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of undisciplined Chinese rioters. But in these days, with the political situation precarious everywhere, it would be ex- treme folly to leave anything to chance. | Even in the piping times of pore the gar rison of Hongkong should never be suffered to fall below five thousand of all arms, im much as the Colony is more than three thou and files from the wearest British base, Inda, and lies close to a populous empire, teeming with lawless and desperate charac ters, while its defences are, to say the least of it, inadequate and arned for the most part with obsolete guns. Being as it is, the great Naval Station for Easteru Asia, the visible centre of British power, and the com-
H. 8. Rosario left the harbour for the North early yesterday oftornoen.
H. E. Sir Henry A. Blake will return to the Colony a few days earlier than he originally intendel. He will probably come by the M. M Laos which is expected to arrive hero en Sunday, 1st July.
TELEGRAMS.
DAILY PRESS SERVICE.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LONDON, 20th June, 9,5 pm.
The Chiunman who was accidentally shot by BRITISH AND RUSSIAN LOSSES AT European police constable on board a police launch early on Wednesday morning died in the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday ind- night. An enquiry will be held.
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THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
jurgation, the station was cleared by the Germans and English at the point of the AFFAIRS IN THE NORTH.
ayonet and the naval artifleora got on the en- gine and drove out the timin. Of course, when {FROM OUR TIENTSIN CORRESPONDENT.]
Tientsin, 12th Jane. til this was done, the formal notion of the The Boxer nuisance, various os at is in many Chinese arrived at the last moment. aspects, has pro tem, subsided into insignificauce panic among the Chiness is indiscribable in comparison with the crisis in Peking. As and pitoons All export and import trade has. way communication has been broken for five cereed Prices of food have been doubled, and for six days, we are at a lose to know exactly what all credit to natives Jas been stopped. Servants wore the facts which preoipitated this crisis want wages paid daily. Many are leaving und Courier and water communication hare not the washernien have all bolted except three. keen resorted to on anything but a private scale The native passenger traille to Shanghai is" for two reasons, everyous hourly expected the wonderful, railway to be re-established and people We can only hope the reaction will be lave, been too pro-coupled to attend to effective and rapid when it comios.. It is correspondenes and courier. All re can enraging to react on the Ustoration of trade. as very intermittently (the Chinese Telograph dezen small administraters elect to support a anthorities say the wives are out: but we pack of tollitious blackguards in overt ribellion. There is no news from Pasting in or Tung know this, that our messages got through is that up to Sunday evening, 10th June, the evil Chow beyond the fast that mission premises feated had not happened, but thatgeneralfestings | have heen sacked and turned, and native Chris- of suspense and anxiety were still intense. In tians killed. As far as we know at present, no Tentsiu we are confident that what is te mors Europeen lives huru been sacrificed, bat is a meeting of the very indifferent froops and gare fears are held for small missions in their callusic with the city cavalle to outlying districts. attack the Legutions for lont We do not know If the Bosers are in the reckoning or not There are 600 foreign guards in the various Lerations; all the out-lying residents have been called in to the centrs and we know that all British and American women are under the
PO TAKUT Admiral Bruce reports that his communt entions with the allied authorities are most On Wednesday a Chinenum suspectol of hay barmonious. The British Casualties at the ing the plagne was walking along Queen's Road taking of the Taku Forts were one killed East when he was observed to stagger and fall.and thirteen wounded. M. Alexejeft reports His head came in violent contact with the kera- mercial centre of South China, we have for one, the result being that his skall wos fto, that the Russian losses were seventeen her from the card telegrams which reach domestic life, &c., simply because half many years past constantly insisted upon tared. Hous sont to the Hospital by Inspector killed and seventy wounded. The Giljak the immense importance of Hongkong | Ford.
and Korenats were seriously damaged." and the necessity for it being con stituted a first class fortress and place of stans. Not with a view to aggression in any form, for British interests will be best
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H. M. S. Orlande takes Colonel Hamilton Bower and 200 of the First Chinese Regt.
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** WHITING" DAMAGED. H. L. Pating has gone to Nagasaki
possible, of the Chinese Empire. But for the defence of British trade and of the vast commercial and industrial interests which have grown up on this side of the world, it is necessary, absolutely necessary, that the
At one o'clock yesterday morning a fire broka Colony should be realered impregnable to
eut in a tobacconist e shop at 237, Queen's Road attack from outside, and capable, on an Weat It was caused by the over-heating of a for repairs, an unhurst shelt having pene direct protection of their Ministers in th emergency such as has just occurred, of tobacco-drying capboard. Word was conveyed sending an expeditionary column for the No. 7. Police Station and Inspector Baker protection of British subjects in Chinese and some Eremen made their way to the weene' ports, without materially weakening the of the outbreak with a despatch her containing garrision. To do this it is essential, as we hose pipes. The flames wore, however, extin, have before pointed out, to maintain a gar-guished by tise inmates of the shop. The dum rison Leve of not less than five to six thou-go will probality not exceed $1. The pre-
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TSANGUZOU MISSIONARIES SAFE. The Tanagchou missionaries have arrived at Weihuiwer..
