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CHINESE AFFAIRS.

THE INDEMNITY PAYMENT. Press Allocation—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 22. Renter's correspondent at Pekin states that Britain will accept payment of the indemnity on ,\ silver basis for nine years, and thereafter on a gold basis. The question of China ultimately paying the difference is postponed, and Britain asks the other Powers to join in the plan. (Received May 23, at 9.14 a.m.) The Dowager's extravagance is extreme. Officials making desperate efforts to raise ten million taels to present her with on her seventieth birthday. The anti-dynastic nlnls have invested Linngau, go uth of Yunnan, and killed the Prefect. The French Consul-General nt Yunnan reports the situation is serious, and that telegraph lines to the south are interrupted.

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Evening Star, Issue 11894, 23 May 1903, Page 6

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CHINESE AFFAIRS. Evening Star, Issue 11894, 23 May 1903, Page 6

CHINESE AFFAIRS. Evening Star, Issue 11894, 23 May 1903, Page 6