Consul-General, received on Saturday the following important telegram from Sir Claude Macdonald "Phe movement against foreigners has been allowed to grow to such an extent that it has resulted in the burning of railway stations, and interruption of railway communication for five days. Two British missionaries and several foreigners have been murdered in the district nearPeking; in the country round, numbers of converts have been murdered and pillaged and the chapels destroyed, while in the capital itself British missionaries have been compelled to leave their houses and take refuge in the Legation, which is defended by 75 marines.
"TheChinese Government has been affected by these events so far as to send high officials to parley with the Boxers, but it does not show any intention to summarily suppress them. Probably it still has power to do so, but the Throne is strongly influenced by sympathy with the movement, and the spirit of the troops is doubtful. All well, up to the present."
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