The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-11-06
PEACE commission.
Ii Kun vi and Chang Tt Tung
Added to 1t by the Emperor.
The Railroad From PRO Ting Flu to
the Capital Nearly Completed
The Line Being Guarded
BY French Soldiers.

BY French Soldiers.
London, Nov. 3.-The Shanghai
correspondent of the Times says that
an imperial edict appoints Liu Kun
vi, viceroy of Nankin, and Chang Chi
Tung, viceroy of Hankow, to be adj
| ditional peace commissioners on be-
half of China.
Berlin, Nov. 3.-Oficial kilograms
from Count Won Waldersee show that
all the German troops have arrived in
China and been distributed. The 1st
and I'd marines, the 1st infantry bri-
gade and small force of cavalry and
artillery are stationed at Peking. The
I'd infantry brigade with a CORE
spending force of artillery, engineers
and cavalry, is at Pao Ting Flu. One
battalion is at Shan Hal Kwan. The
third infantry brigade, with a com
pany of sharpshooters, two squad
rons of cavalry and several batteries
is at Tien-Tsin. One battery and sew
eral hOwitzers are at Taku, and a
force of troops is distributed along
the railway from Peking to Yam Tsun,
experimenting the work of construc-
ton.
A special dispatch to the Hamburg
Correspondent says: "In well sit
uated in the imperial palace precincts
in Picking was found the body of EN-
peror Kwang Su's favorite wife, Shen
Ii, whom the empress dowager caus-
ed to be drowned before the fight of
the court from the capital. The sec
ond favorite, Shing Fl, and 100 ladies
belonging to the imperial harem are
prisoners in the hands of the allies.
A dispatch from Pao Ting Flu, dated
Thursday, says: photographic con-
nectiOn has been completed with Pc
king entirely by the Germans. The
railway from Pao Ting Flu to the cap
ital is nearly completed. French de-
tachments are guarding the line.
Another batch of letters from Ger
man soldiers in China appear Friday
in number of papers, among them
the Hanover Courier, which editorial
ly demand official statements with
reference to the details given by the
writer's of the cruelties alleged to
have been committed by German
troops in China.
Berlin, Nov. 2.-Consfderable impa-
tience at the meagerness of news from
China is finding expression here. The
inference is that German censorship
over such information is very strict.
Letters from privates in China be-
gin to find their way into the social
democratic papers, showing that the
German troops give no quarter The
Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes
letter from soldier in Picking who
said he witnessed the following scene:
"SiXty-eight captives, some of them
not yet adults, were tied together by
their pig tails, beaten bloody by the
Germans, compelled to dig their own
graves and shot en- masse."
The Halberstadter Volks Zeitung
prints communication from Picking
in which the writer says: mo prison
ers are taken. All are shot, or, pre-
ferably, sabered to save ammunition.
On Sunday afternoon we had to bay
onet "A prisoners. They had killed
one of our patrolmen. An entire
battalion pursued them and captured
"A alive. 1t was cruel. 1t was hides
cribable"
The Post, of this city, semi-official-
", made the following announcement
Thursday. LAS the third clause of
the Anglo-German agreement is in
tended to operate in the event of one
power acting in opposition to the
principles laid down, it ceases to be
important, all the powers accepting
it."
London, Nov. 5.--Dr. Morrison, wir-
ing to the Times from Peking No
vember l, says:
''The evidence in the Pao Ting Flu
trial to fix the responsibility for the
massacre showed that an American
lady, before execution, was led naked
through the city, and that her breasts
were cut off. The destruction of two
temples is not adequate punishment
for such inhumanity.''
"Advices from Tien Tsin,'' says the
Shanghai correspondent of the Times,
wiring Sunday, "show that disorgan-
ization and absence of security are
the chief characteristics of the allied
occupation"
St. Petersburg, Nov. 5.-Fhe Roo
sitya, a newspaper of wide circula-
ton. again emphasizes the Importance
of Russia's separate interests in China
and demands that she should definite
~ abandon the concert of powers and
negotiate a separate peace.
Sank a Fishing Schooner.