October 20, 1900
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vě a debt of gratitude to the ↑ Hongkong and Shanghai Banks, ordinarily successful and oppor
CANTON.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT,
Canton, 12th October. KWANGTUNG REBELS DEFEAT IMPERIALISTS AND CAPTURE WAICHOW.
News has reached here that Waichow City has been taken by the rebels, who defeated the Imperial troops, of whom 60 were killed and the rest put to flight. The rebels then advanced to Tungkoon yesterday, and if they can succeed in taking the latter place they will march to Sun Tong and thence to Canton, from Canton to Fatshan and from Fatshan into Kwangsi. It is said that they are the partisans of Sun-yat son and Kang Yu-wei.
Canton, 13th October.
- WAICHOW: RECOVERED,
News came at 2. p.m. to-day that Walchow is beginning to be quiet. Upon the arrival of the reinforcements of mandarin soldiers the insur gents ran away and dispersed in every diree- tion
THE WORK OF THE AVALANCHE." The French gunboat Avalanche has returned from Kumchuk; eight men had been beheaded by order of the mandarins before she went up. The French authorities still press for a satisfac tory settlement of the affair.
DESECRATION OF A CEMETERY.
from the Macao Fort, Canton, has been dese- The Protestant Cemetery at a short distance cráted, some stone crosses being broken and some marble slabs shifted from their positions, This was done by the anti-christian party. A few soldiers who were on watch at the Fort have been arrested and ordered to be beheaded.
REBELS IN SUN ON.
It is said in Canton that Sun On district has been completely taken possession of by the insur- gents.
THE TRENCH BISHOP'S DEATH.
We received the sad news yesterday of the death of the French Bishop of Canton, who died in Hongkong. I he flags of the Foreign Con- sulates are flying half-mast high to-day. Owing to the unsettled state of affairs in Canton the Consuls. Mons. Hardouin, Mr. R. McWade, the Portuguese Consul-General, Mr. Crespo, and other Consuls have been unable to leave their posts and attend the funeral.
Canton, 17th October.
REQUIEM MASS FOR BISHOP CHAUSSE..
A Requiem High Mass was sung at 8.30 this morning in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Sha meen, for the repose of the soul of the Right Rev. Bishop Chausse of Canton, who died in Hongkong. The Consular Body, the Comman- ders, officers and marines of gunboats, heads of mercantile firms, and some residents of Shameen were present at the ceremony by invitation. General Li, commander of the Kwong Hip native regiment, accompanied by his guards, also assisted at the service, representing the Acting Viceroy Tak Sow.
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The proposal of the Straits Settlements Government to build s lighthouse on Palan Aor “as a point to make for in entering Singa pore from the eastward," has been unfavorably received by many of the shipping people at Singapore. Referring to the subject in its issue of the 10th inst. the S. F. Press says:A Master Mariner of many years experience out here pooh-poohs the idea, as a lighthouse, he says, is quite unnecessary there. The island is
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
MACAO.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
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Macao, 14th October, DISTURBANCE AT THE FORTA DE CERCO.
Tientsin, 2nd October Yesterday at noon some trouble took plac
GENERALIBSIMO.::. between the guards at the Porta de Cerco, and
Count von Waldersee, made a most favour- the Chinese in the villages near the Guard able impression on all classes on his arrival last House. There is a certain class of Chinese here Thursday, and has more than maintained it who think that they can successfully battle
his subsequent courtesy and his quickness of men. The Porta de Cerco is guarded by marines, of the imposing ceremony of his arrival against the guards, and with any body of armed seizing and assimilating new ideas and new
facts. To c civilians the most notable and yesterday these were stoned by a number of agriculturalists, but not for long, as others com reception of them at the German Consulate, ing up by way of reinforcements a number of and the tenor of the remarks then made; they the offenders were arrested and lodged in jail. were in such marked contrast to those of the The guards were subsequently doubled, andAs an old soldier and the head of an expedi- remained so throughout the whole of yesterday. tion formed of volunteers from the army he Emperor and almost entirely concerned peace.
regretted that he and they had missed the lighting, but none the less was he come to before he left China to be able to advance build up rather than to destroy, and he hoped their interests by the removal of shackles from their trade, and by establishing peace on permanent basis. He disclaimed a policy of revenge, but hoped none the less to secure the just punishment of the guilty." LI HUNG-CHANG-SOME CURIOUS PROCLAMA-
A BUDDEN ALARM.