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The coal pits at Tong Sham hago a naval gaard, but are also pretty este, through the presence of 1,500 Cantonces who will side with the foreigners to a mah, it is thought.
LATER, 5 FT. ADMIRAL, ERTHOUR WANTS NOTIORE BEN
The Admiral has wired that he has un miny men as he needs that the fecil and water dis THE IMPECIAL GOVERNMENT 6 ATTITUDE.
culties en route are such that further reinforce.. The Imperial Chinese Gcrarament, if is de wents will only impede movements. This may tech nam, is still sitting on the rallously affect the movement of 1,700 Russians, inetaphorically incredible as it appears, quite just arrived from Port Arthug, who are only 60 per cent of the metropolitan mandariais awaiting facilities for landing believes in the appalling nonsenso pf the
Our Peking adviess of to-day are reassuring": Boser propoganda-tiz, that they are nothing has happened yet. We have boen vory
religion, his institutions, his tale out of China reinforcement being in the way hat up to date Men such as Prices Ching and Jung du know this it is evidently had a steadying cffect in the mob. to be rabbish, but the routinies who now
The private Peking lotters to lay sunk of hare the facile car of ins Damages are persued 2,000 disaffected troops; this is a great drop of it, azri nze pronaising to ẳng tho Bane Die from the 50.999 spoken of a day or two ago. CANTON QUIET-SHAMEEN
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TET CONDITION OF TIENTSIN Tiantain is safe and no panic obtains. We expelled. Sach men are hung the Fringe ORGANISES DEFENCE.
Tuan, the Duke Lang, Che Sis The Tanghare formed a guard and practically our Cinton is quiet, although there is and others. These fossil states profess to adult male population (309) is ander verg, The
Tangchon is in the Tientsin department of Chibli, 38 deg 24 N. lat. by 117 der. B. loug issne ennounced wurs egyroved from the town. after the loosing of the Mission buiklings, by the Cluese. Goasrel]
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for $5,700,
two vessels for harbour defence, and to have 10.30 the forts armed with the best and latest Senator Morgan last mouth introduced a brech-loading gun. This is very far from resolution calling upon the U.S. Secretary of the fact at present, so far, indeed, that the War for information as to the cost of transportas force recently despatched to the North lad tien connected with operations in the Philip- no effective field guns, and there are none pipes, and including the sums paid for tells to at present in the Colony equal to the the Suez Canal Company, which might have which even the Chinese could oppose to usthmian canal. Special inquiry is male as to been saved or greatly reduced by the no of an In the matter of guns the Colony, like the the cast of the voyage of the Oregon rond forces in South Africa, is disgracefully Capo Horn. The object is to bring out the behind the age, and the fact constitutes a possible savings to the Government alone by serious indictment of the War Office. Ad-ons of a canal constructed with the money of minbiration. Now that the boundaries of the people. 15.00 the Colony have been so considerably en-
A Havas telegeam, datel Paris, 124 June.
Warsor's | rison has become accentuated, for in time of in the French Chamber when he declared that GLEDscny are high blame So Whiskies with the Cilltese it is quite vm-the Ministers at Peking would worn. China that ceivable that an attempt might be made by if she did not rostore order the Powers would. either soldiers or banditti to cross the undertake the task. He added that troops would frontier and lay waste British territory. We have, as a matter of fact, no security that bands of so-called Boxers may not be organized to invade the country and upset British authority. It is surely better to te in a position S forestall any attempt
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general state of unrest among foreigners und natives alike over Li Hung-chang's approaching departure The Shamceu De fence Corps Las been reorganised and now consists of about 70 volunteers.
larged, the necessity for an increased gar-states that Sr. Delays was heartly applauded LI HUNG-CHANG GOES VIA HONG-unless enlightenment comes to the Dowages
KONG NEXT WEEK.
ads and marines a 600, fell me two, machine gun ghout a dozen. We hoped to have the honour of pricking the Boxer Imoble.
