The Archive · 1900

The Disorder in the North

We learnt by wire yesterday morning from Tientsin that there has been a serious outbreak of the Boxers between Tientsin and Peking. The rioters have gone on to Peking and have torn up the railway to prevent pursuit. The foreign men-of-war at Taku are landing men, but Tientsin itself is quiet. trace thing if not patriotic, On he a party of bluejackets were viewing the illuminations on the Bund in honour of the Queen's birthday,'

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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