Show REBELS DEFEAT THE TROOPS OF THE IMPERIAL ARMY several cities in possession of the victorious forces and mandarins r have been put to death hong kong march 18 general ma has been defeated by ahe kwang si rebels who have taken possession of fang cheng they have killed or captured all the mandarins and have looted alie town general ma attacked alio rebel strong holds but after an engagement lasting two days was forced to retreat tho rebels established their headquarters at fang chang the rebellion is spreading rapidly in the provinces of kwang si kwang tung and yun nan A letter received hero from tien pai 50 miles from kwang chou says all business is suspended there owing to fear of tho rebels marshal su is at tien chou and gen ma is at kao chou both in kwang tung province both of these command era arc awaiting reinforcements they wish to join their forces but the rebels are holding all the intervening and prevent a junction of tho government troops many of the minal soldiers arc joining the rubela owing to abe superior pay offered them arid the opportunity for looting the rebel leader is hung ming a relative of the celebrated hung sou chuen the tai aung rebellion london march 18 coincident with the news of alarming rebellions in three provinces of cilina the foreign office here today issued a voluminous blue book dealing with the protracted negotiations tiati ons between cilina and the powers from march 23 1901 to september 7 1001 when the final protocol was signed in ita pages of diplomatic dispatches edicts and digests of cainas chinas financial capabilities there is ample ev that the negotiations formed ono of the most intricate of international in the history of tho one striking quotation peculiarly apt to the present far eastern situation can bo extracted from a dispatch it the british ambassador at st petersburg sir charles S scott to lord lans downa the british foreign in which count the Ilus sian foreign minister is quoted as saying he was pleased at the fact that the british government was desirous of hastening a return to normal conditions in china but lie dreaded alie possibility of fresh outbursts of anti foreign fanaticism ati cism throughout the negotiations on the buba act of tha amount division and method of payment of the chinese indemnity great britain and the united slates appear from the blue book to havo worked hand in hand though opposed by all the other powers after learning of the adverse attitude of the continental powers towards the american proposition to reduce the indemnity to pounds lord lans downa instructed sir ernest batow the british minister at peking that the figura erred on the side of liberality lie was quite ready to agree to a more moderate reduction Ilu asia and the other powers strenuously held out for a joint international guarantee of the chinese loan this continued on page 4 CHINESE REBELS DEFEAT continued from paga one appears to havo formed tho rock on which the powers split lord lansdowne refused arf hear of a guarantee and sir ernest satow cabled aa follows tho united states is firmly opposed to any international guarantee sir rockhill the united states special corn missioner mias ioner stated that the president is moat anxious to bring about reduction in the indemnity personally mr kock hill is disposed to abandon tho limitation of forty millions if tho powers would agree on a declaration in favor of reducing the amount in this as in ino of the other car dinal points anglo american diplomacy triumphed though alio american proposal to submit the indemnity question to the hague court of arbitration met with a refusal on all sides including great Hrit ain |