The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-03
THE BOXER CRISIS.
Cuttings From the Latest kilograms
From China.


Japan has sent 1900 troops to China.
Japan may land troops at Foo Chow.
III lung Chang is returning to re-
king.
Cnina's war footing is 100000 sol
diers.
hundreds OF natives have been muir
dered.
Many churches have been burnt in
Tientsin.
France is rushing ships and men from
Tonquin.
Holland will send ship and troops
to China.
More sailors from Cavite will re-en-
force Remey.
The battle ship Oregon has been
Chinese military and naval students
are leaving Japan.
The Russian cruiser Rurik has left
Yokohama for Taku.
Japan - mobnizing $4,000 men for
immediate transport.
The American forces did not join lii /
the capture of Taku.
Foreigners in Tung Chow are prison |
ers in their own houses.
The Empress Dowager has degraded
several defeated generals.
The Seventh Bengal infantry has
been ordered to Hongkong.
Picking is in a state of panic, and IN
cendiary fires occur nightly.
Fourteen transports will convey
troops from India to China.
Admiral Remey is sending abundant
supplies to Admiral Kempff.
All the unprotected foreign buildings
in Picking have been destroyed.
Chinese control the wires from Pc
king and the advices are unreliable.
The Boxers of Shantung originally
organized to drive out the Germans.
Bluejackets have been landed at Woo
- l. II n. -,
The British Government may send
10 600 troops to China from South At
RIGA.
News of the safety of Father EN-
deavor" Clark and family in China Is
received.
/ Russia has demanded 100000 taels
/ Indemnity for damage done Manchurian
/ The bombarding fleet at Taku was
under command of Vice Admiral Alex
I Jeff of Russia.
Eighteen war ships and fifteen trans
ports represent Japanese naval activity
at Yokohama.
The L. s. transport Sumner was di-
| verted at Nagasaki and arrived at
Taku with 40 men.
The report that the German Minister
was murdered at Peking has been trac-
ed to the Taotai Shang.
Germany is aroused by the news from
partition of the empire.
The State Department denies the
story from Rome that America Is back
ing the Chinese Emperor.
The old American side-wheel gunboat
Monocacy was shot through the bows
during the Taku engagement.
Gen. Miles says enough troops will
be sent to China to protect Americans
there, and American interests.
1t is denied in the latest kilograms
that the captain of the German gun
boat Tits was wounded at Taku.
a Chinese second class cruiser. flying
the admiral's flag, has been detained
outside Taku by the allied admirals.
The forts at Canton are said to have
received orders to fire on any foreign
war ship attempting TO enter the port
The Ninth regiment, u. :. a, has
been ordered from Manila to China
Relief will be hurried to exposed Ameri-
cans.
T Three thousand Russian troops com
manded by a Major General We're al
Taku on June 20. The Russians are tht
. only ones that refuse to join the com
: mand of ADMIRAL Seymour.
THE responsibility of the Chinese
Government for recent events" said 6
high official of the Foreign Office, Il:
4 now clearly proved. 1t has been ascer
( tanned that 10000 Chinese troops who
: deserted to the Boxers did so under
Il
. ment. Promotion to the highest pc
sitions of notorious European of
ficials also points in the same direction
a This is a war of china against all for
I eii,ners, including Germany, and thu
? point now is to go ahead vigorou sly
4 quickly and resolutely. no matter wha
n the final outcome may be-"
4, Speaking of the murder of Christian
in China, Lord Salisbury says: "Al
: though the persons slaughtered wer
: Christians, IL must not be imagine
> they were murdered simply because tn
r. Chinese disiiked their religion. 1t wa
because the idea prevailed there an
- elsewhere that missionary work wa
I, merely an instrument by which secu
= lar government achieved it's object:
= While this was unjust, and thouoh tn
missionaries could not reEounce thei
:, work, the utmost caution ought [
- mark their actions. as overzealousnes
= led to martyrdom ard caused the deaf
. of saIiors and soldiers sent to avenge tn
:, outrages.
Women and children from Tientsi
" are pouring into Shanghai. The chi,
:, danger there is the fact that the natiy
a. town. behind the European settlemen
: is full of bad characters, whose attitud
!, is becoming every day more insoler
and menacing. The latest news
hand is that 1000 Russians with lively
~ machine guns and twelve field gun
are marching from Tientsln to Pekin
" Last week the foreign Ministers war;
- ed the Tsung Ii Yamen that in IL
event OF an attack upon the legation
u or of injury to any of the Minister
~ or members of the STATS of the legs
u tons, the powers in common would d.
clare war upon China. To this ult
al matum the Tsung Ii Yamen, as usua
!" returned no direct reply. The answ,
ne TO the Empress Lowager is, no doub
n the attack upon the legations by Il
: Boxers and the troops under Gener
ne Tung Fab Slang.
al Taku is situated at the mouth of IL
IS Peiho river. on the southern bank
IN the stream, about sixty-seven mill
In from Tientsin, with which ii is connec
he ed by a railroad. II IS noted by Il
so three engagements that have take
OF place there between the British and Il
Chinese. Part of the Tientsin arm
ID, corps has modern organization, DIR
~ and arms and is stationed at the Tai
ne forts. Between Taku and Tientsin, Il
It's center OF the defenses and chief a
senal OF Northern China, are perm
he nent camps, where there are usual
ct $4,000 troops, infantry. cavalry and a
ip- tillery, armed with Mauser rifles al
In Krupp guns. The cavalry also car