Show jewel fam tile celestial empire new your dec IA I A chinese ne aper received here says the tion lats are numbered at 7 able bodied men it is laid no part of the imperial army a at present upon the field is capable of 0 meeting the ernar emergency gency it is rumored in chinese circle circles in ne new W york that an in official telegraph dispatch baat reached t the he chinese consulate eaid said to be he from the ministry at washington riving giving ao an account ol 01 a preliminary skirmish recently at the port ol 01 shanghai between two idallan men of war in a trial battle or test with the chinese government go and that tho newspaper correspondents there were war S war warned n ed no not t to telegraph the exact truth ol 01 the situation lor for fear tear of injuring 1 1 ing the cadee of europeans in china a won cea soong the former popular tar consul of the ports of san ban francisco and new now york waa was recently made general commander of the chinese nav navland navy yand and is now inactive in active service under viceroy LI lt hung chang this new has created a furore among the new vork york chinese friends a ot the former consul and they all hope he will be successful in hid hit new poet post Baud sims dac dec I 1 telegrams from the belgium missionaries in mongolia mangolia state that the missionaries of taka taku have escaped to the mountains and that during the recent troubles chinese priests and nuns were horribly treated it Is to feared that some missionaries were killed at chia mang yoking the rebels are not mongols Mon gols but ut chinese coloni colonists stai who are very numerous in that region they ver belong to a secret society that has been conspiring for four years and has imported many foreign rifles the 0 severe evere measures ordered by the chinese government covern ment provoked the the revolt the rumors that russia would interfere have spurred the government to take active measures to stop the revolt |