Another report has been received asserting the safety of the legations at Peking. The message in question purports to be from the secretary to the German legation, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe war in China is exciting great enthusiasm in the French army. The number of officers and men who are volunteering to serve in China is far beyond ...
Article : 38 wordsNews has just been received of awful outrages perpetrated by the Boxers at Paoting-Fu, 80 miles south-west of Peking, on July 8. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe supplementary war estimates, which were voted by the House of Commons last night, included £3,000,000 for the war in China. ...
Article : 29 wordsAmong the powers appealed to by the Emperor of China to mediate between China and the powers is Great Britain. The British Government, in reply, declares ...
Article : 91 wordsRussia and France have recently been purchasing very large quantities of British smokeless coal, suitable for steamers. So excessive have been these purchases ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British Government has received a telegram from Admiral Bruce stating that a message has reached him from Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking. ...
Article : 136 wordsFurther light is thrown upon the difference among the allied forces at Tientsin regarding tho control of the Taku-Tiontsin Peking railway. ...
Article : 66 wordsA profound sensation has been caused by the announcement that His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Edinburgh), second son of Her Majesty ...
Article : 79 wordsTerrible tales of bloodshed have been received from the province of Chekiang, where the movement against the foreigners is spreading repidly. ...
Article : 44 wordsMuch relief has been experienced by the foreign residents at Shanghai and Canton, owing to the arrival of troops from India and of further British men-of-war in the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe China Inland Mission also reports that the mission station at Hsiao, in the province of Shansi, has been destroyed and that Miss E. E. Searell and Miss Whitchurch was ...
Article : 38 wordsA message purporting to be from the Japanese legations at Peking has been received by the Japanese Government. The message reports that the Chinese ...
Article : 114 wordsNews of an appalling anarchist outrage has just been received from Italy. The particulars so far supplied are very meagre, but it is announced that King ...
Article : 161 wordsGeneral Li Ping Heng, a noted anti-foreign leader, who is advancing with a large force to Peking, has attacked the Catholic Mission at Hsuchaufu. ...
Article : 32 wordsAnother terrible massacre of foreigners and Chinese Christians is reported, this time at Tungchow, 20 miles east of Peking, an important entrepot in the tea trade, between ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. John Fowler, the United States consul at Chefoo, reports that he has been informed that the Austrian, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish legation buildings have been ...
Article : 50 wordsH.M.S. Mohawk (Commander Freeman), of the Australian Auxiliary Squadron, is amongst the latest arrivals of warships at Hong Kong ...
Article : 27 wordsEarly this month reports were received of an attack by the Boxers on the mission station at Moukden, the capital of Manchuria, when the station was burnt and all the native ...
Article : 123 wordsHis Holiness Pope Leo the Thirteenth has received news that Bishop Favier, the Bishop of Peking, ia still alive. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported of Tokio that the Japanese troops have gained a great victory over the Chinese at Shanhaikwan, on the Gulf of Liaotung. ...
Article : 54 wordsA telegram has been received at St. Petersburg from Admiral Alexieff, the Russian naval commander afc Taku, who states that the latest news from Peking confirms ...
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Advertising : 329 wordsThe Emperor William delivered an extraordinary speech afc Bremerhaven yesterday, when bidding farewell to the Gorman troops who wore leaving for China. ...
Article : 114 wordsIt was reported that there was a difference of opinion amongst the allied forces at Tientsin as to the best route to be taken in the advance on Peking. ...
Article : 119 wordsSome remarkable statements are made by a correspondent of the Daily Express, in a telegram to that journal. The correspondent states that news has ...
Article : 110 wordsOrders have been issued by General Libokeh, who is marching to reinforce the Chinese forces at Peking, that his troops are to of spare no Christians whom they may ...
Article : 66 wordsThe latest advices from Manchuria state that despite reassuring announcements by Russia situation is very serious. Charbin, where a party of Russians was ...
Article : 100 wordsThe first division of Indian troops consisting of 10,000 men, including a regiment of cavalry and a field battery under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Alfred ...
Article : 52 wordsChinese converts report that the provinces of Honan and Shansi have been the scenes of great outrages. They state that the massacre of the ...
Article : 100 wordsBefore leaving Canton, Li Hung Chang ordered a force of 50,000 "Black Flags" to proceed overland to Peking. Li Hung Chang has now rescinded the ...
Article : 32 wordsSerious differences already beginning to show themselves among the allied forces in China. A Router's telegram states that the ...
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