The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-22

lrsttlvfd ne tsilovlnr Dispatch fiom
den eon waidrfsee
rEkiNu. lRn The fortress N
N0.u. whiph Wns stHfmrd an lanunff a.
was the Headquarters ~ She newly of.
lraninad hands ~ noters over one
Thousand had mohlliseu M the district
and they wrr, planning ~ march on
Yen KING and Chau rlng
Wiring from pok'nr ufs
January 9. Count Won waidersce says.
col parers column w marching tu
Tai Ngnan Fu. on the rci.ho 10 cu.op-
crate with Cal. Madlas column from
Yon King. sevcnty-two hlpmctcts
northwest Of roking.
"Col, Panel, after extremely severe
marches over bypaths and through
high mountains. stormed the fortinca-
lions on January 3. These were defend
ed by ten guns and from eco 20 : 900
men. Having protected the mines. the
column II returning In extended order
through Yen King"
| CHINESE ENVOY.
| LONDON Jan. 9.-"Dr. Mumm Won
Schwartgcnstein. German minister TO
China, today communicated his wish"
says the Picking correspondent OF the
Times wiring yesterday. that Prince
Chun Yu, younger brother of the EN-
peror Kwang Hsu, should be sent as
the imperial envoy to Berlin. The
Prince himself is leaving Picking AMI
desires to undertake the mission. He
is IL years old. Prince Su has already
assented to proceed to Berlin"
FRENCH ARCHBISHOP TALKS.
To
the head of the French mission in North
China, has arrived in Paris. In an in
terview, ne says he believed the Dowa-
ger Empress would return to Picking in
the spring, when order will be COM
pletely restored The Europeans, he
said, will find that they have not lost
greatly by recent events. The govern
ment, however. must be given time to
resume the direction of affairs. In the
meanwhile the police work now pro-
ceeding should be completed, and the
last bands of Boxers and looters dis
persed. Europe must not try to rush
the negotiations, for Chinese diplomacy
always says mo" but afterwards al
ways says yes"
The archbishop justifes the ransack-
ing of Picking shops for food by Chi
the archbishop. He declares the Chris
tians took provisions from abandoned
warehouses after they first obtained
from NJ. Pinchon, the
French minister, to seize provisions,
clothing and coal, and also portion of
the money lying in Prince Lis palace.
in order to send it to the distressed
Christians in the provinces.
An account was kept of everything,
with view of reimbursing the owners
or deducting the amount from the in
demnity All the valuable objects gath
cred at Pei Tang included the contents
of his own museum and were sold at
auction. Most Of the articles We're
bought by two Americans. Archbishop
Faviere returns to China in February.
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
VICTORIA, Jan. 10.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived by the R. M. S.
Empress of Japan yesterday were two
Belgian journalists Messrs. Collins and
Tytgat, who have been journeying in ..
through the Russian sphere
Of influence in North China, and on the
Siberian frontier They personally in
vestigated the reports of atrocities and
massacres committed by the Russian
troops at the capture OIL Algun anu
other cities along the Amur several
ago and found them to be true
of Chinese, they report, .
were ruthlessly slaughtered by the
Russian troops, and at the capture of
Aigun thousands We're grouped in large
numbers and, massacred. At one place I
crowds were tied together by the queues
and drowned. The details of these
atrocities from the pen of the
travellers themselves have already APP
peared in these columns, having been
taken from their accounts given to
Japanese papers.