The Archive · 1900

Late News from the North

We have to thank Mr. S. Komura, of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, for the following text ofa telegram received by him yesterday Foreign Ministers are very danger ously situated. Narabara (Secretary of Legation) has died, Allied forces proceeding, killed and wounded 1,100"

M. de Cartier de Marchienne, the Belgian Secretary of Legation, received yesterday a telegram from his Consul at Tientsin, dated the. 6th instant, saying that news had arrived from Peking. to the 28th ult, that the Ministers were safe, were being supplied with food by Prince Ching and Yung Lu, and were negotiating: as to their departure to 'Tientsin. At Tientsin itself on the 6th the allies were still preparing. to' march on Peking.

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

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