Affairs in China.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 10. Twenty thousand Chinese Mohammedans are gradually returning to Pekin. The allies have adopted precautions against a disturbance. The residents of Shanghai urge King Edward. to refuse to receive a commission from China until the massacros of Christians and other outrages have been expiated. A detachment of Germans is investigating the recent massacre of converts near Yenking.The Times’ Pekin correspondent reports that Russia offers to purchase the Northern Chinese railways north of the Great Wall,’as part payment of the indemnity. The offer is made despite the written pledge of the Tsung li Yamen to Sir Claude Macdonald that China will not alienato the Thenhrkwan, Ninchwang, and Suminting railways.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 36, 12 February 1901, Page 1
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