To-day, being Sunday, the place seemed pretty quiet, but at eight o'clock in the evening an alarm was sounded at the Porta de Cerco, and was answered by a round fired from the gunboat Zaire, and followed by another four rounds from the Monte Fort. Then the whole city was put into preparation for an attack. The newly arrived troops were soon on the spot and here I must say these men are well disciplined, and march for ward with considerable dash, well-trained and with soldierly bearing. The various streets in the city were well watched and guarded, and piquets lined the main thoroughfares. At the principal street corners piquets of eight or ten men from the old police force were stationed. and explanations followed. It appears that, But fortunately the alarm proved abortive, before the troops arrived, the marines fired few rounds at a gang of Chinese coming from the Porta de Cerco, and that had caused the alarm and subsequent excitement. The civilians, who had formed a force of their own, were ready to march on with the artillery when ordered, but their services were not required.
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TIONS.
His Excellency has since spent much time in already on the job of organizing an expediti to Paotingfa. Among his callers two days ago calling and receiving calls, but his staff is
was Li Hung-chang, who came accompanied by an
the Viceregal yamen, now in the occupation escort of Russians. The old Viceroy has not gone on to Peking and is still here in quarters adjoining. of the Provisional Government. Li is a bit of puzzle; either he, or somebody in his name, is issuing proclamations and distributing them in the unoccupied parts of the province › their but there are curious clauses about the native tone as regards the Boxers is satisfactory enough, Christians, which are utterly incompatible with Li's present position and China's humiliation. Christians are commanded to recant and turn renegade or to suffer confiscation of all their
who is virtually a prisoner, powerless, and su- goods, and death. Surely the Allies will never tolerate such an atrocious notice from a man ing for peace on our terms. I confess that I dant proof that such proclamations are posted was incredulous in this point, but there is abun-
over the old Tsungtang's signature, In the present condition of Chilli there should be no Viceregal notices current at all without the suspended for the time. It was quite un-approval of Count von Waldersee, and notices - of this tenor after recent history seem to me an unpardonable crime. It is not for the Chinese officials now to declare their views on Christianity. All such documents should be instantly stopped unless countersigned by the C-in-C. their circulation is an insidious claim of the Chinaman that he is still in power, while of course he is absolutely powerless,
AN ENQUIRY NECESSARY. The Government will certainly make en quiries as to whether the alarm was justified or not. If there is any foundation it will be upon to answer for what they have done. If it 'O.K;" if not, then the authors will be called was required to know how easily the troops could turn out, the telephone could and not loaded rifles to scare the people used, into an unnecessary state of frenzy. As soon as the first round was fired by the Zaire the shops were closed instantly, and business was
necessary, for our Chinese population are good and quiet people.
[FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.]
very
Macao, 15th October.
A PROMPT DEFENCE.
gun.
THE PAOTINGFU EXPEDITION.
At about 9 p.m. last evening four guns were fired from the Monte Fort as a signal for armed defence, and at once all soldiers in the
A Pootingfa column is being organized and place hurriedly took up their quarters at the joined by a and multi-national force
we hope to see it
star
to-morrow. It is to be proper places previously assigned to them. Men and guns were landed from the
from Peking, of which the British, const boat, which had been moored up the harbour is to be 800 rifles, 16th Cavalry, and 4 guns during the afternoon in anticipation of danger the 12th Battery R.FA. The Tientain force at the Barrier. The cause of all the trouble at present unknown beyond the fact that it will appears to be on account of some natives certainly contain British and German, and from the market gardens round about probably the French Zonaves and the Barrier gate having been arrested during Bersaglieri. For once in the last fifty yea Saturday afternoon for disobedience of orders, splendid German organisation has pr and so a mob of the same kind of people without transport and now they find, of little at fault their ins force came to gathered near the gate and commenced throw- ing stones at the guards, The alarm was cause in the delay of the columna 2,000 feet high and cannot possibly be over-
land is good, in that it shows how well the anthori. You will remember that the Peking rel & looming mass: then à lighthonga to see such ties have made their arrangements
with what excellent promptness the armed was stopped by the same thing on the forces can turn out and take up their quarters.
the other allien. The advance to the good, as that would not be visible. The n
H. E. the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, capital is an easier matter, was soon out to the scene of the trouble, and way the whole distan after making arrangements satisfied himself the means of defence were as he wished.
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no surrounding dangers, the island rising sheer from the sea, without shoals or rocks near. As for it being a point to make for nature has al ready provided the Anambas, less than a hund. red miles away, from where a course can be set for the Straits." If the Government want to spend money on lights," continued our friend, "Why not put one on the Blenheim Shoal? That is outade the range of the One Fathom Bank light, and is always a source of anxiety
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It is reported from Paris that the Means Maritimes Company is about to open in con- nection with its regular Chinese service a vice between Nagasaki and Chefoo, to be ex- Boxers, and
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tended eventually to Taku. It was expected that, siona w this new service would begin on the 14th inst. aries and
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