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SHANGHAI, 28th November, 8.20 p.m. Liu Shu-tang, Governor of Chekiang, has been ordered to resign and to await orders. Yang Tsu-yi, Provincial Treasurer of Che- kiang, who is known to have foreign sym- pathies, has been promoted to the post of Governor.
The Dowager Empress proposes to remain at Hsianfu and to allow the Emperor to return to Peking when peace has been concluded.
HABT suggests, only to dismiss, for the peril assistance they would ask him to start a of a far greater national movement in China public subscription list. During the fort- are partition or a miraculous spread of night which has elapsed since that date the Christianity. These remedies are outside police have been busy collecting the returus the limits of practical politics or practical of injury to life and property among the propagandism, he says. That the latter al- Chinese caused by the typhoon, and the ternative is impossible, with all deference to result of their labours appears in the figures
Rumours are current among the Chinese the opinions of propagandists, we are con- given. More than two hundred lives have vinced; that the former is, we wish could be been lost, while among the junks and smal-officials once more that Yu Hsien has com-
two hundred and mitted suicide. recognised. Our Shanghai contemporary, the ler boats as many as North-China Daily News, had a desponding seventy were either sunk or destroyed. article last week, in the course of which it can easily be imagined how much suffering said: "There are signs now of such a dis- and distress have been occasioned among our integration in China itself as must almost harbour and fishing population by this certainly lead to a break-up of this great catastrophe of the 9th and 10th instant.
SHANGHAI, 29th November 7.55 p.m. empire, and if it breaks up from internal As we have already seen, the Foreign
Tientsin despatches dated yesterday re- causes, there will be a scramble among the | Community of Hongkong was anxious
to come forward and contribute to port that Boxers and soldiers are creeping Powers for the pieces, and the result will be
unfortunate natives, back secretly to the neighbourhood. A very the came as if it was a case of partition from the relief of the outside. -
Unless means can be de- and only held back at the request of uneasy feeling is general among the Chi- vised for suppressing this usurper, there the Chinese themselves. Now we have our
nese at Tientsin, all expecting trouble when will shortly be a break between the northern opportunity. By meeting H. E. the Gover-the port closes. and southern divisions of China, which is nor on Monday next at the City Hall, we
A serious reverse to the German expedi- likely to be a prelude to partition." Now, shall be able to concert measures for assist-tion to Kalgan will encourage the Chinese admitting that partition were possible or ing those who have lost so heavily by the to renewed efforts. The Chinese have an
We shall have the figures abundant supply of rifles. even advisable, it would still be difficult to great storm. see how the Powers propose to reconcile such before us, and the Chinese societies will no a policy with their expressed determination doubt be ready to tell us to what extent they But have been able to meet the call upon their to maintain the integrity of China.
It will then be open for the the partition of the empire, as has been charity. pointed out in the columns of the press Foreign Community of Hongkong to prove nearly all the world over, and in particular their sympathy for suffering, in the way in the Anglo-Chinese press, would be abso-which may he decided as best, and we have lutely disastrous. Those best acquainted no fear that they will fail to do so. with China have not hesitated to pronounce that is wanted is a representative meeting such a policy impracticable. No gradual on Monday next, and this it should be easy absorption of the outlying part of the coun- try is conceivable, but the taking over of the whole by any one Power or any combina- tion of Powers is a dream, the realisation of which would land the experimenter in difficul- (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. ties beyond all coping with. No parallel can be found with such a proceeding in history.
SHANGHAI, 23rd November, 8.16 p.m. Little as the various sections of China may Hu Ting-seng, the Imperial Delegate, has be attached to each other, they possess at arrived at Changsha in Hunan, and is or- least enough homogeneity and enough dif-ganising a Boxer militia. ference from the rest of the world to make There is a terrible famine in Shensi.
the idea of Europe, America and Japan dividing them up into dependencies nothing better than a nightmare, which all men of commonɛense will hope to be spared.
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RELIEF OF TYPHOON SUFFERERS.
(Daily Press, 29th November.)
"The returns received show that in the late typhoon over two hundred lives were lost "and two hundred and seventy junks and fishing boats were sunk or destroyed, caus- ing much distress among the seafaring population of the Colony. The Governor "invites the inhabitants of the Colony to "meet him at the City Hall on Monday, the 3rd December, at noon, to take such mea- sures as may be deemed necessary for the "relief of the sufferers."
