Show J T E VI 1 PLOT TO BURN SUANUUAI Conspiracy Discovered Which Had for its Object the Destruction of f Chinese c City by Fire Japanese J Gain a Victory Over the Chinese at Tcchou Which 1500 Chinamen Were SlamGovernor of Sinn Si Invites Foreigners in Province to Come to His Protection and Then Them Protecton Massacres London A up 30th 315 = a nuAmid tho growing difficulties of the Chinese I imbroglio air Brodericks emphatic dcclituatlon at Thorncombe last evening proves that tho British Government docs not see any cause to depart from the line of pollqy originally decided upon up-on namely to take no responsibility for the administration of China air Bro CIcl said he hoped It would not be supposed that the Government was pusllanlmous II this respect its object was to maintain British Interests Inter-ests I was quite ready to take Us shared of the white mans burden but could not admit that the nature of the bur cn should be dictated to it by the yellow man Here the Morning Post observes II is 1 where the difficulty of observing a I policy comes in We could not decamp and leave the powers to settle them TO DESTROY SHANGHAI A Berlin dispatch says the Frankfort Frank-fort h Zeltung Jias received a dispatch ii um onangnai saying a plot has been discovered there to burn the whole city J IS added that the Europeans consider the streets unsafe after nightfall night-fall and the general situation is described de-scribed as critical LI IN SHANGHAI Sir Chlh Chen I Feng the Chinese Minister in London a asserts he is inconstant In-constant communication with LI Hung Chang who Is still In Shanghai Dispatched received this morning bring no later Peking news A Shang hai telegram says Li liming Chang has sent n memorial begging the Empress Dowager appoint Prince Chlng Gen lung Lu arjd l the Yangtsc Viceroys aa Joint peacemakers with hlmscll JAPS GAIN A VICTORY I Is rumo cat Shanghai that the Japancmfgalned a great victory oxipr the Boxers and Chinese troops from Pel Tsangand Ho Si Wu last Thursday at Tcchou The story say J500 Chinese Chi-nese were killed Including Prince Tuan and that nil the Chinese were driven back to Chi LI A Hongkong dispatch < s 200 bandits ban-dits raided the Tartar city of Canton Monday night Several houses were looted I Is behoved that the motive 0 the laid was the Cantonese hatred of the northerners It Is rumored at Amoy that 12000 Japanese troops are coming there from Formosa FOREIGNERS MASSACRED Yu the Governor of the province of Shen SI Is reported to have Invited the foreigners In the province to come to his protection About August 21st fifty accepted the Invitation and 1 wore massacred mnscncrcd Tho reform party under Kang Yu Wei is said to be actively preparing for rebellion Gen Creagh In the presence pres-ence of ViccAdminl 1 Seymour reviewed re-viewed 300 trdopn of all natlonalitcs at Shanghai Wednesday REFORMERS EXECUTED I is rumored from JTnnkow that twentyfive reformers have been executed exe-cuted their heads being exposed The Tiku correspondent of the Dally Telegraph wiring August 23th says the country around Taku and Peking is devastated with tho result that thl I Boxers are most unpopular and ara being attacked by the peasantry The Boxers who were moving nortlf from Shan Tung are now returning hastily to their homes HORRORS IN PEKING Belated dispatches and the stores o the refugees nnivlng at Che Foo continue con-tinue t describe the terrible conditions In Peking One of the worst Incidents is the shocking desecration of the foreign for-eign cemetery outside the west wall The details arc too revolting1 to he described de-scribed Hundreds of bodies of Chinese Chi-nese are found in the streets of Peking1 supposed to be those t of traitors to the cause of the Boxers The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says a nat official telegram from PaoTlngFu announces the arrival ar-rival I of the court last Sunday at Tal YuenFu Communication between Peking and Thin Tsln Is Interrupted probably because be-cause bands of Boxer make the road unsafe for couriers The country north of YangTsun Is said to bo flooded A Gorman firm Is negotiating with ChanG Chi rung the Wu Chang Viceroy Vice-roy te lend him 1000000 taels on the security of vlccroyal Industrial undertakings under-takings WAITING FOR REINFORCEMENTS A correspondent at New Chwang says the Russians at Hal Cheng are awaiting await-ing I reinforcements whose advance Is delayed by the Impassable conditions the roads to LeaoYang and Mukden Meanwhile the native population of he district is being treated with tire utmost severity Eyowlinessas report re-port an indiscriminate slaughter of noncombatants and the reduction of the country In the vicinity of Port Arthur to a slate of utter desolation |