New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27
TERROR IN SOUTHERN CHINA.
GREAT DREAD OF MURDERoUs UPRIs-
ING DIRECTED AGAINST FOREIGNERS
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ING DIRECTED AGAINST FOREIGNERS
CBy Associated Presa)
London, June PA fresh phase Of the ebuIIi-
ton in China is the probability Of immediate
outbreaks in the great Southern Provincial cen
tres The popuIace there is daily assuming
more hostile attitude toward foreigners, and
the latter perceive symptoms of general ris-
ing, especially at Nanking, where, according
10 dispatch TO The Daily Express" dated
yesterday, Kang WI, one of the most truculent
enemies Of foreigners has arrived. by way Of
the Grand Canal, armed with full powers from
the Empress 10 deal with the Southern
Provinces The friendly attitude of viceroy Liu
Kun Yih toward foreigners has brought him
into disgrace with Prince Tuan, President OF
the TsUng-Ii-Yamen.
The unrest at Canton is described by a dis
patch from that city 10 The Daily Telegraph"
dated Monday, via Hong Kong yesterday:
II IS feared that We are on the eve of a scene
OF bloodshed and anarchy in the two Quangs
only paralleled during the Tai-Ping rebellion.
The signs or murderous uprising are mani
fest that wealthy Chinese are hUrrying from
Canton and the vicinity, taking their wives,
families and vaIuahes
Ii Hung Chang has been again peremptoriIy
ordered TO Peking. His enemies declare that
they viii murder him before he can reach there.
His presence alone restraints the revolutionary
elements here. His departure viii let loose the
Black Flags and Red Girdles. Knowing this
LIS trusted officers are sending their families
The Viceroy himself trusts the Americans in
this crisis. He says that they alone want no
territory, and he places himself largely-almost
unreservedly-in their hands. At important
conference to-day he reiterated this statement
All the missionaries have been notified Of their
imminent peril through confidential runners.
They are leaving Canton hurriedly, and only
few are here.
Commander Mclean. Of the United States
steamer Don Juan de Austria, is the first here
10 protect foreign interests. He is capable and
energetic and is reinforced by H NJ S Redpola
Two hundred foreign residents at Shameen are
armed.
The Canton population reaches 100000 in
addition TO 100000 living on junks and sampans
CiaC bOJtOmed river boats Most Of these people
are disaffected, and incendiary proclamations
are increasing the number Of the virulent-
Shanghai cables that the French Consul there
has received 4 telegram from Shan-Tung assert
ing that eleven thousand Chinese troops are
making forced march from Shan-Tung to
Picking.
Two Jesuit Fathers and one hundred native
Christians have been murdered in the southern
part Of the Province Of Pe-Chi-LL The Chinese
military authorities have been discovered re-
cruiting at Shanghai inside the foreign settle
ment, and some agents have been arrested in
the act Of constructing intrenchments around
the European concessions.
a Chiaaman connected with war purchases !
for the Chinese Government in Europe. who
has been interviewed by The Daily Express"
says that China has immense quantities of
arms and ammunition, and will ''stagger hu-
manity" il driven to defend herself.
According to the report of a Chinaman refugee
who has arrived at Shanghai, the condition Of
Tien-Tsin is horrible. Everywhere in the streets
are the bodies Of massacred men ana women.
Americans well all other nationalities.
mis- he
were both destroyed early during the lombard
ment
The German gunboat Iltis and a Russian tor
pedO boat destroyer patrolling the Pei-Ho
River and ralzng with machine guns the native
villages on the river banks which were filed
with concealed "snipers"
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