There has been serious fighting at Liang Hsieng on the railway to Paoting fu, and about 10 miles south of Peking. The presence of a large force of ...
Article : 119 wordsThe steamship Salamis, of the Aberdeen White Star line, which was chartered by the Imperial Government as a transport to convey the Victorian and ...
Article : 164 wordsOne of the chief reasons why the Boers would not surrender was said to the their belief that they would be sent out of South Africa either to Ceylon or ...
Article : 114 wordsWhilst Reuters's correspondent in Peking wires that there are strong indications that all the allies will retire from Peking and Tientsin, a message comes ...
Article : 78 wordsA semi-official announcement has been made in Berlin that Germany's action on the Yangtse Kiang will be restricted to keeping two gunboats at ...
Article : 55 wordsExpert evidence is being taken by a Committee sitting at Cape Town respecting the lauds that are available for settlement by soldiers on the termination ...
Article : 41 wordsThe force of 4000 men, comprising British, American, Russian, Japanese, and Italian troops, which, under the command of General A. R. F. Dorward, ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is generally considered that the Emperor William has made up his mind that the real offenders in the late outrages must be brought to punishment. ...
Article : 172 wordsMr Michael Davitt, the well-known Irish patriot, who resigned his seat for South Mayo in the British House of Commons last year, is reported to have ...
Article : 164 wordsThe adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two children, Gertrude Carney, four and a half years of age, and Percy James Carney, aged one and a half years, who ...
Article : 614 wordsA serious accident has occurred at Tungchau, 20 miles east of Peking, resulting in the loss of a number of British, Indian, and Chinese soldiers. ...
Article : 73 wordsAccounts have been received from China of fearful atrocities perpetrated by the Chinese upon women missionaries during the recent massacre of ...
Article : 82 wordsAn important change has been made in the diplomatic representation of Great Britain in the Far East. Sir Claude Macdonald, the Minister at ...
Article : 110 wordsMr Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot and Home Ruler, has given a prompt denial to the rumor published a day or two since that what he saw and heard ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the London "Express" states that he has been officially informed of the receipt by Li Hung Ctiagn of an important cable ...
Article : 178 wordsMr John Goodhow, the United States consul at Shanghai, estimates that since the beginning of the Boxer outbreak 50,000 Chinese Christians have been ...
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Advertising : 658 wordsThe Boxers have shown revived activity of late on the route between Tien-tsin and Peking, and latterly the line of communication seemed to be in ...
Article : 98 wordsThe British Government, in reply to Russia's proposal, has firmly refused to withdraw the British troops from Peking until a satisfactory settlement has ...
Article : 133 wordsGermany's circular to the Powers, regarding the question of settling the trouble in China, insists as a preliminary to Peace Negotiations, that the Chinese ...
Article : 69 wordsA German force set out from Peking to the district to the north-east of that city for the purpose of protecting native Christians, who were being subjected to ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Robert Hart, the director of the Chinese Imperial Customs, has informed the generals commanding the foreign armies in Peking that Imperial troops ...
Article : 96 wordsRussia now admits that the allies cannot properly withdraw from Peking until the termination of the peace negotiations with Prince Ching and LI Hung ...
Article : 83 wordsFurther aggressive measures have been taken by the Russians at Tientsin with regard to the railway. They have seized a river frontage at ...
Article : 81 wordsIt was recently reported that since the flight of the Chinese Court and Government from Peking, and the occupation of the city by the allied forces, a panic ...
Article : 92 wordsThey returned into Court fifteen minutes later, and the foreman announced that the following verdict had been arrived at unanimously:-- ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral Chaffee, the United States commander in China, has received from his Government plenary powers with regard to the evacuation of Peking. ...
Article : 84 wordsA fortnight ago it was announced that! the Russians had regained the whole of the railways from the Chinese, but a fresh outbreak on the part of the latter ...
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Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Sat 22 Sep 1900, Page 24
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