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EMPEROR MAY RETURN.
SHANGHAI, Jan. ga newspaper
|of this city publishes letter from
Sian Flu announcing that the Emperor
has fully determined to return to Pc
king to administer the reformed gov
|ernment.
According to this letter, the Empress
Dowager offers no opposition to the
Emperor's determinations
BOXERS REoRGANIzE.
BERLIN, Jan. 9.-The war office has
received the following dispatch from
Gen. Won Waldersee:
PEKING, Jan. 9.-The fortress of
No-u. which was stormed on January 8,
was the headquarters of the newly
ganized bands of Boxers. Over one
thousand had modified in the district
and they were planning to march on
Yen King and Chau Ping"
Wiring from Peking under date of
January 6, Count Won Wafdersee says:
"Col. Panels column is marching to
Tsi Ngaan Flu, on the Pei-ho, to coop
| crate with Cal. Madia's column from
Yen King, seventy-two kilometers
northwest of Peking.
Col Panel, after extremely severe
marches over by-paths and through
high mountains, stormed the fortifica-
ltions on January 8. These were defend
| ed by ten guns and from 600 to 1000
men. Having protected the mines, the
column is returning in extended order
through Yen King
CHINESE ENVOY.
LONDON. Jan. s.-"Dr. Mumm Won
sx.i-.
China, today communicated his wish,''
says the Peking 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 Peking and
desires to undertake the mission. He
is II years old. Prince Su has already
assented to proceed to Berlin
FRENCH ARCHBISHOP TALKS.
PARIS, Jan. S.-Archbishop Faviere,
the head of the French mission in North
China, has arrived in Paris. In an in
terview, he says he believed the Dowa-
ger Empress would return to Peking 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 no but afterwards al
iwaYss say yes. .
The archbishop justifies the ransaek-
ing of Peking shops for food by Chi
nese Christians with the connivance OF
the archbishop. He declares the Chris
tians took provisions from abandoned
warehouses after they first obtained
permission 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 a 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 were
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
Manchuria, 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 of Aigun and
other cities along the Amur several
months ago and found them to be true.
Thousands of Chinese, they report,
were ruthlessly slaughtered by the
Russian troops, and at the capture Of
Aigun thousands were grouped in large
numbers and massacred. At one place
crowds were tied together by the queues
and drowned. The details of these
atrocities from the pen of the
travellers themselves have already ap.
peared in these columns, having been
taken from their accounts given to
Japanese papers.
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