AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
AUSTRALIANS JOINING RAILWAY STAFF. RUSSIA REINSTATES A GOVERNOR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 15. Eighty Australians have volunteered for the Pekin-Shanhaikwan railway service for a half year. Count Alexieff has reinstated Tsenghi as Governor of Mukden, with four thousand Cossacks to support him. GERMANY’S DISTRUST OF LI HUNG CHANG. BULOW’S BITING SARCASM. By. Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, March 16. In tho Reichstag, Count von Bulow said that Germany was indifferent to tho future of .Manchuria, but thought it undesirable that China’s resources should bo diminished. Li Hung ChaDg’s beautiful promises, Chinese dodges, aud sophistries were insufficient to secure the evacuation of the province of Pechili, until the peace conditions had been substantially fulfilled. A VEHEMENT DECLARATION. THEATRICAL OR SINCERE ? (Received March 18,12.55 a.m.) London, March 17. M. de Giers, Russian Minister in China, has vehemently declared that he would sooner lose his right hand than consent to any more decapitations.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 18 March 1901, Page 2
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