The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-27
IN SOUTHERN CHINA.
Tho Situation There Is Daily Growing
Worse.
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, July 27.-It is beginning to be
believed at Shanghai. Canton and other
points that the Viceroys are completely
in the dark as to affairs in Pekih the
Europeans themselves.
Meanwhile the doings of Ii Hung Chang
are regarded with ever increasing suspic-
ion, while the situation in the southern
provinces daily grows worse With the
report that the allies will begin to advance
upon Pekin in fortnight and in view OF
Admiral SeymoUr's visit of inspection TO
the Yang Use kiang the feeling is that no
great time will elapse before matters as
sumo a more definite shape.
The Viceroy of Nankin still processes
10 be able, with the aid of other Yang
Use viceroys, to keep order. but he de-
cIared that if Europe sends warships this
will assuredly lead to an anti-fore gn out
break If it be true that the Jarnnese
have started a campaign from Shan Hal
Kwang that also Will precip,tate matters.
but the report 10 this effect lacks con-
tirmation.
It is reported from flemish that the
Chinese forces nre concentrating at the
village of Getsang, ten miles north of
I:en-Tsin. where it is said large quaint
ties Of rice are stored.
The Russian and japanese cavalry are
keeping in close touch with the enemy.
The river is still low, and water transport
would be difficult.
There is an uncontfrmed Chinese report
that sixty Protestant and Catholic mis-
sionaries have been massacred N ki
Yuan Flu and the vicinity.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Mail. describing the massacre at Mukden,
says:
.'The Bishop had armed 200 converts 20
defend The Cathedral, and body of Chinese
troops had been sent to defend the
converts, but the soldiers were
leagued with the Boxers. While the Chris
tians We're holding a service, believing
themselves safe under the protection OF
the troops, the signal was given. and SOL
diers and Boxers surrounded and set fire
to the church, putting the escaping wor
shippers to the sword. The bishop was
captured and taken 70 Niceroy Yamen.
where he was diabolcally tortured and
mutilated. His head now hangs III front OF
the Yamen.
The Daily Mail explains that the Chinese
employee OF the British Legation who, ac-
cordng to its dispatches yesterday, escaped
10 iNiu Chwang from Pekin, and reported
that when he left Pekin most Of the mem
bers of the legation were dead, and the
condition of the others hopeless. d1d not
actually leave Pekin until July Sth, and
this goes to show, If his statement is 10
be relied on. that a general massacre had
not UCCul Itu Oil o'Ai, sAS iitAN OCS4t = =
ported.
There is little fresh news regarding the
situat ton in Manchuria. The Russians in
h:cted another serious defeat upon the
Chinese at Fort Echo on July sd From
Kobe comes a report that eight battalions
OF Russians have been compelled to leave
Vlad;vostock and Tien-Tsin on account of
the Manchuria trouble.
kilograms have arrived at ST. Peters
burg by "a cirCuitOus route, dated Pek!n.
June 18th and June 18th, describing the
origin of the trouble. They come from
the director of the Russo-Chinese Bank
in Pekin. He says. in part:
THE German Legation on June 18th ar
rested an anti-Christian brgand. This was
the signal for an anti-Christian uprising
and ct SIX in the evening the anti-Chrls-
tians set fire to the American Church and
burned it TO the ground. The Europeans
then barricadcd the legations, and the
rioters sacked and burned the houses in
the European quarter
1t further appears from these advices
that by June 18th the legations were be
sieged and the Chinese Government had
attempted to invoke the aid of NJ. De Giers
0he Russian N1insteD and Mr.. Cons=r to
prevent the advance of Russian troops 10
Pekin.