The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-08-28
CHINESE CRISIS
IN BRIEF ITEMS

The Pci-ho river is blocked with
junks and stones.
The German foreign Office expects the
relief forces to fail.
\ Danish company has laid cable
from Chefoo to Taku.
A German squadron has been ordered
to sail at once to China.
The Russians have occupied the pass
gs in the Chiugan mountains.
France will contest Great Britain's
claim to the Yangtse valley.
Three more Baptist chapels near
SwatUw have been demolished.
Field Marshal Won Waldersee viii
visit Rome before going to China.
NO quarter" is the rule with the
Russians. They take no prisoners
Heavy artillery viii be required If
Picking refuses to admit the allies.
Women and children have been OIL
cially notified TO leave Port Arthur.
The First and Second United States
Infantry have been ordered to China.
Reports from the Siberian frontier
tell of Russian victories over Chinese,
The United States steamship Nash
vile has gone to Newchang from Talku.
The Fourteenth Infantry played a
prominent part in the taking of Yang
Tsun.
All the powers have agreed upon Won
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China.
German army officers are buying
horses in san Francisco for use in
China.
The transport Sumner with the Fiji
teenth Infantry on board, has reached
NaEasah
The Oregon viii be temporarily re-
paired In Japan, and will resume active
service soon.
ON August 9th the allied forces We're
reported at Ho-S-Wu, thirty miles
from Picking.
An attempt was made to murder the
Chinese Minister in Paris by sending
him poisoned flowers.
The French government hears that
1000 Christians have been slain at Pao
Ting, east of Picking.
The French admiral reports that ma
tive Christians between Hankow and
Peking are in great danger.
The hospital ship Solace sailed on
August 18th from Yokohama for Guam
and san Francisco. via Honolulu.
The French are dissatisfied with the
appointment of Count Won Waldersce
as head of the German forces in China.
DE Ciicrs, Russian ambassador at Pc
king, may leave there for Tien-tsin
soon, accompanied by a Chinese escort.
France declines TO order her envoy
to leave Picking, and holds the Chinese
government responsible for his safety
Berlin advices are to the effect that
the belief is universal that there will
he quurrcls between the powers before
long.
II is reported that the Empress Dow
ugar win remove her court from Pc
king before the allied forces enter
there.
General Chaffee's telegram from Ho-
Si-Nu was the only official news re-
Fa.Nfl tf thA Npht ltng.ieh
score their generals.
China officially asks for peace nego-
tiatiuus, but the United States declines
to begin conferences until the safety Of
the Ministers is assured.
Colonel Wogack, Russian military
agent for China and Japan, now at
Tlen-tsin, received adVlCeS that the le-
cations We're again attacked and the
European graveyard desecrated, on
July 3lst.
Sheng, director general of railroads
and telcgraphs, according to n Shang-
hal despatch to the Standard, expresses
grave fears for the members of the
legations when the defeated Chinese
troops return to the capital.
The casualties in the American troops
at Yang-tsin included enlisted men
Of the Fourteenth Infantry killed, 2
Frustrated; wounded, Ninth Infantry,
Lieutenant Il. r. Long slight, and .
enlisted men; Fourteenth Infantry, 40
enlisted men: Firth Artillery, Private
Andrew Brown; First Marines, NJ \.
Pruitt.
The English and Russians made
bad mistake, confpunding the Four
teerth United States Infantry in the
night with the Chinese and Smelling
them, with the result that ten of the
Americans were wounded before the
mistake was discovered The Ameri-
4slr l,pl f,r.,
wounded in the lighting. The British
had fifty wounded and the Russians
ten, including a colonel The Chinese
losses are unknown.
Cheng Yen Huan, the Cantonese who
was the special ambassador of China
at Queen Nictoria's jubilee, and who Is
now In Punishment at Iii, has been or
dered, according TO n Shanghai dis
patch. 10 commit suicide, an imperial
edict having been issued to that effect.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times, referring To the fate OF Cheng
Yen Huan, says he was executed and
tllut NO reason is given FOR this barbar-
Gus act. The same correspondent un-
deretunas that III shan, vice president
of the board of revenue, has been inn
prlsonod on charge of rendering as
ISSUANCE To the members of the foreign
.sations
President Mckinley has received the
following cable dispatch from Emperor
william: Il received with pleasure the
decision of the United States that
American and German soldiers shall
night together for the common cause Of
civilization under one commander In
chief. The brave army OF your coun-
try which has shown Of late so many
Warlike qualities, united win Europe,
VIII hr Irresistible. Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee, who viii have
Tho honor OF leading your forces, Is not
a stranger 10 America, His wife Is an
American by birth, | beg your excel
leucy 10 accept my heartfelt thanks for
The confidence OF the United States
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