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fion have started from Kio-Chou for Ta-
ku with marines intended for the same des-


fion have started from Kio-chou for Ia
ku with marines intended for the same des-
tination.
HACKED TO PIECES.
The Peking correspondent of the Times.
in dispatch dated June Z. says: par
ticulars received here show that Messrs.
Norman and Robinson. the missionaries.
were hacked to pieces in circumstance of
revolving barbarity The Chinese govern
ment cannot be exonerated from the charge
of completely in these murders. From the
beginning its action will bear only one in
depreciation. namely that OF approval of
the anti-foreign movement which has had
these results. The government has dele
gated as commissioner to Cho-khau and
Pao-Ting-Fu, the chief centers OF the
Boxers to investigate and report. a motor
ious anti-foreign official who is known TO
be in sympathy with the Boxers and who
was the director of a mining and railway
bureau that was founded 10 thwart all
railway and mining Developments
The Peking correspondent of the Times
telegrapbing June s. says: THE news that
General Neih's foreign drilled soldiers had
fired upon the Boxers who were destroying
the railway near Tien-Tsin, was favorably
received, as giving some ground for hope
that the government would change its
policy. Now arrives the intelligence that
Neihs troops have been ordered 10 return
to camp at Lu-rai and that their action
has been condemned. The TsungLi- Yamen,
however. denies the truth OF the latter
statement But the denials of the Tsung
L-Yamen are never convincing. If it be
true. the news must be regarded as serious.
''The American Missionary Conference
to-day sent a dispatch TO President Nc
Kinley appealing for protection and assert
ing that the missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fr
and other places are In extreme danger.
that the Tung-Chi mission station has been
abandoned. that chapels have everywhere
been burned and that hundreds of native
Christians have been massacred.
'"rhe serious condition of affairs in
Peking is reacting upon the provinces. The
French minister here has received a tele-
gram saying that the French consul at
Mong-Taso and the French agent at Yum
Han-Fu have both been compelled to retire
from their posts. as the viceroy announced
| that he was unable TO guarantee their
| safety
RUSSIAN CHAPEL BURNED.
"Later-The Boxers yesterday burned a
Russian chapel at Tung- -Tingan, thirty-one
miles north of Peking. Haut Ching Chang
director of railways. admits that the de-
struction of the Peking- -Tien-Tsin Railway
| is continuing, the Tsung-Li-Yamen being
| powerless to prevent it. and that it is use
| less to expect the early restoration OF COM
| munication."
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Yoko-
hama, dated Friday. describing the effect
| upon Japan of the refusal of the Korean
| Emperor to give an audience to the Jap
snese minister regarding the torture and
execution of political suspects. says: 1.-The
| feeling here is exceedingly excited 1t may
not be POSSIBLE for the government to keep
| 1t in check. as the officials were able to do
at the end of March, when Russia made her
| demands, particularly On the question of
Masampo. 1t is thought here that Russian
| influence is behind the affront given by
Korea to Japan. The tone of the Japanese
press is very bitter and grave develop
| ments are possible
| Another dispatch from Yokohoma says:
| More serious from a Japanese point of
| view than the rising of the Boxers in China
/ is the sudden tension between Japan and
| Korea as the result Of the protests of
japan against the torture and execution of
| rnent. The Korean Emperor absolutely re-
| fuses to grant an audience to the Japanese
| Minister, Hayashi Consouke"