Show SMALL WAR WA ak CLOUDS k i seen on the horizon in china british troops sent to oppose a russian order more german puny etive expeditions tien coln undated via shang I 1 hal nov 13 the russians have or dered the foreigners in the railroad houses at tone tong ku to vacate the buildings and the british have sent there a company of infantry and a hundred bombay cavalry ordering these to remain and inspect the property I 1 A dispatch from tien tsan dated november Xo vember 9 said that as a result of the british representation to the st petersburg government russia Is officially fici ally fally handing over the railway between tong ku and peking to field marshal count von com mander ln in calef of the international forces who will give it up to the british owners peking picking sunday via shanghai nov 13 another small german expedition goes north tomorrow in spite of the fact that these punitive raids are strongly criticised criticized here as serving no good purpose reports of the death of the dowager empress are persistent though there Is no official confirmation of them communication with the court being very irregular there is a growing liellei li ellet ellef however that she will never return to peking london nov 13 A special dispatch from tien tsin nov 9 says a force of russians has captured the arsenal northeast of yeng tsun taun with tr trifling ing loss killing chinese anil and capturing a quantity of arms and treasure berlin nov 13 A semiofficial dispatch from peking dated november 12 gives the text of the joint note of powers to china confirming the london times dispatch dated peking november 11 among tee additional stipulations the note requires china to erect expiatory monuments in every foreign or international burial ground where graves have been profaned RUSSIAN HORRORS sien sten by a traveler over the trans siberian railroad london nov 13 the globe this afternoon publishes a letter from a belgian gentleman who has been ing to peking via the trans siberian railroad he ile describes under date of sept 6 what on he saw aw in the amur river his ills account account surpasses in horror those previously published the scenes I 1 witnessed after the steamer left he says are horrible beyond the powers of ae description ft it Is the closing tableau of a fearful human tragedy two thousand were deliberately drowned at marxo two thousand at rabe and eight thousand around a total ot of corpses encumbering the river among which were thousands of women and children navigation was all but impossible last week the boat had to plough her way through a tangled and mangled mass of corpses lashed together by their long bair the banks were literally covered with corpses in the curves of the stream were dark putrid smelling masses ma sea ot of human flesh and bones surging and swaying in the steamers wake the captain vainly ordered full speed ahead the sight eight and smelt smell will be ever with w u I 1 from to again forty five kilometres kilo metres numerous villages studded the banks with thriving industries and a population of over thai that of aguin was twenty thousand no one will ever know the number of those who perished by shot sword and stream A village is left the silence of death was around us near the smoking ruins of again on the right with broleen brok en down crumbling walla walls and shattered rootless roofless houses |