THE DEPARTURE OF LI HUND-ORANG,
[FROM THE "CHUN 2001 BAN 20,]," The merchants and all the citizenset Canton.
regard the Tsung Yansen and the Police University, and China, and foreign legation road all institutions. The despair of the situation consists in the fact that these bat sor four it will fall to the Admiral. The colosst of ignorance and hatred are in a position to wreck their routy; their removal,
from some expected source, is only possible at present by force, and without the ranomai nothing con le dory. It is to baterad thet area if the forces or ourante ere completely ars deepl", Extered at the intelligenes that H.E. uing of a political imprese of which no one can take etaps to suppress the riots in the North, successful, their arrival will only be the login. LI Eur-chang Im bosn ordured to Paking to It is a fact that H.B. is the far best of all the see the end.
EUROPEAN AND AMERICAE LOTION viceroys that have ever ruled the presines of no idea of conquest," he said, we wish merely trouble in Canton. Li Hung-chang is hold-But now for the facts of the last for days, Kwangtung, which suffered much from the cor- tour to the 13th ins to reports Chiay doing the responsible during his absence for claration to the Ministers that she would not maintenance of order.
despatched to rescue the Fresch subjects under the protection of the Consul at Yurman if the latter should ask for them. We have
protect our intoreate A Favos
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THE WAR.
Loydon, 20th June 9,5 pni.
General Hunter bas occupied Krugersdorp are very glad that the Russians should co-opposed Lord Metanca Las routed
Coniunnlaut De Wes BADEN-POWELL AT RUSTENBURG General Hutton has captured two gur war Rustenburg, vbither General Bulen
and offs on Saturday that the station was Chung din, who was useless and Isay, and whose
The Ministers wired the Tiesin Consulu administration by the lute viceroy, Tan"
ovory hour increasingly critical, the stages cecins propessities were such that he was gct briefer, more intense and tasre n'arizing reich-ame the bottomless purse." Owing to his they arrived at short intervals. There was a ladininistration, the province of Kwangtung. conference in which Col. Wogach aged delay as well as the ueighbouring one of Kwangs till he could rail substantial force from Port has been overrun with rebels, robbers, and Arthur, Congal Carlos food firm for no delar, pirates, and all sorts of crimes have bem com- He sail. Sead for the Fuxin infantry if you witted Size H.E. Li Hung.ching arrived, hov ko, bat fultantly maskarrangements to lend a hus dismissed early all the iglesia pilleurs unit tinational force from the net at Taku, then of "equeezing habits, and has taken active Capt. MrCalla of the US., New however measures to suppress the burl characters, robbum settled the businers, Guntlemen, take what aud pirates, many of whom have suffered the plans you like, but my orders ar proces sextomity penalty of law. The notorions pirates morrow morning: I canet entrain there Ion of the venerable siceroy, have nearly all fles of action sattled thy matter, and it was then fastness. There is a general agreement among walk, but to Paking I go! As was the man away or hidden themselves in the mountains and then arrangal to end 391 man up in the people that if Li lang chang continues to addition to 600 and 700 almedy Clars zu con the lessorship for three yeura, Kwang
tung will be the most peaceful province the morning.
WARSHIPS MOVEMENTS. The United States Don Juan de Austria The N.C. Daily News We are glad has arrived at Canton, and the French gun leading local connoisseurs to be the best Hongkong is strategically eren more to see that troeps are being sout up frem Hong
kong, but it is just like our usual unreadiness boat Leon is expected. that the authorities there should only have discovered at the last amout how many or rather how fow, mua the Hung could curry., It is not unlikely that every man that Hong- Tenuteness-it was until the acquisition of kong can spare will be wanted, and we cannot Wethalwed the Uliza Thule of the Empire understand that we have no news from home of MOVEMENTS IN THE TRANSVAAL to Posing and to Paxing start to robbers, having been overrod by the act -is a patent argument in favour of its the despatch of troops from India, and the garrison being paintained at an efficient pointment of a General in commend We strength, for it cannot be reinforced in less then about the weeks even from India, and during that period much might happen {! -sufficient, perhaps, to account for it
transference to another fing, It is ligh time now that the Imperial Government offer" should give Hongkong the attention it
Notwithstanding the exemplary entences Ir is caninently satisfactory to learn, on the deserves. A vital change la cone over which hari bez passed of lata upon persons authority of Reuses, that an expeditionary die political situation in China, and most of found galty of committing armed robiaries, this force is being Cospatuled from India for the great Povers of Europe are taking ade, ciss of offence shows no sign of diminishing in mervibe in Cliza. that reinforcements are quate stepa to guard their interests as the vicinity of Korloor.. Yesterday Mr. Hazen being sent out to the Fleet in these waters, represented by the share in the trade with had bad fire mon before him charged with and agents have been made to this great Empire, and Great Pritain with committing an armed rolery at Kowloon Chai station additional qu-boats in the Yangtze her preponderating stale therein should not on the night of the 27th ult. The prisoners and for the protection of the riverine Treaty lag behind. Nor should the British Govern some other men broke into u koase, and having ports. It may be of interest, likewise, to ment fail to recognise the enormous advan terrised the occupants by the production of a revolver and a sword ratsacited the premises.
