The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-02
THE BOXER CRISIS
TOLD IN ITEMS

Admiral Remey has gone to Tientsin.
China asks the United States to me-
diate.
China.
Gen. Fred D. Grant has been ordered
to China.
There is good road for troops from
Taku to Picking.
The French expedition to China will
number 49, eco men.
Remey says American marines did no
footing at Tientsin.
If Conger is alive he viii be made
Senator from Iowa.
Under Secretary Broderick thinks the |
Conger message false.
An imperial edict declares the attack (
on Tientsin unwarranted.
A cable is being laid from Wei-Hai- |
VIE to Chefoo and Taku.
The English believe the allies cannot
advance until September
Sir Francis Grenfell may command
the British troops in China.
/ The First United States Infantry viii
/ leave Cuba and go to China.
/ Corea denies officially that the Boxer
movement has extended there
! The Russian railway staff in Man.
churia is said to be hemmed in.
/ A plot has been discovered to muir
der the Chinese envoy to France.
Gen. James H. Wilson will go to Chi
ma to command American troops.
The Russian railway guards in Man
churia may have been annihilated.
Secretary Hay says peace is possible
even if the Ministers are murdered.
Lieut.. Col. c. F. Robe succeeds Col.
Liscum in charge of the Ninth Infan-
try.
The worst feature of the situation is
the patriotic spirit which prevails all
over China.
If the partition of China is undertake
en- the whole empire will rise against
the foreigners.
A second division of Japanese troops
has embarked for China, accompanied
by siege guns.
The Emperor of China has telegraph
ed Emperor William, deploring Won
Keteler's death.
1t is said and also denied at Wash
ington, that the Chinese Government
had Conger's cipher.
The Seventh Battery of Heavy Artil-
lery, stationed at Fort Riley, kas., has
. been ordered to China.
Lii Hung Chang arrived at Shanghai
July q, and was coldly received. The
, Consuls declined to call.
If the story of the massacre is con-
firmed Russian squadron will bonn
J bard Chinese coast towns.
1t Is reported that an entire Rus
sian army corps is being modified at
e Odessa for transport to Taku.
LII SHduS QcCidISS tildl Lie GLl-
voys are alive, but an advance on Pek-
g ing would mean their death.
: 1t is asserted that the foreign troops
except Americans and Japanese, looted
: the native quarter of Tientsin.
@ An alleged message from Prince Tuar
declaring the Ministers safe on July
a 18th has been received at Shanghai.
# The Japanese Foreign Minister
strongly advises the southern Viceroy.
n to march to the assistance Of the al
# lies.
Ii Hung Chang says if the Manchi
l. party is responsible for a massacre o
At the foreigners he will not try to maxi
peace.
l., The Russians bombarded the fortifie,
IN Chinese post at Lauschi, Manchuria
The garrison fled and the walls wer
:. destroyed.
y, Captain Robley D. Evans, u. s. "
says the United States ought to be su
d preme In the East because it holds tn
l. Philippines.
If the Ministers are alive China ma
le demand the retirement of all foreign
~ ers from the empire, as the price Q
their safety.
w Germany expresses surprise and dis
" appointment at the willingness of tn
United States to accept news fror
of Chinese sources.
a General Dorward, the British com
mander ia Tientsin, highly commend
Nv the Salldntfy OF the Ninth Unite
es States Infantry.
Ii Hung Chang says the Chimes
or Government is arranging to guarante
lis the retirement of foreigners in Pekin
towards Tientsin.
ed Sir Claude Macdonald reported til
a legations safe on July A, but said theI
had been forty-four deaths and doub
he that number of wounded.
to Two thousand American troops an
eight transports full of British trooI
an have arrived at Taku. Both detacl
a ments are deficient in artillery
Chang vi has unsuccessfully tried
u arrange with the general commander
SIS the Pah Tang forts for their surrende
The general refused to surrender tt
to forts, but said that If the foreigneI
p did not attack him he would agree
maintain a neutral attitude.
a A Chinese who was employed at I'll
m British legation has arrived at New
chwang and declares that at the tin
MS he left Picking most of the members
by the legations were dead and the cond
ton of the rest was hopeless. He sa,
he that Sir Robert Hart died on July 2n
ill Adjutant General Corbin received
cable dispatch July 25th from Gener
in Chafee, announcing his arrival on Il
to transport Grant at Nagasaki. He cabl
all well. AS soon as the Grant Is coal,
in she Will proceed at once to Taku. Ge
SIX, eral Chaffee on his arrival received II
he cable dispatch announcing his appoin
ment as a major general of volunteer