The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-08-17
THE CHINESE CRISIS
IN BRIEF ITEMS

Al extra session of Congress is Improb-
able.
-Four more missionaries have been muir
dered at Hankow.
Four armed Russian steamers are pa
trolling the Amur.
Gen. Chaffee calls for more men. He
now has about $500.
More artillery Is being sent from Ma
nla to Gen Chaffee.
Capt. McCalla, U. s. N, Is nursing his
wounds at Nagasaki.
England expects a long war In China
and IL preparing for 1t.
A hospital corps is being organized to
go with Chaffee's army.
The steamer Thyra viii take 800 horses
from Portland TO China.
Heavy siege guns have been ordered
frc m Fort Riley to China.
The fourth brigade OF Indian troops
has been ordered to China
The export of war material from Eng
land to China is prohibited.
The Russian attack on Newchwang Is
said to have been unprovoked.
Andrew ID. White denies that the Kaiser
told his men to give no quarter.
After Ii Hung Chang left Canton the
Imperial troops Joined the Boxers.
All Baptist missionaries in Eastern
Central China are safe at Shanghai.
]. Is estimated that Boxers have killed
between 10000 and 1900 native converts
The Chinese, at last accounts. were for
tifying their lines outside the British Le-
CATION
The shipment of trSops to the Amur
shows much fraud in the Russian railway
system.
Germany wants the Yang-tse valley
kept open and Is opposed TO the division
of China.
Hsu Ching Chen. formerly Minister to
Russia. has been behcaded for pro-foreign
tendencies.
Boxers are numbering missionaries in
Southern China but are not disturbing
treaty ports.
Ii Hung Chang is In dcspondent state
and rumor of his suicide prevailed for
a day or two.
The u. S. navy has been ordered to
&C operate with the army in landing
troops in China.
The Washington Government IL entire
ly satisfied that the dispatches from Con-
ger are genuine.
Chinese batteries on the Yang-tse are
bong repaired and new ones are build
ing at Wu Sung.
Tho Imperial troops are inuenched ut
Peitsang, on the line of the Tien-Tsin
and Peking railway.
1t Is expected that several more regi-
ments will be taken from the Philippines
for Chinese service.
Food is scarce at TIen-Tsln and the
river Is filled with the headless bodies OF
hundreds OF Chinese.
Senator Teller declares the President
has no power to enter the Chinese war
He wants an extra session.
Rev. Father Marquette writes that
dc zens of Christian communities have
been devastated by the Boxers.
IL Is reported that the Chinese have
broken the canal bank, flooding the coun-
try between Tien-Tsin and Peking,
Germany regrets that she cannot join
In the attack on PekinE with force of
proper size. but applauds the other Pow
ers.
Ii Hung Chang Will issue a proclama-
ton granting amnesty to the Boxers on
condition that they cease making dis
turhances.
The transport PAX Ling, which started
flom Seattle for China with cargo and
animals returned. as her captain regard
ed her as top-heavy.
Liu Kun VI. Vlceroy OF Nanking and
Sheng, Director of Telegraphs and Rail-
ways, say the ENJOYS will be killed If the
allies march to Picking.
The Governor of Moukden, in a proc
lamation, urges the people of Manchuria
Ia massacre Christians, Nearly all the
mis- sions have been destroyed.
on July 30 n part of Gen. Orloff's forces
attacked the Chinese regulars, capturing
one gun and a number OF flags and XIII.
inr the Chinese commander and 200 men.
Russian railway parties In retreat We're
bombarded by Chinese in the Chingan
passes Three guards and one workman
We're killed and twenty workmcn fled to
the mountains, none of whom have re-
turned
l., Ping Hang, the new master of Pc
king has beheaded two members OF the
II ung Ii Yamen and denounced Ii Hung
Chang and the Niceroy OF Nanking on
charge of maintaining relations with for
eiEners.
Russian War Office kilograms received
m Washington from Eastern Siberia
show the Chinese have destroyed the rail-
rc6d in several places. interrupting the
passage of through trains. The Cossacks
cow guard 1000 versts of the frontier rail-
-oad.
The Russians have taken the town of
SGkhalin in Manchuria. taking one gun
INC n quantity of Mauser cartridges. The
steamer Silenga suffered severely from
Chinese rifle fire. The Russians lombard
I'd Aigun with twelve mortars and the
chinese replied. One Russian officer and
I've men We're killed and fifteen wounded.
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