THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LII, Issue 2603, 3 September 1901, Page 2

THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

An Imperial edict haa been iaiued pro* hibiting the importation into China of Are* arms, ammunition and machinery, but implying that they may be locally manufao. tured. This edict ia regarded as the voluntary aot of the Emperor. It mentioned that merchants had clandestinely imported oertain goods and referred to the disturbances created by briganda. Ac a meeting ef the foreign Miniatera Bir E. Batow proposed that/ the return of the ediot should ba overruled, but the objectionable portions of the edict should be eliminated

An appendix waß added to the drafo protocol, the Ministers informing the Chinese envoys that prohibitiori applied equally to official imports. Tho Emperor insists on Prince Chuu's ultimate obeisance. Prinoe Chun remains at an hotel on the Bwiss side of the Rhine, while General Hoepfuer, sent to receive him, is staying at an hotel on the German Bide. The Kaiser has disapproved of Prinoe Chun's proposed address, on the ground that it is not expressive of its expiatory character. Pri.-ce Chun awaits the Emperor of China's Banoiion to the Kaiser's conditions of obeisance. It is expected that Prince Chun shall bow to the Kaiser thrice and his subordinates prostrate themselves. The captain of the guard at Chuohan, who decapitated high officials responsible for the massacre, has gone to Singanfu. Much indignation on the subject is expressed at Shanghai.