Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-26
CHINA WAR ~ JEWS.

| however, 20, 600 Russians are located In
Lao Tung peninsula and Kwang Tung
province and 1000 Germans with IS
field guns, IL heavy guns and 6 ma
chine guns, at Kiao Chou. Now on the
way from Germany, France and Eng
land there are about $4,000 men. Ar
rangements have been made for the
departure of 81, 900 with la guns, and
altogether there will be, from present
arrangements, in China by September
600 Germans, 12,0 900 English, 65, 900
French, so, 600 Russians, 2l,00O Japan
csc, 1000 Americans, 1000 Italians and
10 Austrians, together with 81 guns
and SO machine guns. Gen. Won Bog
uslawsl1y, high military authority,
said it was quite possible that this
force of l15, 900 men would prove insult
ficient to bring China down
Chinese merchant who has Just ar
rived from Pellin, gives horrible details
of the massacre. He says he saw
European women hauled into the
streets by shrielzing Boxers, who strip
ped them and hacked them to pieces
Their discovered limbs were tossed to
the crowd and carried off with bowls
of triumph. Some were already dead,
having been shot by foreign civilians
| He says he saw Chinese soldiers carry
ing the bodies OF white children aloft
on their spears, while their companions
shot at the bodies. He gives other de-
1 tails too horrible to be particularized.
! 1t seems that the Boxers leaders had
/ organized a plan including the offering
| of rewards and rich loot for the ami
! hilation of Europeans throughout
| China and that Prince Tuan's generals
| have been emphasizing the opportunity
the soldiers have of selling the bodies
! of white women.
President Mckinley has received
what purports to be direct appeal
from the Chinese imperial government
/ to use his good offices to eXtricate that
| government from the difficult and
dangerous position in which it has
! been placed as result of the Boxer
uprising and the ensuing hostile atti-
tude of the great powers. Although
the exact text Of the appeal made by
the emperor of China TO France, as out
lined in the cable dispatches Of the
2lst, has not been made known at
Washington, it is believed that the
address TO the President is similar in
terms to that communication In
our case the communication was made
through Minister Wa to the state de-
partment Thus far final answer
has not been returned
If the news of Chinese invasion of
Vx.i11 ,.f
immensely complicate the situation
from the international point Of view
As stated in the Associated Press ST.
I Petersburg dispatch of July 10, the
Chinese had already peremptorily or
dered all Russians to quit Manchuria,
but no one imagined they would be
audacious enough to break out of their
own country and attack Russian terri
tory. Such an attack if it has been
made, of course, constitutes in itself a
declaration of war. rendering formal
notification needless.
To add to the gloom occasioned by
the extremely serious import of news
showing the daily developing strength
of the anti-foreign movement in the
south of China comes report from
Shanghai on the Goth that 60 mission
aries and 100 native converts have been
massacred by Boxers at Tai Yuan.
Tai Yuan is a fortified and populous
city in the province of Shan See on the
Fuen Ho, an affiuent of the Hoang Ho.
$50 miles southwest of Pelzin.
Capt. Zalinski, in charge of the quar-
termasters stores at Chickamauga park,
Tenn, has received urgent orders from
the war department to prepare for |
shipment, presumably to China, large |
quantity of quartermasters stores and |
ambulances, which have been stored at
Chickamauga since the war with Spain. |
Two train loads will leave under rush |
orders for the Pacific coast.
1t is semi-officially announced that |
Baron Won Buelow, the imperial min |
lister of foreign affairs has notified the |
Chinese legation at Berlin that until |
further notice it cannot be allowed to |
send kilograms in cipher or secret Ian |
guage, and that kilograms in plain Ian |
guage must be submitted for the APP |
proval of the secretary of state before |
they can be dispatched.
An official telegram from Shanghai, |
dated July Is, states that. according to
the governor of Shan-Tung, the foreign |
ministers and their families at Pelxin |
are safe and sound, but that the dan |
ger is still very great The viceroy, |
according to this dispatch, informed |
the consular corps that he had tele- |
graphed to Pekin urging the protection
of the foreign legations
The quartermaster's department at |
Washington has made a requisition for
something over $4,000 for apparatus |
TO supply the troops of the Chinese ex-
petition pure drinking water The de-
partment already has placed orders for
sterilizers and distilling plants which
will furnish an aggregate of 80, 500 gal
Ions of pure water day.
Ii Hung Chang and his suite arrived |
at Hong Kong on the 18th and landed /
the following morning. Ii Hung
Chang stated that he had received def
mite news that the ministers and for