The Daily Press.
HoNoRosa, June 22, 1900)"
our readers to knew that Colonel Bowen tage which the possession of such a pavai
operate with us in the operations at Tientair and Feking, but wo hope that the since at lemn does not mean that Russia has offered to to the task of restoring order on her own shoulders, and tugt Powers are considering the
Powell hes now returned CAPETOWN PRETORIA LINE OPEN. Communications between Pretoria and Capetown are now completely restored
REUTER'S SERVICE.
At 11 pm the messages from Paking becce empire. The merchants and the gentry invo very alarming Coman once, or you will used petition urging the viceroy too Iste'
Tais was dashed out fourteen cartly not to proceed to Paking for it be miles to the Bas at might witha drepres say, they say, the bit characters. hours, & fotilla of boats, lunches, &e will most probably take the chance of the brought in 1,350 men, with five days' micas Northern crisis to, raise ribellions and commit 739 am, sv thơm in Tientsin raia The crimes of every description. At present it is Chinese how at first ruined permission to a certain whether La Hung-hung will save entralu then for Poking then the roll. Canton or not, but it is quita certain that he ing stock waste mmandeered and of they will not go by the Kwangtee is has bazn went at 9 nm. No Matelagers or Fangers reported. The Northern crisis is regardal vary wont in the first train, but the residant engineer senously, and an chacer sent from Canton by was alue to get a cw. for the resond. The the Tactar General with a riamorial to the whole force rezolid La-fa for the must night (91) Throne has wired to the General from the The Indian force for China consists of 1st miles and yesterday the 1st Long Tang (4) provizes of Shantung, saying that he is unable of clothing and jewelry, as well as some joner Bombay infantry, 24th Prnjab infantry, 1st attack this morning the engineers squad of tion of the Bocers The affair was reported to the police Sikhs and 7th Bengal infantry, one field battery workman engaged en relaying the plat s surrounding district was secured. Selgenud one Company of Sappers Two of the p- and thepors removed by the Dozers. Thay Cameras and some meis from the Hunghori ginents will do garrison duty. Police Station visited To Ko Was, sil FRANCE AND THE CHINA QUESTION. well-kucru as a hot boil for bad characters, and
The French Fress urges the Remstali of a wore sucessful in causing across the prisoners,
LONDON, 10th June,
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS FOR CHINA.
and 200 men of the Chinese. Reghent lave and military base na Hengeng may be and t'un documped with a considerable quantity Bengal Lancers, 1st Mobis, Fioneers, 2nd miles). Today we heard a Bexora ventured to proceed further on account of the obtinte
actually left. Wellawei for falu, after the made confers. The juncture has now arrived various contradictory reports which we have for the recognition of this fact, and we trust ressived. It is also reassuring to hear that that such recognition will not take the shape the Washington Government has ordered the of half measures and temporary reinforce despatch of the regiments of regular troops ments. The necessity for an effective and from Manila to Tientsin. With those the permanent garrison cannot for a moment he
were under the protection of a small co pany of marines (Major Johnston) I will to
CHANG OR TA TUNG REPORTED FILM. The Wachang Hative correspondent of the
Anglo-Americas forces will be not less than disputed, and we trust the Government will wao were found to be in poashion of one of strong expedition to Chure in consegzenco of/asure suzey quote the Admiral's des J. C. Daily Nari wrote on the 16th instant
10,000 strong, after allowing for the detention as in the case of the South Africau campaign,
-in this Colony of faro regiments of infantry, rise to the occasion.
which we gatar is the intention of the War Office. With reference to the latter item, it
Te-day is the sixtieth anniversary of tho is only euremon prudence to reinforce the blockade of Canton by the British fleet in 1840,
Garrison of this all important base. Already it has been weakened by the despatch to Taku of some 700 men, and though we are not at all disposed to cavil at the action of
the stolen property. The case was aljonrued.
