INTERNATIONAL FRICTION.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL FRICTION.

ANGLO-RUSSIAN RUMPUS AT SHAN-HAI-KWAN. RUSSIA'S CLAIM TO THE SOLE OCCUPATION. BRITAIN'S FLAG HAULED D.OWN, BUT RE-HOISTED. A DISPUTE AT*PAO-TING-FU. (Received November 10, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 9th November. The Daily Express states that Count yon Waldersee, ' Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces, ordered the removal of all nags from the Shan-hai-kwan station, on the coast of the Gulf of Pe-chi : U, except the Russian. The British Commander at the. town decided to await the orders of his own Chief, Lieutenant-General Gaselee, before complying with the request. A Russian Lieutenant, with a squad of ten men, assaulted a Sikh sentry and tore down the flag. A British subaltern at the head of a small force, demanded that it should be re-hoisted. The Russians, who outnumbered the Britishers, covered the officers' party with their rifles, and forbado them to stir. The guard communicated with MajorGeneral Read, who sent a force of two hundred men, demanding that an apology be made and the Union Jack be rehoisted, intimating that a refusal to do so would be regarded as an act of war. Thereupon the Russian General apologised, and re-hoisted the flag. The Rusians claim the. sole right of occupation at this town. • A Reuter telegram states that France claimed the command of the police at Poa-ting-fu as her troops were the firstcomers there, but that the British Commander appointed a German officer to the post.