The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-31
THE BOXER CRISIS
TOLD IN ITEMS


Nowchvnng is said 10 have been looted.
The rowurB may lay new cables ~
China.
W. W. Rochhnl may he Conger's sue
ccsaor.
iialy's xpcd,tlonary force will number
3 go men.
Cora docs not look for trouble with
the Boxers.
Negro cavalry may be sent from Ari-
zona to China.
The Pope has ordered prayers for all
who are In peril
The guns OF the foreign warshps arc
trained on Chefoo.
Thousands OF foreigners are located in
the Yang-tse valley.
Prince Tuan ls said to have slain 5000
foreign sympathizers.
There are grave fears for foreigners at
Shanghai and Chefoo.
Los Angeles anu San Francisco Chi
nese denounce the Boxers
The War Department receives many
applications for enlistment.
San Franciscos Preside Is making
ready to receive 10000 men.
There are 10000 American troops in
China or on their way there.
Grave dissensions may interrupt the
present concert of the Powers.
Germany's threat to patrol the Yang
tse is causing alarm in England.
Berlin journals say the Powers must
stand together to get vengeance.
Consul Gen. Goodnow at Shanghai has
cabled Washington for a warship.
Minister WI admitted on July 18th that
there was no hope for the Enjoys.
Owing to the war news a riot IL pos
sible In San Francisco's Chinatown.
There Is a London report that Euro
peans served the Chinese guns at Tien-
Tsn.
Russia refuses to turn over the Taku-
Tien-Tsin railroad to the British direct
crate.
Gen. Shafter has been ordered to send
four batteries to sail on the Hancock for
China.
The Pope EXPRESSES great alarm over
the situation of the Apostolic Wears in
China.
Military men believe an extra session
of Congress will bo necessary to provide
troops.
China il saiu to have made proposals
foreigners.
on receiving news of the massacre,
President Mckinley hurried back to
Washington.
The companies of the engineer corps
now at West Point, N. Y. are under
ders for China.
The orders to Lii Hung Chang to pro-
ceed to Chill are said to have come
from Prince Tuan.
From Shanghai comes the report that
$1,000 Russian troops are marching on Pc
king from the north.
Sir Robert Hart, who was probably
killed at Peking, refused n chance given
him to escape in disguise.
Gen. Chanee, who will command In Chi
ma if Gen. Miles is not sent. has been
commissioned Major General.
The scenes in Berlin and ST. Petersburg
when the news of the massacre was
received, were of popular frenzy.
Gen. Macarthur protests against the
reduction of his force for Chinese SER
vice and asks for reinforcements.
No Canadian troops will be needed In
China according to advices received by
Wilfrid Laurier. the Canadian Premier.
The Governor of Honan Shansi, n prov
ince lying between Picking and Shanghai,
has issued an edict favorable to the Box
ers.
Russia has shipped more than 10000
troops overland by the trans-Siberian
railway, probably to go eventually to
China.
The American hospital ship Maine,
which was at Southampton after return
ing from South Africa, has sailed for
China.
The Italian Bishop Fantosati and two
of his missionaries have been killed. The
burned.
At Verden, H., a mob attacked a Chi
nese laundry and demolished the place.
Feeling against the Chinese is high in
the town.
The transport Sumner, with the Fif-
teenth Infantry on board. sailed from
San Francisco for Nagasaki and China
on July 18th.
on July II the United States Govern
ment demanded of Minister WI that way
be cleared for communication with Min
lister Conger.
If Japan sends an army corps to China
it will probably be commanded by Mar
shall Nodzu, who will be the ranking Of
iicer in the field.
One of the highest officers of the Unit
ed States Army says that we are face to
face with the greatest general war since
the days of Napoleon.
Missionaries have been hocking from
China to Japan by scores and many are
in Nagasaki destitute. having been COM
PEELED to leave all their effects behind.
The United States has notified the 9TH
er Powers that this country must here
after be reckoned VIII. in all steps taken
for the pacitication or partition of China.
No civilians Will in the future be per-
mitted to travel on the trans Pacific ar
my transports on account of the troubles
in China and the exigencies attendant
thereon.
Major Gen. Won Lessel, commander of
the Twenty-eighth Army Division of Ger
many. has been appointed to command
the German forces in China, with rank
of Lieutenant General.
The Times says 1t is taken for granted
in diplomatic circles that when the Chi
nese crisis is settled Great Britain will
retain the right to nominate the Inspect
or of Chinese Customs.
Tha I1nitpd Statpa Marina Cnrno NJ
Tien-Tsin lost five killed, seven seriously |
wounded fifteen wounded, including |
Capt. c. G Long, Capt. VIM. b. Lemley, |
Lieut.. Smedley ID. Butler.
The United States colliers Alexander
and Saturn. at Norfolk, Va, |
and the distilling ship Arethusa, at
League Island. near Philadelphia, are
under orders to prepare for service in
China.
Two Japanese made an attempt to mur-
der Kang Yu Wei. the eNiled leader of |
the Chinese Reform party at Singapore. |
He was protected by Sikh guards who
captured his assailants. but Kang Yu