The Boers had wrecked the three centre spant and blown buge pieces out of the stone piers. The wreekage lay adrift in dirty water, and a section of the British army was now picking up the ...
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Article : 166 wordsThe troops of the allies have captured over 50 maxims around Tientsin. ...
Article : 19 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Dacey asked whether any New South Wales troops were to be sent to China. Mr. Haynes asked the Premier whether he would ...
Article : 202 wordsThe route by the Peiho river from Taku to Tientsin is open. The railway from Taku has been repaired to within nine miles of Tientsin. ...
Article : 33 wordsTo most people in the colony it will be news to learn that there is established in Sydney a large and active branch of the Chinese Empire Reform Association an organisation which is making great ...
Article : 544 wordsThe Chinese are laying torpedoes between Shanghai and Kianghan, the Chinese arsenal, three miles above Shanghai, on the Hwangphu. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Wallaroo has the houour of being the first of Australia's auxiliary squadron to join her Majesty's ships in foreign waters for active service. She took her departure on Monday afternoon for ...
Article : 217 wordsThe "Times" this morning states that Japan is the only Power able to afford prompt and adequate assistance to the Legations at Peking. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received the following:—"Telegrams in secret language, either private or commercial, are admitted for offices in the Amoor territory only an conditions that the codes are ...
Article : 178 wordsThe German armoured cruiser Furst Bismarck has been ordered to China. July 3. The Emperor William has ordered the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Governor of Kiauchau, in Shantung, Captain Jaesshke, wished to send a force to Wehsien, the most important town of the province, to rescue the ...
Article : 68 wordsConversing with Mr. Quong Tart yesterday a "Herald" reporter gleaned some information with regard to the conditions at present existing in China. Mr. Tart stated that so far as he could gather from ...
Article : 1,171 wordsThe Secretary of the German legation (Dr. von Prittwitz) sent a runner to RearAdmiral Bendemann, the commander of the German squadron at Taku, giving him ...
Article : 207 wordsA meeting was held last evening in the chapterhouse, under the suspices of the Courch Missionary Association, for the purp se of holding united prayer and supplication on behalf of the missionaries ...
Article : 502 wordsA naval brigade, 900 strong, with six 12-pounders and two Maxims, has sailed from Portsmouth for China. ...
Article : 24 wordsSeventeen men, who were imprisoned in the coalbunkers of the Main for hours, had a marvellous escape. They were rescued after the vessel had ...
Article : 64 wordsThe worst fears would seem to have been realised with regard to the position of affairs in Peking. The foreign ambassadors, according to the latest accounts, did not escape as was reported, and one at ...
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Article : 239 wordsMr. Philp has received a telegram from the Queensland Naval Commandant, who is at present in the north with the Gayundah, which notifies that all the officers and crews of the Queensland gunboats ...
Article : 50 wordsThe highest Chinese officials at Nanking believe that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor have fled westward, and that Prince Tuan has proclaimed his son, who ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe other foreign Ministers in Peking, learning the fate of their German confrere, and finding their legations attacked, took refuge in the British Embassy. That, according to Consul Hopkins, was on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 wordsThe foreigners at Peking include 100 at the legations, 50 in the Customs service, 100 missionaries, 150 tourists and visitors, and 700 guards for the legations. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsGeneral Yung Lu in his despatch says that neither the Empress Dowager nor the Tsung-li-Yamen is able to restrain the soldiery, whils he himself is powerless. With his messsge word comes that the ...
Article : 141 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the allies had made no further advance ...
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Article : 91 wordsReaders of Lord Charles Beresford's recent book on China will remember that he singled out one of the Chinese Generals as able and active. This was Yuan Shi Kal who then commanded the Imperial ...
Article : 194 wordsThe proposal outlined in yesterday's "Herald" to send a combined force of 300 men of the Naval Brigades of the principal colonies in H.M.S. Europa to China next week met with favourable criticism in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 4 Jul 1900, Page 7
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