The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-27
CHINA WAR NEWS.

The semi-ofiicial Militairn Wochen-
blatt asserts, from alleged authentic
figures, that the number of allied
troops now in China is a, 900. OF these,
however, 10000 Russians are located in
Lao Tung peninsula and Kwang Tung
province and 1000 Germans with 1G
field guns, IL heavy guns and 6 ma
chine guns, at Kiao Chou. Now on the
way from Germany, France and Eng
land there are about $1,000 men. Ar
engagements have been made for the
departure of $1,000 with 144 guns, and
altogether there will be, from present
arrangements, in China by September
10000 Germans, 10000 English, 5000
French, $4,000 Russians, 1000 japan
csc, 1000 Americans, 1000 Italians and
ITO Austrians, together with 81 guns
and 80 machine guns. Gen. Won Bog
uslawsky, "A high military authority,
said it was quite possible that this
force of 1880 men would prove insult
ficient to bring China down.
Chinese merchant who has inst ar
rived from Pelin, gives horrible details
of the massacre. He says he saw
European women hauled into the
streets by shrielsing Boxers, who strip
ped them and hacked them TO pieces
Their discovered limbs were tossed to
the crowd and carried off with bowls
of triumph. Some were already dead,
having been shot by foreign civilians
He says he saw Chinese soldiers carry
ing the bodies of white children aloft
on their spears. while their companions
shot at the bodies. He gives other de-
tails too horrible to be particularizcd.
1t seems that the Boxers leaders had
organized plan including the Offering
of rewards and rich loot for the ami
hilation of Europeans throughout
China and that Prince Tuan's generals
have been emphasizing the opportunity
the soldiers have of Selling the bodies
of white women
President Mckinley has received
what purports to be direct appeal
from the Chinese imperial government
to use his good offices TO cXtricatc that
government from the difficult and
dangerous position in which it has
been placed rs result OF the Boxer
uprising and the ensuing hostile atti-
tudc of the great powers. Although
the exact text OF the appeal made by
the emperor of China to France, as ont
lined in the cable dispatches of the
21st, has not been made known at
Washington. it is believed that the
address to the President is similar in
terms to that communication. In
our case the communication was made
through Minister WI to the state de-
partment. Thus far a final answer
has not been returned.
If the news of Chinese invasion of
Siberia proves true it will. of course
immensely complicate the situation
from the international point of view
As stated in the Associated Press St
Petersburg dispatch Of July -, the
Chinese had already peremptorily or
dered all Russians to quit Manchuria,
but no one imagined they would be
audacious enough to break out of their
own country and attack Russian terri
tory Such an attack, if it has been
made, of course. constitutes in itself n
| declaration of war. rendering formal
notification needless.
To add TO the gloom occasioned by
the extremely serious import of news
showing the daily developing strength
of the anti.foreign movement in the
south Of China comes n report from
Shanghai on the Goth that GO mission
aries and 100 native converts have been
massacred by boxers at Tai Yuan.
Tai Yuan is fortified and populous
city in the province Of Shan Sec on the
Fuen IIo, an ailiuent of the Hoang Ho,
| $50 miles southwest Of Pel<in.
Capt Zalinslti, in charge of the quar-
termaster's stores at Chickamauga park,
Tenn. has received urgent orders from
the war department to prepare for
shipment, presumably to China, large
quantity of quartermaster's stores and
! ambulances, which have been stored at
Chickamauga since the war with Spain.
orders for the Pacific coast
1t is semi-oflicially announced that
Baron Won Buelow, the imperial min
lister Of foreign affairs, has notified the
Chinese legation at Berlin that until
further notice it cannot be allowed to
send kilograms in cipher or secret lam
guage and that kilograms in plain lam
guage must be submitted for the ap.
proval of the secretary of state before
they can be dispatched
An official telegram from Shanghai.
dated July Is, states that. according to
the governor of Shan Tung. the foreign
ministers and their families at PelIin
are safe and sound, but that the dan
ger is still very great. The viceroy,
according TO this dispatch, informed
the consular corps that he had tele-
graphed to Pekin urging the protection
of the foreign legations.
The quartermasters department at
Washington has made requisition for
something over $4,000 for apparatus
TO supply the troops of the Chinese ex-
petition pure drinking water. The de-
partment already has placed orders for
sterilizers and distilling plants which
will furnish an aggregate of 81, 500 gal.
Ions of pure water day.