| Show TROUBLE IN CHINA An expedition started from Taku for Tao Ting Fu yesterday The German naval division left Shanghai yesterday for Taku Thirty British who were wounded in the Tun Cho explosion are doad The Russian Minister M Do Glors will remain at Peking for the present Twenty thousand triads have congregated con-gregated In the neighborhood of Chung Chuln and threaten to make an attack on Canton 0 Earl LI will proceed from Tien Tsin for Peking in a few clays He remains under close Russian guard and access to him Is dinicult A Russian force of six companies of Infantry and two squadrons of cavalry caval-ry occupied the Lu Tal forts Monday night without suffering any casualties The China Inland mission London has received a cable announcing the murder of eleven missionaries at Sih Chen Tanlng Yah Yang In the pro vlnnrv nr ftlinr CM I In Shanghai it Is reported from Chinese Chi-nese sources that the Dowager Empress Em-press has Issued a secret edict commanding com-manding Li Hung Chang to raise an army and recapture Peking Diplomatic and military authorities in Peking arc anxiously awaiting tho arrival of LI Hung Chang There is a general desire for the establishment of some semblance of Chinese authority Gen Voyran the commanderIn chief of the French forces In China telegraphs that his troops landed at Taku September 21st and that his headquarters have been established at Tien Tsln A telegram from tho convent of the Holy Soul in Shanghai has been received re-ceived to the effect that fortyflve thousand thou-sand natIve Catholics had been massacred mas-sacred In different parts of the Chinese Chi-nese empire Mr William W Roclchlll special commissioner of the United States in China will probably not await the arrival I ar-rival of Earl LI in Peking He is busy confenlng With the Ministers and investigating in-vestigating tho situation Among the missionaries killed by Chinese Chi-nese in the massacre In the YunNan province were Bishop Fantosalli and Father Qulrlnc of the Roman Catholic church It was said that the bishop died after the most awful torture I |
