The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-04
Government Reports a Victory
Over the Rebels.
MORE CHRISTIANS suToHERED.
A Shipload of American Flour to Be
Sent to Starving Russia.
French Radicals Clamorfng for separa-
tion OF Church and state-Many Ar
rests OF Sihilists - Admission of
American Pork by Austria.

ROME, Dec. 3.-The French ambassador
here has made overtures to Premier Rudini
for Italian Intervention in China The
premier declines to act until he receives an
official report from the Italian minister at
Pekin.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-A dispatch from Pekin
says: The Chinese government has re-
ceived, an official report from Brigadier-
General Mich. commanding the troops in
klnchow, announcing that he engaged
ana defeated the rebels on November 27
ana IS, killing their leader and 600 men,
The general commanding the imperial
forces at Jeho also announces a successful
engagement with the rebels.
The Chronicles correspondent at Tientsin
telegraphs: 1t is reported that band of
rebels have murdered q Mongol prince.
Some more villages have been sacked and
looted. and all the native Christian resi-
dents have been found massacred. The
mandarips are not attempting to stop the
butchery, which is being executed by an
organization called the temperance league,
With the OBJECT of exterminating foreigners
and Christians The senior British officer
has received a message from New Chwang,
stating that the revolt there has been sup
pressed and the rebels have dispersed.
A laconic dispatch from Chinese sources
announces that a number of the rebels
have been summarily beheaded.
Sir John Walsam, British minister to
China, in a telegram to the foreign Office
confirms the reported outbreak of bri-
gands, assisted by secret associations, west
of Jehol and beyond the great wall. The
minister says that possibly the insur-
gents have been joined by Chinese
Mohammedans from Mongolia. 1t is
reported that two or three important
towns have been captured and hundreds
of natives massacred. There is no reason
to believe any Europeans were killed. The
5000 picked men which the government
was dispatching to the scene ought to be
able to quell the uprising. No credit
should be given sensational stories set
ahoat. There is one British gunboat at
Tientsin and another has assembled the
Yangtsekiang. This region is quiet.
PARIS, Dec. 3.-The situation in China is
attracting great attention in political
circles in all Europeans capitals. This is
not only because of the fact that several
of the powers have made demands upon
the Chinese government regarding the
treatment of their respective subjects in
that country, which the present
condition of affairs prevents being
settled, but because of the
extreme importance of the reports that
England has come to an understanding
with China by which mutual aid will be
rendered in the event of certain contin-
gencies. L'Ecldir today publishes an in
terview with the Chinese charge d'aff'aires
here. The representative of the Chinese
government expresses the most implicit
confidence that the government will have
no occasion to take any extreme
measures to suppress any attempt at gen.
eral uprising The charge d'affaires
declares that later news has been received
from China regarding the disturbances in
several parts of the country, which states
that the troubles, particularly in the north,
have been greatly exaggerated. He further
said that he was not aware that any power
had asked explanations from China, and
continued: "We are quite ready to assure
the powers that We have done and will
continue to do our utmost to protect the
Furopeaus in CHINA