RUSSIA AND CHINA.
IHE BOXER INDEMNITY. THE OPIUM CRISIS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, January 1. (Received January 2, at 8 a.m.) The Clumchuses held rip and plundered a train on the Manchurian railway, wounding four Chinese—one fatally. PEKING, January 1. As the Powers have not replied to the request of the Government for an extension of time, and China is unable to pay the Boxer indemnity, due to-day, Russia, threatens a foreclosure on some source of Chinese revenue. HONGKONG, January 1. The leading banks have averted a crisis by not calling on the merchants to provide a further margin to cover the depreciation of the hypothecated opium duties.
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Evening Star, Issue 15072, 2 January 1913, Page 6
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