Show f STORMS AND FOODS rllany Hundreds of Lives Lost In China THOUSANDS I DISTRESS f AMRCA 1IIZSIOABIES ATTACKED AT-TACKED BY 01SE MOBS c Authorities Urge to Send Soldiers < r roteTheIaAD1y of J 4 T ve aa bber gomniitting DeedationsRussiaii Oppositon to English Concession Vancouver B C Sept 21Adices from the Orient by the Empress of India In-dia which arrved this morning state that China and Japan have been vis ied by tymderstorms and disastrous foods in which may hundreds of people peo-ple have lost their lives The region north of the Anshang mountains ha been inundated for hundreds of miles by the Yellow rier Several hundred thousand persons have been plunged into the deepest distress and many into absolute penury which local all thorities are unable to alleviate Now that Germany has acquired territorial rights in Shantung with other concessions conces-sions it is suggested that thE German government may encourage German or Dutch engineers to prescribe a remedy for the annual foods of the Hoanglo British Consul Butler at Kiung Chow Brish has requested the American consul Dr Bedloe at Canton to urge the viceroy to send soldiers to Kodoa near Hoihow to protect the lives and property prop-erty of American missionaries in that district Rev Dr P W McClntocl and Rev W J Leveret of the American Ameri-can Presbyterian mission district of Hainan were obliged to fly for theIr Jves and seek protection of the British consul at Hoichow Reports of the rebellion in Hainan Indicate renewed outbreaks of the I Treed society a band of thieves and I robbers who have been strengthened by pirates This lawless army has corn ritted many depredations in the Hoi I how country The China Gazette says Reuter appears ap-pears to have been all wrong in the I recent telegram about the Hongkong and Shanghai bank being put out of i the field over the new ChangShang HaiKwan railway loan by Chinas acceding ac-ceding to the terms of the proposed Russian claim for at the present moment I mo-ment negotiations are still actively in progress in Pekln respectng the Hong I kong and Shanghai banks loans so i that the widespread belief that Great I Britain has finally abandoned that Important point in the face of Russian I opposition seems unfounded I The Gazette also reports that the Russians have produced a written I promise signed by Li Hung Chang I while at St Petersburg that a Russian I Rus-sian official will succeed Sir Robert II Hart a inspector general of the im penal maritime customs Miners arc opposed to the Manchu I nan railway < md are obstructing the I Russians They are well armed The Russians have about 200 soldiers between i be-tween New Choang and Port Arthur I They have landed over a hundred new bg guns at Port Arthur and are building I build-Ing up forts very quickly They have about 13 menofwar between Port Arthur I Ar-thur and TaLien Van Considerable dissatisfaction is felt in I Hongkong and elsewhere in consequence conse-quence Q retenton of Spitnlsh duties at Manila by American authorities I |