINCE CHING AND THE I BOXERS.
NATIVE CHRI STUNS BUTCHERED. . MORE MISSIONARY MARTYRS. Hongkong, September 27. Prince Tuau has telegraphed south orderiug troops to the north. Prince Cbing claims that the Tsung-li-Yamen has the exclusive right to exterminate the Boxers, and protests against interference by the Allies. Many Europeans attribute Prince Tuan's" promotion to the Presidency of the Council to th 6 attitude taken up by America aud Japan in not assenting to Germany's proposal that the Ambassadors at Pekin shall designate the instigators of the revolt. Germany insists on the punishment by Europeans and favours the Ambassadors acting as public prosecutors, leaving the verdict and sentence to an international Court. The Chinese at Kumchuk, on "West River, Southern China, fired on a boatload of native Christians. The women in the boat were dragged ashore and butchered. Meluoubne, September 2G. A cable has been received from the China Inland Mission, announcing that Miss Heays, of Adelaide, ;and Mr David Baruett, of Tasmania, togother with several others,
presumably England workora in the misßion fiolcl, havo been killed in Kiangsu.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 765, 27 September 1900, Page 2
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