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Show HEADS HANG AT GATE FEARFUL ATROCITIES COMMUTED BY CHINESE SOLDIERS. Then Reporting That They Have Won Another Victory Over Boxers. Further news regarding the rebel movement being organized in Kansu and northwestern China by Tung Fu Hsiang, having for its object the massacre mas-sacre of foreigners and the placing of a new emperor on the throne at Pekin, in the person of Prince Tuan's son, have been received by the steamer Empress of India. The Shanghai Mercury sent their native correspondent correspond-ent to the scene and he has reported that the rebel leader is constantly in communication with Yung Lu and other anti-foreign officials. The correspondent cor-respondent saw the troops being drilled, the body guard being of foreign-trained soldiery. Tung Fu Hsiang, Hsi-ang, who is described as a man of medium me-dium height, stout, wearing a yellow jacket, was carried within the walls in a chair, whence he watched the movements. Prince Tuan occupied a chair on the drill grounds. The troops wear a black uniform. The correspondents tell of different messages that have passed between Yung Lu and Tung, telling of impending impend-ing trouble, and they also tell of many threats made against foreigners. Instances In-stances are given of how natives selling sell-ing foreign wares have been beaten and the correspondents say that no foreigner would get through the district dis-trict alive. According to a dispatch from south China, the tribes are said to have thrown in their lot with the rebels in Kwangsi. It is shown that the first blow of the bigger movement of revolution revo-lution would have been struck at Canton Can-ton on the night of the Chinese new year, had it not been for the discovery discov-ery of the European detective at Hongkong, whose timely tip prevented the outbreak. Missionary letters from Chekiang tell of bloodshed in that province. One iwrter says bunches of heads are seen swinging at the city gates. The correspondents tell of atrocities committed by the soldiers, who are said to have slain women and children, and then reported having won a victory over the Boxer forces. Several Protestant missionaries in this section have written letters to Shanghai papers charging the Roman Catholic priests with fomenting rebellion rebel-lion in Chekiang. |