The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-24
IN
THE RIVER
Dreadful Evidences of
China's War.
SUN YET SENS REVOLT
Won Waidersee Thinks the New Rev.
oIutioHary Movement is
Serious.

TUNGCHOW, August 30.-It is eighty
miles by river from Tien-Tsin to this
place, and now, two weeks after the al
lied forces marched through the signs of
war and devastation are more apparent
than they We're at first, for posts have
been stationed at intervals of a few miles
and the troops have completed the work
OF desolation and ruin. The villages that
were only partially burned are now utter
ly destroyed, as they We're found to be
hiding places for snipers, who attacked
sirgle travellers and occasional small par
/ ties.
| The American and English troops are
| daily supplied with chickens and eggs by
/ the Chinese, who sell the chickens at 81
a dozen and eggs for 81 a hundred The
Chinese avoid Russian camps, as the Rus
slams are even now killing them In the
me st brutal and cold-blooded manner. ir-
respective of age or sex.
| 1t is impossible to go far on the river
without floating bodies passing your
boat, not the bodies of Boxers killed in
action, but those of coolies killed for no
| other purpose than 10 satiate the blood
Till stiness and cruelty of some soldier. At
]
king, two coolies who had been towing
a Russian boat. lay down to rest at the
completion of their work, were seized by
I four Russian soldiers, thrown into the wa
te- and while swimming were used as
targets and were shot to death.
! The dogs and hogs along the river bank
are living off human flesh and along the
rt ads and rivers horrible sights are wit
/ messed and the stencil of putrid flesh Is
fearful. None are buried and there are
no vultures such as are found in most
Oriental countries, consequently the dogs
and hogs are the only scavengers. Amer
lean soldiers are not eating Chinese pork
at present, but Germans seem TO be fond
OF it, many hogs being shot by a regi-
mont that recently marched from Tien-
Tsin to Picking.
SUN YET SENS REVOLT.
/ HONGKONG, Oct. 12.-The reformer
Sun Vat Sen. according to dispatches from
Canton. has unfurled the reform flag in
the most important town of Wei Chou, or
l East river. This act has given rise tc
considerable excitement in military cir
cles in Canton, as it is believed the object
of the reformers in raising their flag al
Wei Chou is to denude Canton of troops
SO that they can seize the city.
Won WALDERSEE'S IDEAS.
/ BERLIN. oct IA dispatch received
here today from Shanghai says a very Sc
Count Won Waldersee's headquarters fl
Tien-Tsn of the revolutionary move
ment. At Canton a false alarm on Octo.
Lei 9TH caused the Chinese officials tC
protest against any occupation of Chinese
territory.
The Yang-tse Viceroys. the dispatch
ADDS. openly affirm that they will oppose
any advance of the Germans into Shan
tuEg province.
SQUALLY AT WEI-HAI-WEI
/ LONDON. Oct 13.-The Times has tht
following from Hongkong, dated vester-
day: The situation in the Wei-hai pre-
lecture is serious. In six districts the
cities are I'm the hands Of the rebels. II
an outbreak should occur in Canton it
suppression would be difficult.
MUTSOHITO TO KWANG-HSU
: LONDON. oct. BIT is reported here
or good authority" says the Shanghai
correspondent of the Times. wiring yes.
terday that the Emperor Mutsuhto. in
his reply to Emperor Kwang Hsus ap-
peal, counsels an immediate return tC
Pekinc. the expulsion of the reactionaries
and the appointment of able and progress
Ave statesmen"
THE SPOILS OF WAR.
TEN -TSIN, Sept. 7.-Lured by the
PFC spect of rich bargains and loot larg
NUMBERS of buyers are reaching Picking