Show 2 TROUBLE IN CHINA No answer has yet been received to the joint notes of the powers The troops of the various nations celebrated Christmas in Peking in their I own fashion each force being In i terested In the doings of the others The French report encountering 25000 Chinese and capturing live Hags and a number of guns and Inlllctlng a great loss upon the Chinese thirtylive miles south of Peking The report is generally discredited I Rev Mr Kelly a Presbyterian missionary mis-sionary has reported to Minister Conger Con-ger of the burning by Boxers of nineteen nine-teen Catholic Christians He says however that his Information has been derived entirely from Chinese sources The Germans in Peking were reviewed re-viewed on the occasion of the presentation presenta-tion of flags to two regiments The event was made practically international Interna-tional All the Generals and staffs of their troops were present with the result re-sult that a great military spectacle was witnessed Thc French troops encountered Dc comber 22nd east of Chochan between Peking and Pao Ting Fu a Chinese force numbering 2500 men with artillery artil-lery The Chinese fled In the direction of Kuan Hsien They suffered losses and left behind them live standards slandnds and four cannons I |