The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-24
CHINESE CRISIS
IN BRIEF ITEMS

The Interior of China is now quiet.
Russian influence Is growing In Pc
king.
Ii Hung Chang left Shanghai for |
Picking on Sept. 18th.
Russia viii insist on leaving Picking
and Japan will follow.
There was grand thanksgiving SER
vice at Picking on Sept s.
Prince Ching declines to act for Chi
ma without Ii Hung Chang.
Germany announces that she has no
interest in the Yang-tse Valley.
All Picking was looted by the foreign
troops except the Imperial palace.
Boxers are said to have defeated the
Imperial Chinese troops at Kiangsu.
France does not want to withdraw
from Picking but will follow the lead of
the Car.
Ii Hung Chang has been officially
named as China's representative at the
peace conference.
England is ready to act alone in Chi
ma II necessary and will insist on ade
quate reparation.
The Kaiser and Car are not to meet
in Poland or elsewhere to discuss the
Chinese situation.
The town of Tuliu on the Grand Ca
nal has been looted and burned by
Gen. Forwards column.
Baron Won Ketteler was killed by a
bullet through the neck which must
have been instantaneously fatal.
Orders have been sent Gen. Chaffee
TO prepare his forces for withdrawal
from Picking. The troops will go to the
Philippines.
The powers will soon withdraw from
China. Italy and France have agreed
and 1t is believed Germany must ulti-
mately do so.
Italy proposes negotiations with Chi
ma looking to peace, evacuation of Pc
king. a Chinese loan and the mainten-
lance of the empire.
The massacre and persecution of
lChinese Christians continue every
where, and 1t is said the anti-foreign
Headers intend to exterminate them.
A special dispatch from Annoy says
that both the Japanese and English
! marines were withdrawn on September
s. and that everything there Is quiet.
/ The United States transport Lenox
arrived at Portland. Or, on September
IL, from Taku. China The Lenox will
return to China carrying 400 horses for
the Army.
An undated dispatch from Shanghai
announces the arrival there from Pc
king of DIT. Won Rosthorn, Austro-
: Hungarian Charge d'Affaires in China,
| and DR.. +. NJ Knobel, Minister of the
Netherlands.
2 From the present instructions of the
, naval department. Germany will make
the strongest naval demonstration ever
made at Shanghai, namely. ten war
ships with 600 men and Ice guns. OF
these vessels four will he large cruisers
5 four others will be somewhat smaller
q and two will be gunboats.
1t Is learned at the British Embassy
5 in Berlin that Ii Hung Chang has beer
= directed by the Emperor Of China tc
proceed Immediately TO Picking and CO.
operate with Prince Ching toward 6
settlement of all difficulties with the
0 powers. He has applied through th'
o Chinese ambassadors for a guarantee
r of safe conduct at sea and on land OF
= his way to Picking.
: The State Department Is in receipt o
a a cablegram from United States Consu
!, Goodnow at Shanghai. dated Septem
Der 9Th. reporting the deaths about Jul.
sist at Fun-Chu and Tai-Ku of the fol
lowing missionaries: Rev. and Mrs. c
y w. Price and daughter Florence. Rev
: and Mrs. Z. r. Atwater and two child
; rem: Rev. and Mrs. ID. II. Clapp; Rev
George L. williams. Rev. T. W. Davis
!. Miss Rowena Bird and Miss Mary I
p. Partridge.
: The London Chamber of Commerc
e received a telegram from the Hongkon
" Chamber of Commerce. with reques
; that It be communicated to the BIRTHS
q Foreign Office. advocating a continu
% ance OF the occupation Of Peking unit
h. proper government has been estat
Is lished and the guilty officials have bee
punished. and pointing out that a
"a earlier withdrawal would be disastrou
- to foreign prestige in China The dis
II patch was sent to Lord Salisbury.