The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-19

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rate Campaigm-Ou.rages Ia Che
Kiang.
st. Petersburg, July 1S.-A dispatch
has modified $50, 900 men, divided into
different corps. The northern corps
has been ordered to expel foreigners
from Amur The Pekin army, divided
into four corps, the first of which is to
operate against Mukden, the capital of
Manchuria, and occupy the roads be-
tween Pekin and Shan-Hai-KWan the
I second is to concentrate at Tlen-Tsln,
and the third at Pekin, from whence
column numbering 10000 will be sent to
Wei-Hai-Wei and TsinTau, while the
fourth corps will concentrate at Nan
king.
\ dispatch from Marking announces
that Prince Tuan has ordered a great
military movement, owing to the ap-
pearance of the Japanese in China.
The viceroy of Marking has Informed
the foreign consuls there that he can
not be held answerable for events In
Chao-Sin, sNing-Po and ChuChau, in
the province of Che-Kiang. The for
eigners are fleeing to Shanghai. The
position is alarming Sixteen foreign
ers have arrived at Marking from Nj g.
Pc, where the houses of foreigners have
been burned and missionaries possibly
maltreated.
The rebellion has taken hold of south
ern China The foreigners at Chu- Chau
and In-Chau have been attacked and
are fleeing, panic stricken
The Chinese feet is concentrating in
the China Sea, and hostilities are ex-
pected.
Paris July 1S.-The French consul at
Hankow telegraphs, under date of July
10, that the viceroy admits that he is
doubtful of his ability to arrest the re-
bellion in Honan. A caravan of English
and American engineers and mission
aries from Shen-Si was attacked near
Slang Wang. A number were wound
ed, but it was hoped the caravan would
shortly reach Hankow.
The consul at Shanghai telegraphs,
under date of July 8, that the governor
of Che Kiang, on the vigorous demand
of the consul, had taken energetic
measures to repress disorders. Sec
troubles in the province of Honan. Mis-
sionaries had been attacked in the pro-
vinces of Che-Kiang and Manchuria,
and numbers of missionaries were i'm
perilled.
London, July 1S.-If the report from
st. Petersburg to the effect that Chi
nese troops and Boxers seized a Rus
4.,,,, nrf 1p1 wit,
near Aigun, on the Amur river, about
eighteen miles within the Siberian from
tier, killing almost the entire Russian |
escort and later bombarded Blagov-
chensk, the capital of the Amur gov
eminent, finally burning the place, |
proves to be true, it will, of course, |
complcate the situation from the in
ternational point of view. Such an at
tack if it has been made constitutes
in itself a declaration of war, rendering |
formal notification needless.
separate attack by the Chinese on
Russia means giving Russia, according
to the views expressed in Europe, addi-
tional excuse for an isolated descent on .
Pekin, and an additional claim to as
sert greater influence than the other
powers, and obtain greater compensa
ton when the day of settlement ar
rtves. Hence extreme uneasiness has |
been created in the chancelleries by this I
latest development.
The dispatch from the Associated
Press correspondent at Shanghai, dated
July 16, says that there is evidence that
the Woo-Sung forts, at the mouth of
the Woo-Sung river, and ten miles
north of Shanghai are being strength
ened and supplied with large quantities
of ammunition. It is hoped in London
that the landing of $4,000 japanese
troops, which it is expected will be eff
fected to-day, and the arrival of Indian
troops will enable the allies to reinforce
Shanghai.
Admiral Alexieff reports skirmish
on July IA on the Peiho river, twenty
five versts from Taku, between a re- ,