Nothing has been heard for three days of the missionaries stationed at Pao tingfu, the capital of the province of Chi-li. As the Viceroy of Chi-li refused per mission for a naval contingent from H.M.S. Aurora to proceed to Pekin, Captain Bayly commandeered the third train mentioned in yesterday’s cable, grams. By it 350 German, 80 British, and 70 French troops were sent on to tho capital. The Chinese engine-driver bolted with the engine, and as the mob was dama ging the track, the European troops used their bayonets to keep the Chinese away from the line. Japan is ordering the embarkation of four thousand troops. She demands that her sphere of influence in China shall include the provinces of Chfe- Kiang, Fo-Kien and Kiang-Si, all three being south of the Yang-tse-Kiang, the two latter on the sea coast, M. Delcasse, Minister for Foreign Af fairs, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that the “ Boxers ” were a common danger to the civilised Powers interested in China. That fact was a guarantee of international accord. The representatives of the Powers at Pekin were, added M. Delcasse, address ing a fresh warning to the Tsung-li- Yamen as to the necessity of putting down the insurgents. France was pre pared to send troops to the Province of Yun-nan—not with the idea of conquest, but simply to protect her economic in terests. Six thousand “ Boxers ” have attacked the convent at Puo-ting-fn, about fifty miles east of Tientsin. Tho Viceroy sanctioned the despatch of a fourth train, which carried 216 Rus sians (with two guns) and 02 French troops. The detachments which left Tientsin on Sunday have reached Langfang, within foity miles of Pekin, . The Tsung-li-Yamen announces that Russia is bringing a large force to Pekin. THE “BOXERS” REPULSED. Hongkong, June 18. Two thousand “ Boxers,” ttying isolate sixteen British Marines ahead of a leading train, were repulsed with maxims. Forty “ Boxers ” were killed and wounded. The British burned two villages. There were no British casual ties. Nine hundred British troops have been ordered from Hongkong to Otaku.
