The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-30

himself extremely impatient of that ar:
rangement. and was seen comforting with
his superior. As soon as the foreign con-
tingent had been deployed as already re-
ported. the lieutenant. who had been
watching for this opportunity, cried for his
men, Now boys. follow and the next in
slant he entered through the breach made
by the bombardment. Meanwhile the for
eign contingents came up and the Japan
csc bluejackets. climbing over the backs
and shoulders of their stalwart foreign
comrades, succeeded in occupying the fort
first"
Unrest IL IEorcn.
The disquiet in Korea is mentioned in
several dispatches from Seoul Thirty nine
steamships have been recently impressed
as transports by the Japanese Government
Viscount Hayashi is reported as the first
to offer contribution to the army ana
navy fund to be applied TO the warlike
operations against China. The fact is pub
lished that the guns used in the lombard
ment of Tientsln were borrowed by the
Boxers from the Viceroy's yamen in
Tisntsin. At a consular conference a.
Annoy. on June "a, the foreign Consuls
asked that the Japanese war vessels in that
port be allowed to remain there for the
safety of the foreigners.
In the Chinese Notes of the Japan
Weekly Mail" the information is given
that the children OF Sir Claude Macdonald
were sent to Chefoo at the first sign OF
trouble but that Lady Macdonald remained
with her husband in Pekin. The Mails"
news advices on .i1ne 2 state that the first
legation guards % enter Pekin were the
Americans from the cruiser Newark.
A despetch to the Mall from Tientsin
Tt,nn -rstr1l tn ind
seine of the Paoting FIJI missionaries es-
capped death. The despatch says:
The Paoting Flu refugees are coming to
the river, having fought their way through.
with less of four killed and four wound
ed. The party is composed Of British and
American missionaries and Belgian en-
giueers.'
In a despatch from Tientsin. dated June
IA, 1t is stated that the Boxers burned the
villa of the British Minister on the hills,
short distance from Pekin- In describ-
ing the entry of the Boxers on June 13 the
same despatch says:
They passed near the Taotais yamen
and then moved of in the direction Of the
country. They were appareled like those
seen elsewhere-red cap. white belt, scanty
vest. and foTeiEn-cut trousers. All car
ried naked swords, which they swung as
they walked. They moved about in par
ties CT twenty or thirty, and as they passed
through the streets not a single Chinese
official did anything to dispense. much less
arrest them"
The Chinese students Of military science
in Japan returned home when the trouble
broke out in China. IN noting their. de-
parture the MALI says:
The individual Chinese deserves at the
hands of fate treatment very different
from that received by his race collect
lively"
Concerning the Chinese residents in Ja-
pan, numbering about COCO. the Mail"
quotes the "Jiji." another Japanese paper,
with which il agrees, as follows:
THE Jill assures them that. though
this country is necessarily hostile to the
insurgents whose arms are directed against
the lives OF foreigners in China, there is
no quarrel with the Chinese nation. On the
contrary there is feeling Of pity. There
fore, every Chinese subject residing in JG-
pan may count on the full protection of the
japanese authorities and any Chinese that
take refuge here from the disturbance IN
their OWE country will meet with a hearty
welcome. Our contemporary goes even so
far as to advise that ships be sent TO
China to take off refugees. but it is not
easy to see how such a proposal could be
carried into practice"