The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 18, 12 July 1900, Page 3

The Trouble in China.

London, July 5. The 3rd Bombay Cavalry and the C Battery of Horse Artillery have been ordered to China.

July 9. Bear-Admiral Bruce reports from Taku that ife is believed that Prince Cbing is protecting and revictualling the Legations. Tho Chinese Journal of Commerc*, published in London, confirms the recent statement that Prince Ching is promoting a counter revolution in Pekin.

July 10 Great Britain is moving a warship up the Yangtse Hiver.

St Petersburg, July 9. Bussian newspapers explain that Japan received no mandate for the suppression of the outbreak. Hua=ia has placed an army corps at Odessa on a war footing, professedly to furnish troops for China.

Brisbane, July 9. The warship Wallaroo has arrived at Townsville, and will leave for Ohini on Tuesday. The Torch is detained. The captain is waiting for instructions, but it is expected that the vessel will be ordered to China.

Hong Kong, July 8. The Shanghai Consuls report that the Legations were safe on the 4th. The Chinese had ceased their attack The chiaf fear now is that those defending the Legations will succumb to starvation.

July 0. Great Britain has promised to Bup port the Viceroy of Nankin to Buppresa the disturbance in the Yangtse valley. Native rumours arc current that Chinese sympathisers are affording the Legations material support. Twenty-five thousnnd Japanese troops are embarking at Ujina, inoluding a strong foroe of cavalry. Yurcian, Governor of Shantung, refuses to obay Prince Tuan'g ordars to attack the Viceroy of Nankin. Two hundred missionaries and fomilies refuged at Oheff. where aevexal warships are stationed to pi event a probable attack of the Boxers. Ths railway from Taku to Tientsin has been repaired for 12 miles. The Times implies that tli3 allies cannot advance before September.

Sydney, July 10. Nothing definitely has been decided about sending the Naval Brigade to China. The difficulty in the way is that the force is without modern guns or equipment. Thpy have not had an Easter training for several years.

Thursday Isiand, July 9. China files to June 25t-h give horrible details of tho murder by the Boxers of two Chinese evangslists near Kangfc sun. After cutting off their arms and disembowelling the bodies, the Boxer 3 hacked thorn to pieces and threw them into tho river. There ara harrowing accounts of the ravages and devastations wrought by the Boxers, and of the sufferings of Christians and converts. Referring to the Paotingfu incident, it is now alleged that Colonel Yung, who was sent with a body of soldiers to oppose the Boxers, was shot by his own men -after they had been ana bushed by the Boxers. Seventy were killGd. The North China Dailv News relates the story of the flight of Europeans from Paotingfu, and their ndventur« s on their way to Tientsin. Some weie wounded, and all were ragged, footgore, and utterly woary. Nine out of forty w4>o started v/are lo=sfc on the journey, including M. Ossent pud Mnie. Attire, whose mutilated bodies wera found. The Boxers fared bidly "in attomntiiig to intercept the force of Cossacks sent by thp Russian Minister to endeavour to find the members to find the members of the La Hang railway construction corps, and bring thorn to Pekin. Chinese in large numbnr. determined to attack the Cossacks, and wore not driven back until 15 had fallen. The ostensible leader of the Boxers is said to be Han, but their real head is Prince Tuan. The loading members of the Reform Party and the residents of 15 out of the 18 provinces of China, have petitioned Great Britafh, America, and Japan, to ujaite to oppose the action of any other treaty Power pointing towards the division of fcbo Empire, and that efforts may be made to rescue the Emperor from the Dowager Empress and her reactionary adviser?. Lady Macdonald i<s reported to be at Pekin. Nona of tho ladies of the Russian Legation have left. A Pekin edict attributes the Paotingfu riot to disbanded soldiery and a secret society of Russians who joined the Boxers as n cloak for their own designs, and seized thp chance to create trouble. A later edict raakrs the civil and military authorities responsible, but affords a loophole of escape to those who can say that they joined in the outrages to see the fun. It is reported that Li Hung Chang , advised the suppression of the Boxors, and that for this reason he was refused ; the post of Viceroy of Qhihtii,