AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 106, 14 May 1901, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, May 12. Circumstantial advices from Singanfu state that Luchuanlin and General Yunglu are supporting the Empress Dowager. The reactionaries are defying tho Ministers of the Court, and it is feared a revolution is contemplated in the Palace, aiming at the death of the Emperor or in favor of Prince Tuan’s son, Fuchuan. The American troops have evacuated Pekin, excepting tho Forbidden City, whore a Legation Guard remains. Most of the British troops at Tientsin are returning to India forthwith, INADEQUATE PUNISHMENT. ’

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 13. The Times’ Shanghai correspondent states that an Imperial edict issued on tho 4th cashiers the Governor of Chekiangc and Taotai, or tho Chief Magistrate, in connection with tho massacre of British men, women and children at Ohuchou ; condemns the Provincial Treasurer to penal servitude for life, and orders the decapitation of the captain of tho guard. The British residents consider the punishment wholly inadequate. PROMOTION OF "A BRAVE MAN.

THE PUSHFUL- RUSSIANS. THE SWINDLING OF A RAILWAY COMPANY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 13. Mr James WaU, a civilian who on Juno 19th last, when Tientsin was strictly invested, escaped through the Chinese lines and carried despatches to Taku, has been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in recognition of his services.

The Times’ Tientsin correspondent reports that the Russians are pushing roads through the land claimed by the railway company. The hitter are unable to touch Kinder s siding, about which the recent trouble arose. •

The'Russians are aware that documents proving the company’s ownership to tho siding were abstracted from Chubb’s sate during the Russian occupation of the railway premises in June, and prior to a fire that occurred in the buildings.