THE FAR EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 157, 5 July 1899, Page 8

THE FAR EAST.

The British representative at Peking demanded reparation for the death of the murdered missionary Fleming. 1 Hongkong1 papers prophesy trouble if the Empress and Generalissimo Junglu persist in their plan to assemble two hundred thousand' Chinese braves to be reviewed at Peking. The various legations have advised against such a review as calculated to endanger foreign interests. Russia's great force assembled ar, Port Arthur will be hurried to the scene at the first sign of trouble. It is asserted that the Chinese are not to be relied on, and if the idea struck the troops to clean out the foreign element in the city they would carry it out. The Empress intended to hold a review in the latter part of May, but has postponed it without giving up the plan. Dispatches from Bombay announce that cholera is raging at Karachi, the principal seaport of Sinde. Most of the cases are fatal and more than a thousand deaths have occurred since the outbreak. The town has a population of about one hundred thousand, and is one of the principal seaports of India. j

Lieutenant-General Viscount Kawawami Soroku, chief of staff of Japanese army is dead. He was the foremost strategist of Japan and was regarded as an Oriental Napoleon. He directed the campaign in Corean wars and planned and directed all operation of war with China. He was born in 1850, and studied in America and Europe. He was very popular, and of European appearance.

The Japanese Government has sent out word that the Government navy yards will no longer do repair work on foreign or native merchantmen, except in case of emergency. It is pointed out that private docks have been constructed sufficient to do the work.