The following telegram was received here to-day by the Inland Missio "Hisian, 24th August. A party of Protestant' missionaries from Shansi, upwards of ten in number, have crossed the Yellow River to Yuling. They are difficulties with the Boxers, and how they can be rescued is not known."
Yuiling is a city in the north of the Shansi province, near the Wall, and the telegram is supposed to refer to some party from the north of Shansi who must be trying to make their escape westward.
The authorities here have learned, by means of intercepted letters, that the Changwo, from Ichang, and the Yuenwo, from Shanghai, have on board a large number of rebels coming to assist in the reform proceedings which were to be inaugurated here. Neither boat has as yet come in, but a strong force of troops is in waiting to board them on arrival. A large find of arms is reported, and also that the rising at Shinti has been so far successful that the mandarin is killed.
25th August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.