Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thursday 10 January 1901, page 5


[Received January 10, 2.10 am.]

THE CHINESE TROUBLE.

GERMANS IN ACTION.

SEVERAL HOURS' FIGHTING. FUTURE CHINESE CAPITAL.

London, January 9.

Colonel J. W. G. Tulloch, who with

force of Baluchi (Indian), Australian (naval), and Japanese troops recently advanced on Ivaoli-yung, to punish a body of anti-foreigners, who some little time since attacked a European patrol with smokeless powder, and sent insulting messages to the allies, has now returned to Pekin. He reports that the inhabitants of Koolewong are submissive.

Pt is reported that the German troops, after a fight which lasted for several hours, succeeded in expelling a force of 3,000 Chinese from, a town situated 20 miles north-west of the junction of the walls of Pekin. Of the Chinese force 200 were killed or wounded, the German loss being one killed and four wounded.

Ohang-dhi-tung, the anti-foreign Viceroy of Sheba, is urging the Imperial Court to establish the future capital of the Empire in the Yangtse Valley.

It is announced from Pekin that identical protocols embodying the conditions of peace have been presented by each of the allied Powers, through its representative, to the Chinese envoys for their signature and for the Imperial- seal. Dr. G. E. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the "Times,"' (reports having been assured by some of the leading Chinese officials that there is every reason to believe that the acceptance of the terms will be duly completed.