Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-22
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| Europe that Germany uurposely pro-
! posed her demand that thu anti-fo.eign
! leaders should he surrendered before
! neg t.1tiOns We're commenced with z
| view If delaying any general accept
ancc IF her proposal until Field Mar
/ shall Count Won WaIdcrsee should ar
rive a Pekin. y dispatch tn the Daily
! Telegraph from Washington asserts
1 that the United States government has
I politely declined ID agree tu Germauys
proposal on this very ground. In any
event. with Count Won Waldersee and
Ii Hung Chang both joUrneynS north
wa~d. matters must soon reach crisis.
The manner of Earl L.'s rec i inn
seems to confirm the suspicion existing
in Shanghai regarding his close under
stlujing with Russia. About 1900 Rus
stat cIoops ana all the principal RUS
sian DEicers mot him at Chung Lang
chen. half way to Tien Tsin. a long
conference was held at which NJ rep
rtscntative Of any .Wer vas present.
This remarkable friendship exists a a
imc when two continents are ringing
with the story Of massacres by the
Eu SLAMS in Amur
Tie Moscow correspondent Of ;he
Standard, reve,tiHg 70 the subject VI
the ma ssac-es. this morning. says.
From Il recent visitor tn the Anur
region. | learn that n,aSsacres are the
order of the day with thu troops that
are overrunning Nanchuria- The or
ders are issued by Gen. Grodv<off. but
il il quite certain that Emperor Mich
DlaS must be ignorant If their nature.
My informant has seen a seri : Of
kilograms from one Manchurian COM
naudcr. every one ~ which bespechcs
that NJ be allowed To spare pnaceable
citizens: but the Russian Indifference
to the lives Of the common herd is still
If truly Oriental type"
The same csnonient asserts that
troops by the wholesale continue To
pour int Manrhulia. Ii Hung Chang,
according to Shanghai dispatches, as
sumei the seals Of the vice royalty #
chi III. Yesterday. His officers are
busy raising 5000 foreign drilled men
and well armed veterans Who viii pro
coed t. Ton Tsin as Ear LIS body
guard under command IF ShanG Ka,
| NurC. who was the chinese general
lNIa" 'h'u Nheh ihe Germans seized
! lh'l pace
/ J. - S!''l 90 INA i-'" 'N.il
'H ~ Nh ''1'' ''l .'t,
1 Il lit
;iors in the channel below the KianG
| Yin forts and sending troops to the
/ Il rtheast II hianE Su for fear tha
/ Germans may land troops there A. A.
lagM I.,AI hlaH- n
Y 4" Shiheh"l CORES i''i'ltl-l ~ tHe
Ni"TIIh- l'9l 'h'IeS9eS the "i'I"I ~
/ mat G'Gman| P'hcy may N'' Ieaa 10
z rising up central China.
nike Standard has a TaEu telegram ns-
sorting taat. as 4 means ~ avcrting pun-
I i~hment. the acting governor of Pao Ting
. Fin has posted a proclamation ordoTins
tIr suppression of Boxers.
THE Shanghai correspondent "f the
I Daily News cites tHe opinion of a high
foreign official that the Emperor anu En-
. press D"waEer WILL under tn" pressure
.,N.rtcd lE The vir"r"yS. surrender Prince
T, THhn ana thc other anti foreign leaders
tI the POW w.
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Instances Of atrocities n the province
"t Human against CHRISTIAN MISSION
aries VINO escaped ana Who make the
/ report through the offlcla's OF the gov
ernment. now forwarding II TO "aSh-
lngton.
concerning cohdhlohs HI me hahg
IF hlahg NaiIey lhe report states
mat the Nicefoys there nave exercised
a most paclic influence despite orders
. 20 the contrary rom Fehln' l, appears
that the Fekin government ordered the
march it to thu north. But as the vice
roys personally were opposed to an
( anti-foreign crusade the order was not
f. executed. Instead Of that one Of the