The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-27
THE BOXER CRISIS
TOLD IN ITEMS

Newchwang is said TO have been looted !
The Powers may lay new cables In
China.
w. w. Rockhin may be Conger's sue
cessor
Italy's expeditionary force will number |
Corea does not look for trouble with |
the Boxers
Negro cavalry may be sent from Ari-
zOna to China.
The Pope has ordered prayers for all
who are In peril.
The guns of the foreign warships are
trained on Chefoo.
/ Thousands Of foreigners are located In
the Yang-tse valley.
Prince Tuan is said to have slain 5000
foreign sympathizers.
There are grave fears for foreigners at
Shanghai and Chefoo.
| Los Angeles am San Francisco Chi
nese denounce the Boxers.
1 The War Department receives many
applications for enlistment.
San Francisco's Preside is making
ready to receive 10000 men.
There are 10000 American troops in
China or on their way there.
Grave dissensions may interrupt the
present concert of the Powers
Germany's threat to patrol the Yang
tse Is causing alarm in England.
Berlin journals say the Powers must
stand together to get vengeance.
Consul Gen. Goodnow at Shanghai has
cabled Washington for warship.
Minister WI admitted on July 18th that
there was no hope for the ENJOYS.
Owing to the war news a riot Is pos
sible in San Franciscos Chinatown.
There Is London report that Euro
! peans served the Chinese guns at Tien-
! Tsin.
I Russia refuses to turn over the Taku-
/ Tien-Tsin railroad to the Brits.i direct
crate.
Gen. shafter has been ordered to send
four batteries to sail on the Hancock for
China.
The Pope expresses great alarm over
the situation of the Apostolic Wears in
China.
: Military men believe an extra session
? Of Congress will be necessary to provide
: troops.
China Is saia to have made proposals
D to Japan last autumn for a massacre OF
! foreigners.
5 on receiving news of the massacre.
4 President Mckinley hurried back TO
Washington.
p The companies of the engineer corps
D now at West Point, N. Y, are under or
$ ders for China.
Z The orders to Ii Hung Chang to pro-
4 coed to Chill are said TO have come
from Prince Tuan.
4 Batteries a, ID. and o of the Third
n Artillery have been ordered to prepare
q for duty In China
From Shanghai comes the report that
= 5000 Russian troops are marching on Pc
e king from the north.
n Sir Robert Hart. who was probably
q killed at Picking, refused n chance given
Is him to escape in disguise.
= Gen. Chaffee, who will command in Chi.
10 ma II Gen. Miles is not sent has beer
10 CO mmissioned Major General.
The scenes in Berlin and st. Petersburg
u when the news of the massacre wa:
le received. were of popular frenzy.
n Gen. Macarthur protests against thu
reduction of his force for Chinese ser
ir vice and asks for reinforcements.
lf No Canadian troops will be needed II
China according to advices received b!
Wlfrid Laurier. the Canadian Premier
The Governor OF Honan Shansi. a prov
ince lying between Picking and Shanghai
has issued edict favorable to the Box
n ers.
Russia has shipped more than 1000
troops overland by the trans-S beriai
; railway. probably TO go eventually 4
China.
The American hospital ship Maine
which was at Southampton after return
e Ing from South Africa, has sailed 70
- China.
=. OF his missionaries have been killed. TIL
n Catholic mission at Ningpo has bee
:, burned.
~ At Verden. ILL.,. a mob attacked a Oh
N nese laundry and demolished the plac.
n Feeling against the Chinese is high
the town.
nj The transport Sumner with the FIJI
m tenth Infantry on board, sailed fror
=, San Francisco for Nagasah and Chin
- on July 18th.
n on July II the United States Cover
ny ment demanded of Minister WI that wa
be be cleared for communication with Mil
lister Conger.
m IL Japan sends an army corps to CHR
=. IL will probably be commanded by Ma
shall Nodzu. who will be the ranking o
ne ficer In the field.
n One of the highest officers of the Uni
- ed states Army says that We are face
he face with the greatest general war sin
on the days OF Napoleon.
.r a weekly line o. transports In to be 9
a. tablished by the War Department b
y tween Manila and Taku, the latter DO
ISL being made the base in China.
ite Missionaries have been fiocking fro
es- China to japan by scores and many a
ed I'm NaRasaki destitute, having been col
at PEELED 10 leave all their effects behind.
N. The United States has notified the OF
er Powers that this country must hei
Ter after be reckoned VITA in all steps tax
Jas ltOr the pacincauOn or partition OF Cnlr
VIII No civilians will In the future be p'
II mitted TO travel on the trans-Pacific
m my transports on account OF the troub
,ho in China and the exigencies attends
-. thereon.
'ne Major Gen. Won Lessel. commander
10 the Twenty-eighth Army Division OF G.
OF many. has been appointed to comma
'er- the German forces in China, with ia
be- of Lieutenant General
I'm The Times says Il Is taken for gran
In diplomatic circles that when the c
nese crisis II settled Great Britain '
retain the right to nominate the Inspe
g. or OF Chinese Customs.
Tho United States Marine Corps
aek Tien-Tsin lost FIVE killed, seven serIou
wounded, fifteen wounded, includ
Capt. c. @. Long. Capt. VIM. p. LEM
NJ Lieut.. Smedley II. Butler.
,en- The Japanese officers are still confid
a.. OF their ability TO reach Picking Def
'"' the roads become impossible, but
ney' European commanders believe an
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