The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-09-07

aid says Emperor Kwang Hsu left Pc
king on Aug. 15. but was captured by
Japanese troops on the road to Hsian
Fui. He Is now In captivity.
Gen. Chaffee has offered escort to
Tien-tsin to Baroness Won Ketteler,
widow Of the murdered German Minis
ter to- China. She will also be given
American transportation to Nagasakl.
The Italian foreign policy may be
placed under the control OF the German
Kaiser. as a result of Humbert's death.
The Government Is said to be ready to
follow the lead of Germany In Chinese
AFFAIRS
Berlin learns that there has been fur
Their fighting west of Tien-Tsin. which
| creates the impression that the prov
| ince of Pechili must be effectively &C.
cupled before peace negotiations Will
become feasible.
Describing the engagement west of
| rien-Tsin, August Sth, a special dis
| patch says: The Sixth United States
Cavalry worked with drill like precision
in the hand to hand lighting and the
Chinese only escaped through the
bunglirg of General Dorward.
A dispatch to n news agency from
Shanghai, dated August 23rd, says eight
survivors of the fourteen English mis-
sionaries who started together from
Shan ST have reached Hankow after
suffering frightful barbarities.
A Japanese soldier at Tien-tsin be-
| came a martyr by deliberately going
up to the city gates and applying a
match to the gun cotton laid to blow
them up, after the wires refused TO
work. Japan rejoces over the laurels
her troops are receiving In China.
| st. Petersburg dispatches announce
good progress in the Manchurian cam
paign. The town of Margen was cap
tured August 18th. with trifling Russian
loss. while the Chinese suffered BE-
verely. leaving ten guns. 700 rifles. and
large quantities Of ammunition in the
hands Of the Russians.
| Admiral Courrejolles, the French
commander in Chinese waters cabled
to the Navy Department here under
| date of Aug. 2S. that a council of the
, admirals notified the foreign legations
| at Picking that 1t was decided to hold
Ii Hung Chang on board ship until the
opening of negotiations between the
powers and China
Ii Hung Chang has received word
that the allies entered Picking easily,
| because the troops of General Tung
FUN Slang utterly refused to face the
allies. According to the Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express, Earl
| Ii, recognizing the futility of an at
tempt to drive the foreigners from Chi
ma, now processes conversion to REFORM
principles.
| Neither the commanders nor the dip
lomats were in communicat ton with the
Chinese government on August nth.
They were then searching for Prince
Tuan. Among the puzzling reports as
to the whereabouts of the Empress
Dowager is one from St. Petersburg
| that she Is In the vicinity of Picking,
but surrounded. The Emperor seems to
have disappeared completely.
All the dispatches point to the fact
that when the latest message reaching
London left Pek8 the commanders
were somewhat at sea regarding their
future actions. all awaiting instructions
from their governments. The foreign
residents appear to have been sent to
Iien-Tsin, although the st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Mail says
the Ministers will not leave Picking un-
til negotiations for indemnity are under
way.
! General Chaffee, so 1t Is asserted,
maintained that the Chinese had been
adequately punished already and that
| 1t would be unWise to take the imperial
palace. This explains the withdrawal
Of the Americans after preaching three
gates, as cabled by the special cores
pondent of the Associated Press. The
Russian general. however, maintained
that his government had declared war
against China. and that, therefore,
there was no reason to prevent him
carrying hostilities into the sacred
precincts.
Delayed advices to Reuter-. dated Pc
king, August 14th. reiterate the state
ments regarding the treachery of the
/ Chinese on the night before the relief
| They had informed the members of the
| legations that orders had been issued
to cease firing. This was followed by
a desperate attack, and it was only the
welcome sound of the cannon of the re-
| lleving force in the morning that re-
newed the courage of the foreigners
/ The correspondent adds: 1.-THE Chinese
admit having lost 5000 In the various
attacks upon the legations. Our rations
| dwindled to one pound q day. consist
ing of horsefesh and rice. When the
American detachment attacked, the
whole Chinese force concentrated
against them, leaving the Sha-Ho gate
unmatched. whereupon the British en-
/ tered there without the loss of a man."
| W.