CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1898, Page 5

CABLE NEW S. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.]

CHINA AND THE POWERS.

+ GERMANY'S HOLDING AROUND KIAO-CHAU. RAILWAY CONCESSION TO THE BRITISH.

[PEESS ASSOCIATION.] Shanghai.. 20th October. In connection with the delimitation of the German territory adjacent to the port of Kiao'Ohau, which was leased to the German Government last year, Germany has obtained from China the concession of the Loisan Mountains and Tahatur Harbour, with a sphere of influence extending over 50 kilometres of the surrounding territory. • A British-Chinese corporation has contracted for the construction of the railway connecting Su-Chau, Hanguhau, and Ningpo on terms identical with those on which they contracted to construct the railway connecting Shanghai, Su-Chau, and Naukiug. OUTRAGE ON A FRENCH MISSION. THE MISSIONARY AND CONVERTS BURNED. AN INDEMNITY CLAIMED. — — — I Shanghai, 20th October. The mob at Paklung killed and burnt the I'rench missionary and several converts. France claims an indemnity for the outrage. THE ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT. DEFINITION OF THEIR RESPECPECTIVE SPHERES. Shanghai, 21st October. The Anglo-German agreement recognises the Yang-tse Valley as Britain's railway sphere, and the portion of the Yellow Rirar or Hoang-ho that runs through the province or Shantung, in which Kiao-chau is situated, as Germany's sphere.