The Telegraph Companies announced yester day that they wore carding their Shanghai
Superintendent to Chetco to organise a despatch service between that placeand Taku and Tientsin The office at Weneliuen will be kept open night and day until further notice. Yesterday oven- in the Companies despatched a message to the following effect: The Chinese Telegraph Lawless characters abound in the neighbour- Administration informs us that the Imperial
During the 24 hours preceding noon jester. day there were reported eight fresh cases of pligue and nine dṣaths.
Viceroy Ching Chiltong hus been much the captura of Crman Francisco summarized here.Basabe tried to
cut off our advanced gruara of uterines under approved by the snicidal policy of the Empress AMERICAN REINFORCEMENTS FOR
Major Jokusten, and a body of Enginess They Door's frovernment at Peking In encourag- CHINA.
were scon driven off without casualty of curing the I Au Chuan ruffians, and ent on the The New York Tribune saya that the Pre-side, but some 60 Boxers were Hied and others 81 ay end 2nd and 3rd June strong meme sident has untered the Secretary fox War to wounded. Ceroral of the latter have boot sout rials on the subject to the Empress Dowagur, send three regiments of regulars from Manila to down to Tientsil I hear that two or three as well as inta telegrams to her advisors, ex- Tientsin, making a total fores of 5.000. Adiniral of these wonded Boxern havo died en route: hearting them to love no time in suppressing the pumber of wounded in by some said to be irrullans with the strong hand on the ground Remer has been ordered to send the Oregon.
or seven, by others misty or coventring trykel that they were actually in league with all th LONDON, 19th June.
illustration of the vagueness of all our Bozer resolutionary societies from the Yangtze Hiver northwards On the 6th of June, in
the Government in sending them to the hood of Samelan, just over the border of the Posts can only undertake to deliver at Tai REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CHINA ASTS SEGERA
-SQUADRON.
H.M.S.'s Diadom and Furious, now at Port-
NAVAL PIEZINERY AND ITS EFFECT conjunction with the Viceroys of the Liang- Imust not forget to state that on Sunday, after hug and Chilli provinca and Geromem of the Adusiral had started, Capt. Bailey, of EMS Anhui, Kians, and Shantung, HE sent a Aurora, was left in ocrimend at Tientsin. One jot memorial to Peking citering to load their
of the directors of the railway (Tmg) tried to several armies personally to Peking to suppress
assistance of Vice Admiral SEMOVE, it is New Territory, and rews has reached the colony nonsuges addressed to the various admirals; they obviously necessary that their places should that taking advantage of the present crisis hands are unable to deliver other messages Ou the be supplied as soon as possible. It may be of robbers have begun to scour the country and arrival of our representative at Chefso, he will land, have been ordered to China. objected by optimistic onlookers that, the to plunder the villages.
forward all other messages ander cover to the THE CHINA QUESTION: provinces of South China being now practi- [
Commissioner of Customs and Peste, Tintin, Mr. St. John Brodrick stated in the Horse cally quiet and umuroved-our Canton tele-
Still another armad robbery has been report-care of the Commissioner at Taku, who he has that the last information recalved by the Admi-stop the entraining of pur additional 600 men at the approaching rebellion in case the Grand He is an English speaking self important en Field Force under Prince Ching, and the gram bears witnes tothis-it is perfectly safeed to the police. Late on Wednesday night a asked by the Shanghai Commissioner to do is maly did not confirm the retura of Admiral mid-day, unwisely and firmly asserted himself. Army of the North under Jung L, the Poking
gang of men armed with revolvers and swords utmost to reorganize, the delivery serviço Seymour from Tintain. to leave the Colony with its reduced, garrison burst into a house at Cheung Sha Wan. While The Consils have telegraphed urging the Mr. Goschen said he had arranged to station Sonage. The gallant captain gave bir the menstuskeng and other Manchu Burner Corp. Admirals to natablish a regular daily despatch additional forces at the chief perts on the dressing down on record to the intense amuse, under Prince Tuan, were unable to do it, In bout between Cheloo and Taku, for the convoy Yangtze ance of telegrams and letters. The Japanese
to take care of itself. Quite possibly this ons held a ruralrer at the head of the the o could be done, and we hope the gallant troops
cupier the others searched about, all of them who constitute its defenders would be able ultimately making off with money and Jewelry to give a good account of any number to the value of between 350 and 500.
Naval Minister has already instructed the Japanese admiral to this effect."
ment of a delighted crowd of Wan jacket the meanwhile Vooroy Chang is actively pre Two British torpede boat destroyers have foreigners, and railway offloale After apering to put down all symptoms of disaffection
peroration which coneammated unatical of in Hupah province that may be reported to him. saptured four Chinese destroyers at Taku.