The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-16
THE CHINESE CRISIS
IN BRIEF ITEMS

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Ar extra session of Congress is improb-
liable.
-Four more missionaries have been mur-
dered at Hankow.
Four armed Russian steamers are pa
trolling the Amur.
Gen. Chaffee calls for more men. He
now has about $500.
More artillery is being sent from Ma
Mia to Gen. Chaffee.
! Capt. McCalla, L. S. N, is nursing his
wounds at Nagasaki.
England expects a long war in China.
anG is preparing for it.
! A hospital corps is being organized to
go with Chaffee's army.
/ The steamer Thyra will take 800 horses
4 from Portland to China.
! Heavy siege guns have been ordered
fro m Fort Riley to China.
The fourth brigade of Indian troops
has been ordered to China.
The export of war material from Eng
LAND to China is prohibited.
| The Russian attack on Newchwang is
said to have been unprovoked.
! Andrew ID. White denies that the Kaiser
told his men to give no quarter.
After Lii Hung Chang left Canton the
IEire rial troops joined the Boxers.
al: Baptist missionaries in Eastern
Central China are safe at Shanghai.
i. is estimated that Boxers have killed
between 10000 and $1,000 native converts.
The Chinese. at last accounts, We're for
tifying their lines outside the British LIE.
cation.
The shipment of troops to the Amul
shows much fraud in the Russian railway
system.
Germany wants the Yang-tse valley
kept open and is opposed to the division
of China.
Hsu Ching Chen, formerly Minister t.
,ccio hoe 3a1 fnr for
tendencies.
Boxers are numbering missionaries ir
Southern China but are not disturbing
treaty ports.
Ii Hung Chang is in a Respondent stat,
and a rumor of his suicide prevailed FOL
a day or two.
The u. s. navy has been ordered tc
cooperate with the army in landing
troops in China.
The Washington Government is entire
ly satisfied that the dispatches from Con
gel are genuine.
Chinese batteries on the Yang-tse ar,
beng repaired and new ones are build
ing at WI Sung.
The Imperial troops are intrenched a
Peitsang, on the line of the flemish
and Picking railway.
1t is expected that several more regi
ments will be taken from the Philippine
for Chinese service.
Food is scarce at Tien-Tsin and tn
river is filled with the headless bodies o
hundreds of Chinese.
/ Senator Teller declares the Presiden
; has no power to enter the Chinese wal
: He wants an extra session.
Rev. Father Marquette writes tina
/ dc zens of Christian communities hav
been devastated by the Boxers.
1t is reported that the Chinese hav
: broken the canal bank flooding the coun
try between Tien-Tsin and Picking.
Y Germany regrets that she cannot joi
i in the attack on Picking with a force o
/ proper size, but applauds the other Pow
a ers.
e Ii Hung Chang will issue a proclama
4 ton granting amnesty to the Boxers o
condition that they cease making dis
r iturbances.
g The transport PAX Ling, which starte
fl om Seattle for China with cargo an
: animals returned, as her captain regard
v ed her as top-heavy.
e Liu Kun vi, Viceroy of Marking an
: Sheng, Director of Telegraphs and Raj
: ways, say the ENJOYS will be killed if tt
y allies march to Picking.
: The Governor of Moukden, in a pro-
n lamation, urges the people of Manchur
o to massacre Christians. Nearly all II
: missions have been destroyed
On July 80 part of Gen. Orlof's force
f attacked the Chinese regulars, capturir
Y one gun and a number of flags and Kill
ing the Chinese commander and 200 me
Russian railway parties in retreat wei
rbombarded by Chinese in the Chinga
passes. Three guards and one worlma
were killed and twenty workmen fed
I the mountains, none of whom have II
turned.
l., Ping Hang. the new master of p
kiEg, has beheaded two members of II
!, r. ung Ii Yamen and denounced Ii Hur
Chang and the Ticeroy/ of Marking on
= charge of maintaining relations with 70
re eIgners.
d Russian War Office kilograms receive
u. in Washington from Eastern Siber
show the Chinese have destroyed the raj
u al in several places. interrupting Il
pass age of through trains. The Cossacl
d row guard 1000 versts of the frontier RAJ
, road
- The Russians have taken the town
Ii Sskhalin in Manchuria, taking one 81
IS anc quantity of Mauser cartridges. II
E steamer Silenga suffered severely fro
L. Chinese rifle fire. The Russians bombar
y ed Aigun with twelve mortars and t
&c Chinese replied. One Russian officer al
= five men We're killed and fifteen wounde