The above statement we received yester. day morning from H.E. the Governor, with a request for its publication. This we are very glad to do, and we trust that the Gov- ernor's invitation will meet with a fitting response from the inhabitants of Hongkong. On the 14th instant we wrote that we were in a position to state that the work of afford- ing practical relief to sufferers from the typhoon had been organised immediately by the various Chinese benevolent societies of the Colony and that these societies were at the time financially competent to dispense all the charity necessary. We recorded also that the Tung Wha Benevolent Association had informed His Excellency, in reply to an enquiry, that they were at that time quite capable of doing the relief work unaided, but that if they should require any financial
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THE CRISIS: TELEGRAMS.
In the Hsiau prefecture the people are eating leaves, while in the hills the people are The actually killing and eating strangers. Government reserve granaries were found to be nearly empty.
Liu Kung-yi is sending his family to Honan, fearing the allied troops ascending the Yangtze, but Dr. Knappe, the German Consul here, denied mentioning the subject in his recent interview with the Viceroy at Nanking.
SHANGHAI, 25th November, 10 p.m. Sixteen men who were implicated in the Chuchów massacre have been captured.
The Maharajahs of Gwalior and Bikanir left Shanghai to-day.
SHANGHAI, 26th November, 7.42 p.n. Sheng, ex-Taotai bere, denies the truth of the Empress Dowager's illness, of Li Hung, chang's illness, and of Kweichuu's visit to
Hsianfu.
Some native Christians from Fancheng, in Hupeh, report the passing of 400 boats All avail. conveying supplies for Hsianfu. able boats on the Han River have been chartered to convey supplies to the Imperial Court.
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SHANGHAI, 27th November, 7.30 It is reported that fifty of the Palace Guards have gone to Ningsia to arrest Prince Tuan, who is collecting a body-guard of Mongol princes..
Serious affrays took place here last night being caused by some French soldiers who A Sikh policeman drew their bayonets. was badly stabbed in the stomach.
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Admiral Seymour's and Consul-General Warren's visit to Wuchung has apparently bad a first-rate effect on Viceroy Chang Chih-tung.
Another great powder explosion occurred at Hangchow on Saturday last. Forty were killed, and many houses were destroyed.
Hsutung is reported still alive, and in hiding.
It is reported from Wucháng that Sun Yat-sen wrote offering to return to his allegiance. Chang Chih-tung replied that he must bring the heads of Kang Yu-wei and Liang Chai-chao. He has taken the oath of fealty.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LOCAL MOVEMENTS. The French cruiser Chasseloap Laubat arrived on the 23rd ult. from Amoy.
H.M.S. Endymion arrived on the 23rd ult. from Yokohama.
On the 23rd ult. German torpedo-destroyer No. 91 arrived from Canton.
The French transport Mytho arrived from Saigon on the 24th uit.
On the 25th ult. the French cruiser Descartes arrived from Saigon.
The U.S. transport Caesar left for America on the 23rd ult.
The hospital-ship Maine returned from Tuku on the 26th ult.
The U. S. gunboat Marietta arrived on the 26th ult. from Canton.
H. M. cruise Argonaut left on the 26th ult. for Amoy.
H. M. cruiser Astraes and the Waterwitch went on a cruise on the 26th ult.
H. M. storeship Humber left on the 26th ult. for Weihaiwei.
The U. B. gunboat Don Juan de Austria departed for Manila.
The French transport Mytho left for Taku. The German transport Batavia arrived on the 26th ult. from Vladivostok with 2,300 Russian troops on board.
The British transport Unis, arrived on the 27th ult, from Shankaikwan.
The French gunboat Comete arrived on the 27th ult. from Swatow.
The British cruiser Endymion returned from a cruise on the 27th ult.
The British cruiser Astraca returned from a cruise on the 29th ult.
The U. 8. gunboat Marietta left on the 29th ult. for Manila.
The British transport Claverdale left on the 29th ult. for Sydney.
The German transport Batavia left för Singapore.
The British transport Dundee left on Wednes- day night.
The Portuguese cruiser Adamastor came over on Thursday from Macao,