Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-30
IMMENSE FORCES
Marching on Ptkln...1hs Rebels
Mean Business
md Are Seeking 10 0YsfhIoI The Dis.
liked Nanchu Rule.
England Making Ready TO Act With Other
Countries In the Natter.

IospoN, Nov. rs The foreign office
taixy received details of the msssacres Of
loreigaers aud Christians in China, fully
confirming the first awful news teiegrAphed
ON Shanghai. This latest outrage leaves
the European powers no excuse for further
ipseston. Ftanoa has taken the Initiative.
she others mast follow. Ii 10 possible that
GsJmsny may hang back, owing 30 her
Citations wilh France
Bus Eagtsnd is already m wing. Lord
Salisbury is sounding France, As 10 whether
sCiien should net be taken At once. and =
sornSl demand be made upon the Chinese
loy tnment for Indemnity for recent out
ages. and ample sureties for the protec
ION of Europeans.
The Catholics OF Belgium are highly in
) grsat over the slaughter Of their mission
aries. ard sppeRl 20 sll Catholic Europe
f1r sympathy aad help in secuiias the pun
i-hmant OF all the mprderers. Masses are
being taid in the Belgian churches for the
souls Of the massacted missionaries. The
Times, this morning, publishes despatch
from It's correspondent al Shanghai, which
col tisms tho reports that the troubles In
China are not alone hssed'on the anti.foreign
feeling e. tertsinsd by some of the natives.
Vais iS hut one phase Of the situston. The
underlying reason for the discomfort which
peryAdes many districts Of China is the fact
hat The natives of The country believe that
die time is ripe to overthrow the Msnehu
iynssty ard TO establish again the native
dynasly, which was overthrown In l64t.
In that year the Manchurisns, who had
invaded China d. posed the nstlse sovereign,
snd placed upon the throne the son OF their
leader. Since that time the Manchu dynasty
has ruled in China. and the Msnehu
language has become the court ard official
language. And since that time there has
0een constant undereurrent of reyolu-
i0uRry feeling on the part Of the natives.
This has from time to time broken out into
armed rebellion, but the Pskiu authorities
have been able heretofore TO suppress the
rebels.
The latest dispatches from China have
reported the killing Of = number OF priests
aud nstiye Christians and the burning aud
,illaglpg of the Christian missions. The
responsibility for these ouirages has been
placed by the government upon Mongoli-
N robbers but the Times despatch OF to-
DAY rhGws that the troubles are not due to
lie predatory iacursi0ns OF Mongolisns.
The movement has far wider ard more
significant object in view, no less than the
diving OF the present Emperor from pow
er Snd the placing OF Chinese ruler upon
the throne.
The Times correspondent says that the
robela have already captured the town Of
hsoy sng, in the Province Of Leno-Topg
or Shing King, in Manehooris. They are
faiilly sN ing Eceessious to their ranks
and have quite formidable army. They
are matcniug on 70 the capital, Pekin.
The imperial forces are preparing to meet
them, and tits believed that a desperate
battle will coon be fought The intelli-
genca that tire rebels are marching to the
attack OF pykin has caused the greatest
excitement in tbGt city.