The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-18


Washington, is shut up in Picking.
Consul General He Vow, at San Fran
cisco, fears the Ministers are dead.
The Japanese forces n China will be
increased by $4,000 men and 5000 horses.
Lii Hung Chang wants the United
States to help save the Chinese EN-
pire.
Official news of Won Kettelers death
comes from the German consul at Tien-
tsin.
Russia is said to be waiting chance
to step in and take the lions share of
China.
The British cruiser Arethusa will go
from Esquimalt to China. Marines will
follow.
General Otis has been summoned to
Washington TO confer on the Chinese
situation
Emperor William favors war of
vengeance. but his advisers are re-
straining him.
Paroled Filipino officers want to form
native regiments to serve with Ameri-
cans in China.
France will guard her own sphere 1
and take but a nominal part in ale 1
movement on Picking.
On July Sth 10000 allies were in Tien- !
tsin, fighting the Chinese and prepar-
ing for an advance on Picking.
The Governor of Shantung reports !
that he cannot ala the legations as all |
L Il
The Russian, French and German
Admirals are averse to seeing large
bodies of Japanese troops landed in
China.
| English military opinion concurs in
/ the view that if the legations did not
need relief it would be foolish to adj
vance on Picking before September
The British War office is preparing
to send 10000 troops to China. They
will be drawn from India, South At
RIGA and England, particularly the lat
ter
Friends of Americans at Picking and
Tien-tsin are making pitiful appeals
to the State Department for help. A
number of American visitors are with
Minister Conger.
On July 9Th Prince Tuan ordered
General Yuan Shi Kai to advance on
Marking with $4,000 German-drilled
troops. 1t is doubtful if he will obey.
The Viceroy of Marking believes he
can defend the place, as fifteen foreign
, war vessels are on hand in the river to
help him.
The German engineers on the Shan
tung river have been forced to abandon
their work owing to disturbances be-
, tween Kia Ho and Wei He Hsin. The
engineers, who were plundered by
regular soldiers, managed to reach a
place of safety after a running fight in
) which many Chinese were killed.
The consular boUy at Tien-tsln has
unanimously proposed to its govern
ments, as the sole means of saving the
foreigners at Picking, that the united
powers should inform the Chinese au-
thorities that the graves of the ances-
tors of the imperial family at Picking
will be destroyed if the foreigners at
PelOng, especially the Ministers, are
= harmed.
D Emperor William has telegraphed to
, the commander of the German squad
. ron in Chinese waters, to the Governor
General of Shantung, to the Viceroys
: and to others, Offering a thousand taels
4 to anyone accomplishing the deliver
- ance of any foreigner Of any nation
ality whatever now shut up in Picking,
who is handed over to any German
magistrate, and Offering to pay the ex-
= penses of the publication of this offer in
p Picking.
A messenger with official advices who
left Picking on June 25th, says over
1O0,0 900 Chinese soldiers and rioters sur
E round the legations. but in spite OF
= fierce attacks they mad not then sue
I ceeded in breaking through the wall
: The messenger also said that all per-
? sons connected with the palace were
I pro-Boxer, princes and dukes and every
one worshiping the god of the Boxers
The gates of the inner city, it was ad-
o ded, were open for half a day.
The entire French colony has fled
u from Tung Chow. The mission station
{ there has been converted into a little
fort. The Bogue forts on Canton river
. have been reinforced by 5000 vicerega
soldiers. Viceroy Ii Hung Chang issu
. ed proclamation which reads: by
T imperial orders people and property are
= to be protected. Troubles between ma
r tives and native converts are to bt
prevented. Starters of any uprising:
are to be at once beheaded. Those
n fl1 rim will h.. act
J. ed and severely punished. Severely
l. punished means slow strangulation b.
s the cangue. Wholesale execution o
. Boxers, pirates and other criminals will
surely follow that proclamation.
q Upon the arrival of the japanese di
W vision at Taku the question of the of
.e ficer who will be placed in command
- will naturally arise. The Japanes
y corps will be commanded by lieuten
l. ant general, and so far as known her
he will be the ranking officer. 1t ma,
be that Russia may not desire to permi
a Japan to have preponderating fore
and a Japanese officer in the directio
" of affairs, and may send an officer wit
II the rank of general to command he
To forces He would, of course, rank tn
IN Japanese officer. So far as this gov
:. eminent is concerned, it is willing t
~ have any efficient officer in command
N he he Russian or Japanese, provide
"a haste is observed in starting the ex
ia petition to the relief of Peking
Details of further horrors in Pekins
gathered by correspondents at Shane
hal from Chinese sources, especially
IN the slaughter in the Chinese and Tarta
ct city of thousands of native Christian
Ia say that the capital reeks with carnag
The ruthless thirst for blood is spread
w ing in all OF the northern province
o. and wherever there are native Chri!
lie tians the scenes enacted in the capiti
&c are reproduced in miniature. Fro
70 these provinces nothing further com,
- regarding the legation forces, excel
y. a repetition that they are all dead. Tt
at correspondents aver that IL the Chine.
at officials in Shanghai wished to thro
be light on the real state of affairs in IL
o. capital they could do so, and, Their
fore. the worst reports are accepted
true.