Show ORIGIN OF TROUBLE St Petersburg Has Advices as to Cause of Outbreak at Peking London July 2There Is little fresh news regarding the situation in Manchuria Man-churia The Russians inflicted another serious defeat upon the Chinese at Fort Echo on July 23rd From Kobe comes a report that eight battalions of Russians have been compelled to leave yiadivostock and Tien Tsin on account ac-count of the Manchuria trouble Telegrams have arrived atSt Petersburg Peters-burg by circuitous routes dated I Peking June 15th and June 13th describing the origin of the trouble They come from the director of the RussoChlncse bank in Peking He says In part The German legation on June 13th arrested an antiChristian brigand This was the signal for an antiChris tian uprising and at G In the evening the antiChristians set fire to the American church and burned It to the ground The Europeans then barricaded barri-caded the legations and then the rioters riot-ers sacked and burned the houses in the European quarter It further appears from these advices ad-vices that by June 18111 the legations I were besieged and the Chinese Government Govern-ment had attempted to invoke the aid of M de Glers the Russian Minister and Mr Conger to prevent the advance of Russian troops to Peking |