GERMANY IN ASIA

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 4

GERMANY IN ASIA

HARASSING GREAT BRITAIN. IRRITATION OF RUSSIA. RESENTS GERMAN INTERFERENCE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8.57 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. Dr. Morrison, the Times' correspondent at Fekin, states that Germany, in deference to Russian wishes'in 1901, affirmed that Manchuria was outside the Anglo-Ger-man agreement. Now, for the purpose of embarrassing Great Britain, she had persuaded China that if the Tibet treaty is confirmed as it stands, Germany may demand prescriptive right in Shantung, France similarly in Yunnan, and Japan in Tokien and Tangobanki. As a consequence of ' this move the Chinese representative at Lha»a had been instructed, says Dr. Morrison, to seek at Calcutta a modification of the treaty in order to keep China's face. The Times' Vienna correspondent says that Germany has possibly overreached herself. Considerable embarrassment and almost vexation is felt in St. Petersburg at Germany's action in proclaiming at Pekin the solidarity of German and Russian Interests* ~3n \Asiii."'■~~lt~ ~%m considered that the interference is intended to imply that Germany and Russia are united in antagonism to Great Britain. Russia and Great Britain, however, as the greater Asiatic Powers, admit their mutual right to speak upon the new adjustment of their own differences, and both resent the gratuitous interference of a third having no claim to speak as an Asiatic Power. Finally, Russia has informed the Court at Pekin that the objections taken to certain clauses in the Tibetan treaty are not intended to imply the slightest animosity against Great Britain.