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Show HEADS HANG AT ttATE FEARFUL ATROCITIC8 COMMITED DY CHINESE SOLDIERS. Then Reporting That They Havo Won Another Victory Over Boxers. Further news regarding tho rebel movement being organized In Knnsu and northwestern China by Tung l'n llslnug, having for Its object tho mas. sacro of foreigners and tho placing ol n now emperor on tho throne nt Pckln, In tho person of Princo Titan's son, hnvo boon received by tho stonmci KmproRH or India. Thu Shanghai Mercury sent their native correspond, ont to the scene nnd ho hn3 reported that tho robol lender Is constantly In communication with Yung Ln and other nntl.forclgn officials. Tho correspondent cor-respondent saw tho troops being drilled, tho body guard being of for. olgn-trnlned soldiery. Tung Fu Ilnl. nng, who Is described ns a man of mo-(Hum mo-(Hum height, stout, venr'ng a yellow Jacket, wns carried within tho walls In n chnlr, whenco ho watched tho movements. Princo Tunn occupied n chnlr on the drill grounds. Tho troops wear a black uniform. Tho correspondents tell of different messages thnt havo passed between Yung Lu nnd Tung, telling of Impend-lng Impend-lng troublo, nnd they nlso toll of many threats mndo against foreigners. Instances In-stances mo given of how nntlvos selling sell-ing foreign wnres hnvo boon beaten nnd tho correspondents say that no foreigner would get through tho dls. trlct alive. According to a dispatch fiom south China, tho tribes aro said to havo thrown In their lot with tho rebels In Kwnngsl. It Is shown that tho first blow of tho bigger movement of rovo. lutlon would havo boon struck nt Can. ton, on tho night of tho Chlnoso now year, had It not been for the dlscov. pry of tho European detective nt Hongkong, whoso timely tip prevented tho outbreak. Missionary letters from Choklnng tell of bloodshed ln that piovlnco. Ono Iwrtor says bunches of heads nro seen swinging nt tho city gates. Tho correspondents tell of ntrocltlos committed by tho soldiers, who nro said to hnvo slain women nnd children, and then reported having won n victory o er tho Iloxer forces. Several Piotestant missionaries In this section havo written letters to Shanghai papers ohnrglng the Itoman Catholic priests with fomenting rebel-lion rebel-lion in Choklnng. |