Show TROUBLE IN CHINA S S rL Gen Sir Alfred Gasclce arrived at Tien Tin on July 7th and assumed command of the British forces The Cologne Gazette asserts that the powers will organize special protection for their troopships In Chinese waters against possible attack by the Chinese fleet S S S I It is proposed in New York lo offer lo the United Slates a corps of intelir gent AmerJcanlzed Chinese to be attached at-tached to the American forces in China S An alliance between Russia and the United Stales for the settlement of the Chinese crisis is urged in a lengthy article In the SL Petersburg NovaS Nova-S Vrcmya In Boston yesterday a telegram wan received by the American Baptist missionary mis-sionary union dated Shanghai It said Holmes Bousflcld will be on next steamer All safe According to a New York Herald dispatch dis-patch from Tien rein under date of Sunday comes a report that the Japanese Jap-anese vanguard has been repulsed with a loss of 350 killed and wounded S A Ictler from Hongkong dated July 2nd represents that LI Hung Chang was preserIng order in Canton by a virtual reign of terror rendering him well hated by the disorderly elements The English church missionary association asso-ciation has received telegrams dated Saturday July 28th saying all of their stations at Shanghai and In the piov Inces of The Kiang and Fuh Kien were tranquil During ono week of his reign In Canton Can-ton LI Hung Chang had executed by strangling or beheading seventy persons per-sons and It Is asserted that during his viceRoyalty no less than 2000 were executed Sergti George Whltemeyer of the Lexington Ky recruiting station received re-ceived telegraphic orders from the SurgeonGeneral to enlist men for the hospital corps consisting qf stewards wagoners and mechanics In view of the present disturbances which are now extending to central and southern China the American board of missions has decided to detain In this country all missionaries whose sailing for China had been flxed for an early date next autumn until quiet has been restored S |