Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-25
CHINA WAR.
THE STRUGGLE IS ON BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
SIBERIA IS INVADED.
Russia Has Given the Chinese Min
lister His Passports. and Other
Nations will Follow.

Paris.-(Special.)- There has just been
received a secret communication of a
dispatch dated Chez Foo, which states,
though expressly acknowledging the
impossibility of guaranteeing the au-
thority of the news, that the diplomatic
corps is still safe in Pekin, under the
guard of Prince Ching, who was erro-
neously reported to have been killed
Che Foo, July Is, via Shanghai, July
19.-Mashinichas. railway junction
near New Chwang, has been burned !:
also Liaoyang.
Much rolling stock has been destroyed
and railway communication with Port
Arthur broken. New Chwang is in i'm
minent danger.
The Oregon has been safely drydocked
at Kure, Japan.
Yokohama, July 22.-It is stated that
the question of chief in command in
China is likely to cause dissensions.
Shanghai. July 24.-Advices from Tien
Tsin still complain Of the lack of unity
and want of one supreme head among
the armed forces acceptable to all. 1t
is fairly and generally admitted that it
will be impossible to operate against
Pekin from the south until the end of
September.
London.-(Special)- Daily Ex-
press publishes the following from Che
Foo:
THE Russians are hard pressed
around New Chwang and have been ex-
PEELED from Tien Chwang Tai, the scene
Of the great fight during the China
Japanese war, where they have sus-
tained heavy losses
They have also been compelled to
abandon Tashichau by large body of
Boxers and armed peasants. Here
again the Russians lost heavily, but it
is reported that they succeeded in kill
ing 700 of their assailants. The Chi
nese have completely demolished the
railway north of Tashichau. The Rus
slams are now moving on Niu Cha
wang"
The Russians, according to the latest
news from st. Petersburg, have COM
pletly defeated the Chinese and have
occupied Blagovestc- ensk, capital of
the Amur government, with large
force. Since General Gribski chief of
staff at Port Arthur, has taken over
the supreme command in Manchuria,
reinforcements have been rapidly push
ed up and the general situation has
been greatly changed.
The Russian minister Of the interior
has issued notice that the Siberian
railway is closed to private traffic.
There is little doubt that the Rus
sian authorities were not prepared for
in Manchuria, but they believe that
China will soon be too much preoccu-
pied by operations around Pekin to
conduct serious operations in the north
The Daily Nails Shanghai corre-
spondent says:
"Advices from Vladivostock state
that the Chinese invasion of Eastern
Siberia has stopped the Russian ad-
vance from the north on Pekin. The
Russians have burned the Chinese town
of Helampo. and are adopting very Wig
orous measures"
Berlin kilograms dwell on the I'm
mense German interests in Southeast
ern Siberia. They say that the many
German merchants, the numerous Ger
man employees and the immense stores
of merchandise belonging to Germans
in that territory will compel Germany
to cooperate with Russia in resisting
the Chinese.
General Sir Arthur Power Palmer,
commander in chief in India, said in
the course of an interview in Simla
that no more British troops could be
sent from India for CT ina, unless they
could be replaced from South Africa.
NORTHWEST NEWS IN BRIEF.